Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-23
PERSONAL and SOCIAL.

81. The many friends OF the young
couple wish them u long and happy mar
ried life.
j. +. Godding and wife left on Tues
day for n two months stay Mt The Dalles,
n charming summer resort III Wisconsin, |
with the management OF which Mr.. God |
ding has been identified for several
years.
An enthusiastic midnight reception
was given the following Rocky Ford vol
unteers as they passed east Sunday |
night en- route to San Francisco via. La |
Junta: @. ID. Weist, Jack Sanders. Dell |
Young, Wiley Reynolds, Roland Wyck-
of, Edwin E. Pitts.
e. A. Mumford OF Dodge county,
Neb., .is visiting his brother. X. L. Mum |
ford and will doubtless locnte in the |
Rocky Ford country and follow teaching,
n profession he has been devoted to for !
ten years.
Mrs. J. B. Blackburn arrived from
Pueblo last week and the Blackburn
family are now ''at home" in their new
Rocky Ford dwelling near Mrs. Fowler's.
George Daring: jr, aspires to keep
step with several OF Rocky Ford's nota-
BILE citizens. The way he walks after
dropping 100 pounds Of ice on his left
foot shows that he is having good sue
cess.
Tom. Wilson. the original, only and
unparalleled-none other like him in the
world-is now publiahing daily on
Pixies Peak and raking in many dollars
from impressionable tourists.
Mrs. J. s. Seely was last week the
guest Of her daughter, Mrs. P. A.
Thompson, Fowler.
Judge Voorhees, Of Pueblo made
flying visit to Rocky Ford on Monday.
Miss Gertrude Ward, one of our
eastern health.seekers, who has made
her home with Mrs. Canedy for the past
two months, is visiting Manzanola friends
this week.
-Miss Esther Miller of Lyons county.
Kans, arrived in Rocky Ford few days
since for trial Of the climate for improv-
ing her health.
j. y. Gracey is now hard.working,
honest farmer, having moved to his ranch
under the Holbrook several weeks since.
His place is about IL miles distant, near
the Holbrook reservoir.
F. H. HilHker and wife spent Tues.
day in Pueblo.
Roy Love did his best to get into
the army, bnt the examining surgeon de-
cited that his chest measure was too
small.
&C. 8. Linn spent last Sunday with
his mother and sister in Rocky Ford.
Mr.. Linn last week acquired Paul Will
sons interest in the Pueblo Null, good
property, and which we trust he will find
u pleasant and profitable business ven-
ture.
Mrs. J. G. Gettys OF Chicago is the
guest Of her niece, Mrs. +. Y. Hauck.
accompanied by her daughter. Miss Cora,
to remnin several weeks. Mrs. Gettys is
sister Of Mrs. J. II. Lowe und IN aunt
Of Mrs. II. A. Potter.
-Mesdames Lewis, Moore, Hauck and
Miss Nettie Larmore visited La Junta'
friends one day last week.
Mrs. F. E. Locke a few days since
returned from a visit with her son Mt
Aguilar. She proposes to follow him to
his new location in Montana ms soon rs
she can sell her desirable place near
town.
Will Young did not succeed in his
patriotic efforts to Join Dewey in Manila.
The examining officers decided that he
was Of too light weight.
Henry Dickes was highly gratiiied
last week by u visit from his brother,
DR.. Philip Dickes. OF Greenville. Ohio.
whom he had not seen for thirty.six
years. DIR. Dickes was a delegate to the
National Medical association which re-
Gently met in Denver, and was accompa-
MED by his wife.
M;,. Alol,, xiv, :, ,rond;,,, 1,or
vacation mt Randolph. Kas., to which
point she made u sad journey last week
with the remains OF her mother.
"A. H. Griswold and wife visited
Cripple Creek last week accompanied by
Mrs. GriswOld's sister, Miss Hawley, OF
Bellaire, KS, who had been spending
several weeks in Rocky Ford.
-Courting has its unpleasant features
in the thinly settled portions OF the west.
A young man rode forty miles to see his
girl only to find her out with another
fellow.
George Todd is surprising his friends
by his rapid progress toward recovery.
Last week he was able to go out in the
field and show the boys how to hoe pota-
toes.
Mr.. and Mrs Carey Badger of Hol-
brook Inst Sunday afternoon very pleas 4
antly entertained, with Strawberries, ice
cream, etc, the following party OF Rocky
Ford young people: Messrs. Crawford.
Badger and Burr, Mrs. Burnett and
Misses Lillian and Lulu Barnes.
Comrades Phenicie, Washbnrp,
Green and Dennis report u splendid time
Mt the G.. A. Il. reunion at Cripple Creek
last week.
Miss Mary Lyon of La Junta was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Philip Rel
fel Friday last, being one of the Eastern
Star visitors.
Mrs. Philip Reifel has recently been
visiting her fathers family in La Junta.
The Rocky Ford country has quite n
shrink linz of PennsYlYnninns and they |