The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1909-04-23
Ovid Happsaiass

Mrs. Porter called On Mr.. G. w.
Franklin Tuesday.
Mrs. Davis called on Mrs. Blick
Monday afternOOn.
Minnie Cram spent Sunday evening
With Bessie Davis.
Miss Bessie Truax spent Sunday
with Miss Bessie Davis.
B. W. Golf Of Amherst spent Sun
day with relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Davis spent Sunday
with M. Truax and family.
Mr.. C. Cosins drove over 70 the
equity seat on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. Gyger threshed alfalfa seed for
Mr.. Cram the latter part Of last weeks
Mr.. D, l.. Wylde left for his home in
Fort Morgan after several days In
Ovid.
E. B. Tibbals spent Sunday in Jules
burg and reports very pleasant Sum-
day.
Tom Feeder moved his family to his
homestead over near Holyoke, Tues
day.
Lewis Wylde was in Kersey last
week looking over the business
prospects.
Messrs Murray Burke and John
Chase spent few hours Wednesday
10 the county seat.
Mrs. Lewis Wylde is enjoying a
visit with her sister and family from
Los Angeles, California.
WORK is progressing nicely on the
two cottages now under construction 10
Ovid and they will soon be ready for
occupancy.
Mr.. A. E. Sheldon, president OF the
bank, spent few days the fore part
Of the week in the city. He returned
to his home on account Of business in
terests there but will return to Ovid
early next month.
DR.. Lewis of Sedgwick was in Ovid
Tuesday making some medical exam
nations for the Bankers Life Assoc
citation. Messrs Tbballs, Saunders,
Wright and Dobell are now members
OF the Bankers Life Association
family. these gentlemen having taken
out insurance with this company this
week.
Ovid is to have . bank, which for
the present will be located 10 q room
in the hotel there. 1t Is showing =
good deal Of confidence in itself-a
town not yet Boosting depot"
We clip the above from the Jules
burg News. We may be mistaken,
but we imagined there was just little
sarcasm back Of the above local. We
did not know however that q depot
was = necessary adjunct to the estab-
lishment Of bank, in fact we believe
We have heard of banks being started,
operated and made success in towns
that did not even have a railroad.
Men with sutficieLt funds to organ
ize bank look for other contingencies
rather than depots before investing
their money in such enterprises. They
care more for the farming community
surrounding town, for the kind of a
town that is being builded for the
class of business III a town than they
do whether town has depot or not
Messrs. Sheldon and Dobell, when de
Gliding On putting in a bank at Ovid
took all these matters into considra-
ton: They first satisfied themselves
that the gentlemen promoting Ovid
were doing SO On Il legitimate basis;
that the Ovid Land Company was not
get -rich-quick propositions; that they
We're promoting Ovid because it was
located in section of the country
that needed a town. After giving
careful consideration 10 the farming
community around Ovid they became
convinced that situated as Ovid is in
the heart Of an irrigation district of
., 900 acres aud 10000 acres OF this
tributary to Ovid and with rich table
lands to the orth and south that here
was a good location for bank wheth-
er Ovid ever had a depot or not
IL possible that the writer of the 6
experience, that he does not realize
that railway companies do not expend
money without need and that the
Union Pacific has already seen the
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