La Junta tribune., 1908-08-29
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Wiley, is completed and ready for
business. The mill will be able "a
compress eighty tons Of has daily.
About forty crates of canteloupes
day are being expressed out OF
this vicinity. So far they have net
ted the growers about $3.50 per
crate. te.-Granada Times.
Sugar City held special school
election last week for the purpose OF
voting bonds for new school house
to be erected on the west side. The
bond issue carried by vote OF Is
to 3.
The eighth annual fair Of the Bent
County Fair Association will be held
on September 23d. oath and 18th.
w. A. Howard is the secretary. to
whom all inquiries for informal on
should be addressed.
Surveyors are at work locating a
new town at a point where the Man
zanola wagon road intersects the
line of the Missouri Pacific railway.
about half mile west Of the Boston
farm. called Bradbury. .-Ordway
Era.
From 1910 acres of land in Ford
county. Kans.. there was threshed
last week 1900 bushels Of wheat.
an average of almost l6 bushels per
acre, and worth about $4,000. The
land was bought as low as 81 per
acre FIVE or six years ago. but could
not be bought now for less than $50
per acre.
Col. NJ. NJ. Hester was in town
Monday to prevail upon the school
board to continue the Duck Creek
school the coming year. Owing to
the scarcity of funds due to the i'm
mepse refund of taxes collected on
school lands in this district. the
board has decided to maintain but
one school in the Box Springs dis
trict. t.-Ordway Era.
The Sugar Company has been
sampling beets this week from
nearly all the fields in this district.
The results show a wonderful de-
velopment of the beets for this early
date in the season. The sugar con-
tent ranges from IL per cent to l6.
The indications are favorable for
more than an average tonnage
Sugar City Gazette.
Mortimer w. Randall. Of Rocky
Ford. has been given lucrative
position with the Chicago. ,Rurling-
ton and Quincy railroad. with head
uarters in Denver. A new Office
had been created for him to be
known as the department of infor'
nation on irrigation. For the pres
ent his family will reside in Rocky
Ford. but will remove to Denv, ]
later.
Local option will form an issue OF
paramount Importance in Prowers
county at the fall election. At the
spring election Lamar went We:
by only forty-five votes. With this
encouragement the agitators Of the
dry movement. ably assisted by the
churches of the county. will make a
thorough canvass of the voters and
expect to clear the county Of
saloons.
'Sassiety" in Rocky Ford and
Colorado Springs is reported to bt
"agog" over bit of news to the
effect that Truman Lockhart. son OF
James A. Lockhart. and Miss Irene
Flannery. a wealthy debutante OF
San Francisco. were recently mar
ried. Lockhart denies that he j:
married. but will neither affirm ol
deny that he is engaged. "Sassiety
is still holding its breath and endur
ing the suspense against its viii.
Lamar is to have White City. oil
something of the sort. the Queer
Beach Resort and Amusement Com
pany having recently been incorpor
ated with capital stock of $3.50. 600
The new company proposes to erec
at once 200 room modern hotel, {
large and well equipped sanitarium
which will be governed by staff oi
eastern physicians. bathing beach
with bath houses, boat houses for ;