Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-11-24
ARKANSAS VALLEY NOTES
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in receipt OF the pennant tor doubles
won at the tournament at Rocky
Ford and proudly exhibits it from the
window of Martins drug store
Ordway New Era.
Last week the Citizens Exchange
bank and the State bank of Sugar
City were consolidated and will here
after be conducted under the name OF
the former institution. 1t is under
stood that the capitalization will be
increased to $4,000 the first of next
year.
E. N. Worley, a brakeman on the
freight service between this place and
Pueblo. accidentally fell from the ca
boose at Rocky Ford yesterday morn
ing sustaining compound fracture
of one of his legs He is now in the
company hospital at this place-La
Junta Press.
On account OF slight illness of
| Judge Rizer no work was done in
the district court the last days of last
week except the empanelling of a
| jury in the case wherein D.. ". Bur-
rel of Rocky Ford sued for payment
of pumping plant, says the Otero
County Press This case occupied
the time of the court during Monday
and Tuesday and the jury brought in
a verdict for Mr.. Burrell
Charles w. Merwin, the able farm
er north of town, has kept tab on his
hundred Plymouth Rock hens the
,, past nine months, and finds that they
have laid 1871 eggs in that length
of time. Mr.. Merwin believes that
this investment has paid him proba-
bly, better than any he has made and
is enthusiastic over what the old hen
has accomplished on Fairview Farm,
in the famous Holly district. Holly
Chieftain.
Associated press dispatches bring
the news that the little out-of-the-
way quiet town OF Boston. in Baca
county. experienced a sensation late
ly when nice looking young man
was employed to teach the village
school. He was quite a smart teach
er and to add to his other accomplish
ments he entertained the natives with
magic and hypnotism and he had the
whole village going until in burst of
confidence he revealed the fact that
he was woman. No use talking.
woman just can't keep a secret.
road fund b'" Is illegal will be felt in
!eSnnir !.ounry. goa ali equal dollar would be
spent by the state. Now that 1t IS
found this money will not be availa-
bic all this work will stop. as such
money as now remains in the road
fund and as will be collected from the
coming levy. will be required for the
regular road work and can not go in
to improvements of this character -
Las Animas Democrat.
The committee appointed by the
Holly Cantaloupe Growers associa-
ton to investigate the situation at
Rocky Ford, together with n. +.
returned home last Wednesday. feel
ing assured that the Holly growers
were fairly treated, although their
contracts were not as good as those
of their Rocky Ford brethren. who
obtained so and Is cents for standards
and jumbos UP to Aug. 18th. The
principal advantage to Rocky Ford
growers, the committee states, is that
they shipped considerably earlier
than our growers, hence the difference
in results.
Granada evidently has some uple-
sirable citizens, as note the following
from last weeks Times: While two
of our citizens drove through the long
hours of Monday night in pursuit OF
two fleeing bills for groceries and sup
plies. home talent bungler. lit
| (it would be disgrace to the profess
sion to call him burglary. jimmied
his way into the Methodist parson-
age, and after several hours work,
left with 81 90 in money. and lunch
consisting of two raw eggs, half
slice of bread, slice OF canned pine
apple and two vanilla waters. In
those few hours, damage in the
amount of about 500 was done, in a
| fruitless search for money, showing
the characteristic trainin~ of these
parts-thc money, get it at any cost. y
Not large crowd, but an interest
ed one, attended the demonstration IN
the use of dynamite, conducted by the
Dupont powder company on the T..
i ]. Barnard ranch, east of town, Tues
day afternoon, says the Fowler Trib-
une. Mr.. Kastner, the Dupont COM
| pany's representative, showed how the
| dynamite cartridges could be used to
| good advantage in breaking up the
hard sub-soil, in the planting OF fruit
trees, and in the drainage of scepage
land. The tillers OF the soil who were
present manifested marked interest
in the demonstration work. Manager
Frederick Noble. of the American
Beet Sugar company, was here, and
so interested was he in the work oI
the explosives that he made an effort
to arrange a similar demonstration al
Rocky Ford in the near future. Thi:
will probably be done