The Ordway new era., 1912-01-12
The Unusual and the Ordinary

The Rocky Ford Christian Scientists
are to erect church.
The Rocky Ford Gazette expects
To install linotype ina short time.
The Rcck Island railroad system
pays out $4,000 per year for lead pen.
ci!S alone.
Former residents OF Ohio and Iowa
will hold Il reunion ut Rocky Ford on
the 9Th inst.
According to the Cheraw Clarion,
ever truthful. there are twenty inches
of snow over there.
Jacob Elsess, a Swiss farmer near
Pueblo, last season raised celery valued
at -, 800 on three acres OF land.
The Rocky Ford postotlice recently
handled inside OF four days ll5, 29S
catalogs sent out by seed houses there.
The Fowler Tribune says: pipes
freezing; plumbers jumping; citizens
cussing. Who said fine Italian eli.
mate ?"
The expenses Of the town government
exceed the income by several hundred
dollars each month.
a Kansas City Justice OF the peace
has announced that he will marry free
OF cost all couples The woman OF which
has popped the question"
Because Justice OF the Peace Webb
Of Riverside, Calf, decided law suit
against him, John Chinnici shot and
fatally wounded that official.
Lawrence Brown, son and heir OF J.
J. Brown, a multimilliunaire mining
man Uf Denver, Is working as a muckcr
10 the mines ut Victor for 90 a day.
The La Junta Tribune has Just
entered its thirty third volume. The
great family journal" is hale young
man and bids fair to arrive at IL green
old age.
The Anti. White Slave association
has established headquarters at Den,
yer and nation. wide campaign
against the white slave traffic is to be
waged from there.
The La Junta Tribune carries at
the head OF its editorial page the
legend. "For President, Theodore
Roosevelt" Say, Fred, has Teddy
tapped his bar'lthis early 10 the game:
Anthony Task of Trenton, N. j..
was engaged to Miss Jennie Anskie
from the time he leveled a pistol at
her head until the police arrived.
Then the engagement ended and Task
fled.
The United States has I. $40 national
banks with a capitalization OF 81, ,033,.
3O2, 1885 and an outstanding note cir
culation Of S74O,6O3,ls7. 1t is esti.
mated that the banks OF this country
lost SIS, ,OO0, 900 last year through for
geries.
A stranger called on the chief OF
police at San Diego, Calf, to COM
plain that officers we're annoying him.
When he left he took away with him
the chiefs costly OvercOat. a new pair
Of tan gloves and fancy silk muffler
Then the chief got busy.
A curiosity In watches has just been
finished by Swiss concern. A pearl
that weighed 45 graiEs before IT. was
bored contains all the works. One
man spent fifteen months boring the
pearl and fitting the wheels. The
watch Is valued at $4,000.
William Mack. a lifetime convict In
the Oregon penitentiary, has just re-
turned TO that institution to serve out
the balance OF his sentence. Last
spring he was paroled by the governor
in order that he might make enough
money to lift the mortgage on the
farm Of his wife's aged parents that
they had placed there to raise funds
for his defense on his trial for murder.
During his parole he worked at the
blacksmith trade In the logging camps,
while his wife cooked. After the
mortgage was lifted Mack cheerfully
returned to the penitentiary to serve
out his remaining days within the
gray walls and redeem his word to the
authorities. Mack shot and killed a
barkeeper in Il dispute over the price
NJ a drink