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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10
LOUISDALE.

Sunday School at the vroman school house
every Sunday at 10 u. m. Albert bailey.
Superintendent. Preaching every Sunday nt
II Z. nj. Prayer meeting wednesday evening
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10

AT recent largely attended meeting
OF the Woodmen the following officers
were elected: b. w. Bell, consul; F. b.
Van Gundy, adviser; Chas. Rocker. bank.
ei; ]. G. Foulk, Clerk; Harry Sales, ee-
cort; Fl. G. Brummett, wRtchman; F. H.
Royal, sentry; L. n. Hendricks, mana
gsr for l8 months. The meeting nights
nre third Monday nights OF each month.
Don't forget tho W. Il. c. social to-
night.
IT you don't GO to henr DR.. Quayle
you will make great mistake. At opera
house tomorrow evening.
We are now having the Kind Of
weather the poet spoke Of as "tho perfect
days OF June"
Prepare to go to Manznnola on the
4th. A pleasant time il assured.
-Upin Wisconsin the flowers placed
on the gruves on Decoration Day wore
covered with snow.
Interesting Public Library informa.
ton Is crowded out this week.
will Rice had a long night drive
Monday. taking DR.. Feuton to Plum,
Canon.
-Gibson & Fculason will sub-divide
into small tracts 20 acres OF the Krnke
land. It was planted 70 fruit two years
ago.
Tho Rocky Ford Grocery Co.'S
south side store 10 now in the new po-
sition much nearer the track than here
tofore. The rooms occupied by B. @.
Wilson and Dunsmors & Craig are being
moved in the same direction.
DIR. Fenton was called to Plum canon
by wire Monday afternoon, n ride Of IS
miles. W. H. Grecn, a prominent cattle
mnn Of Trinidad hnd been thrown from
his horse. DR.. Fenton found his left hip
dislocated and very bad bruises inflicted.
The dislocation was reduced md the
doctor returned on Tuesday.
-F.J. Crctcher has associated with
him Harry Rushmer, lately with DIR.
Fenton, and will In few days open up IN
Gerbing's old stand now drug store to
be known as Cretchers Pharmncy. The
carpenters arc now putting the finishing
touches on the interior finish.
The stairway leading to Knapp &
Wallis Office has been ornamented with
q new sign and bulletin board.
Don't kill tho birds. This is our nd.
vice to the boys, and farmers should in.
sist that II DO followed on their farms.
There are very few birtls but which are
farmers friends.
--Dr.W e. Fenton's drug store is being
made hnndsomer by coat Of fine paper.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10
court at La Junta as q Juror.

court at La Junta as juror.
DR., Reed will take short vacation
and 90 to the mountains next week.
To any one who has not been here
lately Fowler and vicinity would be q
surprise.
q. 8. Ringer will put in complete
stock Of hardware, etc.
The lutest in fashionable headgear,
called the Fowler, as introduced ana
worn by Messrs. w. E. Alexander. U. >.
Ringer and NJ. E. Van Norman, promises
to become very popular.
Mrs, M. X. Hutchinson gave kettle
drum to the Ladies' Aid Society We'd
nesday afternoon.
Two train loads of cattle arrived this
week for the Stanley Go.
R. B. Edwards manager for the Eng.
lish L lumber Co. has completed his res
idence. His family arrived from Rocky
Ford Tuesday last aud have become per
manent residents. They will be well
come ad Jition to our community.
The trustees OF the parsonage desire
to submit the following statement o! re-
ceipts and expenditures in the construc-
ton Of the buildings to date, june 9TH.
Total cost Of material in parson- ,or ~
age, barn, etc., @ASE @1SSE
Eytrpa cornanfsr work 1900
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10

Eat ice cream and strawberries this
evening with tho w. Il. O. ladies' Mt /.
o. q. +. hall.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10

