The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-12-17

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Miss Lucille COatney is the guest of
Mrs. Norah Redford.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. N. Cleveland enter
tanned the whist club last evening.
Charles Raines has been in Omaha
this week looking after business mat
tiers.
Miss Lucille Laycock will visit with
friends in Greeley and Denver Christ
mas week.
The children are being drilled for the
Christmas cantatta at the Congrega-
tional church Christmas eve.
Henry Rasmussen is confined to his
room with a badly sprained ankle, the
result of falling on an icy sidewalk.
George France returned this week
from Seward, Nebraska. He says the
weather is worse in that section than
here.
Miss Ruth Linebarger, who is attend
ing school at Fort Collins, will spend
the holiday vacation with friends in
Julesburg.
Mrs. w. H. Wallace arrived from
Greeley today noon to spend the holi-
days with old friends and neighbors
We are glad to see her.
Mrs. C. w. Hawes was the guest of
Julesburg friends Wednesday when en-
route to her home in Dallas, South
Dakota. Mrs. Hawes was formerly
Miss Broadhead of this place.
Chas. Coughtrey and wife of Dakota
City, Nebraska, are the guests of W.
M. Hileman and family for a few days.
They are on the wey to Oregon.
County Superintendent Miss Law is
holding the regular quarterly teacher S
examination today. A number of the
county teachers are in attendance.
The verdict of several who have seen
the holiday stocks in the other towns is
that j. W. Broadhead of Sedgwick has
the largest and best selected stock in
the county.
Jess Lund, one of the prosperous
Swede farmers of the north divide, has
engaged in the real estate business at
Broadwater, one of the new towns on
the North River branch.
Mrs. Geiger, who was convicted of
the murder of Volley Mann near Ogal-
ALA some two years ago and sent to the
Nebraska penitentiary from that place,
has been declared insane and removed
to the insane asylum.
The ladies' of the Congregations
church will have a sale of fancy work
articles, suitable for Christmas gifts,
on Friday evening, December 18th. be-
ginning at o'clock Lunch will be
served at 25 cents a plate.
Prof. Dean Stewart, principal of the
Ogalalla schools, dropped dead while
skating with number of others on the
river at that place, Wednesday even
ing. His death is supposed to have
been caused by heart trouble.
The Chappell Register remarks that
several citizens of that place have been
carrying black eyes this winter, the re-
suit of splitting kindling. The habit is
bad and dangerous, and shows poor
judgment. 1t never pays to fight.
to "clean out" the bootIeggers at Ster-
ling and the Jail is overcrowded with
suspects. A porter on No. IL was ar
rested and fined 500. He had been
supplying customers from the train.
The Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety met at the home of Mrs. C. M.
Harris on Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
George Kinsman had charge of the
meeting which was a novel one An
illustrated Bible reading was one of the
special features.
Miss Ola Yates yesterday received an
offer from Grants Pass, Oregon, of the
principalship of the high school at that
place at salary of S95 per month and
is awaiting to hear from her father be.
fore accepting. We hope Miss Yates
will conclude to remain in Julesbrrg.
where she has made many friends and
is so helpful when it comes to arrang-
ing any entertainment. being very
capable Of carrying her part of the
work.
New Hardware Man.
Mr.. N. E. Workman of North Platte
has purchased the hardware store of
Mr.. w. l.. Miller. the invoice COM
pleted and the new man in charge. Mr..
Workman will remove his family to
.Julesburg as soon as a house can be
secured.
Mr.. Miller has secured good line of