Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-01-11

The Santa Fe has recently built sew
eral new crossings and replaced others
which were worn, to the great comfort of
drivers Of vehicles.
u. G. Haines now has the most tasty
and handsome livery stable Office in Otero
county, thanks to recent painting, paper
ing, ETC., largely the work Of AL. Noble.
We inspected model of G. Il. Tay-
lor's patent lateral dam the other day,
and it struck us as being a most useful
and ingenious device for the purpose.
w. 8. Swink rendered his resignation
as street and water commissioner at q
meeting of the town board last night.
His successor will probably be named at
the regular meeting of the council next
Monday.
H. A. Dawley, of the English Lum-
Der Co., is somewhat encouraged in re-
gard to the building operations next
spring, and is preparing to increase his
stock Of lumber.
AT the irrigation meeting Saturday,
Fowler was represented by =. M. We'll
and, A. Waddington and r. L. King.
The former was made chairman Of the
meeting.
The Santa Fe is offering unusual in
ducements for trip to Pueblo Jan. 10,
on which date Fanny Davenport will ap-
pear as cleopatra" in "The Queen Of
Love" at the Grand opera house. II 100
tickets are sold at Rocky Ford and La
Junta special train will be run, return
ing the party after the theater. Tickets
for the round trip only 81.
Sec the new advertisement Of y. K.
Brown, who has taken advantage of the
fine opening for tailor shop, made by
the death Of Mr.. Jensen, and has located
Jensen's old stand, and will doubtless at
once step into good business.
The value of Arkansas valley alfalfa
is shown by this fact: One Of our ranch
men who Is feeding hogs keeps before
them quantity Of alfalfa, and much Of
the time they will be found eating the
luscious hay. in preference to the corn
which is within reach. ,-
We are going to make each Of our
Otero county subscribers q present of
two issues of the semi-week1y Globe
Democrat. TIE CD. is fearfully wrong
on the silver question, but for news has
no superior. We cannot advise our
readers to take the CD, but will give
them the opportunity to see what tho
paper is Ike-a free pass for ore week.
Last week the M. E. Sunday school
of Rocky Ford elected the following
officers and teachers for 1894: J. J. Ell
ser, Supt.; A. G. Conner, Asst Supt.; Ger
trude Green, Sec.: Ed. Swink, Treas; !;
Roxy Conner, organist; Jas. Stanbridge,
librarian. Teachers: Rev. DIV. Burt,
John Wilson, Mrs. Hamlin, Miss Hannah
Swink, Mrs. Alice Green, Miss Roxy
Conner and John Little.
-MaxYsll Bros. take the right view
of hard times, i. O., use all the more en-
ergy in pushing trade. As evidence of
this, see their new advertisement this
week, and watch it weekly, as it will be
new every Thursday. And little later
they will make another enterprising move
in the way Of attracting the attention Of
public to their large and complete stock
Of general merchandise.
The transfer of the county Offices to
the new officials on Tuesday was the oc-
casion Of pleasant speech and general
gift making. j. @. Vroman was present
ed with handsome watch chain with
Masonic charm, the gift Of the county
officers. The presentation speech was
made by Judge Hoffmire. J. E. Gauger
received 9 gold watch charm containing
Odd Fellow and x. Of P. emblems, the
address being made by Deputy Clerk
Bourne, on behalf Of the county officials.
Ex-Treasurer Fisher was the recipient Of
a splendid hat, Judge Thompson doing
the talking, assisted by Judge James
Clemow. Our fellow citizen,C G. WASH
burn, was elected chairman Of the newly
organized board Of commissioners.
The latest rumor is that the
Santa Fe will soon begin boring
an artesian, at La Junta. Wish
we could vouch for the truth of
the resort. Let there be one sue
cessful artesian we'll anywhere in
che valley and we af Rocky Ford
will dig the second one.