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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

Last weeks Enterprise gave eonsiEe--
able prominence to the offer Of the Ar7e-i-
can Sugar Refining Co. Of $500 sIsu-
eaP ts= the best sugar hsets to bss Ak
hibtcd at the Nation lriEation corrrnse.
Ogden. Utah. September 1913. To-day
IS tho las; day for shipping beets feI-ssn-
petition Tor this handsome prize. and We
t-uss irat enough ef our groves have
sent samples to win the prize for the
Arkansas valley. A section Of country
which did so magnttieently in the Orange
Judd contest has certainly the beets in
the field TO vir this trophy. This $500
cup would De a great feather N the cap
Of the Rocky Ford country.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

Wednesday evening was quite cool and
many persons predicted frost Forum
ataly Jor proyidentallyl the temperature
raised as midnight ap pproaehsd and the
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

Just received a fine line Of souvenir
China.-W. F. Stark. l5-lep
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11
opening Of the Public sshool..

The public schools Of Rocky Fsrd OPEN
cd Up in the three buildings Monday morn
ing with fne attendance. The enroll
neni tho opening Gay was s76. bong
greater than az the close o. the first week
last year.
All Of the rooms are full and some ever
flowing. The high school has marked
Increase In attendance.
We give below the names and assign
rnen;s Of the 2i teachers. Prot. :. q
Bellies. Superintendent.
LiBtErr BuitsiSo.
Prot. Bryant. Principal
Miss Annie {. otwell. is; Assistant
Prof. S. S. Phillips. 2nd
Grade 8. Mrs. Day.
S. Miss Nettie o. Partner.
d" !. Miss Lena Weaver.
3. Mrs. Annie 3. Elser.
2. Miss Ella n. Gooeh.
Q. Miss Letha Shumats.
/. Mrs. Bessie Taylor.
/. Miss Eva Thomas.
Enrolment $40.
WASHINGTON BUILDING.
Prof. {. I. Howe;s. Principal.
Grade 6. Miss Edith Bacon.
S. Sylvia Brownlee.
:. Florence Shaw.
8. Clara West
2. Gertrude Kellogg.
/. Marie 4. Dean.
/. Powell.
Enrolment 2s5.
LAFAYETTE Burtsiso.
Miss Ssllie FRI.
Enrolment 81.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

Buy Bread at Talhelm's Denver Bakery
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

The ]. NJ. Hussay Co. Of St Louis is
sending out circulars making tempting
offers to the thouEhtless to send it
money to invest in an alleged wheat COM
binatisn. Like all such get-rieh-auiek
concerns. big profits are promised, and
the eompuny's bank deposits are cited as
evidence Of It's ability to fulfill promises.
Mr. Hussoy's company possesses a monu-
mental arr cunt Of gall to spring such a
scheme 50 soon after the recent exposure
of great swindiing corporations which
made aeua Ily turing promises. Never
send money to such a concern for invest
msnt. II the big profits were as sure as
Hussey's circular say there is plenty Of
money living idle in St Louis to float the
scheme. Dorit be sucker.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

The State Fair a; Pueblo next week IS
entitled 10 a crowded special train from
Rocky Ford. This large representation
from the metropolis Of the valley is due
Pueblo for two reasons: /. Because the
merits Of the State Fair viii warrant the
time and cost Of the trip. 2. As a return
for the magnificent crowd which Pueblo
sen, 70 Rocky Ford on Watermelon day.
The Enterprise Office has provided lot
Of handsome badges which should be
worn BY every visitor 70 the State Fair.
Call at the Office and get one free Of cost
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11
sUpscaIPT,oS RATES.

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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11

msns Oxford ovsrsea,s; Special. ........
Meas Storm listers. worth So: speeia........... s.
Five Dozen Mems Corduroy Pants. worth Loo Special.
-Four sh; gray Corduroy Pants Special.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-09-11
BLANKETS AND COMFOR

GFay Cotton Blankets ioS. SSe
Camel Hair Blankets toxi ose.
Tue 7 ". Wool Blankr; iuSi. special $2.2S.
The CTriina wool Blankc, iosi. special 500
The Tornado Wool Blanke;'tosi. special S.S,
The White Rose Wool Blanket. silk bound
handsome blanket ioxi, spheiai 500.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-12-11

FORI best of Furniture Store
always the Highest Mar k Produce
FLOUR:--Our well known them all and
than grades have the hest
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18
Promotion of General Wood.

