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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
WILL HAVE GAS
Otero das Company Promises that
1t VIII Be Able to Supply Us With
Its Product by August First

j. L. Updike, president of the
Otero Gas Co., was up from La
Junta on Wednesday and took
occasion to furnish The Enterprise
with the good news that all differ
ences between the city council of
Rocky Ford and his company had
been amicably settled aud that he
will appear before the city powers
that-be in regular session this
evening and pray for All extension
Of the gas franchise to Oct. l,
which has been agreed upon, pro-
vided his company would furnish
bond for the faithful perform
ance of their part of the contract,
and this he will come provided
with, so there will be no hitch in
the game this time.
Immediately upon the approval
of their bond the gas company
will "get busy" aud President
Updike stated that they would
be able to furnish their product
to the people of Rocky Ford by
Aug. 1, which will surely be "go-
ing some"
1t is the plan of the gas COM
pany to sink their pipe line to a
depth of three feet, between their
plant at La Junta and this city, 30
that weather conditions will have
no appreciable effect upon the
pressure. At a convenient point
near this city storage tanks will
be erected of sufficient capacity to
supply patrons with gas for 4S
hours, thus providing against any
ordinary accident interfering with
the continuous flow of gas. This
ample storage capacity, with the
consequent higher pressure than
is furnished at La Junta. gives us
a decided advantage over our
neighbor, it is said,
AS readers of The Enterprise
are aware, the Otero Gas Co. is a
strictly Arkansas valley institution
financed by and affording means
of livelihood to Arkansas valley
people, it is therefore deserving of
and surely will receive the gen.
erous airport of our people.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
Sells Some Hogs

That c. F. Burke. the Blue Ribbon
hog man, acted wisely when he moved
from his Star valley ranch to more
convenient location about mile north
east of this city, is demonstrated by
the fact that he has disposed of 1000
worth of pure bred young Durocs with
in the past month.
On Tuesday he sold son of Burke s
Good Enuff to Earl G. Reed, farm
foreman for the Garnesa Orchards Co.
Fruita, who paid visit to the Burke
hog ranch. A few days previous 500
gilt from the Blue Ribbon herd was
sent to the Myron Stratton home at
Colorado Springs, and amongst the re-
cent sales were several head to the
county agriculturist of Luna county,
New Mexico.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18

for hay or pasture that stock will
consume it, as they often reject 1t at
first, especially il it is allowed TO be-
come too coarse, woody and bitter.
The large acreage devoted TO If OF
late years in many states shows that
it has value even on high-priccd lands
for hay and pasture.
As renovator. few plants exceed
il: none for rapid action, for it gets
to work quicker and more easily than
anything than vctch, which often fails
for lack OF inoculation.
Should it be deemed best to inocu-
late patches of sweet clover are so
common along the roadside that there
is no trouble in getting soil for that
purpose.
Sweet clover is SO vigorous plant
that even in one year great improve
ment may be made in lands deficient
in nitrogen and humus. Where it is
to be down but one year ii can be
pastured and allowed the following
year to make good growth before it
is turned down for corn or potatoes.
On depleted lands an immense say
ing OF time and money can be made
by the use OF sweet clover and when
one has to establish oneself with in
sufficient capital. such plants are oil
the greatest assistance.
What is needed is pioneer crop
that can make the soil active and
fruitful. not three or four years hence,
but, before interest and payments ac-
cumulate, cause big returns for a
small outlay.
Especially where there is rather
more land than one has capital to
handle can the sweet clover be set
to work, and it will grow and seed
and grow again. Such stock as is on
hand can be turned in it and patch
kept down with the mower.
Later on. land that has been in
sweet clover will produce any crop,
and it is in the best shape, being
thoroIy inoculated for alfalfa.
Where land varies in grade and
there are alkali holes. mixed seeding
OF alfalfa and sweet clover will each
find their place, the clover filling the
most alkalied places, the alfalfa the
others.
For mixed seeding, alfalfa OF the
Grimm and Baltic sorts should be
used, as they spread, and as the sweet
clover dies out they will fill its place.
1t is my experience that stock cat
sweet clover well when mixed and
cured with alfalfa, and, except when
the clover has become too coarse
little of il is neglected. and less and
less as stock become used TO it. even
when scattered out on the fields foi
winter feeding.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL
Closed nOst Successful Convention
in Pueblo Last Evening

