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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
GOOD ROADS DAY
At Famous Congress in Fort Collins
First Week in January Should
Interest People of the State


Whether you are a farmer or
not, there will be one day on which
you will feel entirely at home at
the Farmers Congress to be in
session January 3 to 8 at the
Agricultural College at Fort Col
lins. and that will be Colorado
Good Roads Day."
You may not be farmer. You
may not be a merchant, doctor,
lawyer, or just plain private citi-
zen. At any rate you are certain
ly public-spirited and interested
in the general advancement and
community welfare of our glorious
Centennial state. Which being
the case, you must be vitality IT,
terssted in good roads, and, there
fore would feel completely at home
at the congress on the day
mentioned.
The program for "Good Roads
Day" has been crammed with
good subjects to be delivered by
the best of speakers. 1t will be
be as follows:
Organization for Rural Batterment,'
by H. W. Foght. Specialist in Rural
School Practice. US. Dep. OF Agricul-
ture.
"The Colorado Good Roads Program
Denver.
Excursion over the college campus.
State Built Highways" Warden Thos.
]. lyman, of the state penitentiary.
Need of Laboratory for Testing Road
Materials" Former Governor E. M.
Ammons.
At 1880 a dinner will be given the
delegates by the Fort Collins CONNER
cial Club.
A number of fine horses which have
been produced at the government horse
breeding station at the college will be
placed on sale at l 80.
At $3.50 there will De conferences Of
read supervisors and this is expected to
be one of the most important features
of the day because large number OF
these guardians of the public highways
from all over the state are expected.
At the same hour an address will be
delivered before the delegates by speak
er selected by the Colorado Good Roads
Association and the Denver Chamber of
Commerce.
At 1850 there will be business sess-
ion Of the Farmers Congress.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
COW HORSES SCARCE
To Create Interest in Breed National
Stock Show Offers Prize


Stock Show Offers Prize
With the decline of the range cattle
business there has been gradual dis
appearance of the Cow horse" There
was time when every ranch had a cor
raj full of horses that had been educated
in the handling of cattle. The complaint
is now made that it is extremely diff
cult to secure enough good COW horses
to handle the cattle business.
In view of this condition the Colorado
state board of stock inspection commits
sioners is putting up a special stake of
$500 to be offe, ed at the coming Nation
al Stock Snow at Denver. on COW horses
bred and raised in Colorado. There
will probably De large number Of entrl
es in this class, and it will be one of the
features of the horse show. for these
horses will be judged not only for their
conformation and soundness, but for
their education in the handling OF cattle.
1t is hoped that this class will create
more interest IN the development Of good
cow horses for use in the West.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
Boys Congress at La Junta

An colder Boys" conference under
the auspices of the Young Mems Christ
ian Association will be held in La Junta
two days about the third week of
January.
The conference will be under the
direction of Dana l.. Grover, of Denver.
state secretary of the Boys Work
department. A number of prominent
speakers will appear on the program
Of the conference.
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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
MIDWEEK BASEBALL
Arranged for at Annual Meeting of
the Arkansas Valley League
New Officers Elected