With General Miles retirement
come other important changes in
the army. General S. M. B. Young
succeeds to the chief command, but
as he is we'll along in years it is not
his advancement that is most inter
esting. What excites surprise
throughout the country is the re-
cent promotion of Brigadier-Ge Gen
eral Leonard Wood to be a major
general. This means that in a few
years this comparatively young man
Che is forty-three) will become in the
natural course of things lieutenant-
general commanding the army, and
that he will hold this office until
1924, unless he should die or resign
before that time. Since General
Wood entered the army from civil
life as a surgeon, and has seen ac-
tive service only in his first cam
paign against Geronimo, in 1886,
and during the brief struggle in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18

Cuba, this promotion arouses hos
tility among those army men who
insist on the necessity of long ex-
perience. General Wood will be
advanced v e scores of captains
and majors and colonies who have
been in the army since the Civil War;
and who will thus lose their chance
of reaching high command. The
device by which such men r given
the nominal rank of brigadier-gen-
eral a day before retirement in order
to gain the pay of the higher rank
is little consolation to their ambi-
ton, though it may help their pocket
books. The justification for this I'M
usual promotion must be looked for
in General Woods career as Military
Governor of Cuba. That this was
marked by conspicuous ability and
vigor is the general opinion, based on
the reports of the daily press. 1t IS
charged by some of General Woods
enemies that his achievements in
Cuba have been o~ver-rated. Wheth-
er there be any foundation for these
charges the public would very much
like to know. If General Wood be
the man the President believes him
to be, he may be the fttest man to
command the army for fifteen or
twenty years. The President is a
pretty good Judge of men.-Chicago
ChristendOm.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18
The Worlds Cotton Supply.

Of the cotton spindles IN the
world the United States has one
fifth, Great Britain has more than
~two-ffths, the Continent all the rest
except about Z per cent. Yet vast
as u manufactures, we export al
most two bales for every one we
spin.
Cotton is the one and only great
distinctively American STAPLE" For
six years we have produced three
fourths of the cotton of the world.
And we have sold abroad more than
one-half of the worlds cotton con-
sumption. The resulting cash inflow
has been mormon
In six years the worlds cotton
surplus has run above deficit by
1922 900 bales, one-ffth of n per
cent. In three of the six years there
has been a shortage. This year an
other short crop, following upon one
in 1902, has been made the occasion
of an idiotic Corner" destructive of
a great industry, driving the price
to fifteen cents, against a six-year
average of less than eight cents, and
closing foreign mills, as well as III
own, to our product.
What is the result? This ques-
ton the recent consular report upon
the French Cotton Crisis" answers.
The British East Indian, Egyptian
and Brazilian crop last year vas
larger than ever before. Ours was
smaller than in 1889 by almost a
million bales. Germany turdily
experiments with cotton-growing in
East Africa. The British Cotton
Growing Association plans to spend
$25O,OOO on similar experiments IN
der the auspices of the Colonial
Office, on the theory that cit is mad
ness to depend on America for cot
ton" The French have founded a
Colonial Cotton Association for SINH
lar experiments in Nigeria.
Our Southern States are not the
only place in the world where cotton
will grow. Africa, as Egypt has
proved, can produce a splendid
fibre. A speculative corner" can
give to the effort to supplant our
staple more impetus than five years
of ordinary traffic. And there is no
way apparent to check the mad
ness.-New York World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18
Notes From Our Washington COrrespOn-

Notes From Our Washington COrrespon-
dent.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
1t has been definitely determined
that President Roosevelt will lose at
least one member of his cabinet be-
fore January /. Secretary Root has
placed in the hands of the President
his resignation, to take effect when
ever the latter sees fit, but with the
stipulation that it must be by Janu-
airy 1, at least. Mr.. Root considers
that in the establishment of peace in
the island possessions of this coun-
try and the Inauguration of the gen.
eral staff in the army,he has perform
ed the chief duties for which he was
called to the cabinet, and he has
finally yielded to the urgent wish of
his wife, and advised the President
that he can remain in his present po-
sition but a short time longer. On
the 22nd of this month, the Secretary
will sail for England where he goes
as a member of the Alaskan Boun-
dairy Tribunal. He does not expect
to be detained there but a few weeks,
however, as it is expected that the
final meetings of the commission will
take place in this country. AS soon
as he returns he will prepare his
annual report, which is not yet be-
gun, but most of which will be draft
ed during his absence, and when
that is completed it is announced
that, much to Mr.. R~oosevelt's re-
greet, his resignation will take eff
feet.
The President has written to
Governor Durbin, of Indiana, a let
ter that contains a homily on the
subject of lynching which has com
PEELED expressions of approval from
members of all parties in all parts
OF the country. Mr. Roosevelt dwells
with emphasis on the fact that the
violation of the laws Of the land
by lynchers weakens the power of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18

