The La Jara chronicle., 1910-02-04

iNi'd dleE mas the most complete
hne of legal and conveyance
blanks in he county. See him.
The Rev. 7. A. Schofield will hold
service at 1880 p. m. Thursday, Feb.
10th, and celebrate the holy commun-
ion at 10 a. IN. Friday, Feb. 1lth.
Resolved that it is not a good
policy to be without fire protection;
but that it is one of the best kind of
POLICIES if it is in one of kava-
lees.
Nephia Christensen, who has been
50 very i'll with pneumonia at Man
assa, is slowly improving.
The little son of County Superin-
tendent Nelson of Sanford. is re-
ported slightly better.
E. r. Stark. of Colorado Springs.
was here Saturday and reports the
probable sale of the waters of tine La
Jara reservoir to Monte Vista ranch
men. Mr.. Stark is now promoting n
Carey land act proposition near Sa-
guache.
Mrs. w. d. Heilman was an arrival
from Monte Vista this morning and
assisted her daughter in instituting
La lara Hive. Ladies of the Macca-
bees. Miss Rosa Heilman has been
here the past ten days in the inter
ests of the order.
We have a number of those new
steel safety deposit boxes left.
Gather up all your insurance poll
cies. deeds, documents. notes, etc,
and come and get box at the spec
ial offer of $500 from now until
january l, 1911.
VIM King and wife were arrivals
the first Of the week from Alamosa.
Bill has resigned his position in the
railroad shops and viii work in his
fathers blacksmith shop, trade at
which he has become very expert dur
ing his railroad experience.
Bremer Hatfield had another thrill
ing experience the other evening with
an automobile that refused to run
Y
Alamosa with d. e. Newcomb's ma
| chine for the purpose of procuring a
trained nurse. On the return trip the
gasoline tank ran dry three miles out
of Alamosa and it was up to him to
get out and walk to the nearest farm
house where a rig was summoned by
telephone from La lara.
Wedding bells are ringing, ringing,
as a resu t of the many weddings that
nave occurred recently in and about
Capulin. Two of the latest were the
unions of Miss Sophia Quintana to
Gabriel Lucero and Miss Floripa
Quintana to Francisco La Blanc. The
brides are sisters. daughters of Lean
dro Quintana, a well known sheep
man and farmer of Capnlin. a two
days feast was spread to hundreds
of friends and a big dance closed the
wedding festivities.
|. J. Richardson left last Saturday
night for Denver. intending to make
Il trip to Oregon before returning.
However, upon arriving in Denver.
he was compelled to undergo slight
operation in one of his ears that had
given him considerable trouble late
'y, and as result was rendered quite
i'll. While in Denver he met a whole
sale lumber dealer from the northwes
and was thereby enabled to make his
contracts for all the Oregon lumber
h.,
Co. will require for the coming sea
son. This business finished to his
liking, he boarded the train for home,
arriving Thursday morning, and the
trip to Oregon is indefinitely post
poned.
At the annual meeting of the New
MoSote Ditch company, held at the
La lara State Bank yesterday, Off
GERS for the ensuing year were elect
ed as follows: d. L. Newcomb, pres
ident; Zeph Chas. Felt, vice-presi-
two first named officers, with the ad-
dition of C. E. Worrell, of Denver
Homer Neel and T. Ormond, compose
the board of directors. A committee
was appointed looking to a consoli-
dation with the Northwestern Ditch
company, the proposition being to
consolidate the two systems under one
management The construction of a
new headgate which will cost about
$1,000 was authorized The com
pany will spend about So, 900 in re-
this year in addition to the $1,000
formerly appropriated.