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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
WOODrIEN JUBILEE
Plans Being Perfected for Big Log
Rolling

Rocky Ford Camp. No. 1875, W. o. W.,
had one of its big times last Friday night,
when the members were out in force to-
sether with as many prospective mem
bers as could be induced to come out to
the smoker"
Deputy HeadConsul Hover and District
Organizer Hitchcock were present and
addressed the members to such good
purpose that it was determined to again
capture the honors for the largest in
crease in membership in the district.
Plans were started that It is confidently
expected will result in adding 200 MEM
bers to the Camp by the time of the big
log rolling on July 4.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
MAYORS OPEN LETTER
Continued From First Page

needs for domestic use and lawn irriga-
ton, even if our population doubles, and
knowing this would it not be unwise to
vote bonds to install system whose up
keep would be more than twice what the
people now pay for water, besides bond
ing ourselves for half a million dollars
which would have to be paid some time?
Now, Citizens of Rocky Ford, our reg
fourth Friday nights of each month at
the City Hall with open doors. You have
perfect right to come to these meet
ings and express your opinions and state
your objections, if you have any, to any
business the council transacts. No ordi-
nance is ever introduced and passed
without first being published in the paper.
The proposed ordinance raising price of
ditch water has only passed first reading
and can be changed or amended or killed
on its second or third reading. The pro-
posed frontage tax ordinance has been
ordered drawn and will probably be in
troduced at the next regular meeting.
Now. don't you think it would be nicer
and more manly if instead of chewing
the rag on the streets, or writing an ar
ticle and having it printed in the paper
over the title of Citizen, or writing an
anonymous letter to the Mayor. finding
fault. to come before the council like
man and state your objections? We are
all human and make mistakes. We are
open to criticisms; we would be glad to
have your advice and assistance, but we
want you to be manly about it. Let us
not quarrel. but let US reason together.
What we do we do in the open. Why do
you try to strike in the dark?
Our Board of Aldermen is a dandy,
The City Clerk is a peach.
The City Treasurer comes in handy,
And the Mayor is proud of each.
Our Fire Chief can't be beat,
To see him handle the team is treet,
Our Water Commissioner is hummer.
Our Police can sure catch a hummer,
Our City Attorney is always winner,
Our Police always gets there although
sinner.
G. M. CoFFMAN. Mayor.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
oddfeIlows Anniversary

The Arkansas Valley Oddfellows Ami
versary Association will celebrate the
Ninety-third anniversary of the order at
La Junta next Friday. April 26. at an
evening session beginning at 8 o'clock.
At this session program will be rend-
cred with addresses by prominent mem
bers of the order, interspers ed with
music. A midnight lunch will be served
and games aud other forms of amusement
and general good time will be the order.
All Oddfellows and Rebekahs are
cordially invited to attend this celebration
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
SHERIFF'S SALE.

By virtue of writ of execution issued out of
the Clerks office of the County Court of
Pueblo County and State of Colorado. and to
me directed, whereby | am commanded tO
make the sum of Seven Hundred and FIFTY
nine and ninety-two-one hundredths dollars
(SI59g1) and costs of suit. the amount ot a
certain Judgment recently obtained against
The {. Il. Bolton Music Co. of Rocky Ford, in
favor of The HeNt Music Co., of Pueblo. out
of the lands, tenements, goods and chattels
of the said Z. L. Bolton Music Co., have
levied on the following property, to-wit: All
of the entire stock and book accounts and
fixtures of The q. l.. Bolton Music Co.
Therefore. according TO said command, l
shall expose for sale. at Public Auction. all
the right, title aad interest Of the above
named G.. +. Bolton Music Co. in and to the
above described property. on the 18th day of
April 1912. at 2:30 O'Clock L. NJ, at the corner
OF Ninth and Elm streets, in Rocky Ford,
Colo.
Dated at Rocky Ford. Colo, this 17th day
of April. 1872. .
Sheriff of Otero county
:. Il. Durham, Attorney.
Date of first publication. April 10, 1912
Date of last publication. April %. 1912
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
Notice of Dissolution of The Rocky
Ford Hardware Company.
To Whom II May Concern; !;