Returning delegates from the big
state convention of the Colorado Sum-
day Schools. which came to close in
Pueblo last evening, report this to have
been one of the most successful and in
spirational conventions that has ever
been held in Colorado.
On the three days program were
William A. Brown, international specia-
list; E. 7. Albertson, general secretary
Colorado Sunday School association;
Prof. L. d. Eichhorn, leader of music;
Rev. John McNeill. Central Presby-
terian church, Denver; Rev. Chas. L..
Mead, d. D., Trinity Methodist church,
Denver; DIR. II. Franklin Rail, Evan
ston, ILL.,; five state denominational
specialists; prominent speakers of
Pueblo and other parts of the state.
Amongst those in attendance from
Rocky Ford were DR.. S. B. Warner, o.
G. Dukate, Mesdames KEEPER and
Ringer
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
SPLENDID AID ON NEW LAND
Ranchers With Small Capital Will Find That Sweet Clover
Makes Soil Yield Crops and Causes Immense
Saving Of Time

There is not enough live stock to
go around, SO the farmer can only
gradually take the advice to keep
stock however well meant the advice
10 do SO. Until we grow up our
stocks OF animals we must resort TO
green manuring and work over our
straw for return TO the land with the
few animals we have. unless we are
prepared to winter feed high-priced
stock. Green manuring is far more
successful west than east, for the
mineral content of the soil is yet sui
ficient. and the condition so alkaline
that the acidity OF green manures
is neutralized. The almost invariablc
experience that artificial manurcs
bring about no good results is due
10 the fact that artificial fertilizers
are OF mineral origin. They aften
work wonders in strong organic soils
where there is mineral deficiency.
Western soils are usually deficient in
both organic and nitrogen, the leg
umcs plowed under furnish both, and
even their growth furnishes enough
nitrogen.
The easiest grown plant for waste
lands is sweet clover. Indeed, as we
all know. it insinuates itself where
it is not wanted, but that is nothing
against it, especially on land too al
kalied, for alfalfa, where it will al
most always grow and flourish.
Sweet clover is SO widely distrib-
utced and so much is contained in al
falfa seed that we must cope with it
as a weed when it is out of place.
1t is not question of introducing
a new plant that may be detrimental
to the neighborhood except in few
favored secluded sections.
Sweet clover is biennial and it is
a better land reclaimer than alfalfa,
in that the roots rot in the ground af-
ter its two-year period is passed, and
that after the new growth comes from
the plant reseeding itself. One OF the
faults OF sweet clover is that il ripenS
its seeds gradually and with seed
from the low branches where the top
is clipped SO that we may expect to
have some young plants to eradicate
with plow and cultivator after it has
fertilized the land, whereas with al
falia ii is only the plants themselves
that start vigorous new life il the
soil is moist enough after blowing.
II is very hard to convince those who
have never seen sweet clover used
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
EAGLE WILL SCREAM
Fourth of July Celebration VIII Be-
gin Saturday Night-cheraw
Band Here Monday, July S

AS there are many of our peo-
pie still imbued with the idea
that the celebration of Indepen-
dence Day cannot be appropriate
ly carried thru without the burn
ing of powder, plans were this
week perfected to please every
body, SO the celebration of the
Glorious Fourth will begin at the
Rocky Ford fair grounds on the
evening of Saturday, July 3, with
fine display of fireworks gener-
ously provided by our business
men, to which everyone is cordi-
ally invited.
At a well attended and en-
thusiastic meeting of the Union
Sunday School Picnic association
on Monday evening further ar
rangements were made for our big
safe and sane celebration on Mon
day, July 5, chief amongst which
was the engagement of the Cheraw
Military band. This musical or
ganization is composed of forty
pieces and tho in training less
than six months is reported to
have made such remarkable prog
ress that the Second Colorado In
fantry proudly boasts of its regi-
mental band.
In addition to the band the par
ade and atheletic committees dis
cussed several novel and pleasing
features, which will be made
known next week when the entire
program will be printed.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
ONE WEEK
FROM TODAY
Our Big Summer Chautauqua
Will Begin
GREATEST ARRAY
OF ENTERTAINERS
Seven Days and Nights of High Glass
Amusement and Instruction
Opens June rs

