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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
THE SCHOOL PROBLEM

That there may be perfect under
standing regarding educational needs
and conditions in School District No.
+ our, the following article is respect
fully submitted:
One year ago the enrolment in the
grades in the Washington and Lib
erty buildings was II76, or II greater
than the present enrolment of 1909
in these buildings.
In the High School,. there has been
Ia gain of seventeen in enrolment,
within the year, and gain of twelve
and three-tenths in the average at
tendance: Eureka has lost, slightly,
while La Fayette has gained eleven
and one-half. or more than nineteen
per cent in average attendance.
In May of last year, eighty-six 1867
of our young people completed the
work in the eighth grade. but we
have one hundred eleven GID names
on the Freshman class roll in High
School for the present year.
As the present eighth grade. IS
large and the Senior Class is small. 1t
lis reasonable to conclude that the
condition in the High School will be
still more crowded, during the coming
year. We have an over-crowded con-
dition at present. and there is every
indication that the present building
| is entirely inadequate for our future
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
NIddER BoB'S CASE UP
Prays the Supreme Court for New
Trial

Bob Harris, the Rocky Ford negro
sentaneed to hang for the killing of Mar
shals Craig and Ripper on the night OF
July 4, 1911. and who applied to the sup
RENE court for another hearing OF his
case. has finally reached that body and
his plea is this week being heard.
Harris attorney-Lyman | Henry
bases his appeal on a claim that the trial
Judges failure to instruct the jury on
manslaughter was prejudicial to his client.
The outcome of the appeal will be
awaited with interest by the people OF
this city, who are so familiar with the ter
rible tragedy that we will not attempt to
give a resume Of it at this timo.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
AFFIRMATIVE WON
Commission Form of Government
Had Best of Arguments

Last Friday evening at the high school
the Rocky Ford team won the debate
from Trinidad. the home team upholding
the affirmative of the question Resolved.
that commission form of government is
better than the mayor-aldermen system
for cities of over ten thousand population"
On the same night at La Junta and Trini-
dad the same question was debated and
in all cases the affirmative side was sue
cessful.
The debate here was attended by a
large crowd. The boys from Trinidad.
who were J.. Allen Wikoff. Eugene Dopp
and Will Butler. put up good fight but a
losing one. as in delivery and argument
the home team. composed of Eunice Hoyt.
Mabel Keenan, and Elmer Karpe. had
them badly beaten. Elmer Karpe gave
the rebuttal for Rocky Ford in clear.
decisive way and in the minds of most he
won the debate for US. Eunice Hoyt and
Mabel Keenan, were valuable assistants.
as they presented the practical side of
the argument. The rebnttal for Trinidad,
given by young Wikoff, was merely a
summary of the arguments presented by
his side. and was rather weak.
Our negative team. composed of Pearl
Keenan,. Beulah Winburn and Edward
Chapman. who debated with La Junta at
that place. did excellent work. but lost
the decision owing to popular sentiment
favoring the affirmative Of the question.
After the debate here R. P. Collins.
representing the otero County Agricul-
tural association, issued challenge to
debate the victorious team. the chal-
lenge was accepted. the subject and time
of the novel debate to be decided later.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
THE MARKETS
Prices Are Running About Dollar
Higher Than Last Year

South st. Joseph. No.. March 25-
Sheep receipts at the st Joseph market
Monday were around 1000 head. Lambs
were loe higher. sheep steady. Heavy
pslted lambs were little lower. Follow
ing are few sales:
j. X. Duncan, Rocky Ford, z53 lambs
z6lbs. at $50; E. Sergeant. Shelton.
4e5 lambs 85.bs. at $3.50; E.. D Gill.
Hasty. 264 lambs 6zlbs. at $3.50: Geo.
Punnis, Rixey. 2lo ewes s5lbs at $3.50.
Kansas City Stock Yards-Mareh a.
Wethers and ewes sold strong last week
all the time. and finished that way.
Lambs and yearlings sagged little. but
they sold enough higher Friday to wipe
out former losses. Receipts were mod
crate last week, and firmness in the
dressed mutton trade after the middle Of
the week gave good prospects for this
week. The run o-day here is 1000 head.
market steady, The best sales in the
last week on lambs was S8.75. which
price was duplicated to-day. $500 on
wethers. S6.z5 on ewes. and Sz.z5 on
yearlines. These prices are about one
dollar higher than year ago the same
week, when the top on lambs was Sz.Z5
wethers 500. ewes $50. and yearlings
6.25. Future prices will depend upon
volume of receipts. and there is no pos
sib;lity of heavy run at Kansas City
during the balance Of the season for fed
stuff, hence a good market here is assur-
ed. Following are few sales made
here to-day:
Sargent. Shelton. 492 lambs s4lbs.
at Ss.z5; Hallows, Wetzer. 26o lambs
z5lbs. at $3.50; Froman. Wiley. lo45
lambs z5lbs. at $3.50.
J. A. RICKART.
Market Correspondent.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
w. C., T, u, NOTES,

