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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
3
Train schedule fragment shows multiple train numbers and times with Pueblo Colorado Springs entries. Details are garbled with inconsistent am and pm markers and unclear station designations. The readable items include departures from Denver and Pueblo with several late evening and early morning times.
Local beet growers gathered in Swink to discuss a proposed beet dump. Joelinck outlined factory conditions, Atkinson of Manzanola and Denson of Rocky Ford proposed dumping bed supplies. About 320 acres were subscribed, short of the needed amount, with hopes to meet the target by Saturday. Farmers report a strong second hay crop as alfalfa yields are heavier this season.
Monday meeting presided by President Reifel in Mayor Pollock absence. Pump purchase referred to water committee. sewer survey communications laid on table. hose house moved and lengthened. city horses housed with hose cart for quick fire access. Various officer reports approved. Kendig authorized to set office in pump house. Numerous warrants and salaries listed from electric, groceries, street, and court costs. Public notices advertise teachers’ exams and malaria remedy promotions. Glenwood Springs racing meet set for August with $3,000 purse. Chamberlain’s tablets advised for stomach and liver.
Dodge Hale recently returned from a ten week California stay to oversee the cantaloupe business of H Woods of Chicago. The cantaloupe industry has risen in importance, transforming a desert region into a growing center thanks to abundant artesian water beneath Coachella.
The Rocky Ford cantaloupe industry shows strong profits with pace and transport costs noted. Mr Hale ships fifty cars to California, earning a net two dollars per crate after trucking to Chicago, while the season runs June to July. He comments on packing shed systems and climate contrasts, plus regional farming activity and local announcements from public libraries and merchants.
Rocky Ford Epworth League announces a fall winter lecture course with Ed Amherst Ott on heredity and marriage, the Temple Quartet of Boston, Dr James Hedley on The Sunny Side of Life, and Arthur Packard cartoon lecture. Additional acts to be announced. season tickets priced low to spur sales.
A Drummond Tenn merchant credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy with curing dysentery without a doctor. The ad extols its safety and pleasance and notes it for sale by all druggists. Also promoted are a Colorado railway booklet, and stories of preventive use for cholera and bilious attacks.
Cured Paralysis. w. S. Bailey of Texas reports his wife’s five year paralysis in the arm was cured by Ballard's Snow Liniment. He also used it on old sores frost bites and skin eruptions. Available in 25 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles at Hereford & Award. Fresh cows for sale. Phone 742. CG Tewes 44-tf
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