La Junta tribune., 1909-01-16
SOME MORE LOCAL sou,ss.
Trade with H. G. Todd.
Ask for Dunkin's bread.


Trade at.the Palace Drug Store.
John Crozier has Just received a 7
carload OF Kaffir corn and will fill all
orders promptly.
Shampooing. manicuring and facial
massage; S02 Santa Fe avenue;
phone. East l60. Mrs. ]. E. Fem. |
want from twenty to one hun
dred tons OF baled alfalfa delivered
at my place In La Junta.-Matt Dani-
her.
For sale-Driving horse. four years
old; weight about 900 pounds. In
quire of H. d. Walker, North La
Junta.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Kendall left
on the noon train last Monday for
Denver, for ten days visit In the
capital city.
For Sale-Several pieces of well
improved property: three, four and
five rooms good location; good terms
II desired.-C. r. Buckley.
Wanted-About twenty-five horses
to pasture; beet tops, alfalfa hay and
alfalfa pasture: four miles west OF La
Junta. A. II. Evers, phone black
1881.
Engineer Earl Walker has been of
fered a run on the Belen cutoff and
Is thinking of accepting livelihood
In that wilderness in preference to
an existence in an up-to-date COM
munity like La Junta
Miss Ida Dodd, of Swink, received
the appointment of stenographer and
clerk In the office of County Judge
McDaniels. and assumed her duties
last Tuesday morning. Miss Dodd is
sister of Mrs. Joe Powars. wife
OF one of the leading democratic citi-
zens of swink.
w. J. Seller. chief pencil pusher of
the Rocky Ford Tribune. was q
county seat visitor last Tuesday, siz-
ing e pssha deuaprratic. newspaper pie
counter. He missed the train and
went home In an automobile. all same
plutocrat, which is an evidence that
he has great expectations-for which
there is probably some foundation in
fact
Tom Wood had the misfortune to
sustain hard fall at the La Junta
Skating Rink last Saturday afternoon,
breaking his right arm just above the
| wrist. In addition to fracture of one
of the small bones of his wrist He
| was a patient of the City Hospital
| for a couple of days, but Is now able
to be around with his arm in sling
The rink will not have any attraction
for Tom for some time.
Eugene Gleason, an old-time yard
master for the Santa Fe at this
place, arrived from his home in Boul
der last Saturday and enjoyed few
days visit with friends. Mr.. Gleason
left La Junta in 1899, and at present
is running a train out of Boulder.
which he says is the best job he ever
had in his life. A few old-timcrs
were the only. landmarks he found
around La Junta that looked nat
ural
In a game of basket ball last Fri |
day evening at the La Junta Skating
Rink, between the senior class of the |
La Junta high school and the All
School Girls, the former won by the
close score of 12 to 8. 1t was rather
difficult to one unfamiliar with the |
game to determine which side was
the, winner, as there were about the
same. number of falls on each side.
and as strangle holds were barred.
nobody was put out of business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gid Miller, of Platte
City. Mo-, arrived in La Junta one 4
day last week and have been the 4
guests OF Mrs. Miller's parents, Judge
and Mrs. Uriel Sebree. Mr.. Miller on
January 1st completed four year
term as sheriff of Platte county. He
left last Monaay morning for Seattle
and the northwest with the intention
of looking up a location in that
section. Mrs. Miller and the children
will remain in La Junta for an ex-
tended visit.
L. e. Hill. general sales agent Of
the La Junta Land Company. is in
Oklahoma City, establishing an agency
for the company in that city. There
have been SO many INQUIRIES Of late.