To Whom II May Concern;
Notice is hereby given that at "A meeting of
the stockholders of the Rocky Ford Hardware
Company. corporation of the State of Colo
given, held in the city of Rocky FOrd County
of Otero and state OF Colorado. the 2nd
day of April, A. ID. 1872, and called for the pur-
pose of considering the propriety of dissolv-
had that upon the unanimous vote of the
entire capital stock OF said Company issued
and outstanding, 1t was dissolved and order
ed that said Company be and it vas dissolved.
and the President and Secretary of said
Company were forthwith to make and sign Il
notice of the dissolution OF sand Company,
under the COmpany's seal thereof; to file
same, or copy thereof, in the Office of the
Secretary of state of the State OF Colorado,
and in the office of the County Clerk and Re-
corder of the County of Otero in the State of
Colorado: to publish such notice in news
paper printed in Otero County, Colorado,
and 10 take such other steps as might by law
be required fully and completely 10 effect a
And the undersigned. the President and the
Secretary. respectively, OF the said The
Rocky Ford Hardware Company. do now
make and sign this Notice of Dissolution.
one copy thereof in the Office OF the Se,re-
tury OF State of the state of Colorado. and "a
further copy in the office of the County
Clerk and Recorder of the County OF Otcro,
newspaper printed in Otero County. Colorado.
for "a period of six weeks, all pursuant TO SAID
resolution. and in accordance with the sta
tutes Of the state OF Colorado in such case
made and provided.
President OF The Rocky Ford
Hardware Company.
fsEALl AGNES l.. HElFEL
Secretary OF The Rocky Ford
Hardware Company.
a a A~A I.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior,

U. S. Land Office at Pueblo, Colo
March 30. 1872.
Notice is hereby given that Edwin d. Fer
rell, of La Junta, Colorado, who, on March
is, 1905. made Desert Land Entry No. 1863.
serial No. 0762U.fo Lot3.Section Township 20
S,Range 81 W, 9Th Prn. Meridian, has filed no.
tice of intention to make Final Proof. to cs-
tablish claim to the land above described,
before the clerk OF the District Court. at La
Junta. Colorado, on the sth day of May. 1872
Brown. of La Junta, Colorado; Joseph l.. Nc
lntosh, of La Junta, Colorado: Harry ID.
Cochran. of Timpas. Colorado; William A.
Smith of Rocky Ford. Colorado.
Not coal land. j. W. HAWLEH,
Apr I-May3p Register.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19

For Sale-At my residence, south and
east of Washington school house, num-
ber of good work horses and mules il:
good condition. Good wagon. buggy. har-
ness and farm implements of all kinds.
Will sell for cash or good hankable note.
Ralph P. Collins.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
U. S. Land Office at Pueblo. Colo,

U. S. Land Office at Pueblo. Colo,
March 10, 1872.
Notice is hereby given that Richard Rein
ecke, OF Swink Colorado who, on March 16.
1905. made Desert Land Entry No. 1861, serial
No. 016l.. for Sc i. Section %. Township - ;:
Range 81 W., 6th Prin, Meridian. has tled
notice of intention to make Final Proof, to
establish claim To the land above described.
before the United States Land Ohce. at
Pueblo. Colorado, on the md day of May. 1912.
Claimant names Witnesses: Harry ID.
Cochran, Jacob Boyer. Witt f. Walker. and
Harry s. Berger, a II Of Timpas, Colorado.
Not coal land. j. w. HAWLEY,
Mar 29-Apr 26p Register.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior,
U. 5. Land Office at Pueblo, Colo,

U. S. Land Office at Pueblo, Colo,
March 80, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that Olive NJ. Van
Buskirk, of Rocky Ford. Colorado. who, on
October 20 1905 made Desert Land Entry, No.
0lII4. for Sc a. Sec. p. 7. 25 s., II. IS W.. ahd
Lots 3. I, Il. Il SW u. Section 10. Township
~ s. Range 81 W, 9Th Prin. Meridian. has
filed notice of intention to make Final Proof
to establish claim TO the land above describ-
ed, before the United States Land Office. ut
Pueblo, Colorado, on the sth day OF May, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: II. +. Eich-
of, of Timpas. Colorado; II. Van Buskirk. OF
Rocky Ford, Colorado; W. T. Walker. of Tim
pas. Colombo; II. d. Cochran. OF Timpas,
Colorado.
Not coal land. J. W. HAWLEY
Apr 5-May3 Register
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior,
U. S. Land Office at Pueblo. Colo.

