City Council Debates Utilities and Trees in Rocky Ford
Aldermen discuss electric franchise prospects with Mr. Atchison of Denver Gas & Electric, consider exclusive terms and city purchase option. Firehouse space for driver debated. dispute over pruning shade trees with Telephone Co. and damage to a resident’s line of trees. Water and ditch issues tied to reservoir runoff prompt legal questions. Cemetery billing policy tightened. auditor Malnix dismissed. street crossings and city scales considered, meeting adjourns near midnight.
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Ald
Hickox
Amos
Reifel
McPherson
Ringer
Soo
Atchison
Rocky Ford
Denver Gas & Electric Co
Ald. Amos
Ser
Crosier
Karpe
J. W. Love
the Telephone Co
East Maple Avenue
The
Telephone Co
Beall
Ald Hickox
Electric Light Co
Kendig
City
Catlin
Bence
Imade
Mirage
Ald. Hickox
H. F E. Malnix
Malnix
Editor Spends Evening with Denver Methodists
The M E A Union of Denver Methodists held a quarterly meeting at the Savoy with Gov. Buchtel as guest of honor. Over three hundred attendees heard a keynote from the governor on Methodism in Colorado and his planned policy as he leaves office. The 324 banquet guests sang Bless Be the Tie That Binds as the event closed.
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M. Eal Union
Denver
E. J. Wilcox
Wilcox
Gov. Buchtel
Savoy
Mrs. Wilcox
Mr. Wilcox
Mrs. Buchtel
Colorado
Passion Play Talk Draws Large Presbyterian Audience
Rev H B Hummel of Trinidad lectured on The Passion Play of Oberammergau for the Presbyterian Ladies Aid Course last Tuesday. The speaker stood tall and delivered a vivid, well chosen discourse that avoided heavy sermonizing while sharing firsthand impressions of Oberammergau. Exchange remark followed, adding local color to the evening.
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H. B. Hummel
Trinidad
Presbyterian
Oberammergau
Australian evangelist Miss Millar begins mission at church
Miss E. Stafford Millar, an Australian evangelist, started her mission at the Methodist Church last Monday evening. The well filled auditorium has welcomed the ambassador from beyond the seas, who speaks with force and conviction to inspire good. Meetings continue each evening except Saturday with a warm welcome for all.
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E. Stafford Millar
Methodist Church
Miss Millar
Ramona tale from Ramona’s California visit through a teacher
Eva Thomas, a city teacher on leave, writes from San Jacinto California about meeting Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona figures and the real people behind the novel. She recalls Aunt Jordan and the Ramona baby coffin scene, notes Ramona’s life in the San Jacinto mountains, and mentions plans to visit Saboba Indian village and the local Indian school.
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Rocky
Ford
California
Eva Thomas
Our City
Miss Thomas
Helen Hunt Jackson
San Jacinto
Mrs. Jackson
Jordan
H. H
Alessandro
Ramona
San Jacinto Mountains
Mexico
Saboba
Thomas
Kodak
Representative Ebbert Backs Local Option In Bill 59
Denver letters to the editor show Representative Ebbert urging support for House Bill 59 and its local option approach on saloon questions. He favors community referenda and notes amendments may occur before final vote. The Yeomen announce a box social at K. P. Hall on February 12.
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Denver
Colo
Enterprise
K. P. Hall
Anti-Saloon Lessons On A Saloon Scene And A Manning Block
In La Junta on Tuesday anti-saloon views contrasted a poorly dressed crowd with a well dressed saloon keeper. On a Santa Fe train a half drunk man disrupted passengers while uttering a boast of past status and future renewal. Bids for Manning block on South Main and Mapleave were opened. Cheek Brothers won a contract for a large red brick two story building with two ground floor shopfronts and a 22-room upper rooming house. steam heat and baths planned. upper story already rented.
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la Junta
Rena
Manning
South Main
Mapleave
Cheek Brothers
Dry Farming Conven tion At Denver Draws Local Interest
Luther Melton attended the Denver Dry Farming Convention not as a delegate and without a speech. He would have warned others against wild promises in arid farming after eleven years as a dry farmer in western Kansas and success near Rocky Ford. Rocky Ford residents bought tickets to the Denver show, with about 250 attendees, including many ladies, praising range steer farming and dry farming prospects.
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Luther Melton
Denver
Mr. Melton
Kansas
Rocky Ford
Las Animas
South Main Street
Professor DeMotte Lecture Promises Insightful Guidance
Reader letters praise Professor DeMotte for an Epworth League lecture titled Python Eggs and the American Boy set for February 4. The writer endorses his method, citing a two hour spellbinding account with visuals on building character and preventing youth crime, urging attendance.
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The
Enterprise
DeMotte
Epworth League
Prof
Griffiths Richard Ill. at Rocky Ford a strong Shakespearian night
John Griffith as Richard III in a Rocky Ford presentation earns praise for a forceful interpretation though some critics note an overlong portrayal. Elizabeth, Buckingham, and Catesby receive strong support while the Queen and Buckingham give notable performances in this Stratfordian classical revival.
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Shakespeare
Richard
John Grifrand
Collier
Griffith
Anne
Elizabeth
Buckingham
Catesby
Charles Sutton
Henry VI
Earl of Richmond
Rocky Ford
Obituary notices for multiple individuals in Holbrook area
A sequence of obituaries lists deaths from January at Holbrook and nearby areas. Included are Jessie Adcock’s infant daughter, Frank L Byers’s three year old son, James Griffin of Swink, Ester Pearl Henrad, a daughter of A. Henrad, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Francis, Nellie Smart wife of James E. Smart, Gertrude Underwood wife of P. E. D. Underwood, and other relatives. Funeral services were conducted at homes or churches by Reverends Green Nevinger Davenport and others, with interments at Valley View and at local cemeteries.
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Jessie Adcock
Holbrook
Hollenback
Frank L
Byers
Payne
James Payne
Swink
Bright
Green
Nellie
James E. Smart
S. 11Th
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Denver Methodists
Millar
Ebbert
B. Ebbert
Kornelia Kinks
ZEW
the Kimzey Grocery Co
Prof. DeMotte
Bertha Dukes
J. E. Dukes
Grippe
Davison
Victor
Baptist Church
William Dukes
Dukes
Leo
Lincoln School
Orr
J. R. Bateman
Illinois
Braden
Harry
Carol
Washington
Rockies
Pennsylvania
John Griffith
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