Real estate list with varied parcels and houses
30 acres with 30 inches water in Catlin canal at $75 per acre. Lot 50 by 140 feet with two-room house at $175. Brick house five rooms pantry and closet corner lot easy payments $1800. 178 acres well improved with full water right at $35 per acre, 34 miles from town. Frame house five rooms pantry and closets corner lot $1250. 80 acres 14 miles from town includes five room house and 56 acres alfalfa at $375 per acre.
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Catlin Canal
Farm Hands Wanted for Work at Enterprise Agency
Men seeking farm labor are invited to visit the Enterprise Freecome Agency to learn about available positions and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise Freecome Agency
Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets Advertised Cure
An advertisement claims Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets and Acker's Blood Elixir cure chronic blood poisoning and scrofulous affections. Describes tonic and purifier benefits with a money back refund. Sold by Hereford and Award.
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Acker
Hereford & Award
Anniversary of the Enterprise marks sixteen years of Rocky Ford paper
The Enterprise chronicles its 16th year since June 1887, recalling Rocky Ford’s birth with the town site sale of 96 000 dollars and the 35 buildings in progress. It notes past editors and shifts in ownership, the rise of industry including a sugar plant, schools, churches, and local growth amid boomtown memory.
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H. V. Alexander
Rocky Ford
Colo
Town Co
G. W. Swink
J. P. Stevenson
St. James Hotel
B. U. Dye
Hendricks Bros
T. F. Godding, Jr
E. T. Steele
Rocky Ford Town & Investment Co
J. E. Frost
Col. A. S. Johnson
E. J. Cartlidge
Otero
Arkansas Valley
Arkansas River
Santa Fe
Hare
Old Bent County
la Junta
James Swift
Lamar
Swift
The
Republican
Enterprise
Thenterprise
Alexander
Mahomet
Barber
Itor Herrick
Herrick
C. S. Linn
Oklahoma
Linn
A. B. Gray
Colorado
Almon J. Gray
Early Enterprise extracts reveal quirky 1887 1891 local notes
Extracts from the Enterprise files recall June 2 1887 with Geo W Swink as a tireless town booster, June 9 1887 with Miss Loudon ranch life observations, Dr Niles health update from Rocky Ford and Kellogg residence notes, 1887 to 1891 items on schools baseball players Ben Reed Hiram Dawley and Chautauqua Circle. later items joke about Alderman Jim Dye and a New Year party.
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Coa Loudon
Miss Loudon
Geo. H. Taylor
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. H. Hilfikers
Cash Store
Rugby Coal
People's Coal and Transfer Co
C. W. Albert
Mer
Steele, Beall & Wolfe
E. W. Kearby, M. D
City Drug Store
Maxwell
Col
Main St. and
Railroad Ave
Rocky Ford, Coo
Fred A. Sabin
Beall
Sabin & Beall
Office For Printing
Acker’s
W. H. Hooker & Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Rockford House
Ford
Ninth Street
Swink Avenue
Washington School
Facl
Liberty
Washington
Union
Prairies
Christian Society
Lower
Pueblo
Kansas City
Elm Avenue
Geo. W. Swink
Sloss
Haviland
Hiram Dawley
Ben Reed
Jim Dye
Bona Hensel
Tom Wilson
Queen Quality Shoes and
Oxfords
Goodman’s
F. H. Hilfiker
Summer Street
Fred G. Thede
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