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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
4
Ouray visitors say if hotel accommodations matched the scenery, it would be the mountain resort of the era. They note the breakfast falls short of expectations and mention two rooms of the new high school addition should be ready when schools reopen after Watermelon Day on Sept. 10. An ad by T H Orentz, famed Cotuwolds breeder, appears in another column.
Aug 22 wedding in La Junta unites Lou Gerbing and Alice Melton with witnesses Newton Melton and Mary Shumate. Relatives and friends from Lamar Green Mountain Falls Glen Park and Delta visiters, plus local business and agricultural figures attend or travel, including F E Howe of American Beet Sugar and state college representative Lathrop M Taylor. The item also notes social visits and mountain excursions in Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek.
A digest of short items from Sharon Springs to Pueblo includes M S Martin returning with two brothers surveying the valley and E R Cook's band trapped in a coach door injuring two fingers. Births, visits, and local movements involve Wilsons, Cox, Clara Webster, McIntosh, Watt Johnson, Rev Walker, Winterbaker, Ames, Fairmont Nebraska, Swift, Dr Sigman, Latham, Elser, Galloway, Mayo Young, Creasy, Leha Goldsworthy, Lois, and C L Piper. The Rocky Ford Melon Growers enjoy paydays, and the edition carries a poem The Hidden Gem by Jas G Carnes and shipping tags notice.
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