the law and the respect in which
it is held by all persons, and thus,
while serving to satisfy a desire for
vengeance on the part of the COM
munity guilty of taking the law into
its own hands, it lays that and every
other community open to the DANGER
of that same ~disrespect of law which
occasioned the original lynching.
A. B. NJ.
Washington, D. O., Aug. Is, 1908.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18
The Lesser Events of Last Week,

The Lesser Events of Last Week.
William E. Dodge, the New York
millionaire philanthropist, died at
Bar Harbor.
Pope Plus x. had a fainting fit
while celebrating mass, but o re-
vived.
The trial of the Humberts, who
are accused of enormous frauds.
continued in Paris.
The first serious break in the Phil
adelphia textile strike occurred, and
$4,000 operatives reported for duty.
The French Premier, M. Combes,
was shot at twice in the streets of
Marseilles by a supposed italian an
archist.
1t is said that General Miles has
a chance of being elected Command
er-in-Chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic.
Pope Plus X. was crowned in st.
Peters before a concourse of 10000
persons, who made the cathedral ring
with acclamations.
The Irish land bill passed it's third
reading in the House of Lords and
now goes back to the House of Com
mons with amendments.
It is reported in Washington dis
patches that Gen. Nelson A. Miles
is a candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination.
The arbitration board to settle the
coal-mine differences began it's ses-
sions at Birmingham, Ala, with
Judge George Gray presiding.
Frightful massacres of women and
children by Macedonian insurgents
we're reported in the vilayet of Mon
astir, also the burning of the cap
tives.
The investigation by the Georgia
Prison Commission of the whipping
of Convict Mamie DEGREES in the
Georgia penitentiary was begun at
Milledgeville, Ga.
The gubernatorial boom of Joseph
W. Folk of Missouri, is rapidly at
tanning large proportions. Edward
I. Orear, formerly State Insurance
Inspector, is n of the latest adher-
ents of the movement to make Folk
the Democratic candidate in 1904.
The House of Representatives OF
the Georgia Legislature Tuesday
passed the convict bill, as amended
by the Senate, providing for the EN-
ployment of all fve-year felony con-
vincts on the public roads. Each
county may work it's p~ro-rata num-
Der of convicts.
DOLLAR wheat" was seen on
Change for the first time since the
Letter corner in 1898. It was cash
wheat and there were sales at the hg-
r Later 1O2 was asked and lOL
bid without sales. The September
option touched IS, the highest Polh'
In fourteen years.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18

1t is estimated that fifty lives were
lost and $1O,OOO,OOO property dam
age caused by the Jamaica hurri-
cane.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-18
GENERAL NEWS
S. A. L. RAILWAY o L
It is No Longer an Independent System
"A Great Combine Now Controls ALI
Lines in the Southern States.

