Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-05

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REV. WARREN MAYO
spoke of the high motives which
prompted the emigration Of many
of the early settlers to Kansas
to aid i'll stopping the spread of
slavery. Many also made that
their home under the belief that it
WAS the veritable Garden of Eden.
He paid high tribute to the
worth, courage, dash and perse-
yerance of the early settlers. He
gave interesting accounts of the
border rufiianlsm and graphically
described the destruction wrought
by the clouds of grasshoppers.
Kansas crops, he said, were rs
uncertain as the weather or the
verdict of petit jury. Among
other things for which Kansas was
noted in the pioneer days We're
bed.bugs, mosquitoes, chills and
fever. Kansas was not bad
state to be born in provided one
emigrated to the Rocky Ford
country at an early period in life.
The following song was sung by
the assembly:
Kansas Land.
Two reached the land nf corn and wheat,
OF salt, ind coal and sugar sweet;
I got my land OF Uncle Sam,
And am as happy as N clam.
Oh, Kansas land, sweet Kansas land,
As on it's fertile soil stand;
/ look the pleasing landscape DER,
For acres broad strive for more,
| Till Gabriel's trump Of loud command.
Says you must leave your knnsns land
My chickens nil are Plymouth Rock;
My horses Ciydesdale Norman stock
My cattle sliort-horns, very fine,
And Poland China are my swine.
or the Ford we heard, md we aro l,ere,
We've prospered now for many year,
The change has clieered the farmers wuy
And brought to him n brighter day.
A vote of thanks was rendered
A. II. Page for the Jay-Hswker
banner, and u. W. Bnrkley jr. for
the mammoth grasshopper. Thanks
were also given the Rocky Ford
papers for aid and encouragement,
the Enterprise being especially
thanked for the programs and
songs furnished.
The following song Composed
for the occasion by a modest
writer) WAS sung by L. G. Shell
ton as n solo the audience joining
in the chorus:
The Battle Cry Of Plenty.
Yes, we'll rally round tho Ford, boys,
we'll rally oace again.
Shouting the battle cry Of plenty;
We love the Kansas land, but we've
found n better plain.
Shouting the battle cry Of plenty.
Rocky Ford. It's the place; hurrah, boys
| hurrah.
We've kind thoughts OF Kansas, but fol-
low Greeley's law,
Well rally round the Ford, boys, we'll
rally once again,
Shouting the battle cry Of plenty.
We remember Kansas corn, sunflowers
and prohibition,
Shouting the battle cry Of plenty.
But Rocky's fruits and melons are more
nearly to our notion,
Shouting the battle cry OF plenty.
| CHORUS:
| u Er.Isa Ala. ,,lar, aic
We're of this year on cants, but doing
well in spite. ..
Shooting the battle cry Of plenty,
We've had peaches, plums aud berries
now have hay and hogs and honey
Shouting the battle cry OF plenty.
CHORUS:
Rocky Ford, It's the place, etc
The Western Poultry 4 Game Co.
has settled with the Lamar Melon Grow
ers' association on the basis agreed upon.
and yesterday checks were issued to the
members for the amounts due them on
last seasons business.
The editor Of the Quincy, Mass, Pa
triot, was among the eastern editors who
visited tho valley some months since. In
recent issue OF his paper lie pays our
cantaloupes this deserved tribute:
ave never tasted sweeter cantaloupes
in our lives; no sugar was needed. We
can not account for their rich, sweet taste,
except the sandy soil and the bright.
warm md sunny days. They have nt