Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-10-02


DIR. Elizabeth Van Antwerp returned
Wednesday, from ten days stay in
Chicago.
Mrs. Land went up to Fowler on Fri
day and is the guest of the r. &.
Wiley family.
Mrs. w. F. Green left Tuesday night
for Fort Collins where she will spend
month with her sisters
DR.. S. B. Warner and DIR. E. N.
Stout returned Saturday from visit
to Denver and Pueblo.
Bert Hopper purchased the bees ad-
vertised in last weeks Enterprise by
d. C. Roberts of Ordway.
Rev. B. S. Knapp of Las Animas
will preach at the Baptist church next
Sunday morning and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carol Braden and Mrs.
Emily Randall returned Tuesday from
a weeks visit in Kansas City.
A. E. Coleman is the proud possessor
Of a 1915 Oldsmobile which he drove
down from Denver last Sunday.
w. Ken Robertson is spending the
week in Pueblo, attending the Loss
and Damage" meeting of the Santa
Fe.
Jesse Russell arrived on Saturday
from Salt Lake City and is visitor at
the home of his aunt, Mrs. Ford
Steward.
Louis Seeman, one of the proprietors
of the Progressive ranch in Holbrook,
returned Friday from an extended
eastern trip.
Miss Nellie Caldwell. formerly of
this city but now of Leonard, Mo-, ar
rived in the city yesterday and is the
guest of Miss Eva Goblin.
Cecil Tanning, Fl. b. Turpin and
Mrs. E. Gard Edwardc of La Junta
were the house guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. C. Steele on Tuesday and Wednes-
| day.
DIR. S. B. Warner yesterday received
telegram announcing the death of
Rev. j. T. Knuckey, former pastor
of the NJ. E. Church in this city. The
funeral will be held this friday after
noon at Lamar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Evans of Bloom
field, Iowa, who have been visiting
with DR.. Fenton's, Mrs. Rochlitz and
A. Shelton families, went up to Den
yer last Saturday but will make re-
turn visit on their way back.
While out hunting ducks at Holbrook
lake last Friday, Lewis Clayfield and
his son had a narrow escape from
drowning by the capsizing of their
boat. They lost their guns but man
aged to get ashore without any further
damage.
Some light fingered gentry are
abroad among the country homes the
past week. S. S. Bailey lost his entire
crop of grapes in one night and some
| fifty jars of canned fruit was stolen
from the home of ]. II. Crowley on
Saturday night.
The Y. w. C. A. entertained at the
Methodist church last Tuesday even
ing in honor of the new girls of the
high school. Thirty new members
joined the association and this was a
"get acquainted meeting. Dainty re-
| freshments were served.
Rev. H. H. Savage, who has had
charge of the preaching services in the
Baptist church for the past two Sum-
days and who has been the guest of his
brother, DIR. Savage, left this week on
visit to Denver before returning to
his pastorate in Wisconsin.
Prof. Wilson, principal of the Liber-
ty school, is an inmate of the Pollock
hospital, suffering from serious skin
disease. At this writing we are pleas
ed to report that the professor is doing
splendidly and will be moved to his
home on Saturday, if some new com
plications do not set in.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. johnson of Ord
way were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. R. Monkman last Friday. Mr..
Johnson has had good rest since dis
posing of the Ordway New Era, and
is now looking for new location out'
side of the newspaper business and
may possibly decide to come to Rocky
Ford.
A quiet wedding was solemnized on
Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs.
Anna Mertz, on North Tenth street,
when her daughter, Lucy f. and John
Mattox of Alton, Iowa, were united in
marriage, DR.. S. B. Warner Of the
] First NJ. f. church officiating.