1t was once thought that alcoholic
liquors were useful in sickness as food
and as stimulants, but medical scien-
fists have learned by careful observa-
ton and experiment that these agents
are neither food nor stimulants, hence
they are being laid aside by the best
physicians everywhere and many
doctors are outspokcn against them
as harmful instead of helpful in sick
ness. DIR. Mathew ID. WaSd, an emil
nent physician OF Philadelphia, says
that the giving OF whisky to a faint
ing person may cause death at once
for at this time the heart is already
weak and the shock of the strong
stimulant causes it to collapse at once.
Edison was asked why he did not use
alcoholic stimulants. His reply was
because l have better use for my
brains. How much farther along
might the worlds civilization be to-
day if all bright young men had been
as wise as Edison.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28

needs, while the above facts show
the grades to be in reasonably COM
Portable condition.
After having given the question
careful thought and consideration, We
are convinced that present needs in
the district would be best served by
the enlargement OF the High School
plant. and we recommend that this
addition be erected, for the follow
ing reasons:
I. The High School building is too
small for present needs.
2. Our young people are planning
to enter the High School, and it is
important that they be given oppor-
tunity to pursue their studies while
they may remain under the influence
OF the home.
3. The addition OF the High School
building would make it possible to in
troduce the intermediate High
School Plan which is working so
SUCCESSFULLY in other cities.
4. This plan would interest and hold
many pupils who now become rest
less and are lost to the schools in the
seventh or eighth grade.
5. 1t would make it possible to otter
the work in Domestic Science and
other special ines earlier in the
courses, thus bringing these import
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
MAY GET BIG INHERITANCE
Millions Left by Two Men Claimed
by Enyarts.


One hundred million dollars for the
Enyart heirs!
Don't you wish you were one OF
them?
II. w. Enyart who resides four
miles north of Rocky Ford is one OF
the several heirs, according to infor-
nation given out by him to the Swink
Advocate last week. And this vast
sum is soon to be divided, he says,
among the Enyart heirs; such is the
advice received from his attorney.
Better still, the same heirs are to
receive another small. ''paltry" sum
of only half million from another
estate, Mr.. Enyart stated.
The larger estate comes from his
great grandfather, and comprises
some of the most valuable business
property in New York City, so Mr..
Enyart is informed. All was willed
to the great grandfather's son. who
died intestate, and it has been discov-
cred, Mr.. Enyart asserts. that the
heirs, of which he is one, will now
get the estate or its equivalent in
cash.
The half million estate is more val
liable property in Nebraska City, Neb
left by brother OF the Enyart who
left the New York estate.
The heirs. besides H. w. Enyart,
are said to be A. F. Enyart of near
Olney, Colo; Amanda Cox, Davis
county. Mo-; heirs of Louisa Potter,
at Rocky Ford, and the heirs OF Mil
ton Enyart of Yolo. county, Cal.
1t is to be hoped that luck is with
the Enyart heirs.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28

