The La Jara chronicle., 1910-03-18

100000 to loan on improved Cone
jos county farms at low rate of inter
est The La Jara State Bank.
When you want good pair of work
shoes, gloves, pants, or anything else
usually kept in an up-to-date gen
eral store, it will pay you to see Chas.
d. Weist.
Dr. Davis, the Alamosa dentist, put
in another busy day in La lara yes
terday He believes that most of our
citizens have cut their eye teeth but
they are s,ighlyt the worse for wear.
SEED PEAS-I have a large guam
tity of very fine seed peas for sale.
All hand threshed and the best to be
procured in the San Luis valley.
Telephone me at my ranch. Cumbres
9l-lll, or write to Celestino Garcia
at Conejos, Colorado.
Contractors have begun the work
of repairing the long bridge over the
Conejos river, east of Sanford. The
bridge is to be shortened and the APP
proaches filled in with earth and rock.
Most of the heavy timbers are still
in good condition, although the bridge
is something over twenty years old
and the material taken from the part
that is to come down will be used to
strengthen the central spans.
John L. Field, chief engineer at the
Terrace reservoir, came in from Den
Yer the first of the week and Tues
day visited the big dam on the Ala
mosa river. He left for Denver the
same evening, but before going made
/ various contracts for supplies and
said that he expected to start the
summer campaign with small force
in about ten days. AS opportunity
Mr.. Field is very hopeful of accom-
plishing a good amount of work this
year
/ Miss Laura King left yesterday for
Durango where she will wed Mr.. E.
r. Fields, well and favorably known
IN this community. Mr. Fields is in
terested in merchandise business
and orchard lands at Aztec. N. NJ,
where the young couple will reside.
Mr.. Fields bought the Frank Purs-
ley farm northwest of La Jara, a
bout year ago and has lived in this
city since that time until very rec
emily Miss King has grown up in
La Jara and numbers her friends by
all who know her.
Charles s. Barnes, of Monte Vista,
was in town last Saturday and Sun
day, interviewing our leading cit
liens and promoting his hydro-elec-
tric power proposition on the Cone
jos river Mr.. Barnes is meeting with
great deal of encouragement in his
undertaking and thinks he will be
successful in organizing a good COM
pany with ample capital to carry out
his plans of long distance power
transmission, which will bring electr.1
Y energy for power, pumping, lighting,
etc, to the door of every village and
farm in the San Luis valley.
| Miss Iva Seyfer eclpsed all for
mer effcrt3 in the selection and ar
rangement of her mil inery display
this year. Her store in the postoffice
building was crowded all day Mon
day at her opening, with admirinS
customers, and the affair developed
into a social and business success
that has never before been paral-
lelled i'm La lara. This being flow
er season, the staid old postoffice be
came transformed into most beau
tiful floral garden of roses. violets.
forSet-me-nots, etc, so eXqulsitely
the sense of sight alone they must
conclude themselves in an annex to
some great conservatory. Miss Sey-
fers tasty patterns show the latest
and most beautiful effects in rare
shades of blue and meadow green.
Shir,ocks, commets, turbans and
mushroom shapes with scarf and tus-
can trimmings and willow plumes,
set the ladies' apparently quite wild
with delight. Nothing seems sacred
in the heavens above, on the earth
below, or in the waters under the
earth. AN must, in due time, come
forth and adorn My Lady's hat. Mrs.
Maud La Rue will have her millinery
opening tomorrow which will doubt
less call forth another spasm.
SCHOOL OPENS.