U. S. Land Office at Pueblo, Colo,
March 70, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that William P.
Bennett of La Junta, Colorado. who. on Feb
ruary 49, 1906, made Homestead Entry No.
1858, Serial. No. Oi099, for SW u. Section 2.
Township - 5, Range 81 W, 9Th Prin. Meri-
dian, has filed notice of intention to make
Final five year Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described. before the Clerk
of the District Court, at La Junta. Colorado.
on the eth day of May. 1872.
Claimant names as witnesses: Frank Nes-
bitt, of Rocky Ford, Colorado; Gertrude A.
Bennett of Telluride Colorado; Ruth A.
Bennett and William p. Bennett. Jr., of La
Junta, Colorado.
Not coal land j. W. HAWLEY,
ABR 5-May3 Register.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
Shade Trees. Elm. Ash. Caro-
lima, Poplar, for sale at BurreIls.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior,
IL G L and 0Hinn Mt Pnalln Colo

o. 8, Land Office at Pueblo, COIO.,
April 3. 1872,
Notice is hereby given that Ruth Hamilto
widow of Thomas A. Hamilton. deceased. OF
Rocky Ford, Colorado who. on March 49, 1907,
made Homestead Entry No. 1I233. Serial. No.
05S06. for NWl4 SecBi' Township % s, Range
81 w, 9th Prin. Meridian. has filed notice of
intention to make Final five year Proof. TO
establish claim to the land above described.
before the Clerk of the District Court, at LA
Junta. Colorado, on the iIth day OF May, 1872
Claimant names witnesses: Margaret
Glass. Ambrose Mellon. Edgar Abell and
Senith Palmer, all of Rocky Ford. Colorado.
Not coal land. j. W. HAWLES
Apr l2-May 10 Register
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
Civil Service Examination.

An examination for male clerk and
carrier will be held at the postoffice in
this city on May ls, 1912, Age limit
ID to 40 years, on the date of the exam
ination. Applicants must be physically
sound, and must be not less than feet
4 inches in height without boots or shoes
and weigh not less than 1875 pounds
without overcoat or hat.
For application blanks and for full in
formation relative to the examination,
qualifications. duties, salaries, vacations,
promotions, etc, address Immediately
MISS FLORENCE DUNKLEBERGER,
Secretary Board of Civil Service Ex-
aminers, Rocky Ford. Colo.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19

Parties wishing to snip mel,ns with the
Rocky Ford Melon Growers Assn. will
find the office open on Saturday after
moons. j. C. Fleming, Sec. -46tf
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
Shade Trees For Sale

Catalpa. locust. ash and poplar. Good
home grown trees in nursery row. Csc
each See Amos Bum, Caretaker at fair
grounds,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19

For Sale-One pen Rhode Island Red
h1n. Also Black Minorca eggs. Call
Phone Ford 285
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A Bargain if sold at once-Wiu sell
good two room house and lot. so x SO
it, on NJ l4th ST. for S4oo and new
$500 piano guaranteed for ten years, for
$3.50. Mrs Myrtle Tuttle. 6O5 N. Il St.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
Bargain in Real Estate

100 acres Of land north Of ordway. in
Box Springs; will sell or trade for good
town g opertY. W. H. Hekox 4zP
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19

Satisfaction in every instance is the
feeling Of the smokers Of the ROCKY
FORD-the great sc cigar.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19

Far in advance of the five cent class
ROCKY FORD the great SC cigar.
struby Esta5rook Mer Co., Denver.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19
An Explanation

You may think it absurd for an electric company to
advise patrons how in the consumption OF
electric current.
We do it because satisfied customer in the only
good customer
We do it because we know that tungsten lighting with
modern shades and fixtures will give you all the light
you want without increasing the bills
The tungsten lamp than the old style carbon
ncandescent but it renders nearly three times as much
light with the consumption OF electric current.
Let our experts hel p you to get your money worth
out of the electric current you buy.
Telephone West 2o4
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY RAILWAY,
LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
900 ELM AVENUE
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-04-19