The hitching racks on Main stree,
arc not too numerous to accommodate
the large numer Of farmers teams vhicb
are in town every day. Aud their ability
to serve the public is greatly diminished
whenever team Is driven up nearly par.
allel with the rack. A team in such a
position keeps one, il not two others from
enjoying the provided Accommodation
Drive mp at right anglee and give othera
q chance.
W. P. Wykle's horse fell with him ,
few days since while riding rapidly. Nj.
W.'s foot caught in the bride and the
horse rolled over him twice. The 70.
suit is that Mr.. Wykle walks quite lame.
The rain storm Of Wednesday night
brought some hail, but damage was In.
licted in narrow strip and very slight
there.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10
S161
$34.74

Total balance due S54.f4
The trustees have not had the support
in this matter that they expected in the
way Of donation work hence more money
has been required in its completion than
would have been otherwise.
j. 8. Gilbert, pres, U. S. Ringer, sec;;,
DR.. Reed, treas, Ed Harris, II. 2. Hard,
trustee6.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10
oTERo COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
oRDwAY,
Mo. p Time Card,
z, CHURCH, Rev. G. W. Corey. Pasto

M 4. CHURCH, hev. q. w. Corey. fas'or'
Prcaching every Sunday ut II a. m; and 7;3o
p. m. Sunday school ut IL m. EpWorth
League $50 ?. IN; Prayer as meeting gmaav Meanesi;
., m. Ladies' Aid Society meets every Thurs
day afternoon from 2:30 till $3.50 at the Hotel.
wv of the W., Ordway Camp No, 81.
Tuesdays OF each month. J. A. YORK,
W, q. SHUMArE, Clerk. Consul
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10

Balance due on material
Balance due carpenter Rowen
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1897-06-10

Receipts.
Cash received on subscriptions
/" " socials
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
A PRETTY BODICE OF WHITE SERGE.

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The age-herald., 1897-09-19

You've made everybody utterly miser- able. feel as if 1 had been brute to you, and yet I think you are a con- summate idiot
 Then they both cried, and the men said they'd go out and have a walk and later in the evening, when they came back, they found the two women as friendly as possible, and the one who had broken up the game said to her husband "Kate's such a dear thing!
 You know she's got a quick way of speaking, but she wouldn't do a mean thing to save her soul"
 And the other man answered: By George, that's beautiful for one woman to say about another,"
 And the unlucky card player added:
 "Well, it's true. She speaks her mind
 sometimes, but tonight l really think I deserved every word she said"
 And every man in the party said pos itively, You certainly did.'
 Even in the country and generally on
 Sunday, when the men are here, it's warm once in awhile. But what would like to know is, When do people expect it to be hot if not in the sum- mer? Likewise what would any of us have to eat during the winter if it were
 
 sort of person who suffers intensely from the heat, who swings around and moans and groans and are always
 ready for a glass of ice water and a palm leaf fan? If you are, your friends approve of you and say you're human and sympathetic, but if by any chance you learn how to keep decently cool and to look as if you weren't sitting over a furnace all the time the world at large, especially that part of 1t which is re- lated to you either by ties of friendship or of blood, look upon you as their nat
 ural enemy. They think you've no busi- ness whatever to be cool when every body else is warm.
 Self conviction is very impressing A woman never looks we'll when she sug- gests heat. She invariably seems un- tidy, and there is one hor1id word and
 one only that applies to her. and that is frouZy. That suggests untidy dressing. hair standing in every direction, things pinned rather than sewed to position and a general look of falling to pieces that is certainly not artistic and cer- tainly not attractive. Can you fancy any of the heroines of romance looking, as the average woman says, "too hot for anything?" Would Mary, queen Of Scots; Marie Antoinette, Catherine of Russia or Marie Theresa gain in your eyes if you thought of her as looking hot? The very word is "too material for anything" Hot soup and hot meat and hot bread and hot coffee are all very good, but you want to think of a lovely woman as something delicate and fine and dainty, something a thou sand miles distant from the word hot. Here are some tolerably good tips on
 keeping cool during the summer: Don't let your angry passions rise.
 Don't. by flaming yourself, use up all your vigor, make other people nervous
 and yourself very red in the face. Don't, if you are man, stand on the street corners and mop your forehead and don't, if you are woman, go into
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want to see lovely woman at her best or her worst, watch her at the card ta- ble You will then see with what ease she becomes thief and how greedy she is. You will then see what an in- mense amount of cheek (pardon the slang, but nothing else expresses it) she has and how she will rush into a game about which she knows nothing and of which she declines to he taught any thing.
 Possibly you are a good whist player. In that case you may have met the young woman who is staying here and who is ''so fond of the game,'' but who, after insisting upon playing it, tells you that she doesn't know much about it, And you belong to a whist club famous in two countriesi She begins operations by strengthening out her hand upon the table, making a pile of spades and a pile of clubs, a pile of hearts and pile of diamonds, until, from knowing your own hand and making a general guess about the others, you are pretty cer- tain as to what she holds.
 After she's lost three tricks by throw ing low trump cards where she should have put high ones she very Vaguely asks for at least the fifth time: What
 
