Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-05-17


ceived with marked favor at number Of
places. Why not have Bro. Carnine come
to Rocky Ford?
Last Saturday Mrs. W. E. Anderson
organized picnic excursion to Mr.. And
erson's ranch near Fowler. The follow
ing ladies were her guests: Mesdames g.
NJ. Hall, G. d. Taylor, J. B. Pearce, W.
O. Steele. Sam Hulse and Cal. Foulke.
Several children accompanied the party.
g. T. Gerbing spent . few days at
home recently. The retail department
of the Columbia Land & Cattle Co.'s bus
will continue to sell large quantities Of
beef, pork and mutton at Wholesale.
20. 2. and Lansing Tuttle have COM
pleted Maxwell Bros new warehouse,
and it is now in use.
Andy Nichols has some breeding
stock at Haines' stable of the very best,
and will be pleased to talk with farmers.
N. W. Terry is making good pro-
gress on the carpenter work for the new
school house between here and Catlin.
Our public schools will close Friday,
May 25th. The pupils are now practic-
ing in the hall for the closing exercises.
-Blest is the man who has music in
his soul, except him who walks up the
church aisle with creaking shoes.
Clark & Stumpf report the wagon
making and blacksmithing business quite
brisk, the prospects being that they will
have to engage an additional blacksmith.
If you're in business advertise. If
your business isn't worth advertising,
advertise it for sale and sell it to some
one who will advertise.
The English Lumber Co. unloaded
three cars of lumber on Friday---which
indicates that some improvements are
going on.
AS they are using electricity for cook
ing, the day may not be far distant when
the young housewife shall be able to
cook some electric light biscuit. States
man.
Colorado potatoes have reached Ohio,
and are in great demand. They arc 80
superior to the wet soggy eastern spuds
that they command big price every
where, and ready market.
-. L. Hawkins has sold his imple-
ments and crops on the Krake ranch to
Mr.. Munson, late OF Oklahoma. Mr..
Hawkins and family will reside at Colo
RADIO Springs.
Saturday morning we found the
Rocky Ford Mercantile Co. busy placing
their stock Of machinery in compact
shape in order to make space for q car
loed of binders, mowers, etc.
The English Lumber Co. have been
selling I. y. Gurnea lumber for the new
house on his ranch four miles south OF
town. Geo. Daring is doing the carpen-
ter work.
DIR. Fenton celebrated to the open
ing Of the summer season by starting up
his soda fountain, which furnishes that
delicious warm weather beverage which
a boy described as tasting lust like your
foot's asleep"
Senator Swink and b. F. Hagen say
that the apiary prospects for 1884 are
most excellent. The opinion is based on
the fact that the alfalfa fields will be in
bloom some two weeks earlier than usual,
which will give that much longer season
in which the bees can gather the honey.
Harvey Green who owns a fine fruit
orchard near Rocky Ford, was in town
yesterday, and says that he will have a
good crop of all kinds Of fruit this year.
Mr.. Creep probably has the best 40 acre
fruit ranch in Otero county.-La Junta
Watermelon.
The F. Y. Hauck hose company have
decided to give an entertainment at an
early date not yet fixed. An wholly or
Iginal negro minstrel concert will be fol-
lowed by a dance. The boys propose to
provide an entertainment Of high grade
and will want to see everybody there.
in the Roland cattle stealing case an
affidavit was filed saying that tho de-
fendant could not get justice, and asked
for change of Judges. The court ad-
journed until November when Judge
Elwell will probably try the case.
Wall & Co., of Pueblo, ask the atten-
ton of our readers in our advertising
columns. II you do not find what you
want in the Rocky Ford stores your
wants can surely be supplied at Wallis
at lowest prices.
j. w. Potter and W. b. Goblin have
returned from their trip into the mount
aims for trial of the Comet machinery
and are we'll pleased with the results.
They expect to return soon and prose-
cute the work vigorously.