La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1905-02-11
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS.
rade with II. q. Todd.

AA'AAt W. -A7'
Business block for sale: an old time
location: $500 r. b. Cook
For real estate. loans. investments
, see Jno. w Fisher. treasurer.
For painting, papering, granting,
decorating. etc, see Nidy & Myers.
\ VIII trade an eighty acre ranch in
Holbrook for town house or lots X.
b. Cook.
/ You will always find a prescrip-
tion clerk at the La Junta Drug
/ Company.
For REST Newly furnished front
bedroom: large dressing room; mod
ern: sll per month; phone 992 block
WANTED AT ONCE $4,000 worth
of second hand furniture; will pay
the highest cash price. Gee & Bur-
7 nett.
I Don't forget the regular weekly
dance in Elks hall tonight given by
the orchestra that made La Junta
famous.
Wonderly's orchestra is making
elaborate preparations for a valen-
tine party and calico ball in Elks'
hall next Tuesday night.
All canned goods, cereals and
breakfast foods marked to the low
est possible figure. See us before
you buy Bird 4 Shull.
We have established hide house,
and will pay the highest market
price for hides, pelts and furs.- La
Junta Hardware company.
| | have several two and one-haif
and five acre tracts for sale; suitable
for truck farms; if you are at all
[ interested see my list. K. b. Cook.
! Andy Meyers. of the freight Of
flee. left on No. 6 yesterday morning
for St. Louis. Mo-. having been
/ summoned there on account of the
death of his father.
Mrs. Jessie f. Stubbs. NJ D.. will
I be in the office of DR.. A. L.
Stubbs. in the Simonton block, from
9 to ll:30 a. IN. Special attention
given to diseases of women.
Having placed in my office a com
plete apparatus for the administer
ing of somniforme gas am now
prepared to extract teeth absolutely
without pain.-P. Il. Linville, den
tist; over First National Bank
Joseph Wilson. architect of the
new Presbyterian church, after a
few days visit returned to Denver
yesterday. He speaks of La Junta
as city of homes and congratulate
the town on her future prospects.
Frank J. Woods, for several
months past manager of the local
office of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. resigned his posi-
ton this week and was succeeded by
G. c. koontz, who has been EN-
ployed in the office for some time as
an operator.
1t is reported that from thirty-five
to forty machinists are expected to
arrive in La Junta next week to take
positions in the new shops. Each !
man will have to a helper. and this
means an addition of nearly one hun |
dred men to the working force Of
the local shops.
ID. Il. Ryder, for some time past |
chief clerk to Master Mechanic |
Clucas in Pueblo, has been transferr- |
ed to La yunta to take the position |
of timekeeper in the local shops. |
succeeding Harry Strong. who is
transferred to similar position at
Ration. Mr.. Ryder goes to work |
next Monday morning.
Between fifty and sixty couple
from Topeka, Kan, have announce |
their intention of being present at |
the grand ball which is to inaugurate 1
the opening of the new shops on the 1
I'D instant. The ball will be the 1
biggest event of that kind ever held |
in La Junta, as employees from all |
over the system will be present.
Charles A. Hasten, bookkeeper at |
the La yunta Mill. left last Monday 4
morning on six weeks trip through |
New Mexico and Arizona to take or
ders for the flour that has made La
Jmta famous in that section. This
is Mr.. kasten's first venture on the |