La Junta tribune., 1908-04-04
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I Rocky Ford will have a glove fac
tory in the near future Ralph p.
Collins is the promoter of the new
enterprise. which will be running by
May LIST.
The irrepressible. perpetual and
persistently defeated democratic
candidate. William j. Bryan. will be
the chief attraction at Garden City
this day of grace-April 4th.
Holly boasts Of flow of natural
gas eight miles southeast Of that
burg. The artesian well from which
the flow en1anated is down l55 feet.
and plethoric quantities are expected
deeper down.
Holly. Granada. Lamar. Sugar
City and Ordwzy will vote next week
on the question of saloons or no
saloons. and there will probably be
several more dry towns ia the Ar
kansas Valley.
The various locals of the Farmers
Cooperative and Educational Union.
organized in various parts Of Prov
ers county. recently held delegate
meeting in Lamar and formed a
county organization.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles of
Las Animas has announced its in
tenfion of building s25. 600 opera
house in that burg 1t will have
seating capacity of $50 and be pat
termed after the La Junta Theater.
At a recent meeting of Rocky
Ford baseball fans an organization
was effected and steps taken to put
a good team in the field this year 10
represent Rocky Ford. Will H.
Seller was selected as manager and
Bud Hall as captain.
Lamar has taken tine initial step to
formulate commercial club for the
promotion of business interests.
All progressive towns in the Arkan-
sas Valley should get in line in a
similar way and prepare for a pop
ulation harvest in the Arkansas
Valley.
A big meeting and log-rolling of
the Woodmen of the World will be
held at Pueblo on May 18th 1t is
proproposed to have the head Off
GERS present and to initiate 1000 can
didates. Rocky Ford expects to
furnish 100 candidates. The rail-
roads will make special rates.
The American Beet Sugar Com
pany gives beet growers the choice
of signing contracts either under
the 81 .50-$5.00 rate or the sliding
scale recommended by the business
mems committee. According to the
Rocky Ford Enterprise the ratio of
signers thus far has been over 30 to
in favor Of the sliding scale.
The automobile owners Of Dodge
City have started a movement to
organize an association. The mem
bership to start with will be about
twenty. with dozen more prospec-
tive owners of automobiles who ex-
pect to have machines in the next
two or three months. Dodge CITY
is going some in the buzz buggy
line.
The first game of baseball of the
southern Colorado high school league
was played in Rocky Ford last Sat
urday between the Rocky Ford and
Las Animas teams. The score was
was u to S in favor of the Rocky
Ford team. The batteries were:
Las Animas. Love and Cramer:
| Rocky Ford. Coil and Ciore. The
next game for the Rocky Ford team
will be with the La Junta high
school team Saturday, April llth to
be played at Rocky Ford
/ Dan Carries. who lives three miles
south Of town. is the largest poultry
raiser in the county. He now has
600 laying hens and last week mar
keted almost $50 dozen of eggs.
His eggs are sold under a yearly
contract of "a cents per dozen.
( Poultry raising means money making
and our farmers only need to know