Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-09-11
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Junta yesterday.
Ralph Smirl spent Wednesday with
relatives in Fowler.
F. J. Gretchen was up from Holly
and spent fair week with the home
folks.
Mrs. Still left the latter part of the
week for South Dakota after pleasant
visit with her son.
Mrs. R. D. Thompson and two child
ren returned Sunday from visit with
relatives in Illinois.
Donald Hale left Tuesday night for
Valparaiso, Ind, where he will attend
the military school.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McKittrick re-
turned Thursday from an extended visit
with relatives in Illinois.
T. E. Coffman left the first of the
week for Parsons, Kan, where he ex
poets to remain permanently.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Wood Peery had as
their guests during fair week Mr.. and
Mrs. Carver of Oklahoma City.
Olin Beatty, of Boulder. came in on
Tuesday and will spend couple of
weeks visiting Rocky Ford friends.
Ralph Smirl and Cary Pollock leave
today for Nashville, Tenn, to resume
their medical studies in Vanderbilt
College.
Mrs. l.. N. Hendricks, accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. George Daring.
Sr.. left for Cripple Creek this week,
to visit Fred.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Galloway of Ed
ina, Mo-, arrived last Friday and will
make an extended visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. o. Arnolsf
Mrs. Dora Allen and daughter Elina
and Mrs. McNeal left on Friday for
Des Moines, Iowa, after month S
visit with Mrs. Ida Turner.
Mrs. Paul A. Won Horn with her two
sons have returned from Bear. Creek
canon, and will spend the winter with
her sister, Mrs. W. C. Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Bowers returned
to their home in Denver on Wednesday,
after visit of several days with their
daughter, Mrs. Ed Sever. and family.
DIR. o. L. Orton, former pastor of the
M. f. church, will occupy the pulpit
next Sunday morning. His subject will
be "Why Should Colorado Go Dry?"
Miss Annie E. Otwell, assistant prin-
cipal of the high school, arrived on
Saturday from a summers vacation
spent with her mother in Carlinville,
Ill.
Ernest and David Whittenburg re-
turned the first of the week from a
years stay in Brawley, Calf. "Sport"
particularly expressed his pleasure to
get back home.
M. II. DeHaven of Philadelphia, del
egate to the National Conference of
Mennonites to be held in Oklahoma
stopped off Tuesday for visit with
his uncle f. Y. Hauck.
Mrs. George Lewis, accompanied by
her SONS Leland and Junior, left We'd
nesday night for Chicago, where she
will visit for a week before placing the
boys in the Lake Geneva Military
Academy.
F. W. Mort, manager for the C. H.
Weaver Co., came in from Chicago on
Monday to look over the cantaloupe
situation from this end, which is first
rate, and everything would be lovely if
the markets would stiffen up.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Gamble left yes
terday for Lamar for a short visit with
friends. Mr.. CANDLES health has been
poor lately and upon the advice of ply
sicians he will take an extended vaca-
tion from j. B. Byars' store, and will
probably spend it upon a camping trip
in Oklahoma.
S. S. Bailey was last week most
pleasantly surprised when his son, A.
G. Bailey and family of Kinsley, Kans.,
came in on them unexpectedly to spend
Fair week. They came by automobile
in their fine Buick car. A. C. Bailey is
one of the prosperous wheat farmers
of Kansas and reports having threshed
$1,000 bushels of wheat this year be-
sides several hundred bushels of other
grain, He has five teams now at work
preparing 1000 acres for wheat and ex-
poets to have 500 acres at least under
irrigation within the next two years.
The young people are going out this
week to the various higher educational
institutions of the state, and there ap-
pears to be larger number of these
advanced students than usual who are