By automobile banners, bill
board advertising, window cards,
personal letters and profuse news
paper notices, etc, our chautauqua
publicity committee believe that it
has performed its duties and that
thruout this section of the Arkan-
sas valley only those who are deaf.
dumb and blind have not heard or
read about the seven big days of
entertainment that begin at the
Fair grounds in Rocky Ford on
the afternoon of Friday, June %
one week from today.
The chautauqua this year ls
offering more fun, more that is
light and ammusing than in pre-
vious years, for it is realized that
this is the year when people should
forget their trouble and remember
their blessings. The European
troubles have cast pail of un-
certainty and depression over the
country that can best be counter
acted by wholesome entertainment,
and SO The people will be given
opportunity at our chautaqua to
enjoy the blessin gs of peace and
prosperity.
1t must not be understood from
this that the lectures and solid
material have been neglected. By
no means is this the case for in
our chautsuqua this year the big
thing that will stand out is in
spiration. That is why, for 1915,
we will dispense with technical
discussions, with political haran-
CUES. Politics are tabooed. The
intellectual growth of the people
of the Middle West has been mar
velous and they are well prepared
to receive the splendid entertain
ment and musical offering that
this program will afford.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
FIRE FIEND
Plays Havoc with voegtIe Harness
Shop and Golden Rule Store

The worst fire with which our depart
ment has had to contend for some time
took place shortly after II o'clock on
Wednesday night. The scene of the
fire fiend's latest effort was app arently
set in the Voegtle harness shop on
Railroad avenue, but when the firemen
finally forced their way thru the suffo-
eating smoke what little fire there was
was found to be in the partition wall
between the harness shop and Herr
Golden Rule store, and holes had to
be cut in the roof before the blaze
could be reached and extinguished.
While the damage appeared slight to
a casual glance it will likely mount up
pretty heavy as investigation showed a
half-dozen sets of harness and in fact
almost every piece of leather in the
harness shop were charred by the heat
In the mercantile establishment it will
also take an expert to find the damage,
and as the smoke penetrated thruout
the entire bank block it will take an
insurance adjuster to approximate the
damage, which is fully covered by in
surance y
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
Blue Ridge Meeting

At tina annual meeting OF the Blue
Ridge Reservoir. Ditch and Land Co. last
Wednesday the following officers were
elected:
Presdent-M. E. Riley.
Vice President-M. W. Hall. OF Rocky
Ford.
Secretary-Edward Lee.
Treasure-W. s. Castledine.
The above, with !. L. Smirl. form the
board Of directors.
There is about twelve feet of water in
the Blue Ridge reservoir, and perhaps
two-thirds OF those owning holding under
the ditch are putting in crops this spring.
Fowler Tribune.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
Two ARkAN-
'' ''';S;i;; SAS RIVERS
According to Santa Fe Rail-
way investigations
BOTH AVAILABLE FOR
IRRIGATION PURPOSES
Farming Area of Arkansas Valley
Can Be Increased rs Percent by
Use OF Wells and Pumps

