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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
4
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for dyspepsia and nervousness caused by poor digestion. It touts non alcoholic, safe native roots, promises postal booklets, and cites claimed cures for weak stomach, indigestion, biliousness, and liver issues with sugar coated pills sold for decades.
Correspondence from Green Mountain Falls describes pleasant mountain weather with sunlit mornings, showers, and cool nights by the camp. Families and guests from La Junta and Colorado Springs visit, with plans for trips to Peak and Woodland Park and a fishing party to Cascade Canon. A report on adventures will appear next week.
The Missouri Pacific widens the road bed with a full crew on site since Tuesday. Dr. S. E. Conrad visits family from Higinsville for a short stay. Five applicants seek the new rural route post. Republicans name Roosevelt Swink Barr Adsmond as likely candidates. Sheep herds hold wool while lambs go to Pueblo butchers. A Russian beet ranch dispute ends with flight to avoid peace bond. Local social notes include relatives returning home and a station reunion among neighbors.
The Epworth League of Rocky Ford holds services the first Sunday of each month at the Grand Valley schoolhouse at 3 p.m. On Friday, August 10 farmers will host a basket picnic in Egbert's grove inviting all farmers and families to attend and meet neighbors.
W E Brown visited from Holbrook and reported a sugar beet sale for Swink factory from W B Moore and D W Smith. Beets weighed 4 to 44% pounds and promises large tonnage. fish from Shelton Lake noted. W S Stevens and L B Wintermute plan marriage. Stevens to stay in La Junta and Rocky Ford area. Ramsay Dry Goods announces Final Clean-up sale of summer goods.
Obituary records Peter Gracey Klinefelter born October 2 182 in Cottage Grove Wisconsin died at 53 9 15 and notes his migration to Iowa and Colorado before settling in Rocky Ford in 1901. It mentions his family, church ties and character. Also recorded is the death of Ethel Elizabeth Jones born February 20 1886 in Parnnee Illinois died July 28 in Rocky Ford after long illness and active church work with Epworth League.
We express heartfelt thanks to friends for sympathy and kindness during the illness and death of our husband and father Augusta S. Klinefelter Lynn Charles Klinefelter and Lee Miller Klinefelter.
Undertaker Sprinker reports two deaths, the infant son of Mr and Mrs Dudley Roe aged 4 days interment Tuesday morning and Marie daughter of Mr and Mrs Geo W Little aged 15 months with services held at home near Garden Place Tuesday afternoon Rev Hollenback officiating. The family expresses gratitude for friends kindness during illness and death and a memorial verse laments Maries brief life and heavenly rest.
An 1908 Rocky Ford page notes Oneita Lodge establishment and local notices including teachers exams at La Junta Court House, new Santa Fe rates, housing and job ads, medical remedies, and local business promotions. It cites Carrie E. Money as Supt and mentions Electric Bitters endorsements.
John N. Pleasant of Magnolia Indiana writes of relief from biliousness and constipation using Dr King’s New Life Pills. The advertisement guarantees satisfaction or money back and notes the price of 25 cents at all druggists.
The Enterprise office offers free printed matter for callers including a one page summary of Rocky Ford country advantages a table of ditch priorities Rocky Ford streets list and a condensed Santa Fe timetable for trains at Rocky Ford La Junta Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver Very useful.
At the July 1908 meeting the Board disallowed some claims and allowed many payments including sheriff and court costs, juror fees, road funds, poor relief, and contingent expenses. Rebates of taxes for 1905 were granted to multiple claimants for reasons of disability excessive valuation double assessment and irrigation limits. The certified record confirms contracts and payments totaling numerous entries and ends with the clerk’s attestation.
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