La Junta tribune., 1909-09-25
Up and Down the Valley

ordway has shipped over 120 car.
loads Of cantaloupes this season.
II is estimated that there are four
hundred cars of alfalfa in stack in
Benz county.
Permanent, high class vaudeville is
an Innovation inaugurated at the
Grand opera House in Rocky Ford
on Monday Of this week,
The Lamar city council has de
cided TO lay wooden mains for the
city water works system from the
reservoir site to Lamar. They'll live
to regret it.
Among the improvements contem'
plated by the Arkansas Valley Fair
Association at Rocky Ford is a new
grand stand to take the place of the
old one in the center.
Las Animas is not only blessed
with good crop harvests but the
health Of the community is excellent.
Not in sixteen years, say the doctors,
has there been so little sickness.
II is estimated by competent
judges that the leet yield per acre
this year will average three times
tha Of last year. This will be very
gratifying to our beet raisers. Wiley
Journal.
How would you like to be the ed
itor OF the Bent County Democrat in
stead OF the ice man Just once? He
Is running four solid pages, twenty
-four columns of trustees sales all in
bunch.
Officers OF the Masonic Crane
Lodge OF Colorado. laid the corner
stone OF the Masonic Temple at Las
Animas last Thursday according tc
the ancient usages OF the fraternity
assisted by members of King Solo
mon Lodge, No. 80, of Las Animas
Nearly two hundred Lamarites sur
rounded their two bands on the pub
lie square In Las Animas during the
Ben County Fair and sang How
Dry | Am" The chorus was led by
Or. Hasty and was sung with such
pathOs that II brought tears to the
eyes OF even the most hardened Las
Animasites.
Rocky Ford is considering the ad'
Visibility of placing the finances OF
thai burg on cash basis by a
$40 900 bond issue. That city now
has a bonded Indebtedness of sl6i,'
500. and with an additional issue of
$40, coo the total bonded Indebtedness
will be s20i 500. The assessed vaiu,
alton OF the town is little over
100000.
The Bent County Melongrowers
Association has shipped thirty-four
cars of cantaloupes. to date. and the
association at Melonfieid, thirty-eigh'
cars. The season is now about over
and although the number Of cars are
less than former years. the quality
and price was good. and the growers
will realize IA revenue much above
the average.
The lall given by the Sugar City
Elks was grand social success in
.lE arI lar xlgh
attended, several couples coming over
from Ordway Excellent music was
furnished by the Ordway String
Band and at late hour the merry
Crowd went home hoping for another
such pleasant evening In the near
future.-Sugar City Gazette.
Las Animas claims the state cham
pionship In baseball circles outside OF
the big leagues. One OF the fans
slys: I'VE have played thirty-eighi
games. losing only eight and that is
about ms good as some that are pay
ing a salary OF 81 900 or more month
iy We earnestly desire series
With the best and will do our
hare to prove that We are not ex'
celled In Colorado" Too bad the
Ia Junta team has disbandsd.
A big county wolf hunt is being
arranged for Ly stockmcn and far
mcrs In the vicinity OF Granada. The
hunt viii be held on Wednesday. Oc
ipber goth. aud II II proves success
al the work will be continued for
ihree days Arthur Dodge. II well
Known s,ockman OF that section, has
promised u choice beef to furnish d