Use OF Wells and Pumps
That the irrigated farming area
of the Arkansas valley can be in
creased 25 per cent by the use of
wells and pumps is the conclusion
drawn by w. o. Skinner, division
freight agent. of the A. L. & S. F.
railway after an exhaustive inves-
tigation into the matter.
"Our Investigations have shown"
said Mr.. Skinner "that there are
two Arkansas rivers, one on the
surface and one underground.
The surface river is being fully
utilized but the splendid supply
of water from the underground
river flows embarrassed to the sea-.
Electricity is declared by Mr..
Skinner to be the best power to
use in pumping. 1t is easily ap-
piled, costs less and is more relia-
BILE. But the pumping irrigation
scheme is not in any sense depen-
dent on the availability of electric
ity as gasolene pumps work success
fully wherever tried.
One feature of the pumping
plants where the water is taken
from the wells is especially men,
toned by Mr.. Skinner. 1t is the
manner in which the suction pipe
is made. Tie suction valve is so
constructed that it will admit the
water but exclude the sand and
gravel that otherwise would clog
the pump at frequent intervals.
All farmers who try pumps are
urged to see that the style of
pump they purchase is equipped
with such a valve as it is very i'm
portant to avoid the sucking up of
sand and gravel along with the
water.
A well at Fowler less than 60 feet
deep taps the underfow of the Ar
kansas and furnishes ample water
for l60 acres of land that is too
high to irrigate by gravity. The
pump is operated by electricity
and the cost of irrigating is only
% cents per acre per year.
One well inspected had an eigh-
teen-inch casing, 200 feet below
the surface of the ground and was
producing sufficient water to irri-
gate 320 acres of land for general
crops such as wheat, oats, alfalfa
aud beets. This plant cost in con-
struction and fully equipped for
pumping $4,000 and after con-
struction cost of operating 60 cents
per acre per year. Another plant
with four wells connected to water
160 acres cost $500 and the cost
of operation after construction per
acre per year is 55c. Both of these
properties are in Western Kansas.
There are many farms in the
Arkansas valley, east of Pueblo,
that could be made productive of
good crops each year by putting
down one of these pumping wells
and in that way supply the water
necessary for watering the land
during dry part of each year at a
very small cost or in fact for less
than the cost of irrigating farm
under some of the old line bitches
not now in use in the valley. Many
of these pumping plants are being
put in operation in the valley be-
tween Pueblo and Dodge City
and are proving success.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18
SOME CROOKS
Plead Guilty and Receive Sentences
in District Court

Amongst the criminals who were this
week arraigned before Judge Essex in
district court at La Junta, the peo-
pie of Rocky Ford were especially
interested in the following:
A. H. Kirk pleaded guilty to the
larceny of clothing from the room of
/. L. jacobson, manager of the Rocky
Ford Cooperative creamery, and was
sentenced to 60 days in the county jail.
E. B. Warner, the young fellow who
posed as Banks, the champion checker
player, pleaded guilty of forgery and
drew an indeterminate term in the
state reformatory.
Donarina Lujan, the hombre captur-
ed last week, pleaded guilty of uttering
a fictitious check and will spend from
eighteen months to three years in the
penitentiary.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18

You yourself will never forget the
great men in the political world or the
literary geniuses whom you saw when
you were boy. Somehow you re-
member the face, the gesture, the ex-
preston.
As soon as you see a person he be-
comes real to you. You seem to under
stand him better. This is the fund
amental principle that Sidney Landon
demonstrates in his program of i'm
presentations. He makes folks remem-
ber and understand some of the charac-
teristics of the literary men whom he
presents in a way that is novel, inter
esting and fascinating.
After you see Henry Wordsworth
Longfelow on the platform; hear his
soft musical voice, and read the kindly
expression in his eye you can better
understand and appreciate why it is
that his poems are read by more per-
sons in America than any other poems
unless indeed, it be those of the He
brew poet, David.
After Mr.. Landon presents the French
author, philosopher and statesman, Vic
tor Hugo; and after you see him stan
ing, and with one foot in the grave;
and after you hear the speech that he
made on his eightieth birthday, you can
readily understand why Mr.. :Landon
refers to him as the great egotist.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-18

Crowley
dollar
10 nbenRgo when pad,o r
9 Z. Rexal Store.
10 o'clock
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
HALF HOLIDAY At
DAV|DSON'S NOW ON

To give the scores of clerks and
other employees an opportunity to get
out in the country and get a lot of
fresh air, as we'll as amuse and rest
themselves in other ways, the depart
ment store of the Davidson Company
closed it's doors at o'clock this after
noon, and every body connected with
the establishment is taking a half
holiday.
The Friday half holidays will con-
tinue throughout the summer.
The big delivery trucks of the store
were turned over to the employees,
and when the closing hour came to
day, these were backed up to the door
and loaded with the girls and young
women, who motored to the bathing
beach. This afternoon they are plung,
ing and splashing about in the river
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18
THREE HATT|ESBURG
MEN GET LICENSES
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH GIVES
THEM PERMISSION TO PRAC-
TICE MEDICINE.

