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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
1
Notice of proposals for furnishing county supplies including books printing orthographing materials and all stationery needed for Moers and county offices bid details deadlines and endorsee conditions set by the County Clerk D Gatnwouldl with dates December 1 and December 25 1906.
Rocky Ford laments the loss of A. M. Jackson a leading coal grain and transfer businessman who died 24 hours after a heavy truck accident while moving a house and was deeply mourned at a large funeral. He co ran the Jackson Lawson Co with J E Lawson and had strong ties to the community. He was born in Canandaigua New York and was 55 years old. The loss was marked by closing businesses and a large public procession.
A double funeral for Mrs J W Leocing and Miss Alice Crouch was held at the M E church after tuberculosis claimed both within two days. Fourteen G U E Ss S club members in white escorted Miss Capuch’s body from home to church and then to Riverview cemetery. Obituary notes Charles L Ling enfelter died December seventh at twenty five. typhoid claimed his life after illness of weeks. He leaves parents three brothers and two sisters. his funeral was at the residence Sunday with church quartet music.
O B Stauffer recalls arriving in the Arkansas Valley in 1879 and settling near Rocky Ford twelve years ago. He describes a transformation from a treeless, waterless wasteland to a thriving farming region with high crop yields and rising land values from 2 to 500 dollars an acre. Markets are strong and climate favorable. He states he has no land to sell.
In Otero County fourteen miles east of Rocky Ford on the Arkansas Valley railroad a new town Cheraw is rising amid favorable conditions. A special five‑coach train will depart Rocky Ford on December 20 for an auction of town lots with Santa Fe special rates from Pueblo Holly and Trinidad. Cheraw, named by Wiley of the Holly and Swink factories, means clear water.
Report on Paul Kennedy and Tribune editors touring Holbrook country details Shelton on A W Sheltons ranch above the Holbrook ditch. Rail lines Holly Swink and Arkansas Valley pass through the town with land tracts of three to twenty acres nearby. The soil suits sugar beets and cantaloupes, shipping facilities are strong. A Shelton pump house uses gravity fed water from Holbrook canal with a 4500 gallon per minute pump, distributing via gravity ditch methods. The system promises widespread cultivation of hundreds of acres above the ditches and supports new town expansion.
M A Gallager of Denver, membership secretary for the Colorado State Commercial Association, visited Rocky Ford last week. He works to advertise Colorado and recruit members, aiming to bring state attractions to farmers and encourage immigration. Business leaders are urged to welcome him and join the association when he returns.
The regular teacher examination will be held at the courthouse in La Junta on Thursday and Friday December 20 and 21, opening at 9 o'clock in the morning.
The People of Colorado require Dwight D. Burrows to appear in Otero County County Court La Junta within thirty days if served in Colorado or fifty days if served outside the state to answer a complaint seeking a divorce on grounds of desertion and non support. If absent, plaintiff seeks court relief. First published Dec 14 1906. Last publication Jan 4 1907.
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