 remember" Her mind satisfied about this, she proceeds, when she is the last player and the deuce of trumps would have taken the trick, to put on a king and then to remark placidly, arranging herself as if asking for appreciation, T never believe in sending a boy to do a mans errand" You are suffering at this time fol the sins of your life.
 Next Friday, however, remembering your experience. | decline to play whist. You cleo. play hearts with a sweet blond in a gown of heavenly blue. She says she's played the game number of times, and she's pretty sure she knows all about it. though she asks you conlidentially. "Oughtn't I to lead my highest cards frst?" You are charmed at having such an intelligent partner, but ycur eyes open wide and you are little surprised when she l leads the ace of hearts, follows it up with a king, then dances out the knave and eventually has all IS hearts in her l pile. There's no use in trying to teach I this woman to play cards. You could never make her understand that the policy of the same is to get rid of them. 1 No, indeed. Originally she got the idea 1 that she was achieving the most when she gathered in the ruby red cards and i paid out her chips.
 The next Friday little game of polk CT is got up. Knowing what gamblers women are, you think that here at least you will meet some sensible ones. But you had never calculated on,the tender | hearted card player. She was at her I best that night. Everything was going pretty well when jack pot was to the fore, to be opened for 25 cents. Every body was in it, and everybody was pre- pared to bet rather heavily when the l tender hearted lady said: Now, chil-
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

One could hardly call Jessie Bartlett Davis an enaancipated woman. She ad- mits that she thinks nothing in the world so pretty a sight as newly hatch cd chickens and in the same breath declares she is awfully afraid of a horse.
 She sat in her pretty little dressing room at the Broadway theater in New York recently when she made these awful admissions and punetuated her remarks by a dab of black to her eye lashes, which made the merry eyes shine like sapphires.
 The dressing table where powders and pastes and the thousand and one mysteries of the make up stood in sol dierly array, was draped with some soft blue stuff, and photographs beamed and smiled from either side of the mirror.
 50 you ask about my home lfe?" asked the lady with the rouge rag, laughing at the absurdity of such a question: '''Fhis is it-durng my work ing season There is time for only three things in an artists life-sing. sleep and eat I have TO fads or hobbies or eccen- tricities during the season, because I have no time for anything but music. l get up at 9, go to rehearsal at 11--that means until sand then have dinner and go to the theater. To say the least, it gives me very little time for anything else.
 But when I am home--ah, when I am home!-that is very different" And the face under the make up lighted up wonderfully as the singer glanced at the photograph beside the mirror. All the cares and trials of rehearsals, per formances, the responsibilities of being a public character, the penalty of being successful by being exiled from home, melted away in that smile, and the ac- tress was just the loving wife who loves to be queen of her home, and the proud mother who has a lovely son.
 Mrs Davis home means a farm of hundreds of acres owned by her hus- band. It is 30 miles from Chicago, and here luxurious house, with all tho modern comforts, electric lights, etc., makes the country as charming in point of convenience as the town. The place is called Willowdale, and here Mir. Davis has d typical gentleman's country place, where blooded stock from Hostein, Jersey and Hereford eraze on Illinois grass and where thor oughbred horses and dogs are almost as common IS at cur annual shows.
 Mrs. Davis is q model modern haus- frau. She can boil an egg so beautiful- ly in three minutes that even hen
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

