The Ordway new era., 1911-06-23
HASH AND GENERAL COMMENT

VINO saIu 10 ner lover uducu 1SAoo''
To kiss me, OF course,
You'll have to use force, ~
And Lord knows you're stronger
than am.
Cherries are an abundant crop at
Hartman.
Swink has no preachers. But then
she has two saloons.
Fifty crates OF cherries day are be-
Ing shipped at Manzanola.
The La Junta postal savings bank
will open next Monday morning.
The tirst cutting OF alfalfa near WI
ley averaged two tons to the acre.
A resident of Rocky Ford is known
as "Long" Green. He must look like
real money.
A Denver advertiser wants ''stout
boy to work half In doors and half out" !"
Which half?
J. F. Wilson, the owner Of the Man
zanola hotel, has again taken charge
Of that hostelry.
Since the water was turned into the
bitches many OF our citizens have been
''sticking" around home considerably.
The postmaster at Manzanola has
suffered an increase of 800 In his SAL
ary, but says he can stand lots OF that
kind Of grief.
The La Junta Tribune Is endeavor-
ing to raise s4O0 In order TO secure
band concerts for that town during
the next three months.
Rocky Ford, In the furtherance Of q
''sane and safe Fourth" has notified
It's merchants that they must not sell
fireworks or explosives.
The trottinR horse Swink made q
mile at Beatrice, Eeb., last week 10
2:22. That horse resembles its name.
sake, the municipality of Swink, In
that it is pretty swift.
The Mothers club Of Cheraw held q
we'll attended session last week.
Meanwhile the Fathers club held
down the store boxes. discussed poll.
tics and whitfield as usual.
About eighty lots have been sold in
the new town Of Benton, nine miles
southwest of La Junta. on the main
line OF the Santa Fe and this promises
to be a thriving trading point.
DR.. Saratiui of Italy sounds note of
warning against people running their
health by talking too much. We COM
mend this advice, especially to the
ladies. The men don't need it.
Grand junction streets are to be
paved with concrete ofa rich, emerald
green.-As the man who had the say
so is named Thomas Flaherty Mahoncy
this Is not as strange as 1t might be.
The Santa Fe railway company is
sinking u new artesian we'll at Rocky
Ford in an endeavor to get water that
will not eat out the boilers Of it's en-
gines faster than the shops can refine
them.
What do you know about this? The
Cheraw Clarion says: ''Ordway voted
dry Il year ago, but went wet at the
last election by choosing wet town OIL
cials. The local option law is no good
unless enforced"
The state Sunday school convention
at Pueblo last week was the largest
ever held In the state. Salida, Colo
RADIO Springs and Trinidad we're candi-
dates for the next session, but the To-
cation was not decided.
Let's all start laundry. Fred Pol
hemus, the Rocky Ford laundryman,
has leased his establishment and with
his wife will spend the summer in
travel. Only the rich enjoy the earth
and the fullness thereof.
The optimistic editor OF the Manza-
nola Sun says: 1.-The picnic season is
now upon us, with the usual accom-
paniment of flies, fleas. grass chiggers
and gnats, but there's bushel of fun
In days outing, anyhow"
An artesian we'll being sunk at
Swink has already reached IA depth OF
$50 feet and is still going down toward
China. Two flows Of water have al
ready been encountered, but the well
will be sunk to the third flow.
Miss Florence Sheedy of Denver and
l. Townsend Burton OF New York were
married in Denver last Saturday.
There was nothing out OF the ordinary
about the event except that the we'd
ding presents were worth Sl,OOO,OOO
A new cement bridge 1870 feet long
has just been completed by Otero and
Crowley counties across the Apishapa
river four miles southwest OF Fowler.
Crowley cOun1v Sharas tho eypanSa