Local News Items and Church Notices in Las Animas
Rain benefits valley agriculture and business. state flag day proposed for June 18. City council passes ordinances. Roosevelt presidential prospects noted. Land board urged to continue conservative land sales to aid settlement and tax value. Ordway Fourth of July plans and Hoosier Indiana reunion announced. Church services listed across Christian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and German Baptist Brethren, with musical guests and youth programs. Posts on local events include Ohio Valley items, town enhancements, and notes on sugar beet and local industry.
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Methodist Church
Epworth League
Christ
A. B. Else
Homer Collins
Duluth
M. E
Man
St. Matthew’s Council Episcopal
G. E. Studebaker
G. Nevinger
J. C. Funderburgh
J. M. Elliott
Emma Fisher
Lafayette School House
A. E. Welch
Baptist Parsonage
Knuckey
E. J. Wilcox
Denver
United States
Rocky Ford Free Delivery Office Opens Advertises New Time Card
Rocky Ford becomes a free delivery office causing citizens to secure street numbers for letters. Carriers Wiest and Edwards begin 9:00 am to 11:50 am rounds and 1:40 pm to 4:50 pm rounds with Sunday windows 10:30 to 11:30. State board of equalization finishes Tuesday, railroad taxes slightly lower but revenue similar to 1902. telephone and telegraph taxes rise 50 percent from 1901. Protests by railroads claim assessments excessive. county assessors aim to minimize realty returns to reduce state revenue. Davenport and Meyer raise funds for Russian Jewish relief. Kansas editors’ Rocky Ford visit postponed due to flood disasters. new time card appears in issue.
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Rocky Ford
Geo. F. Wiest
Geo. W. Edwards
State Board of Equalization
State Board
Lightning Kills Man Beside Cottonwood Tree
Yesterday afternoon a party sheltering from rain under a cottonwood near the old rocky ford saw John Ivinson fatally struck by lightning and carried to Dawleys undertaking parlors awaiting instructions from relatives. A second man, S. H. Kingery, was severely burned after a garden lightning strike, with his clothing on fire and his condition listed as serious as Dr. Pollock doubts recovery.
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Rocky Ford
John Ivinson
Kingery
Pollock
Newdale Lawn Social at James Home Near Rocky Ford
A lawn social will be held at Mr. James's home three miles southeast of Rocky Ford on Tuesday evening, June 2. A short program will precede ice cream and cake, with proceeds aiding the Newdale church. Local notes mention J. O. Bartholomew's Las Animas visit, Miss Sylvia's return from Las Animas, and Mrs. Will Dillman's visit there.
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James
Rocky Ford
Newdale Church
J. O. Bartholomew
Las Animas
Sylvia
Will Dillman
A. Orban
F. D. Voorhies
Santa Fe Excursion Rates and Racing Meeting Notes
Santa Fe excursion rates list lowest regular fare six dollars eighty cents to Denver for Overland Racing Association meeting with sale dates June nineteen twenty six and June thirty final limit five days from sale. J G Curran agent advertises Chamberlains remedy claims it saves children. Also camera for sale and He rb ine liver bowel remedy promotion with local druggists.
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Santa Fe
Denver Cole
Local Advertisements and Sales Notes
A collage of small ads and notices from Rocky Ford listings including farm animals for sale and rentings, employment, ice cream service, beef markets, bees supplies, lumber, and butcher ads. Also travel notices for east bound excursions and Sunday train fares from Rocky Ford to Pueblo and Colorado Springs, with dates and agent Curran listed.
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Rocky Ford
Santa Fe
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
F. G. Curran
Agt
Oklahoma settler’s near-death tale ends with cure
In 1889 Oklahoma land rush days a Montanan editor endured violent heat and frequent diarrhea. A neighbor brought Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. after a large dose he slept and recovered within an hour. The piece promotes the medicine, plus local ads for a mandolin, White's Vermifuge, and Herbine.ವು
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Sentinel
Gobo
Mont
Oklahoma
Fortune
Chamberlain
Ballard's Snow Liniment touted as remedy
A local ad proclaims Ballard's Snow Liniment a splendid remedy for neuralgic pains rheumatism lumbago and sciatic pains claiming it reaches nerves and bones through the blood. D F Moore of Illinois Central Milan Tennessee testifies it helps his family and says they could not do without it. Available 25 50 and 1 00 at Hereford Avard's.
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Ballard
D. F. Moore
Illinois Central Railway
Milan
Tenn
Hereford & Avard’s
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H. J. Woodbury
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