La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1906-04-11

The Taxpayers ticket won out at
Ordway. ]. E. Jeffery was elected
mayer
'Scotty, the Scooter" is billed
for an early appearance in several
nearby towns.
The Baptists of Ordway organized
a church last week. Lots for a build
ing have been arranged for and
church will be built in the near fu-
ture.
The Rocky Ford Trading Company
is moving the building which il has
been occupying in that burg to
Swink, where the company is estab-
fishing the same line of business.
Lamar has made a gain in popula-
ton in 1895 of 1900. She expects
TO add 1900 more during the
present year. The town council will
begin at orce 10 lay fourteen miles
of five foot sidewalk.
Rocky Ford will soon have a new
depot located on the site of the pres
ent structure. Ii will be built of
stone and brick and resemble the
ground story of the Santa Fe depot
at Colorado Springs.
The American Beet Sugar Com
pany has concluded TO build the road
from Rocky Ford TO Lamar this year
and instructions have been given
contractors working at both ends to
rush their work, says the Bent
County Democrat.
Decent citizens of Las Animas.
who have decent respect for their
olfactory nerves. have petitioned
the city council asking that body to
petition the Santa Fe for the re-
moval of the dirty stockyards out
side the city limits.
The Lawless editor of the Lamar
Sparks was evidently shy on ma
terial for building new railroads
last week. and filed in the gap by
telling of the great things to be
done for that burg by the Colorado
Telephone Company.
Rocky experienced the unusual
sensation of three incendiary fires
between seven and eleven o'clock
one night last week. The property
loss was insignificant. The city
council has offered 800 reward for
the capture of the firebug.
Supplies for the Holy & Swink
railroad have been arriving at Holly
for month. the largest single ship
ment, consisting of twenty-six cars
OF ties and three of rails coming in
one day last week. Seventy-eight
cars of ties and rails arrived during
the week.
The cable gang Of the Colorado
Telephone Company is working in
Lamar. and all the wires in the buis-
ness district will be cabled. Lamar
is also to have new exchange and
new switch board that will permit of
quadrupling the company's present
business there.
The receipts Of the Rocky Ford
postoffice for the year ending March
3lst, 1905. were si1, ,7ii59. being a
gain over the previous year Of ST.
0i3.67. The largest receipts in the
history Of the Office for a single
month were sl,621.25-in January
1906. Rocky Ford Tribune.
The Colorado Telephone Company
made voluntary reduction of rates
on all telephones at Lamar last week /.
The reduction amounted TO from
twenty to forty per cent and affects
favorably all subscribers. What cor
meat do these Lamarites
feed on that they have found so
much favor in the sight Of the tele-
phone company. Has anybody heard
Of reduction Of rates in La Junta?
Pass il around.
lamar's new Presbyterian church
was dedicated last Sunday, all of the
local churches joining in union SER
vices on the occasion Of the dedica-
tion exercises. The preacher, through
whose strenuous efforts the new
church was built, is in the Otero
county iail charged with q heinous