give individual attention are now taking
another teachers time and are doing no
better work than are the pupils who are
taking the same work for the first time
but under more favorable conditions.
Professor Raymond Riordan in speaking
before the conference Of the Bankers
Committee on agricultural development
and education in 1912 said: "What the
nation needs is population of workers."
Rocky Ford certainly needs the same
but we will certainly not have workers in
our children il the teachers do not have
time to give individual attention and see
that the little ones work instead Of dream.
On account of the crowded condition Of
some of the rooms the ventilation Is
beastly.
On Tuesday we vote on $4,000
bond issue for the purpose Of erecting an
addition to the High School building. The
members of the Board Of Education must
believe this to be the best plan or they
would not have submitted this proposition
and these are the men you have elected
and they are doing their best. Many Of
the tax payers. however seem in doubt.
BY adding to the High school. the
eighth grade could be taken to this build
ing. and the students will receive the ben
efir of department instruction. At the
same time the grade buildings would be
temporarily relieved, but even this will
not offer permanent solution of the diff
ficulty. believe that the bond issue is
large enough to erect a two room cottage
at each grade building. which in my. opin-
ion would not cost over $4,000 each.
which will relieve the congestion until we
are able to erect a good grade building.
1t might have been better il the Board
of Education had submitted two PROPOSE
tions and allowed the taxpayers to choose
between an addition to the high school
and the erection Of grade building. /
cannot state too emphatieally my opinion
that we must have more rooms and more
teachers in the grades as one year OF my
children's time is as valuable to them
now as it Is when they are much older.
as they only have a limited time to get
their education and if that time is not
properly conserved they will not receive
an education. In regard to the domestic
science and athletics IN our high school. if
you will compare the crowded condition
of our high school now and then look
back six or seven years when our boys
would not 60 to this school you will be
in favor of these two departments.
L. r. FKNLAsoN.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
Another Of Our Boys Taking Good.

It is a great pleasure for the Enter
prise to be able to chronicle the success
of Frederick Bolles. who is making a
mark for himself in Colorado College.
Notwithstanding the fact that he entered
the college at the opening Of the second
semester. he was given first place among
the debaters in the tryout, but on account
Of not being in school the required length
Of time he was compelled TO 60 on the
second team. This is a decided triumph
for freshman who had only been in
college two months.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28

Cash on Hand March /. 1918 6.515.61
Bond Fund out Of This ! l.600.o3
For General School Use, Cash l4.zl5.58
Outstanding Warrants None
For the past year the district has been
on a cash basis. We have never paid a
teacher less than par for salaries at any
time.
Total Bonded Indebtedness -S44. .ooo.o
Less Cash on Hand to pay
Three $4,000 Bonds ! 500. 90
Actual Debt Today 10000
Assessed Valuation. over--2, 100000
As will be readily seen. the district is in
splendid shape financially.
BY doubling the size Of the present high
school and establishing an intermediate
high school in the new addition. il built,
and then placing the eighth grade and
possibly the seventh in the intermediate
high school. several grade rooms will be
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28

vacated and thus the grades will be taken
care Of as well as the high school.
The present high school building can be
doubled fer $25.ooo.oo. by building a
brick veneered building. in appearance
the same as the present building but the
inside walls Of cement. This style of
building is much cheaper than the old
building and just as substantial.
Unless this plan is followed part Of the
high school will have to occupy rented
rooms another year. The rent then alto
gether will pay the interest on the bonds
now asked for.
II the present plan carries the high
school will be relieved and several grades
vacated which will care for the grades
too. No other proposition will take care
Of both necessities at this time.
PAUL M. NORTH
Secretary School Board District No.4
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
SCHOOL CONDITIONS

Editor Enterprise
lam very much interested in the sue
cess of the schools in Rocky Ford es
have had more or less to do with them
and have two children in the third grade.
ask permission to submit the following
for publication:
As patrons Of the district we are strong
ly inclined to eritieise because we believe
and know that the progress of our child
rem in the schools is not what it should be
but we should be willing to face the facts.
see the conditions, and place the respon-
sibility where it belongs.
1t is matter Of general knowledge that
one teacher in first primary room was
held responsible for the progress Of l21
pupils who could attend school only one
half of each day because Of the crowded
condition Of our school buildings. Whose
fault was 1t that 25 Of these pupils failee
to make passing grades and are now
spending second year IN the first grade?
This same teacher now has SO pupils
belonging and has enrolled 5s little people
in her room during the school year.
In the primary department Of the La
fayette, we have had an enrolment of Sc
for the year and the teacher has had
three grades in the room. Within the
city limits we have the following condi-
tions: One room in rented basement
which was not intended for school use;
four in one of the grade buildings having
an enrolment of so or more in each. In
the other grade building we have FIVE
rooms under the same conditions.
Briefly stated. | find from the school
records that at this late date in the year,
there are nine rooms in which each of the
teachers have from 40 to SO pupils he
longing and that IN each Of | o rooms there
has been an enrolment of SO or more
for the year. contend that we are not
giving our teachers fair show to do
good work. They are hearing recitaticns
all of the time and do not have an oppor-
tunIty to superintend the study work in
the school room at all. This to me is as
vital as recitations. II there were not
more than so pupils In room the teach
er could have them all in one class, spend
ing one-half of her time in seeing that the
little ones actually worked, helping those
who needed help. when all Of the pupils
in the room would understand their stud
les and make good grades. We cannot
hope for relief until we have provided more
school room and more teachers. The %
pupils who were retarded in the one room
because of the inability of the teacher to
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
VIII Have Another Representative

