La Junta tribune., 1907-01-05
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n Ms nome near Rocky Ford after
brief illness last Friday morning.
The American Beet Sugar Com
pany will extend their sugar making
campaign about two weeks over for
mer years, bringing it into the mid
die Of February.
The mayor of 0rdway has set his
foot down On broncho busting and
other wild west exhibitions on the
streets of that progressive town
Verify. wild and woody pastimes are
becoming a thing of the past in
these degenerate days.
Las Animas has a barber who is
strenuously original in his method of
advertising. His latest reads as
follows: .Thompson's barber shop.
Whlskers pushed in or out. Hair
cut any old way. Barber shop is
opposite jag factory"
The members of the Ordway Mel
on Growers Association will have
3s5 acres in cantaloupes next year.
They have adopted the fiat crate.
holding one dozen cantaloupes. and
have been offered 80 cents per crate
for the entire output.
Twelve car loads of celery are
being shipped from Pueblo county
to the Kansas City market. Some
Of the celery growers estimate an
income Of s4O0 and $500 per. acre
from the product. The Arkansas
Valley can do wonders in truck
farming.
A. w. Parker has just finished
drilling a well l34 feet deep for A.
l.. Dotson twelve miles southwest Of
Fowler. Thirty feet of water is OBJ
tanned. The drill went through
eighty-five feet Of rock and shale
and forty-five feet Of gumbo.-Fow-
ler Tribune.
Present indications seem to point
strongly to the building Of . spur
from the Santa Fe down into the
Grand Valley country before another
fall rolls around. Since early sum-
mer the beet raisers have been work.
ing on the matter and it looks now
~ If their hopes would be realized.
The biggest load yet. Frank Nc
Coy came with q load of beets
from j. X. Klett's farm the other
day that takes the blue ribbon for
weight. The entire load weighed
II. .220 pounds. the wagon weighed
I2,72O pounds which left the net
Twilight Of. beets IL 500 pounds. OF
Ifvk tons and fifteen hundred pounds.
Bent County Democrat.
About seventy-five colored people
Of this place together with a number
from La Junta and Holbrook, gave
a turkey dinner and supper Christ
mas day. to raise money to buy lot
for . church building. The colored
people have church organization.
The Mount Olive Baptist Church"
and are working hard to get a church
building. Rocky Ford Gazette.
James Ford. who was shot in the
foot by the town marshal of Ordway
Thursday night while ne was resist
ing arrest. is in st. Mary's hospital,
Pueblo. 1t is stated that Ford is in
Ia serious condition, considering the
nature of the wound, and is liable to
lose his foot. Ford had been in
some kind of trouble and at the time
an attempt was made to arrest him
he was in an intoxicated condition.
Instead Of submitting to arrest. he
started to run, and was shot in the
foot.
The American Beet Sugar Com
pany has an elevated framework
recently put in position at the west
md of the big beet sheds that
arouses curiosity. 1t is new fan
gled unloading machine for beet
wagons that the company is testing.
The contrivance lifts the wagon box
with its two. three or four tons of
oeets. completely off the running
gear. elevates to a desired height,
turns it over to throw out the load.
and then places the box back on the
wheels. 1t will probably come into
permanent use in the beet delivery
business.