The Ordway new era., 1911-10-27
State and General Comment

The Rocky Ford public schools have
a total enrolment OF l,l6s.
Mexico and Guatemala are actively
preparing for hostilities that may be-
gin at any time.
Booth Harrington, the famous Indi.
ana novelist, has been sued by his
wife for divorce.
Bob Harris. under death sentence
In the Canon City ''pen." is said to
be haunted by awful dreams.
A Pueblo "vag" is in Jail for steal
ing lawn mower. He ought to be
given sixty days for not grabbing a
snow shovel.
Leroy l.. james OF Pueblo, colored,
heads the list OF commissioners to be
voted for in Pueblo at the forthcum.
ing city election.
Two carloads of beer were seized at
Wichita. Kan, by the county author.
tiles last week. What do you know
about that for "dry" county?
The federal internal revenue depart
ment is about to institute suits against
,, 900 Colorado corporations which have
failed to pay the government income
tax for 1910.
a Chicago bride wore lemon instead
OF orange blossoms ut her uuptials.
Thus did she intimate to the unfort.
unatc groom that he had just had u
lemon handed to him.
Federal officials have seized 5000
tons OF coal In the M0tTat road yards
in Denver, charging that the coal had
been Illegally mined on United States
lands In Routt county.
The city marshal Of Rocky Ford
has received orders to shoot all un.
licensed dogs. Ordway could also
spare II couple Of hundred useless ours
that make night and day hideous.
Two Italians who were held In Jail
at Sandusky. Ohio, and we're paid at
the rate OF 81 per day have addressed
Il letter to the authorities asking to be
put in Jail again. I'VE gets rich In
JAIL" was their plea.
Elias Ridgeway Of Mesa county has
produced new cantalOupe which Is
cross between the Rocky Ford gem
and the banana muskmelun, having
the flavor OF the former and the tone
and color OF the latter.
A son was born recently to Mr.. and
Mrs. jefferson Davis of Denver and is
the fourth In descent from,the famous
chief OF the late Confederate States
Of America. He Is also the fourth to
bear the name of Jefferson Davis.
Besides all its other sins and short
cominss, it is alleged that the freak
hobble skirt is responsible for throw
ing 5000 mill girls In the east out Of
employment because of the decrease In
the quantity of cloth needed in gowns
During the visit Of President Taft
to Butte, Mont, on the 10th inst.
Lewis Duncan. the Socialist mayor,
displayed his lack of breeding by re-
fusing to receive him or to attend the
breakfast given in honor OF the pres-
dent.
Next Sunday night the Methodist
church of Rocky Ford will celebrate
its release from debt by ''mortgage
burning" One 14.year-old girl baked
400 pounds of flour into bread, sold IL
and gave the proceeds to help pay off
the mortgage.
Norman ,Selby (Kid Mccoy, the
pugilist, is soon to wed Mrs. Edna V.
Helm, very wealthy and formerly the
wife of Honduran Vice Consul Helm
This viii! be Sclby's eighth marriage.
He should be an expert in "picking a
winner" by this time.
Rev. Dudley o. Osterheld, pastor of
Methodist church in Brooklyn, has
sent letters to the salOonkccpers in
his district inviting them to attend
his church. 1t is not stated whether
he also invited them TO bring along
something on their hip"
George King, in the Canon City
penitentiary under sentence to hang
next week for murder, has had his
execution deferred and never may
hang, as the court stenographer