Apr 3 May
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

cule of good English tenant. Little attention is paid to cutting costs and increasing yields. This same spirit Is reflected in our appalling need of good roads an efficient educational system and an organized country life.
 As hinted. ovcr-croppng has diminished fertility of soils Entirely blind to the cause of his diminished returns, 'the land lord thinks he must have more rent. but he is not willing to change his crops. When the writer moved to Texas cot ton farm in 1894, cotton yielded, on the average. from three-fourths to one and one-fourth bales per acre. Had landlords preserved soil fertility. or forced their tenants to follow constructive farm meth ods. they would secure just as good yields today. The average acre yield of cotton lands in the black lands varies now from one-fourth to one-third of bale In a fair season.
 The vicious field crop system of tenant farming is kept alive by the helplessness and ignorance of the tenant He Is too poverty stricken to help himself. He does not know that his labor can be ap- piled to better advantage. The writer has seen cases of tuberculosis victims living in the same room with other mem- bers of the family. eating from the same dishes and using the same face towels. Such conditions can be eradicated only by educating the class.
 The tenant Is the under dog in the pres
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ent struggle. He is the vicarous suf- ferer of a system. On the other hand the landlord is in the relation of an eco- homie suicide. By his persistent enforce ment of cotton farming as a speciality. he narrows his income and keeps the tenant in virtual slavery.
 Individual landlords have recognized that their o@nership of land imposes upon them duty to 1t and to their tenantry Several have built social center build ings and have undertaken a systematic course of agricultural instruction. One or two have co-operated with the United States federal department of agriculture and are installing as experiments ideal crop rotation schemes. Tn all such cases there has been marked improvement both fin crop yield and in the attitude of the tenant toward the landowners.
 The main hope of southwestern farm CTS lies In our improved facilities for agricultural and high school instruction in country districts. Tn the opinion of the writer the state must not only take upon It's shoulders responsibility for the present system, but must also pass cor rectlve laws.
 Tenants should have certain rights with regard to their Improvements on the land lords property. Such laws have already been enacted in Great Britain. Since landlords are rapidly assuming rela- ton to the people parallel to that of public service corporations. 1t is beconl-
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die" Is the all too frequent answer when one asks why particular im- prcvements have not been made.
 In the older states of the south farming has always been semi-feudal- istic, but Texas began her agricultural history with farm owners. As type the early settlers were hardy, frugal and home-loving. Such were the farm CTS found in the southwest In the early sos. Yet by 1890 the movement toward tenancy had assumed somewhat alarm ing proportions During the last 10 years the increase of tenant -operated farms over farms operated by owners has exceeded 200 per cent. To be more specific. in 1900 the total number of farms in Texas was divided as fol- lows: Cultivated by tenants, 174.991 {; by owners. 174.s39. In 1910 the mum Der of farms cultivated by tenants had risen to 2i9.106 while the number cul- tivated by owners was only 194193.
 During these same ten years thousands of acres of ranch lands were opened for sale yet those who bought and moved on their farms were not in sufficient num- ber to offset the tenant increase.
 Texas is not alone in this drift toward tenantry. Tn 1880 tenants farned of all farms in the south ss-2 per cent; in 1910. 52. per cent.
 While landlordism is well Advanced in the southwest. the actual practice of farming is so crude as to arouse the ridi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

third of the other crops to one third all around.
 A large portion of the tenant popu- lation Is unlettered: but this has not prevented the spread of discontent and demonstrations against the negroes Ii has not prevented night rider and white cap methods of whipping white farm CTS who have acceded to the demand for higher rents, nor organization of local unions for individual protection.
 Landlords claim as excuse for ask ing higher rents that their farms have risen in valuation. The tenants answer that these same lands do not produce the crop yields they did a few years ago: and that they see no justice in the landlord getting a larger fraction of the crop than formerly.
 Today there are three distinct movements of population in Texas and Oklahoma. one is from the middle western and/ other older states to the raw lands. These settlers are prosper GUS and buy to make farming bus iress and to acquire more land. The second Is from the farm to the town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27

and city. The farm owners who have
 gotten into the landlord class make up this movement The third is the fluc- tuating and unstable shifting of ten antry within the agricultural terri tory
 It may be said parenthetically that anxious as the farm owner is to get away from his farm when he becomes an urban citizen he falls down on his job. He is too conservative TOT tow. , propress He can always be counted
 O. to vote against tax levies for civic improvement and if he goes Into bus mess he pays very low wages to his employes.
 we are waiting for the old heads to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Better Than Spanking

