La Junta tribune., 1909-05-08
SOME MORE LOCAL ITEMS
Trade with H. c. Todd.

Buy mix Oh sanitary OalIy. SIX
teen quarts for 81; leave orders at
Rapp's grocery store.
For Rent-Two furnished rooms for
Light housekeeping. Inquire at PIG
Ucimarron avenue.
Mayhew House Furnishing Co.. IN.
dertakers and embalmers. Phone.
East Al. night phone Junta A.
Shampooing. manicuring and facial
massage; s02 Santa Fee avenue;
phone, East 100. Mrs. J. E. Fem.
Ernest Morgan has retired from
Briggs tonsorial emporium. and has
gone to Great Bned, Kan. to visit
relatives.
For Sale-Several pieces Of well
improved property; three. four and
five rooms: good location: good
terms IL desired.-C. r. Buckley.
Sherman Farr has. been elected by
the directors OF the La Junta Base
ball Association to succeed John S.
Walsh, resigned, as secretary of that
organization.
Tom Conyers and Tom Tate have
bought the C. r. Greenlee ranch,
Higbee to the best town in the Ar
kansas Valley.
Mrs. NJ. Ready and Miss Mary
Ready, mother and sister of Ensi-
neer w. r. Ready, arrived from Den
yer few days ago for a months
visit with La Junta friends.
Clarence Boomer writes from Las
Animas to change the address OF mis-
great family journal to Cherokee.
Okla, in which place he expects to
be located for an indefinite period.
Tom Brown. who has been located
at his old home in Harrisonyille. Mo-.
since the first of the year, returned
to La Junta last Saturday. He had
to come back to Colorado to be
shown some really fine weather.
For Sale-Five lots in 900 block
on Carson avenue; east fronts and
fine location cheap; room house and
one acre OF land; North La Junta;
good water right; fine garden
tract; $3.50. easy terms. C. F. Helm.
manager Arkansas Valley Realty
Company.
Next Tuesday the farmers in the
Holbrook country will hold an cleo
tion to decide the question whether
or. not they approve Of the formation
of the Holbrcok Irrigation Dis
trict." They will also elect one d.
rector for each one of the three di-
visions into which the irrigation dis
trict is divided.
X, w. Austin, OF the Holnrook
country, was in town last Saturday
and antied in the great family jour-
nal Jackpot for another year. Mr.
Austin says that most of the fruit In
the Holbrook country has gone the
way Of all flesh. SO far as this sea
son is concerned. and that many OF
the fields will have to be replanted
on account of the recent freeze.
s. w. Brown arrived home last
Wednesday from three weeks tour
of the state of Texas. He went as
far south as Galveston, and says that
Texas would be fine state II 1t
wasn't for the present dryness and
the ever present malaria. He al
SO visited Fort Worth, which was
recently visited by disastrous fire
that destroyed forty blocks Of busi-
ness buildings. making vacancy
large enough to hold the whole town
of La Junta.
La Junta's palatial high school
building on San Juan avenue is now
surrounded with an artistic array OF
cement walks, George b. Diehi. OF
Rocky Ford, completing the work
last night. There is an eight toot
walk In front Of the building to the
street walk, and a five foot walk on
the north side. while four foot walks
lead from the walk in front to either
side OF the building. 1t makes
decided improvement in the appear
ance Of the landscape thereabouts.
H. B. Garwood returned home last
Monday from Texas and Oklahoma
where he has been located since the
first Of the year. looking after the
interests of the H. Woods Commis-
sion Company, Of Chicago. MI Gar
wood says that Texas Is in the
throes Of drouth, and that the crop
prospects in that section are far
from being favorable. He expects to
laa~. $3.50 A. a1fh NJ May for the