The annual meeting of the Ar
kansas Valley Baseball League
was held in La Junta last Sunday
at the Office of the secretary. W. b.
Winchell. Representatives from
Rocky Ford, Fort Lyon, Las Ami
mas and LA Junta were present,
together with crowd of interested
fans from the four towns.
The league for 1916 will there
fore consist of Rocky Ford, La
Junta, Las Animas and Fort Lyon.
This four town combination will
materially cut down the travelling
aud hotel expenses of all the
teams as the longest jump, Rocky
Ford to Fort Lyon, can be made
by automobile, without the neces-
sity of even taking a meal away
from home. The rivalry that
exists between the Fort and Las
Animas is as strong, and if posi-
BILE little stronger, than that
which exists between Rocky Ford
and La Junta, according to the
La Junta Tribune, so the fans the
coming summer should witness
some hair rasing contests, as all
four teams will be fighting for first
place from the very stsrt.
The number of games for 1916
will be double over those of the
two preceding years. forty four
or forty eight game schedule being
contemplated with games on Sun
day, holidays and Thursdays, thus
giving all lovers of the sport the
opportunity of Witnessing real
league contests in accordance with
their beliefs.
The schedule will he SO arranged
that there will be game at each
ens. of the CIRCUIT every Sunday,
every Thursday and every holi.
day-that is, a home game every
other Sunday and Thursday.
A few changes will be made in
the rules governing the league,
chief among which will be limiting
each club to twelve men instead of
the fifteen permitted formerly.
A committee, with one member
from each town, was appointed to
draft n new constitution, rs the
old rules were lacking in many
details. The committee was in
structed to give special care TO the
item covering conduct on the field,
and to incorporate stringent rules
that would do away with rowdy-
ism. Another committee was
appointed to draw up the 1916
schedule, the opening game to
start, he first week III May.
o fficers elected for the year are
AS follows: President. 5. A. Matt
hews. Rocky Ford; vice president,
J. L. Updike, La Junta; secretary,
W. b. Winchell, La Junta; treas
urer, II. G. Draper, La Junta.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
SEED BUSINESS
RECEIVES BOOST
At Meeting of Otero County
Agricultural Club
CANTALOUPE PROBLEM
NEXT IMPORTANT TOPIC
Will Come Up for Discussion at Asso-
citation Meeting the Second
Saturday in January


citation Meeting the Second
Saturday in January
The largest attendance of men,
bers in two years was present at
the meeting Of the Otero County
Agricultural association last Sat
urday afternoon, and tho it start
ed off with crouch before its
close it became one of the most
enthusiastic gatherings that has
recently been held.
President West was in the
chair aud stated that the subject
of the meeting was 'The Vine
Seed Industry, and called for
full and free discussion of this
important topic.
AT the outset nothing but COM
plants were to be heard, which
were directed against n certain
scotsman of this city who it WAS
claimed was running the cucum-
ber seed business by contracting
to supply Wholesale dealers at
less price than the growers had
been receiving.
To protect the industry some of
the speakers urged that the seed
growers should form a combine
and sell direct to the wholesalers
at a set price. The discussion
developed that the dealers letter
that was occasioning so much
trouble did not mention the seeds
man by name and when its con-
tents had been simmered down
it was found to be just another of
those unprincipled efforts OF an
INSCRIPTIONS dealer to secure a
cut rate price.
d. V. BurreIl, the veteran seeds
man, was given hearing and in
most gentlemanly way gave the
growers to understand that they
would be the gamers if they gave
their attention to the preparation
Of their ground and production of
their seed crops. He aroused the
enthusiasm of the growers by re-
lating instances of where even the
meek and lowly onion had brot
profit of $50 an acre when intelli-
gently raised for seed.
He stated that this section of
the Arkansas Valley was the best
in the world for the raising of
vine seeds, ard emphasis was
given his remarks by "A statement
from w. w. Tracy, the govern
ment seed expert, who reported
thnt al eastern seed firm dealing
in beans and peas exclusively,
after exhaustive and country wide
tests, had demonstrated that the
Rocky Ford grown seed was SO
superior to all others IN germina-
ting qualities, that they were
ready to contract for 2O00 acres of
beans to be grown next season
under their direction.
Another important meeting of
the association will be held the
second Saturday in January, when
the cantaloupe problem will be
the topic for discussion. Some of
the growers have been studying
the question of governmental in
spection and control of shipments
under the Pure Food act, and it
will be well worth while to atteI d
this meeting and learn what can
be done to protect the cantaloupe
industry.
Ia La,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
TRlSTATE REUNION

The annual reunion of the
Kansas, Pennsylvania aud Ne
braska people will again be
held at Rocky Ford. in X. p.
hall, on Jan. 1st, New Years
day.
The different committees
have fully arranged for the
best reunion ever held.
A splendid program with good
orchestra and vocal music, with
mady entertaining talks, will
fill the entire afternoon.
Don't forget the place, date
and baskets.
Tell all your friends to come
early end enjoy the music while
waiting for dinner.
L. G. Glenn
o. J. Baxter
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
ROGUES IN TOLLS
Brace of Burglars, Foreers and En-
bezzIers Gathered In

