The Ordway new era., 1921-07-22

he has one sister living at Jobns
town, Ohio. at 'ohhs-
MT. ROBERTS was almost 73 ycar,
VI age ana had lived here for 30
years soon after his MARRIAGE AZ
YEARS ago IN August he came west
iof MIS-. Roberts health and located
III DehVer whero he entered public
School work. He was first sunorin-
.ehueiit OF the Broadway school. then
tne EBERT school and later the Aron-
ahoe school of Denver. His health
failed and he believed it necessarv r.,
leave school work and he decided ro
take up farming. He came to tbis
locality IN 1891 and has since re-.
sided here.
MT. hoberts was the last surviving
member of three men who came To
inns vicinity before there was a town
mere. These men were G. N Ord
way, Col, Moore and Mr.. Roberts
me townsite was laid out and named
ordway. The men each selected and
bought tract of land. Mr.. Ordwnv
TOOK farm on the brow of the hill
east OF town and Mr.. Moore one to
the west. while Mr.. Roberts selected
u section of land just North of town.
4 portion OF which has since been the
hoberts' home for the past 80 years.
When lie came here there was no
town, not even a station on the pras-
eht site, The Missouri Pacific rail
way company had stations along
us line and among them were Lolita,
Meredith, Numa, Olney Springs and
fulthey,. Olney is the only one of
the four that has survived. Mere
attn, the station midway between
what is now Ordway and Sugar
CITY, was discontinued and the sta
ton building moved here. That was
quite awhile after Mr.. Roberts. Mr..
Ordway and Col. Moore located.
Thus Mr.. Roberts saw this section of
the country grow in population, in
improvements and in prosperity. He
saw the district, with the bringing
in of irrigation water. turn from
dry, treeless. semi-desert state to one
OF plant life and with an ever in
creasing population. To the devel-
opment of the country he added his
iabora and perseverance, and for
many years his ranch has been
prosperous one of orchards, gardens
and grain. In the death of Mr.. Rob
erts the community has lost friend
e'u h'iSibC Nho Has uSit Lar more
than people coming in of recent years
realize. Those who came in an
early day know of his service and ap-
preciate what he has done.
Those who have known Mr.. Rob-
erts only during the past few years
did not know the man. They do not
knew of his work in upbuilding
community and his influence in max
ing the community better one edu-
catinnhiy, socially and morally. To
know him fully was to know him in
his ycunger days when he was active
In all affairs that tended to make the
community just what it should be.
For the past several years he had
been sick man, man who must
guard his every move to protect his
PHYSICAL condition in order to pro-
long his life. and this he did to the
extent that he lived more than the
allotted three score ten. During these
years when health was failing he
could not enter into the social, re-
ligious and political affairs, but his
work before that was well done. The
Roberts home was the first of any
size to be built here and it was there
that great many of the religious
services were held and a great many
social gatherings OF young people
of the vicinity took place. and thru
the efforts of Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts
many of the forward steps of pioneer