New York, Aug. 12.-Ihe long
expected announcement that the
Seaboard Air Line had passed, at
last, practically into new hands, was
made to-day by Ladenburg, Thalman
& Co., who issued a statement show
ing that interests representing the
Rock Island and St. Louis and San
Francisco had secured representa-
ton in the Seaboard directorate and
board of voting trustees.
President John Shelton Williams
also announces that B. Y. Yoakum,
H. Clay Pierce, Okleigh Thorne and
S. B. Van Worst have been elected
directors of the Seabord Air Line
Railway. Mr.. Yoakum is president
of the st. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad, for which company ]. P.
Morgan & Co. are fiscal agents.
One of the voting trustees when
asked to state the real significance
of the deal said that it meant a
"better understanding among inter
ests that have at various times con-
Aicted."
The policy of the Seaboard Air
Line for a long time was one of alb
solute independence; so much so as
to make it at times inimical to the
interests of opposing roads travers-
ing adjacent territory. To-day's de-
velopments, it is thought, will do
away with such trouble in the flu
ture.
New York, Aug. 13.-In Wall
Street to-day it was asserted on all
hands that the Southern railroads
are being combined into one vast
system. There will be no big holding
company, but a genuine community
of interest idea. For reasons that
are very plain, the Rock Island
Frisco. interests and powers domi-
nant in Southern railroads are very
friendly, and in fact are working to-
gether with a definite object. Some
of the results of the years work are:
Southern Railway and Louisville
control "Monon;" the Atlantic Coast
Line controls the Louisville and
Nashville; Rock Island controls the
Frisco, which extends into Southern
territory; Frisco has control of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Evans
vile and Terre Haute and now the
Seaboard Air Line. It has an ALI
ance with the Illinois Central by
which it gains access to New Or
leans and friendly relations have
been established with the Gould lines.
The Rock Island has secured control
of all Southern Pacific lines in
Texas and has a contract with the
Southern Pacific; Georgia Central
is controlled by the Southern Rail
way. Thus the territory is gridironed
by lines directly controlled by the big
combine. Not even the Kentucky
State Railroad Commission can find
that the law has~been violated.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
VIM. BUCHANAN,
Brandon, Miss, Nov. II, 1908.

Chautauqua entertainment, music
and art combined Johnson's hall
Saturday night, November 49, One
of the best entertainments ever given
in Brandon promises to be given Sat-
urday night by DR.. DeWalt Norton
and company. Dr.. Norton is man
of international reputation as trav
eler, artist and entertainer, and is
ably assisted by his co-workers.
Program for Saturday nights enter
tainment will be reproduction of the
beauties and sublimities of the Yose-
mite Valley, Yellow Stone National
Park and Picturesque Colorado. The
most magnificent scenery in the world.
Interspersed with rich collection of
illustrated songs. Robt. E. Holder i'll
ustrated song artist at Johnson S
Hall, Saturday night. Following
songs beautifully pictured:
I'm mansion of aching hearts. -
In city of nights and tears
s'Mid the orange trees and blossoms
she is waiting. =
Last night as the moon was shin
ing. -
I am wearing my heart away for
you. -
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26

got a serious hurt last Monday by fall
ing off the church house where he
was at work. Hope he is doing
well.
Gold and dry; stock suffering for
water. Forest fires still raging.
jim Alliston, of Bolton, visited
his fathers family, returning Sun
day.
Mrs. Hawkins and family of Kinds,
visited her parents Sunday.
MIR. McNeame and wife left Sun
day for the delta, where they expect
to reside in the future.
All that was mortal Of little Les
ter, only child of Horace and Mamie
Pierce, was laid to rest in the Sinai
cemetery on the nth, to await the
morning of the resurrection, when all
the just will meet their Lord to be
with Him for ever and ever. So dear
father and mother, weep not for your
darling but live that you can reign
with him where parting will not be
known. May the Good Lord help us
all so to live. Rev. E. B. Steen con-
Quoted the burial services.
A FRIEND.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
PATRICK.
Health is very good.

Health is very good.
We are having some disagreeable
weather.
Hurrah or Light, she is thriving
village.
Henry Ferguson is visiting home
folks at present.
Anse Warren left Monday for D'Lo,
where he will haul logs.
We would like to have fine rain
to fill the creeks full of water for
stock.
Willie Thompson leaves this week
for D'Lo, where he will max his
home.
Melford Traxler and family, of
Polkville, visited in this vicinity
last week.
This community was sorry to hear
of the death of little Guy Burn
ham, at Johns.
Warren Burnham went to Gulfport
several days ago on a pleasure trip.
He says he enjoyed the trip.
Willie Marshall is able to be be-
hind the counter now. He shas been
real sick with fever ever since Ooto-
Der II.
The school at Central is progressing
nicely under the able management of
Miss Vesta Mayo, of Polkvllle, over
4G students on roll.
Ed Thompson has bought a farm
near Johns, and will move in the
neal future. His many friends regret
to see him leave. Our loss but John s
gain.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26

