La Junta tribune., 1908-01-04
soss seas leeal srsss.
The factory ct Sugar City is to be
enlarged for this years crop.

Mrs: Blanche Piowman. Of Pueblo.
visited La Junta friends last Mon
day.
For RENr:-Furnished room;
modern: for gentleman. Inquire
All Colorado avenue.
The county clerk Of Otero county
recorded 1865 warranty deeds dur
ing the year 1907.
The wealth per capita Of the citi-
zens Of the United States increased
from $779 in 1870 to 81 $40 in 1907.
Mrs. w. H. Gardner. of Dodge
City. has been the guest of her
father. Paul Henkle. during the
holidays.
Mrs. Carrie E. Money las been in
Denver this week attending the
meeting of the State Teachers As
sociation.
Two hundred and thirty-eight
marriage licenses were issued by the
county clerk of Otero county during
the year 1907.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ellis Summers. of
Pueblo. spent the holidays with Mrs.
Summers parents. Mr.. and Mrs. q.
A. Whitehead.
The number of instruments filed
in the county clerks Office during
the year 1907 was 7.4s5. an average
per month of 624.
E. w. Pierce has been having a
serious attack Of the grippe since
Christmas, but was able to be out
for the first time yesterday.
George l.. Hess, superintendent
of our public schools, attended the
meeting of the State Teachers AS
sociation in Denver this week.
The local postoffice broke the
rebord on the Monday before Christ
mas on the sale of stamps. the total
for that day amounting to $l45.
Geo. E. Poor and family arrived
home on New Years morning from
Orangeville. ILL.,, where they attend
ed family reunion during the holi-
days.
The total number of hunting
licenses issued from the county
clerks office during the year 1907
was 1905. The number issued the
year previous was an even 800.
A notice of the Elks' big doings
on New Years day will have to be
deferred until our next issue. The
recital is good enough to keep for
an even more extended period.
The record run for a sugar beet
factory is credited to the establish
ment at Longmont in Boulder county
which on December 21st sliced 1912
tons of beets in twenty-four hours.
Miss Laura Harmon, of Eureka,
Calf. was a la Junta visitor last
Saturday, stopping over for one day
while on her way home from
Oneida, H., to visit her sister. Mrs.
J. H. Rapp.
!. o. Wilson assumed the duties of
chief dispatcher at this point last
Wednesday morning, succeeding
John Rice, assigned to other duties.
MIR. Wilson left La Junta about a
year ago. and formerly held down a
trick in the local office.
The Santa Fe sold $l4.642.33
worth of tickets at the local station
during the month Of December This
is about $500 increase over the
record of the same month last year.
The average sales for the year 1907
were about $12. 500 per month.
The first cutting Of alfalfa in
Otero county was light but the Sec
ond and third crops made good.
Many Of the farmers however left
one crop for seed and this helped
the bee business so that zoo, 900
pounds Of honey were gathered.
The first express shipments of
cantaloupes from the Arkansas Val
ley are usually made about August
18th but owing to the late spring
they were two weeks later in 1907.
The total area was 5000 acres from
which / 800 carloads we're shipped.
Dad" Stephenson, Of peanut and
popcorn notoriety. shared in the
prosperity incident to 1907. His