Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-07-22
!. -The Santa Fe has granted the usual

The Santa Fe has granted the usual
iow rates Tor the Fair and Watermelon
Day Tickets will be sold at one fare
Tor the round trip from ALL stations. Sell.
ing ing dates Aug. 81, Sept; l and 2, good
Day si.25 round trip from @ Pueblo and
corresponding low rates from other
There are good reasons why the
farmer may look for remunerative prices
for the wheat crop OF 1897. The grain
y as good as ever raised in this country.
1t will therefore be very attractive to
foreign buyers, and their wants will be
considerably heavier than they were the
year before.
FLORENCE is clamoring for mountain
water. while Rocky Ford is rejoicing
over the crystal cleanliness and purity OF
two artesian wells; Good water is a big
item in the make up of any town. .-Pue-
bio Indicator.
1t is said that figures won't lie but
this seems to be mistake. In last
weeks Enterprise it was said that the
county commissioners had offered $3.50
in premiums for the approaching Fair.
In fact the premiums foot up $500.
The Enterprise prize offers OF former
years hold good for 1897 as follows: The
Enterprise one year for the first ripe
watermelon; also for the largest water
melon Of the season. The cantaloupe
prize has already been captured.
Justice Green had an irrigation suit
few days since. A High Line stock
holder was arrested and fined for tam
pering with lateral headgate, which, as
we'll m all others, had been locked to se-
throughout the canal.
The school board has selected Col
Harlan Thomas OF Denver as architect OF
the new school house and he is now at
work on the plans.
The cold snap Monday night serious
ly injured the potato crop in the mount
aims and in the upper Arkansas valley,
and higher prices will doubtless result.
The school board hopes to hasten
the preparation OF plans and specificn-
lions 90 that the contract for the new
school house can be let very soon. 1t Is
expected to have tho work Of consturc-
tion begin about Aug. 10th and hnve tho
building pushed as fast us possible.
The Sixth Annual Session OF tho
State Normal Institute will be held at
La Junta, Aug. 1927. Full particulars
next week.
-We have on hnnd for next week m
interesting letter clipped from the Colo
rado Springs Gnzette, descriptive OF
Rocky Ford, written by one Of our new
citizens. a.
Senator Swink has offered to trnde a
whole block directly north Of W. r. Glib
cons home for the old school house site.
A petition has been presented to the
board asking that a meeting of the voters
OF the district be called to consider the
proposition that the new school house
may be built on more commodious
ground. -
The perfected Speed Program for
the coming Fair, published this week,
will be found to vary somewhat from
Tint gwen in the Enterprise q few weeks
since.
-ssThe New and Latter House Of Is
real" IL the name by which new body
of religiouists Distinguish themselves.
They claim to have a Inter reyelation-a
supplemental Bible--which they desig-
nate 'sThe Flying Rolf. A disciple Of
this faith has been talking on the streets
OF Rocky Ford for number Of evenings
expounding the peculiar doctrines Of his
sect and trying to sell copies OF The Fly
ing Roll. About the only impression he
made on the public was TINT he was well
i,ostcd ON the Bible, was somewhat of u
crank with an unusual gift OF CAB"
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