La Junta tribune., 1908-05-30
w AND DOWN the VALLEY


F. b. Boles has been reelected
superintendent of the Rocky Ford
schools.
Las Animas will have tirst-class,
bangup, gilt-edged celebration on
the Fourth of July.
| Manager Ward expects to make
formal transfer of the Arkansas
Valley branch to the Santa Fe about
June LIST.
Dodge City is experimenting with
an oil and gas well. The work is in
charge of an experienced man from
Pennsylvania.
The Las Animas school board met
recently and reelected c. w. Corey
as city superintendent for the ensu-
ing year at an increase in salary.
The Crystal Springs Bottling
Works. of Fowler. is working night
and day, with capacity of 2,400
bottles per day. and are three weeks
behind on their orders.
! Prof. H. T. Mitchell, of Sugar
City, has been elected to the princi-
palship of Rocky Ford's new high
school, He was formerly teacher
in the high school of La Junta.
, Dodge City is evidently not an ad-
) vocate of race suicide. as the claim
is made in journalistic circles that
there are more good looking. fine,
healthy babies in that burg than
can be shown by any town of its
size on earth.
Swink changes town marshals
every two weeks or so. That must
) be hard little town like those of
the days of the frontier when an Of
flee goes begging. -Bessemer lndi-
Gator. SwinK's queer ways and do
ings are making the town notorious.
That new bridge across the river
to Wietzer is becoming more and
, more of necessity. Why would it
not be stroke of economy to use
the material of the old Manzanola
bridge and give US the needed i'm
provement at once? Manzanola
Sun.
The largest real estate deal made
> in Holly for over two months was
consumated last Saturday when Ed
Parsley. of Chillicothe, Mo-, sold 40C
acres of unirrigated land lying six.
). miles west of Holly to an eastern
speculator, the consideration being
$40, 600.
The firm of Bassett & Marshal
:. was last week dissolved, but the dis
solution has not hindered the shalinp
of the county road between La Jun
ia and this city. F.. C. Bassett now
has complete charge and the work OF
: road building is preceding rapidly
under his energetic management -
Rocky Ford Enterprise.
The Hartman Enterprise is the
newest paper in the Valley. 1t is
published by Newman Fl. Lewis
2 who says in his Introductory write
| up of the town: This new enter.
! prise will in itself double the popu.
, lation of the town, which is at pres
: ent about sixty-fve." Think of it,
r A newspaper in town of sixty-five
population
Recent experiments at the Fort
Lyon new naval hospital, seven
miles from Las Animas, with the
mercury treatment for tuberculosis
have proved quite successful. Naval
surgeons at the hospital have beer
, closely observing the thirty cases
: subject to this treatment and the
progress, it is said, has been such as
to add to the confidence that they
5 have made an important discovery
Rocky Ford was a dry town
with vengeance last week. The
engines at the pumping plant play.
ed out: later the substitute rotar,
pump followed suit, leaving only the
reservoir. which was speedily empti.
ed. There would then have been nc
water. had it not been for the Fow.
Ter Water Company, which had ia
work overtime to supply the de.
mand. La Junta ought to be thank.
full that it is well with US as it is.