La Junta tribune., 1910-01-22

tractive OF the two. Nevertheless
everybody comedies that the Three
Twins" is the one best show Of this
or any other season.
The Rocky Ford sugar mill quit
slicing beets last Monday evening,
after a rather shorter campaign than
usual. being the last OF the factories
In the Valley TO close down. II Is
estimated that fully twenty-five per
OF the river are still In the ground
frozen stiff and black. and will be
total loss except for stock feed.
There Is some consolation in the fact
that the farmers can make almost
as much out OF their beet crop feed
ing it to stock as by disposins OF !,
to the sugar factories.
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Rev. and Mrs. r. II. Ayres left last
Tuesday morning for Cheyenne. Wyo..
stopping over. EN- route, at Colorado
Springs for a few days to visit with
friends. Next week Mr.. Ayres will
be installed as state superintendent
Of the Anti.Saloon League and be-
come active In warfare on the liquor
traffic In Wyoming. and We pre-
dict that eventually he will be just
as successful as he was In La Junta.
Mr. and Mrs. Ayres were accompanied
by their children. except their son.
Herle. who win stay In La Junta until
the close OF the present school term.
One OF the doorkeepers for the
Three Twins" aggregation says that
La Junta must be one of the toughest
little towns In the wild and woolly
west. judging from the number OF
peace officers that were on duty last
Wednesday night and saved Sl-5o by
working the free admission graft In
order to preserve the peace and dig
nifty OF the great state OF Colorado.
Every peace officer In La Junta was
among those present. including all
the constables. marshals, deputy sher-
ifs. Santa Fe special officers. and
even the ex-yillage policeman. who
worked his little graft on the strength
Of being q has-been. All Of EN- ought
To be arrested and slung In the hoose-
gov for giving the town bad name
Along about payday OF next month
the Electric Theater will be located
in new and elegant quarters In the
store room formerly occupied by the
Rice Dry Goods Company. c W.
Wonderly has secured lease on this
building for term OF five years and
will install one of the neatest and
most up to date little theaters around
the corner to be found anywhere. The
dimensions OF the new palace OF
amusement win be 33xis0 feet. Moth
ing but the best suits the man who
organized the orchestra that made
La Jun,a famous. That's the reason
he gets all Of his printing done at the
office of the great family Journal. Th.
new Electric Theater will have q
little stage In the rear. with a drop
curtain lexis feet In dimensions, and
there Will be a vaudeville stunt In
connection with the best moving pie
ture show In the Arkansas Valley
Mr.. Wonderly expects TO have tn.
moving stunt In progress on Monday
February lith. and will open In a
full blaze of glory on the day follow,
ing
G, @. Anderson engineer In chargs
OF the contemplated work on the
Otero ditch. was in town several days
, this week. His party Of surveyor.
has completed thirty-eight miles oi
cross section work on the canal from
the hcadgate east. and 1, is the In
tention OF the directors OF tn. dis
trict TO let some OF the contract,
early next week. and commence tn,
work OF putting the canal In first
class physical condition. Mr.. Ander
son is now figuring on a scheme "a
do away with about three miles oi
the canal. which is traycrscd In golns
around the head OF King arroyo. by