Aunt Betty has always been of rec served disposition. She seldom went away from home. and, so far as her rec lation to the outside world is concerned, she merely existed. When asked If she ever kept company with the young men of her day, her sister replied that she never had but two fellows, and that only for short time, and 1t always made her mad to talk about being married" |
 Her niece asked Aunt Betty if she would advise the young girls of today, to get married, and she repliedL Course not They might make a bad pick and blame me for it, and I don't want to be blamed for anything like that.o l
 Although residing within a mile and a half of the railroad. she has never ridden upon train, nor could she ever
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

FIn Indiana. near the town of Sparks vile lives Aunt" Betty Bowling, who reached her hundred and first birthday anniversary few days ago. Not only does she bear the distinction of being the oldest lady in Indiana and perhaps the adjoining states, but she bears the unique distinction of being the oldest maid in the world.
 Aunt Betty lives in a lonely. dreary and desolate spot in a range of hills in the extreme southwest corner of the county. A reporter found her recently seated in low chair, nervously rub ping her hands and glancing suspicious ly at the intruders of her quiet home.
 Her mental faculties were impaired yet she was able to converse, not intel ligently but after the manner of a small child. At first she objected to having her picture taken. It had never been taken before. and her objection now was that she was "too old and ugly to have it drawed now" She was al- ways opposed to gaining any publicity or notorety.
 After much persuasion on the part of her relatives who really did want at least one picture of her, she sat down in the front door and for the first time in her long life gazed into photograph CTS camera. So ignorant was she of art that she asked if she must shut her eyes,
 and it seemed as if she feared some awful fate was in store for her. After it was all over she remarked that aft Fer a person was a hundred years old they ortu have their picture drawed." On a bed in a remote corner of the | room was her only living sister who had also reached an extreme old age, as she will be 80 in October. As their early E pioneer life deprived them of the bene- lift of an education, they seemed to re- member little of early history, and it was with much difficulty that the fol- lowing facts were gleaned
 Betty Bowling was born in Kentucky
 in 1796. Her family were noted for | theifS longevity. Her parents both lived to be past S9.z There were il children seven boys and four girls--all of whom lived to a ripe old age. In 1916, the year that Indiana was admitted to the Un- ion as a state, and during the great rush of immigration to the state that fol- lowed after the close of the war of 1872 this family, with four others, all of whom are long since dead, located near Sparksville, and for so years Aunt Bet ty has lived within five miles of the spot where they first located.
 The country for miles was a dense wilderness, and, strange to say, these
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

But in one thing Mrs. Davis is a mod el farmers wife. She knows chicken when she sees one, why its feathers lie flat instead of standing out, what it wants when it comes out of it's shell and says "Peepr and what kind of coop is best suited to the blue blooded and chicken hearted of the brood. She loves chickens very much, but her great fad is a certain 10-year-old chicken who calls her mamma" This big piece of lovableness, as she calls him, is as dark as g Spaniard and as beautiful as Endymion. He is called,
 after his father and mother. William
 Jesse. He goes to school during the winter in Chicago and learns all sorts of things which have nothing whatever to do with chickens and dogs or blood ed bulls. Then when summer comes it brings the sunshine vacation and his
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

 crowded shops and then wonder why the air is bad and why you feel so faint
 Don't take too many baths a day. Confne yourself to tepid baths and let the very cold and very hot ones be given to people who like extremes. ]
 Don't sleep under new sheets. You might as well make yourself into a spicy sa',dwich, with cotton underneath and above you representing the bread. and you some kind of meat, thickly sprinllled with tabasco, for that's the way you will feel.
 Don't, above all things, permit your temper to govern you. Keep it down, down, down, and be made cool by com- mon sense and amiablity, combina- tion which may be yours, but which. being only an average woman, is as yet ardently prayed for by
The age-herald., 1897-09-19

