Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-07
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| Mrs. H. w. Potter of La Junta was
city shopper on Saturday.
Miss Melba Taylor of La Junta visit
ed her parents on Sunday.
Misses Luetta Rice and Vena Coug-
hren were La Junta visitors on Satur-
day.
Mrs. Farmer of Colorado Springs is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Shock this
week.
Clyde Sweat this week accepted
position with the Jones candy Company
of Pueblo.
| Mrs. Webber and two children of
Pueblo are guests this week of Mrs.
Fannie Gerbing.
Miss Mary Harsin was the guest of
Miss Ella Prior of Las Animas on Sat
urday and Sunday.
Robert Steele returned to Colorado
College on Monday, after spending his
spring vacation with his parents.
Miss Grace Bowman went to Denver
on Thursday to attend the week of
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Mrs. Woodey and two children of
Glenwood Springs arrived on Monday
to visit Mrs. C. a. Gill and daughters.
Miss Vada Kellogg left on Sunday
for Pueblo, where she will enter the
Minnequa hospital and take course in
nursing.
In the Colorado Springs Telegraph of
Tuesday we see that T. J. Farris has
purchased home in that city also
roomy shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Humiston were
over from Ordway and spent Sunday
with their aunts, Mesdames F. Y.
Hauck and r. A. Potter.
Miss Rachel Allen of Trinidad re-
turned to her home on Sunday after
spending several days visiting with the
KEEPER family in this city.
Fire Chief Virgins is wearing his
head bandaged this week as the result
of being kicked above the eye by one
of the fire horses on Monday,
Dodge Hale returned on Wednesday
from Chicago where he had spent a
week with his daughter, Gladys, who is
a Senior at Monticello Seminary.
Grad Brazel left on Wednesday for
Pueblo to assume his new duties as
travelling auditor of the Arkansas Valley
Railway Light and Power Company.
George Teats and party motored to
Tribune, Kans., on Saturday, where
Mr. Teats put in his bid for the erec-
tion of grade school and high school
building in that town.
| Misses Bertha KEEPER, Maude Cressy,
returned to Trinidad on Sunday after a
week S visit with relatives. Miss Keip-
er had as her guest last week Miss
Rachel Allen of Trinidad.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Peterson, Mrs.
Strong and Mrs. Lyman DeGrcff motor
ed to Pueblo and spent Saturday and
Sunday with their daughters who are at
tending business college there.
Lafayette friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Len Mitchell will be pleased to learn
that the latter is able to be about
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expects to enjoy her new farm home,
which is now about ready for occupancy.
Lee Cover and John Rawlins of Monte
Vista left on Friday after spending a
week at the Cover home. The boys
stayed with friends in Pueblo until
Monday when they resumed their stud
les in Colorado College.
After a pleasant honeymoon trip by
steamer down the Mississippi river and
short visit with friends in Alabama
B. W. Bell and his new made bride
formerly Miss Ruth Cramer as The
Enterprise told last week-returned to
Rocky Ford on Monday and are receiv-
ing the hearty congratulations of their
many Rocky Ford friends.
Rocky Ford friends of j. Arthur
Phelps-former principal of the Liber-
ty school, now an attorney in Pueblo
and his charming wife, will be pleased
to hear of the April fool joke played
upon them by that tabled bird, the
stork. 1t was a boy, and he'll bear the
name of Thomas Franklin Phelps, ac-
cording to the card received by The
Enterprise.
Leroy B. Elser our courteous and
capable assistant postmaster for the
past ten years, on Tuesday bade his
old friends and associates farewell and
departed for his future home in Mime
apolis. AS The Enterprise reported
several weeks ago, when Roy's resig-
nation was first made public, he some