Night Marshal Kennedy returned
from Denver last Friday morning with
Albert Curtis who was arrested IN
Longmont at the request of Rocky
Ford officers and who is charged with
embezzlement.
Up to month ago Curtis was en-
ployed at the Grand Valley garage and
short time ago he secured $50 on a
note from one of the banks, giving his
months salary as security and the
next day cashed a check at one of the
drug stores for $50 and then drew his
pay and skipped out.
Curtis was given preliminary hear
ing before Justice Boney on Monday
and on the evidence above outlined was
bound over to the district court.
Carl Gibson, young fellow who
claims Denver as his home, appeared
before Judge Boney last Friday upon
the charge of robbery.
He pleaded not guilty, but evidence
was submitted that he had recently
been a hanger-on at the FL Captain
hotel and tho he claimed to have no
money when arrested and searched S35
was found on his person which was the
amount missing from the cash register.
Upon this evidence he was bound over
to the district court.
Raymond Moore and Floyd Mcdowell
of this city were arrested last Friday
when they attempted to pass check
with the forged signature of j. b..
Hunt at the Central Market. The
boys were given preliminary hearing
before Justice Chritton and were bound
ov er to the district court.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
COTTONTAILS
MADE SCARCE
By the Senior.Faculty Hunt
Last Saturday
ILLUSTRATED OPERA TALK
PROVES INTERESTING
Senior Boys and Junior Girls Are
Champions in Class Basketball
Pueblo Wins Practice Game

Champions in Class Basketball
Pueblo Wins Practice Came
That the wary rabbit has sys-
tenn of wireless communication all
his own was demonstrated by the
result of the senior-faculty hunt
last Saturday. Tho the teachers
upon their recent "hikes" have
seen myriads of cottontails, when
they went looking for them with
a rifle they proved very elusive
and so their score was but 26
points. The seniors were more
fortunate, making total OF 52
points. After the hunt those who
took part enjoyed fine "feed'
which was furnished by the facul-
ty.
An Opera Talk
Students of the high school
were greatly entertained on Tues
day afternoon with an ILLUSTRATED
Opera Talk" given by members of
the Rocky Ford Music Club.
Following was the program:
The History and Legend of Faust
The Composer Gounod
The Story of the Opera
Mr.. Elser
Musical Illustrations
Tho KarmeSSa Chorus
Cavatina, Dear Gift of My Sister"
Aria, Even the Bravest Heart
Mr.. Clark
Waltz (arranged for piano. ------
Mrs. Steele
Flower Song ---------- Mrs. Kellogg
Ballad, "a Ring of Thule" - Chorus
Jewel Song Miss Sheldon
The following Music Club members
took part in the program: Mesdames
Steele, Greene, Stout and Kellogg;
Misses Sheldon, Lacy and Kelsey;
Messrs. Stout, Clark, Pollock and
Elser.
All About Basketball
Our basketball boys showed up
well in the practice game with
the Centennial team at Pueblo
last Friday. This was the first
game played on strange floor
and the score was 16 to q in
favor of Pueblo.
In the doubleheader game be-
tween the Freshmen and Supho-
mores-both boys and girls teams
last Friday evening, the Fresh
men were victorious in each in
stance.
This gave the Freshmen teams
the privilege of playing for the
class championship of Tuesday
evening, when two snappy games
were played, resulting as follows:
Senior boys 10, Freshmen boys 8;
Junior girls -, Freshmen girls 8.
A game is being arranged for
next Friday, Dec. 81, between the
Senior boys and Alumni. This
game promises to be as interest
ing as any league game that we
may expect to see.
Parent Teachers Meeting
J. L. Lawson presided over the
Parent-Teachers meeting held at
the high school Dec. q.
The piano number by Hazel
Daring and the reading from
Mark Twain given by Hazel ker-
ney were greatly enjoyed.
Three excellent papers were
given during the evening.
"Relation of Diet to Mental
Activity" by DIR. Elizabeth Van
Antwerp and discussed in a very
fine paper by Miss Ethel Weaver
led to an enthusiastic general dis
cussion of this practical topic.
4 DIR. Lawson's paper on "Medi-
cal Inspection of School Children"
met with the approval of every
body present and was very favor
ably discussed.
Those who failed to be present
missed one of the best meetings
Sif"S far ss%e as,a: seA.., Note.
The following visitors have been
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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1915-09-23
SHORT PARAGRAPHS
ON PROHIBITION

