Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-25
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Ordway on Tuesday.
l. d. Hale and family spent Monday
with friends in Pueblo.
DR.. Maier and H. A. Dawley were
La Junta visitors on Tuesday.
Mrs. Hattie Randall returned SUM-
day from months visit in Denver.
Mrs. A. S. johnson and daughter
Christine were shopping in Pueblo on
Monday.
DR.. A. H. Beaver of Trinidad is
spending Christmas with his family in
this city.
Miss Marie Lacy arrived home Sum
day after two months vacation spent
in the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Adams are re-
joicing over the arrival of fine young
son on Friday last.
Ray Gibbons left Thursday for
Granada where he has accepted posi-
tion on the A. B. S. farm.
Mrs. Frank Garity returned home on
Monday from visit of several months
with her mother in St. Louis.
Mrs. G. P. Tillson and son Ralph
went up to Pueblo on Wednesday, to
spend the Christmas holidays with rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Pearce of Dem
yer, are spending the holidays with
Mrs. Pearce's parents, Judge and Mrs.
H. M. Minor.
Miss Maude Monkman is down from
the Colorado Woman's College in Dem
yer, to spend the Christmas holidays at
her home in this city.
Mrs. John Cause is the possessor of
fine Christmas present which came
Tuesday from T. j. Hill in the form of
beautiful Mehlin piano.
Miss Nettie Caldwell stopped off on
her way from California and will visit
relatives and friends for several weeks
before going to her home in Missouri.
Representative o. w. West left
Monday morning for his second week
with the legislative committee who are
inspecting the public institutions of the
state.
There is rejoicing in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. C. M. Ustick over the early
receipt of a Christmas package-a fine
baby girl--that came to bless their
home on Saturday.
Chester johnson was in from Cheraw
on Monday and Tuesday, to transact
some business and provide the neces-
sary articles for the coming visit of
Santa Claus to the kids in the johnson
home.
From Colorado College in Colorado
Springs the Rocky Ford contingent
consisting of Robert Steele and Lee
Cover arrived last Friday to spend the
happy Yuletide season with the home
folks.
Frank Crotts, Dean Lawrence. Earl
Minor, Misses Marie Chambers and
Helen Slane are home from the Uni
versity of Colorado at Boulder, to
spend the ChEistmas vacation with rel
atives and friends.
Alter all iiilesS VI Dut d lew nours
the four-months-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Coon died on Monday. Fun
eral services were conducted from the
stricken home in Garden Place on Tues
day by Rev. Dugan.
Misses Gladys Hale and Christine
johnson, students at the Monticello
Female Seminary in Godfrey, ILL.,,
reached home last Friday to spend the
Christmastide with their parents and
friends in Rocky Ford.
Miss Ella Cline has a fine display of
oil and water color paintings in her
show window. These are her own
work and are drawing admiring COM
ments from everyone. But few people |
were aware that we had SO accomplish
ed an artist in Rocky Ford.
Ralph Swink, Leslie Wiegand, Misses
Gertrude Anderson, Mary Barthoio-
NEW, Hazel Hunt, and Beulah Win
burn compose the Rocky Ford students
at the Colorado Agricultural College
who are home from Fort Collins to
spend the holidays.
At the recent election in La Junta of
officers of Palestine Commandery No.
%, Knights Templar, Harry B. Men
denhall of this city was chosen as
generalisimo, which is next to the high
est office within the gift of the COM
mandery.
Leland and Junior Lewis were the
first Rocky Ford students home for the
vacation, coming from the Military
Academy at Highland Park, ILL.,, more
than week ago. The two boys made