This was the maddest party ever saw and the woman who held four aces gave her friend a piece of her mind. Said she: When you don't know how to play a game. don't fool away the time and upset the people who do, and when you are playing cards don't get too tender hearted, Keep that sort of thing for the seclusion of your fam fly and your sewing society. I don't care if you do cry. Unless you under stand a game you've no business to make things uncomfortable for other people, and if you want to learn to play you ought to be willing to endure dis appointments until you find out the right Way. You've broken up the game.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
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fCopNfight, 1S91l
 During the week all the people in our house afe very domestic but Saturday afternoon brings the masculine clement, and then everything feminine draws it's corset laces tighter, assumes its best frock and goes down to the station to meet the expected. Some of us go in the milk wagon, some of us go in great CT style in the buggy, and some of the rest of us who put on great airs go in the two seated carriage. In the coun- try it doesn't make any difference about your trap. Style is not looked for Getting there is your object.
 Then when the masculine element is made much of and has been scolded for not bringing the right fruit or the right sweets or for forgetting the tin bath or the bottle Of blackberry brandy we assemble in the parlor to enjoy our selves. The mode of enjoyment most in vogue is card playing. Now, if you
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
PADS AND F0LLIES AS SEEN BY BAB.

dren, I am not going to let you be cheated. There's no possibility of any body beating my hand, and so there's no use in my taking more of your money" The natural conclusion was that she had royal flush the hand that couldn't be beaten. Had she? When that mar velous hand was laid down. 1t was a straight, jack high! The woman oppo- site held four aces You had full hand, queen high, and another man held four treys.
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
THE OLDEST OLD MAIDEN.
One Hundred and One Years Is the Age
 Of Aunt Betty Bowling.

four families located several miles apart The forests were full of Indians and wild beasts, and before her mind became impaired many were the inter-
 esting stories told by Aunt Betty of how her father and brothers killed
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
JESSIE BARTLETT DAVIS.
The Pretty SOngStreSS Owns 8 Stock Farm
 and Raises Chickens.

could not tell that it had ever been boil ed at-all, and she-ean cook a potato as only Savarin. who thought potatoes in their natural state perfect, could. But Mir Davis is less modern, fortu- natcly. and when the annual servants
The age-herald., 1897-09-19
TAM 0'SHANTERS.

Tam O'Shanter caps are popular again and are chic and becoming to youthful wearers. A becoming style is of brown heather tweed. The bodice; is cut square in tho neck for wearing over a white shirt and collar or white lawn chcrnisettc. It is fastened on the left side by two white buttons, which also finish the cuffs, and hangs loosely over a white leather waist belt.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
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as pastor. Twice since that pastorate DR..
Newman, now Bishop Newman, has been
recalled to the church.
Within the walls of this noble sandstone
structure mural tablets of bronze and
marble comm emorate the fact that Gen
eral L. S. Grant and General John A
Logan worshiped there. The keystone in
tue arch above the pulpit is from Jerusa-
lem and inscribed Jehovah Jireh." The
puI pit is partly made of olive wood from
the Holy City. In the vestibule is a por-
tion of marble pavement from the debris
OF Solomon's Temple.
Prominent Methodists throughout the
country have set apart pews 10 be kept,
unless they decline TO use them, for the
President of the United States, the Vice
President and the Chief Justice. General
Grant occupied his pew eight years, al
ways slipping out at the pastors door and
down the side steps during the singing OF
the doxology 10 avoid the gaze of the curl
Gus. Vice President Colfax used his dur
ing four years, and Chief Justice Chase
his tor the same length of time. Pews
are also set apart for several OF the Sta tes
and larger cities. General Grant and
Chief Justice Chase were mem bers of the
original board Of trustees. Upon the bells
of the chimes are Inserted the names of
Julia Dent Grant and Nellie Wade Colfax
The present pastor, Dr.. Hugh Johnson,
from Canada, is calculated 10 make his
church a popular one even without the
Presidents aid.
The First Presbyterian Church has held