Spanking does not cure children of bed wetting. There Is constitutions cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum mers, Box w. Notre Dame. Ind. will send free to any mother her successful home treatment. with full instructions. Send no money. but write her today IT your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child. the chances are it can't shelp t. This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled
 with urine difficulties by day or night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
The Tenant Farmers Revolt In Texas
Fly CHARLES W. HOLMAN Editorial stan Farm d Ranch, Dallas. Texas

A pernicious landlordism has sprung Up in the southwest. Already owning more than half of the land, a limited group bid fair to gain such additional acres as will make them masters of the country people. Fostered by laws hich initiate against tenant rights, landlords have become powerful enough to order tenants to vote against good reads and school tax levies on penalty of raising rents. They have evicted V hite tenants in favor of negro and Mexican farmers Now they are rais- ing rents from the time honored one fourth of the cotton Crop and one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
A Warming to Dreamers

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. in a recent address in New York couched in a neat aphorism a warning that dreamers would do well to heed.
 We judge ourselves" said Mir. Rocke- feller, "by the deeds which we dream we are capable of doing; but the world judges us only by the deeds we have already done.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Girls and Junior Coats
 the Exclusive Kind

splendid variety for your choosing. We spent much time n order to good models, thus nsurng you the very and best and excsveness not to be found where purchases confined to few makers The four essential points demand in all garments are quality style fit and workmanship.
 The materials used are all the most popular, such soft cncillas Abeines, kerseys, macknacs, all wool sergcs and chcvios Many styles from which to choose All coors and sizes.
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ing increasingly necessary that we should regulate landlords. Finally federal ap- propriatlons should be made for tenants to borrow money at low rates of inter. est, payable on long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
RICORD'S VITAL N RESTORATIVE

Pves O At all arugxiss AIwsys on hand q Csl1ies Drug Co.,. les Nefth zuentasth assse Asn ooegs eoetei1eA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Special in Blankets
The New Coats

Fall and winter coats to banish the chill. Some of soft, luxurious camel's hair, zibelines and like fabrics that combine warmth with out weight. Boucles, chin chillas and heavy two-tone diagonals are also very pop ular. Scores of new styles, see them tomorrow on the second floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
Children'S School Dresses $1.0O
 Values 50C

Monday special we offer a special sale of Children's Wash Dresses for school wear. Materials are ging- hams and French Percale. These Dresses were purchased for this spe- cial sale. The kind you are used to paying $10O for. All .colors, neat little checks and stripes. Sizes to 8 years, Monday ,......... .o9c
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-02
hERTZNENI @MNENT
EsHappeniq$$S1

perhaps true. for every ball team which
wins must have the breaks.
But there is a hustling spirit prevalent
in the ranks of McGraw's team, which
does much to make up for any deficienc es
1t may have. incidentally the team plays
a high grade of up-to-date inside base
ball. for which il has perhaps not re-
ceived the credit il deserves. But for all
that the Giants are sure to have a hard
fight on their hands for there are more
teams in the old league which compare
favorably with last years champions
than there are teams in the class with
the Athletics in the American League.
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, has
accomplished one thing far as his
proposed fight with Jack johnson is con-
cerned, and that is that he has TO some
extent at least created the impression
that he stands a chance to beat the col
ored champion. Flynn has a way of IL
Illustrating his chances and expressing SO
much confidence that many fight follow
ers have been weaned from the idea that
Johnson will have cake walk. Then.
too. Flynn lays special stress on the fact
that the johnson who will meet him viii
not be the Johnson of Reno. for two
years of dissipation. he contends, have
done much to sap the vitality of the con-
uueror of Jeffries, and that he will likely
make as miserable a showing as did
Jeffries nearly two years ago.