Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-05-03


Matthews as to water.
Burt Gave returned from an eastern
trip few days ago. He and j. @. Fox
took ten car loads of cattle east on the
Santa Fe. -Four loads sold at Kansas
Strong City, KS. Mr.. Fox is yet in
Kansas.
There was considerable frost Mon
day night, but as far as heard from but
slight damage was done to the fruit.
Senator Swink is planning to drive
1875 horses to Arkansas to exchange for
cattle.
The two day illness of the editor is
offered as an excuse for any shortcomings
which may be discovered in this issue.
-Grasshoppers are Matching out near
Greeley, and are quite lively already for
the season.
Here is a scientific item Of timely in
terest: The offspring of a single fly in one
number 100000.
Now that w. 8. Swink & Co.'s inter-
ior improvements and decoration have
been completed they have one Of the
most attractive hardware store rooms in
the country.
Frogs and toads are of inestimable
benefit to farmers and gardeners; each
creature is estimated to devour every
season fifty-seven times its weight of in
sects.
Now that the farmers are very busy
in the fields the streets OF Rocky Ford
are quiet except early and late and on
Saturdays. But money is being made to
make things lively after awhile.
An ice social at Chas. Tewes' last
evening was well attended by the young
people, with a good sprinkling of the
older heads. A good time was had, last
ing until near the midnight hour. The
estimated profits for the benefit Of the
church treasury about $40.
Jim Dye is down from the Ford to-
day. It is understood he has rented the
corner room in the Woodruff block, now
occupied by Mosher's grocery, and will
fit it up in fine style as wet house re-
sort, with the smiling Doc. Wright in
charge. Junta Watermelon.
Lawyers stand mp in the court house
before jurors, in the presence OF large
audiences, and denounce men as Liars,
scoundrels, thieves and perjured williams,
and when court adjourns the men appear
to harbor no i'll will against them. But
let newspaper family intimate that a
mans character is blemished, and he has
to confront a horse pistol, stand libel
suit, or suffer what the people think to
q subscriber.
An editor on being asked il she ever
saw baldheaded woman replied in the
following vein: No, we never did. Nor
did we ever SEQ woman waltZing around
town in her shirt sleeves with a cigar be-
tween her teeth and run into every saloon
she saw. We have never seen woman
go fishing with a bottle in her pocket, sit
drunk at night. Nor have we seen q
woman yank of her coat and say she
could lick any man in town. Men and
women are not alike, and we're glad of it.
DO you remember how pleased you
the school you were attending? Do you
remember how you would study 30 as to
be sure of perfect lesson when your
class was called on before your father
and mother? Well, you have children
now of your own, who are attending
school. Have you ever thought Of visit
ing the school which your boys and girls
attend? Remember the pupils of to-day
are as well pleased to have their parents
visit them as You were in your school
days, besides it encourages children to do
better work and Mt the same time con-
vinces the teacher that you are interest
ed in school work.-Ex.
Additions to rented premises, when
made by the tenant, should never be
fastened with nails, but screws. The
reason for this lies in the fact that should
he wish to move away and take the
boards and other lumber composing the
improvements he has made, he can
simply draw out the screws and take the
material; whereas, if ne uses nails, he can
remove nothing and the improvement be-
comes the landlords property,
The other day in the Fairmont coun-
try we saw farmer who was surely
earning his daily bread. He had four
horses hitched to plow, and beside the
"off'' horse Of the four, a fifth horse was
being led, which was pulling a harrow.
The idea Of one man blowing and harrow
ing at the same time was new one. We
presume therc is no copyright on the idea
and when any Of the ENTERPRISES readers
are short OF help they can hitch up five
horses to two kinds of farming imple-