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Fred Perdue, the hustling auction
eer of Rocky Ford. was in town last
Saturday, shaking hands with friends
and strangers, says the Holly Chief
tam. The big prices he obtained at
the Simpson cattle sale have been the
talk of the town ever since.
J. NJ. Powars was in Rocky Ford
the first OF the week and paid visit
to the rooms of the Otero County
Farmers club. MIR. Powars says he
was surprised and rgeatly interested
at the exhibit there. and which he
believes it would pay the farmers OF
this section to take the time to visit
Swink Advocate.
Mrs. c. b. Rosenberg and little
daughter of Rorky Ford arrived last
Saturday to join husband and father
and will reside here in the future.
Mr.. Rosenberg is the expert baker
at the Home bakery. it will be remem-
bered.-Holly Chieftain.
Prof. and Mrs. James A. Marshall.
OF Rocky Ford, came to La Junta to-
day to attend the football game be-
tween the local high school and La
mar. Professor Marshall is princi-
pal OF the Rocky Ford high school.
and he and his wife are the guests of
Prof. and Mrs. X. d. McClintock
during their stay in La Junta.-l-a
lunta Tribune.
A steady stream of wagons loaded
with beet pulp leaves the sugar fac
tory every day. There is big de-
mand for pulp among feeders of cat
tie and sheep. aad the supply is mad
equate. Like Hmburger cheese, beet
ulp possesses. great nutritive quail
ties if you can get by the smell safe
ly. and that objection does not bother
the stock at all.-Lamar Sparks.
F. S. Johnson. district manager for
the Arkansas Valley Railway, Light
and Power company, with headquar-
tiers in Rocky Ford. was in the city
Wednesday,. driving new run-about
OF classy appearance and action. Mr..
Johnson states the company has a
large force of men making extensions
to their lines. these being made nee
essary by the rapidly increasing bust
ness Fowler Tribune.
In an interview with Mr.. ohm Har-
bert. member of the state board of
horticulture from this district. the
Manzanola Sun learns that the fruit
trees fthc valley are in excellent
condition tn winter The unprece-
dcntcd freeze coming last fall when
the youn gtrees were unpreparcd kill
ed many varieties but the frost COM
ing SO gradual this year. finds the
younr wood well hardened, and there
is every prospect for a bumper crop
for 1913.
Main street in Rocky Ford, immed-
lately in front OF the opera house in
that burg, was so badly congcstcd with
La Junta automobiles Monday night
that the night cop i'll Melonville
threatened to turn in riot call, says
the La Junta Tribune last week.
The cause of this fearful congestion
of buzz buggies was primarily that La
Junta has no opera house-only pile
of perfectly good bricks to mark the
once happy spot-and that our sister
city on the banks OF the raging Ar
kansas has one OF these much coveted
institutions.
County Surveyor Wetmorc has
completed the maps for the Slaven &
Peck ditch to be built from Breckcn
ridge creek to their reservoir on Duck
creek and has filed them with the
state engineer This water project is
of greater magnitude than most OF
our people realize and will furnish
employment to great many men.
Contracts have already been let for
a portion of the grading and work
will begin son. The ditch will be
between six and seven miles long and
vary in width from eighteen to thirty
five feet. The company operating
the ditch will be known as the Union
Ditch and Hope Lake Reservoir com
pany New Era.