The La Jara chronicle., 1910-02-11

kavalec has the most complete
line of legal and conveyance
blanks in The county. See him.
County commissioners were in ses-
sion Monday. The entire day was
taken up in listening to tax payers
who wanted their assessments low
cred.
The la lara Milling & Elevator
Company has just received a con
signment of corn. 1t will not last
long. so get in early and get what
you want.
You can find him every Monday
and Tuesday, one door east of DR..
SchenCk's office, where he is busy
making suits to order. Ladies' and
genuemen's cleaning and pressing
neatly and quickly done. y. C. Gra-
ham, the tailor
Sam b. Green, district manager for
the Colorado Telephone Co.. was in
town this morning. The company
has placed new automobile at Mr..
Green's disposal and he can now trav-
el over the district, quite Independent
of the railroads.
Doc. Seyfer is as busy as a bee
these days, selling valentines and
keeping books and learning the latin
names for sassafras tea and sich.
But he has found time to publish in
his advertisement this week valu-
able recipe for treating seed oats for
smut that should be of interest to all
farmers.
G. II. Russell, representing the seed
New York, was in town to-day and
went over to Capu,in. Mr.. Russell
has made several contracts in differ
ent parts of the valley for the grow
ing of seed peas for his company. All
the seed houses are becoming inter
ested in the field pea and are making
contracts in the valley where the
seed natures best and is most pro
lific.
The masquerade given Wednes-
day night by the Modern Woodmen
was well attended and thoroughly en-
joyable. Many handsome and gro
tesque costumes were in evidence.
An orchestra of three pieces came
down from Alamosa in an automobile
and gave splendid satisfaction A
large number of Sanford and Man
ASA young people were present in
castume. OF the latter, Fred Haynie
was easily first, being disguised as
a woman of husky proportions. Ted
Morch. representing Buster Brown,
and Bertha Smith as Mary Jane. were
both good. Among others were Smith
Dalton, representing a farmer, and
Joe Kelly as an Irishman.
l.. ID. Eskridge was here the first
of the week. attending to business
matters. He came in from Kansas
where various alfalfa mills in which
he is interested are grinding out
alfalfagranu, a feed much used by
dairymen In alfalfa mills the hay is
fed to long rolls of circular knives
which cut the stems into short lengths
of less than an eighth of an inch.
After milling, the product is sacked
and shipped, a good demand having
cd Kansas
City. 1t brings from Sl4 to $l5 per
ton and is usually mixed with grain
before feeding. AS a milk producing
food for dairy cattle. it is said to
haze no superior. Mr.. Eskridge re
turned to his home in Denver, Tues
day night
DIR. w c. Davis, the Alamosa den
tist. resumed his regular visits TO La
Jara yesterday He returned home
last Friday from Des Moines, Iowa,
where he was summoned by the sick
ness and death of his father. Mr.
Davis, Sr., died from the effects of
the new disease called pallegra
and caused by eating corn that had
been spoiled by Smut or some fungus
growth that attacks the corn while
still in the field. For this disease
medical science has as yet discov
cred no remedy. Mr.. Davis partook
of some breakfast food and after eat
ing part of a dish remarked that it
was not good and he would eat no
more. Two days after he was at
tackled by ulcerations of the throat
and mouth and died in less than three