Saloons are u good thing to have
because they have such "a purifying
effect upon politics.
A town with lots of saloons makes
1t much safer for women and children
at night.
Just think how proud "A mother
would be if she knew her boy would
grow up 10 be a saloon keeper or bar
tender.
Saloons are "a good thing because
whiskey's finished product, "a drunk
ard, makes such a good husband and
father.
Drink brings hate, not love; crime,
not honor; death, not life. 1t curses
the world. Every good mans hand
and noble woman's heart is against
IT. 1t robs manhood Of its strength:
old age of its peace. 1t leaves death
and despair behind and gloats oven
the wrecks it has made. 1t muddles
up the brain and paralizes your nerves
What does Whisky do for the bust
ness man? Mr.. Business Man drink
lots Of il and you will have no bust
ness.
What does whisky do for the labor
ing man? Mr.. Laboring Man drink
lots Of it and you have no labor to do.
Booze is against you, first, last and
all the time; II makes you think bug
house and act "jackass". Looking
for a better future, the efficiency Of
the sober worker beats that of the
soused sixteen TO one.
There is nothing out Of hell that
will put you on the bum quicker than
booze. Booze playes the devil with
your family, for e"~gy pint Of booze
you drink your wife pays with bitter
tears. Booze steals the red rose from
her cheeks, while your nose blooms
Ike an American beauty, and your
children have a fair show. They
become the shame of the street, in
stead Of the sunshine Of the home. A
dollar spent for wet goods can't be
spent for dry goods.
q. W. LoGGINs.
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propagated by the man who does not
want prohibition. If true, how comes
it, as now develops in the correspon-
dence uncovered in the case of the
State of Texas VS.. The Brewery Trust
now in court in Austin, that during the
prohibition campaign in Texas in 1911,
Adolphus Busch urged liberal contri-
buttons Of money to defeat prohibi-
ton and declared his readiness to give
100000. IL is notorious that the
liquor interests spend money freely
TO defeat "A thing which they allege
increases consumption of liquor. or at
least, V decreases it.
The liquor men try to support their
opposition on a moral basis. saying
that they propose prohibition because,
as they allege, it increases the evils
flowing from use of liquor. The brew
erer is the Pharisee and the bootleg
ger is the Publican. II is a case Of the
pot calling the kettle black; of i'm
morality preaching morality. The man
who cannot see the wolf 10 Sleeps
clothing is blind.
Prohibition don't prohibit" is APP
plicable only when limited to the
well known fact that prohibitary laws
in general do not completely prohibit.
Every prohibitary law of society Is
violated. Theft, murder, and a multi
tude of crimes and offenses are prev
alent. but we do not for that reason
condemn prohibitions Of them. We
know the prohibitions are necessary
and beneficial, and we sustain them.
Observant persons know that in "a
wet town the percentage of the popu-
lation entering the accessible and In
viting doors of the saloons is vastly
greater than the percentage finding
blind pigs in dark alleys in dry towns.
They know that bookkeeping is not
confined to the latter. People in Tu-
cumcari know that. Saloons, as a
class. are born outlaws. They sell to
minors without scruples. On week
days they are licensed dram shops.
on Sunday they are blind pigs. In
common with the saloons Of the nation,
the back doors of the saloons of Tu-
cumcari are open on Sunday. The
paradox that Prohibition don't pro-
hibit" is equaled by another-Regu-
lation don't regulate.
Prohibition puts the community on
the right side Of the moral phase Of
the liquor problem. 1t strips the cloak
of responsibility from the liquor bust
ness and brands it for what it is-a
pest and "A parasite on society. II
teaches u boys and girls that the
liquor traffic is wrong and must be
suppressed. There is a generation Of
children in Kansas u~ntainted by al
cohol from which blessings will flow
to endless generations.
In fine, prohibition makes drinking
unpopular and difficult, and decreases
the amount of il.
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houses, and in twenty eight counties
of the state there has not been a Grim
inal prosecution in a year. 1t is the
happiest and ~cleanest state in the
union"
Kansas has wrought against greater
odds than has any other state, yet now
has the largest per capita of wealth,
almost $4,000 for every man, woman
and child within its borders. There
are 205 millions Of surplus wealth
piled in the banks and savings insti-
buttons. And one of her wheat crops
exceeded in value twice over all the
gold and silver mined in the United
States and Alaska in an entire year
enough to feed every family in the
United States for ut least twelve
months. Governor Capper closes
with this statement: kansas now
is a good place in which to live largely
because thirty years ago we dared to
make the open saloon an outlaw, be-
cause we were not afraid TO attack a
curse as ancient as human history.
am immensely proud of the fact that
Kansas has more than half a million
boys and girls who never saw an open
saloon"
HARRIET n. DONOHOO.
Press Reporter, Woman's Prohibition
League.
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Serial No. 0I6530 Cont. No. $3.50
NOTICE OF CONTEST
Department of the Interior, u. s. Land
Office, Tucumcari, New Mexico