Miss Mona Hayes, of County Line,
were married last Wednesday at the
BRIDES fathers.
What has become of the, Cato cor
respondent for. the News. We have
not seen any thing from Cato lately.
Let me tell you news is scarce as
we'll as money. gii94sa
We presume some of our young
men, from the noise they make, have
made some blind tiger man feel coed.
Hasten the day when they can see
themselves as other people see them.
The crops are almost gathered, cot
ton being the only crop that did not
do we'll, two-thirds of cotton crop
is high estimate. Some think THAT
the price brings up the shortage; that
is true, it does to some extent, but
remember this crop has cost the far
mers more to make than any crop for
quite long time. Labor aud supplies
were both very high. 1t will take
fully five years of 10-cent cotton to
overcome the five years of scent cot
ton.
B. A, Clark reports that the people
of the Macedonia neighborhood in
Simpson county, did not know what
frost was until last week; plenty cot
ton blooms, bean vines still green and
sorgum still growing; the old Burns
mill seat is a curiosity; twenty five
acres in a pond and this dry weather
doesn't effect the flow of water par
ticle, pouring over the dam all the
time,
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
TO THEsTEACHERs OF RANKIN
COUNTY.

There are great many teachers
who probably do not know that it is
required by law that they pay an an
nual fee Of 80 cents to the institute
fund of the county, even though they
are exempt from teachers examina-
tions. All such will please pay up at
your earliest convenience.
Respectfully,
S r. MYERS. superintendent.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
JOE.

Ellis Gill made trip to D 'Lo Mon
day.
Otho Miley, of Pickett, entered
school at County Line Monday.
Lige Ponder, of near Magee, visit
ed at Joe Saturday and Sunday.
Married, at the home of the bride.
on last Wednesday evening, Miss Iona
HAYES and Newton Ross, of Cato,
Rev. J. e. Johnston, of D'Lo, Off
ciating May happiness and pleas
ure be theirs.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
GOSHEN SPRINGS.

Just one month till Christmas.
Health of the community is good.
Farmers are not through picking
cotton yet
Willie Worley and wife are NOV
ing down about Florence.
W. p. Anderson made a business
trip to Jackson Thursday.
Misses Maude and EstelIa Faulken.
berry went to Brandon Saturday.
E. S. Barksdale returned Thursday
from a visit to his wife and children.
@. B. Horne and family have NOV
ed on the Will Horn place, near Pts
gah.
Aubrey Collum, of Pink, visited
relatives at this place Saturday and
Sunday.
Our school is progressing nicely un-
der the management Of Miss Maude
Faulkenbarry.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
LOST OR STRAYED.

One black barrow hog weighing
about 60 pounds. Left my lot about
ten days ago. Marked, crop and hole
in each ear, and tip oe tail clipped.
Notify and will reward
III. A. BUSICK.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26

WANTED--FAl THFUL PERSON TO CALL ON
re Tail trade and agents for manufacturing house
having well established BUSINESS local terrific
ry straight salary $40 paid weekly and expense
money advanced: previous exper ence unneces-
sary; position pertinent; business successful.
dent Travellers, 605 Monon Bldg, Chicago.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
CATO.

+. W. Little is weighing cotton at
D'Lo. You can't hold him down.
The quilting at Mr.. and Mrs. @.
M. @. Shots last Saturday was en-
joyed by all present.
Miss Ada Clark has gone to Rails,
Simpson county, where she began
teaching last Monday.
The friends of Sol WEIGH, of Vir-
gil, deeply sympathize with him in
the unfortunate accident Of his little
boy.
Little Ruby, 3-year old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs F. NJ. Martin, died of
tonsilitis and was buried two weeks
ago yesterday. a4saaEs
Newton Ross, Of this place, and
70
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
FOR RENT.

The residence now occupied by M +.
@. Stubblefield and family, on Jasper
street. An abundant supply of spring
water. Fine orchard. New barn
and stables, three or four acres of
ground, convenient to church and
school. Possession given December
list. Apply to
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26

mare branded on right hip and one
black colt about six months old. ANY
information concerning their where
abouts will be literally rewarded.
r. A. McRAE.
Brandon, Miss. Nov. 10, 1908.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-26
HAVE A FIT.

By going to Gayden and Co.'S and
have your measure taken. then have
them order you fine suit of clothes
for the lowest prices.