A special dispatch from Representative
West yesterday morning brings news that
the apportionment bill has passed second
reading and will very likely pass the
house. According to this bill Otsro and
Crowley counties will DO apportionsd one
senator and two REPRESENTATIVES.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
why Vote THE SCHOOL BONDS?
Report as to the Condition of the Rocky Ford
School District

Although detailed report of the condition of School District No
all papers of city few and publish
ed detail according law have been asked by the board to
again for the consideration of the
payers and
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-28
ARE AWAY TO WE'D
Two of Our Businessmen Become
Benedicts This Week

Two OF Our Businessmen Become
Benedlcts This Week
A wireless from St Louis early in the
week brought confirmation of the report
that Harry E. Allderdice. the popular
cashier Of the First National Bank of this
city. had been united IN marriage with a
young lady of st. Louis named Miss
Clara Veal.
The newly-made benedict will be given
hearty welcome when he returns with
his bride. which is expected will be the
fore part Of next week.
Henry w. Lance. postmaster and we'll
known businessman of Rocky Ford, left
town on Monday night for Kansas City.
where he was due to appear before the
hymenial altar with Miss Grace Howell
at high noon on Wednesday. As no
news to the contrary had been received
up to the hour of going to press. the En-
terprise has every reason to believe that
the ceremony went through without a
hitch. and the happy couple are now en-
joying honeymoon trip in the east.
The postmaster's bride was former
teacher in the Rocky Ford schools. and
has host Of friends who will welcome
her return and extend hearty congratula-
tions to the fortunate man who has Sc
cured her as a life companion,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-10
Away a Long Time.

Mrs. Lake Cook Conley and
her pretty daughter of Oceana,
w. Va, and her sister, Mrs.
Womack, of Bandy, were here
one day recently. 1t had been
about twenty years since Mrs.
Conley was in Tazewell. She
was a pupil here in Tazewell
Female Seminary under Prof.
Cephas Shelburne, as Miss Lake
Cook. She is pleasantly remem-
bered by a number of Tazewell
people. While here she visited
the neighborhood of her old
school building, which long ago
was destroyed by fire, and the
building in which she boarded,
now the district parsonage, oc-
cupied by Rev. Mr.. Hurley. She
is living and doing we'll in the
neighborhood where she was
born, in Wyoming county, w.
Va.
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SCIENCE GROWING
AMONG FARMERS
Up-to-Date Methods Fast Being
Adopted By Younger Generation
of Tazcwcll Asricullmists.

