La Junta tribune., 1909-08-21
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WHAT'S THE UsE7
What's the Use of worKinGf
Loahng Is 80 good.
clygIng In the trenches.
Saving knotty wood.
Wearing out your muscle,
Wasting all the day
When you might be loanng-
What's the use. sayr
Working never gets you
Much OF any place,
For the ones who shun Il
Somehow feed their face.
Somehow get their clothing
And a place to sleep
Just AZ though they labored
For their board and Keep
Any way you take It
Working isn't sport.
Measured as amusement
II Is always short
Strained would be the notion
That an aching back
As a form OF pleasure
Not thing would lack
Loafng is q comfort
An abounding Joy.
As a glad condition
'Tis without alloy.
As a steady treasure.
Making bright your days.
II has simple working
Beaten forty ways
There Is a plan on foot down at
Rocky Ford to tame the lady bugs
that have been eating the cantaloupes.
Look out. boys. People who have
the bugs" usually end up at Pueblo.
Smoke wreaths item, Denver Post.
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Last Monday evening was the time
for holding the regular meeting OF the
city council. Several members, how
ever, were out OF the city. and as
there was not quorum present. there
was nothing doing In council circles.
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The revised version reads as fol.
lows:
Diminutive glot OF H2O,
Tiny particles Of rocky birth.
Form the stupenduous briny deep
And the marvellous surface Of the
earth.
During the recent exhibition OF the
Wallace circus At Rocky
Ford Mr.. Brown and his family were
standing In front Of the lion cage.
John" said Mrs. Brown. III those
animals were to escape. whom would
you save nrst. me or tho children"
me-" answered John without hes.
itatton.
John r. strickrott. . photographer
from Topeka. Kan. was In the city
Monday and Tuesday. While here he
took . number Of visws Of points Of
interest 10 the city and the surround.
Ing country. These pictures will be
used In illustrated lectures throushou.
the middle west and central states.
given BY the Santa Fe.
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The Tribune Acknowledges Q can.
taloupe treat At the hands OF r.
Haines. They were quite up to the
standard. thank you. and they were
fair samples Of . splendid crop Of
five acres Mr. Haines raised on the
Capt. Wood ranch. two miles cast OF
the city. Mr.. Haines picked thirty.
five crates off one acre Monday. and
IL disposing Of his crop In Denver.
When Mr.. Joncs' seventh son waA
born. there was great rsjoieias. Two
or three days after the svsnt. one
Of the neighhors. meeting Tommy.
the eldest son. asked Il he were not
sorry that bis baby brother was not
Z baby sister.
Tommy shook bis head.
mo ma'am. no< me-" be replied
with great decision. "Yos sse. we're
tryin' tor . baseball mae"
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voe . nan 70 prove " o. be first
claim after be hss parsed The three
score asd ten yeass By . margin of
ten more years. 10 70 unusual that Ne
cannot but msatioa that such was The
case this week. On Tuesday. Charles
Tuttls fiisd in the office of The de.
tsict cisrk final proof papers on bis
ciain south Of Rocky Ford. Mr.
Tuttie h In his eisAtisth year. II is
ths first case IN the history Of the
local court that settler had reached
hat rips old age and then proved up
on . claim. Once before the claimant
ms sixtyasven years oe ass. and only
Iasl vesk . party q sixty. line years
M a one of uncls Sans elal0s.