department. OF Lne INTERIOR, ". -. Land
Office, Tucumcari, New Mexico
Sept. 8, 1915
To Charles M. Wharton of Tucumcari
N. NJ, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that L. w.
Smith, who gives Tucumcari, n. NJ,
as his postoffice address, did on Sept.
9Th, 1915, file in this office his duly
corroborated application TO contest
and secure the cancellation of your
Homestead Entry Serial No. O16530,
made Nov. II, 1918, for SWA NWH
and SWA Sec 10, and ny NWA Sec
"a and NEA NEh Section 20, Twp
ON, ring 30E, n. NJ. p. Meridian, and
rs grounds for his contest he alleges
that said entryman has never estab-
lisfad his residence upon the land,
has neither cultivated nor improved
the said entry but has wholly aban-
doned the same for more than six
months next prior to the filing of this
aifiadavit of contest and said abandon
ment still exist and has not been
cured.
You are therefore, further notified
N"o NhS ooio niiDBabhOuo Will De Jhhen
as confessed, and your said entry will
be Cancelled without further right to
be heard, either before this Office or on
appeal, II you fail to file in this Once
within twenty days after the FOURTH
publication Of this notice, rs shown
below, your answer, under oath, spe-
.cifcally responding to these allega-
tons of contest, together with due
proof that you have served q copy Of
your answer on the said contestant
either in person or by registered mail.
You should state in your answer
the name Of the postofice to which
you desire future notices TO be sent
TO you.
Felipe Sanchez y Baca, Receiver
LIST pub. Sept. 8, 1915
End pub. Sept. 10, 1916
3rd pub. Sept. 23, 1915
9TH pub. Sept. 30, 1915
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Our neighbor state, Kansas. is the
best argument there is for prohibition.
Al a banquet given in Salt Lake City
to Governor Capper of Kansas, on his
recent western trip, every Kansas
speaker boosted for prohibition. What
the Governor said then, and repeated
at the Kansas Day exercises at the
Panama Pacific Exposition, should be
read carefully and pondered thought
fully: "ln Kansas there are more
boys and girls in the public schools
and less men and women in jail than in
any state in the union in proportion
TO population, II is the state wherein
the lowest percentage Of illiteracy ex-
lists and where there are fewer paupers
and fewer millionaires. II Is the state
which was first TO wipe out the abomi-
able saloon and its representatives
were the first TO introduce a bill for
nationwide prohibition. | want 10
say to you now that in ten years there
will not be a saloon in the United
States. We have lightweight empty
city and county jails, forty-seven
empty county poor houses and aims.
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RECEIVERS SALE OF THE
EVANS OPERA HOUsR

am now prepared to receive bids
on the following described property:
Lot A In Evans Realty Co.'S sub
division Of Lots n, 20, 20 and "A In
block 4, o. T. Tueumeari, tos.tb.
er with all improvements thereon
opera house building and all furnitur,
and fixtures therein; including moving
picture machine and equipment
Lots Is, G, d and z Evans Realty
Co.; Subdivision Of lots 2l, 22, "a.
and "a in block 4, o. r. Tueumcari:
"a n interest In the M OF the NEH
Sec 10 and the 81 Of SEA, Sec. 10,
Twp lin, ring 30, East, N. N. p NJ.
located In Quay county, N. N.
J. W. MeCarty, Receiver.
First State Bank, Tueumeari, N. N.