Licenses to practice medicine in
Mississippi today are in the hands of
three other Hattiesburg young men
who successfully met the require
ments OF the Mississippi State Board
of Health, made during the last three
or four days. They are: T. T. Batson,
David Rodgers and A. Mex. Powe.
The examination was an unusually
rigid one OF the go persons apply
ing, so, however, received licenses,
and succeeded in securing grades OF
70 per cent or more.
The names of the successful ap-
plicants are as follows:
Isaac n Turner, of Okolona; o. O.
Austin, of Holmesville, E. C. O.Crin,
of Kosciusko, r. S. Pearce, of Par
ker; 2. L. Weatherford, of Memphis
Tenn; F. L. Hicks, of Starkville;
David Rodgers, of Hattiesburg; ]. 3
Swofford, of Pikeville; c. B. Mitchell
of Pontotoc; G. B. Dowland, of Vicks
| burg: J. d. Simmons, of Pontotoc; T
L. Lubers. of Carrollton; j. w. Dug
ger, of Amory; ]. A. Reynolds of Myr
! Continued on page seven.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

Mrs. w. S. F. Tatum: "If |. had
girls of my own, | might think differ
emily, but as mine as all boys, well,
you can just guess what think about
it. But l think it is cruel. | don't
think l could make any difference"
Mrs. John a. Mcleod: q think the
girl is equal to the boy, every time.
| have four boys and one girl, but she
is every bit as valuable as any of her
brothers."
Mrs. J. S. Conner: 81 think it's
foolish. How can anybody say a
boys life is worth more than girls?
Nobody's life is as great as mo-
ther's, and the possibilities of girls
! life are every bit as great as the boys.
They are just the same in my mind. y
Juliet Featherstun: "The boy is
worth more because God made man
| first and woman as an afterthought,
but the boy is not worth twice as
much, for that afterthought is mighty
nice,"
Mrs. I. H. c. Cook: "Why, its
heathenish. l don't know but what
the girl is worth more than the boy
Ianyhow"
| Mrs. A. ]. Grove: "The boys life
lis not worth nearly as much as ;
girls. A woman amounts to lots mor'
in the world than a man."
Miss Lessie Reed: 'sWby, certainl
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

Details the "model school, to
be establis ed in some county in Mis-
sissippi, II name of which not yet
has been designated by the general
educational board, were received to-
day by the Rev. E. J. Currie, superin-
tendent of education of Forrest coun-
ty, from State Superintendent w. II.
Smith.
Following the receipt of the detail
ed plans, Mr.. Currie got busy at once
comforting with other educational Oh
ficials of the county, and with the
business and commercial men of Hat
tiesburg, who are in charge OF the
movement to induce the board to es
tabIish the school in Forrest county.
In his letter to Mr. Currie, MT
Smith said:
''In view of the widespread interest
manifested in the recent announce
ATT of the scheme to promote Il
Model county organization for indus
trial. social and educational develop
ment and in answer to many inquir-
les coming to this office relative to
the matter, l am furnishing you and
the public with this brief statement to
explain the proposition as far as the
details have been worked out. The
General Education board has made an
appropriation as heretofore announc-
ed, to assist the county selected in
financing the organization in harmony
with plans outlined in my letter to
DR.. Wallance Butterick, executive sec
Continued on Page Seven.)
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-06-18

London, June 1S-At a hitherto un-
heard sacrifice of men and munitions.
and through literal streams of blood
and over mounds of dead and dying,
the Austro-German armies, victorious
in the Galician district of the Euro
pean war zone, trudged their way
through the enemy lines.
This description is given today in
the review of the recent Galician
fighting, issued in a report by the
Russian war office.
In two days of fighting near Stry.
the report says. the Teutonic allies
lost items of thousands of men" One
section SO miles long, between May 2S
and June Is, is reported to have lost
between 10000 and 10000 men.
Reports from Berlin and Vienna.
however, say that the Russians are be-
ing steadily pushed back The latest
Austrian official communication says
that the Russians nowhere were able
to resist effectively.
1.-THE heaviest fighting of several
weeks is in progress on the western
front today, as a result of new attacks
by the French and British. Each side
is sustaining severe losses. While
reports from Paris and Berlin differ,
it seems assured that the French are
making gains in the districts north Of
Arras.
Negotiations between the Balkan
States and the Allies again are under
way. Berlin hears from Sofia that
Bulgaria demands territorial cOnces-
sions from Rumania, Greece, and Ser
bia if she enters the war.
Continued On Page Eight)