A prominent young farmer
and stockman of this community
said, day or two ago, that he
was already convinced that 1--WE
should adopt better and more
scientific methods of farming"
There is a general impression
, amongst us that we are doing
very well about as well as we
can, and it is best "to let well
enough alone" There is no
doubt but that most of our
farmers are doing WE'LL" and
none of them like to be told that
they are not doing the thing in
just the best way. AS a matter
of fact, the farmers and stock
men of the county are doing
their work in about the same
way they have always done it.
There have been great changes in
all other business methods, occu-
pations and professions, but the
farmers of the county. with a
few notable exceptions, are go
ing along in about the same old
way, and seem satisfied. Hand
ed down, along with the land,
from father to son, have come
certain sterotyped systems and
customs which it is hard to
break away from even if it is
desirable to do so.
MDnu ap,rnf inu nf Al, Ct,io
have employed government
expert or Demonstration, whose
business it is to suggest and aid
the farmers who desire his SER
vice in new and better methods
of cultivation of the soil, feeding
stock etc. These men are experts
along these lines, having studied
and practiced for under eminent
instructors, the low and the
why of successful farming. Their
salaries are paid by the govern
ment and partly by the county
in which they operate. And
wherever they have gone their
work has shown most remark
able increaes in acreage pro-
duction and improvement of
soil conditions. Boys corn clubs
have been organized, school
fairs have sprung up, and a
general uplift felt wherever
they have worked. Several coun-
ties in Southwest Virginia have
employed a Demonstration, and
all of these seem gratilied by the
work done. The question resol-
YES itself into this: "shall we
go on in the same way as we
are now going, or try to find a
better and more pofitable way?"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-10
Little River Items

Misses Ada Leffel and Lucy
Elswick were the guests of Miss
Flossie Barns Sunday.
Mrs. Will Davis was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reece johnson,
who has been very i'll.
James Neel r. F. d. carrier
spent Saturday and Sunday with
home folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Lester
and children were the guests at
the home Of John Green Sunday.
The school of Little River is
progressing nicely under the
care of Miss Ada Leffel of Shaw
yer Mill, as on roll, more than
ever known.
John Elswick of this place is
very i'll with la grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Elswick
returned home Friday after a
weeks visit with home folks in
Thomas Valley.
Miss Oracle White continues
very i'll with fever.
C. R. Rose and family were
the guest Of Will Browns Sun
&iay.
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In Serious Trouble.

Mr.. j. II. Brown, of Cedar
Buff, was here yesterday and
called at this office. He has just
returned from Grundy, where
he visited his step-son, young
Phipps, who is confined in jail
there for the shooting of the
man Riston, an account of which
appeared in the papers at the
time of the shooting. Riston
lived eight days. MIR. Brown
says that it was only a question
as to who could shoot first. Ris-
ton had his gun leveled on
Phipps, says Mr.. Brown, when
Phipps shot him. However, the
charge against the young man
is a serious one, and his young
wife and mother, as well as the
wife and mother of the dead
man, deserve sympathy.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-10
DR.. W. E. Baylor
(Communicated)

The county democratic COM
mittee has appointed sub-com-
mittee, | understand, to wait
on DR.. w. e. Baylor, the well
known Cedar Bluff physician, to
ascertain whether or not he
would accept the nomination as
a candidate for the Legislature
from this county and Buchanan.
His decision, if one has been
reached, is not known in this
town at this writing. DIR. Baylor
is well and favorably known in
this county and also in Buchan-
an. He has practiced medicine
here for years and is known not
only as a skillful physician, but
a gentleman of high social stand
ing and unimpeachable charac
ter. He is a strong, sensible,
level-headed man, and should he
decide to allow his name to be
used he would he elected and
make Il representative Of whom
ms constituents would be proud.
Fears are expressed, however.
that DR. Baylor will not accept
q nomination. Unless some step
IS taken Immediately the Dem
, Gratis of the county will have
10 candidate in the field. X.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-10
Col. Murphy a Member.

The editors had great time
in Richmond as the guests of
Col. John Murphy, and surely
no set of men ever had a more
generous or kindly host.
The Evening Journal put one
over on the other papers of Rich
mond, and appointed Col.
Murphy honorary and associate
editor of the Journal. When
rations get Short in the Journal
office the Colonle and his hotel
will come in handy.
1t is no surprise that Bote-
tourt editor won one of the fine
cash prize offered by Colonel
Murphy for the best paper on
How to build up the Common
wealth" /"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-10-10
Made the Attendance Larger

It's the same old story. The
opposition to the sale of liquor
at the StateF air is said to have
increased rather than diminish
ed the attendance and gate re-
ceipts. There can be no better
way to increase the sale of a
book than to denounce it as un-
fit to be read. 1t is a problem
how to deal with certain forms
of crime and wicked customs.
There is a streak in human
nature which acts and moves it
seems by the rule of contrari-
ness. This is no argument for
failing to oppose and fight the
wrong, only a warning to fight
it in the right way. Then the
question bobs up, which is "the
right way?