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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
2
In a high society boarding house, Uncle Phineas and Mr. Struthers invite Eleanor Baldwin to dine in a lavish restaurant. They tour shops and galleries, then return to Struthers’s rooftop laboratory where a battery experiment shocks Eleanor. The trio shares a moonlit exit from the lab.
A young man asks for guidance as a woman confidently climbs from a trapdoor. She remarks on the beauty of the night and recounts being raised in the country, implying familiarity with danger and risk.
Eleanor and Uncle Phineas share a breezy night on Roof Park a quay of chimneys and silver wires. Mr Struthers plays a haunting tune as the city hum fades and the hammock sways while the professor jokes about death. The scene ends with a poised motion toward continuation.
A mothers meeting in a Brooklyn church hears a child, Edith, fear the dark despite a mother’s pledge that God and angels surround her. Edith whispers self aware relief at the angels, then confesses that the old Nick remains more frightening.
A Caribou passerby recalls a snowy sidewalk encounter near the Burleigh hotel on Sweden street last Saturday. A young woman guides him through a two foot deep drift by asking him to embrace and turn like a waltz, concluding with the line Everything is easy in this world if you only know how.
A Dover correspondent reports the visit of an archbishop to a rural East Kent village school. After noting that everyone has a besetting sin the archbishop adds even archbishops. A pupil replies drunkenness. The archbishop’s reaction is not recorded, though Dr Temple is known as a temperance advocate.
Denver market receipts and price quotes show cattle categories from beef steers to cows and stockers with hay and grain prices listed. Also included are wheat rye oats corn and hay prices, with eggs and miscellaneous feeds noted for the period through June and comparisons to the prior year.
In the first Englewood mayoral election, Jacob C. Jones won 156 votes, defeating Thomas Skerritt with 152 and Royal Southworth with 32. The vote signals a shift to a prohibitionist, good government stance and a potential saloon license ban.
President Loubet will arrive in London July 6 and stay three days as King Edward's guest at St James Palace. He departs for Paris July 9. The King of Italy regrets missing a summer visit and plans to come to London with Queen Helen in November.
President Palma of Cuba signed the act increasing the duty on coffee. Other items note De Forrest Wire Flees Telegraph Co plans for Texas coverage and Alfred Shrubb’s two mile record at I ford England on May 30th in 9 minutes 11 seconds.
Columbus Ohio June 5 The Republican state convention nominated a ticket and adjourned praising harmony and endorsing Theodore Roosevelt's presidency while Hanna's year was highlighted. The ticket includes Governor Herrick Lieutenant Governor Harding Auditor Guilbert Treasurer McKinnon Attorney General Ellis Supreme Court Judge Summers School Commissioner Jones and Public Works Director Watkins.
Governor Peabody calls Coloradans to donate aid for Kansas flood victims after receiving a Home State Governor Bailey message. The proclamation urges immediate subscriptions to be sent to Topeka for humane, effective relief. The Denver Retail Grocers' Association plans a carload of provisions for the affected districts.
Denver June 5 Wednesday was Commencement Day at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The orator Rev William O Ryan of Denver spoke on The Love of Study. Degrees were conferred including Master of Arts Maud Elden Milton Lawrence Kephart John Walter Needles Daniel Pomeroy and others in various colleges and degrees.
In Topeka Kansas on June 5 seven more flood victims were found bringing the known dead to 71 with 30 identified. Many are still missing and the Union Pacific depot serves as a makeshift morgue where bodies await identification and further tracing of survivors.
The Russian embassy reports from St. Petersburg that Manchuria evacuation by Russia is steadily advancing with a final withdrawal planned for September under the Manchurian agreement.
Burlington Vermont June 5 reports say at least 1000 men battle Vermont forest fires. Thousands of acres of timber land destroyed with little hope of containment until rain. Hardwick losses include two residences. Worcester mountain near Worcester Elmore sees over 1400 acres burned valued at fifty dollars per acre as flames spread.
The twentieth annual commencement was held at the Presbyterian Church in Fort Collins with Ex-Governor Alva Adams delivering the address. Diplomas were presented by President B. O. Aylesworth to a long list of graduates including Helen Berry Frank N. Bills Wardell Blydenburg Donald L. Carver Albert R. Cliff Charles E. Davis Susan F. Dotson Marie Gill Dwight D. Gross Bernard H. Hensel Robert P. Jackson William A. Lamb Fred N. Langridge John H. Lewis Ray C. Murphy John A. Phillips James D. Norvell Joseph F. Reed Fred Stearley Florence Tharp Irwin W. Veazey Julia Avere Crary Morris E. Flineau Noble D. Lane Mary E. Metcalfe Ada L. Showers Harry C. Strong Howard C. Stubbs Melvina Wagg Nora Zenor Roy E. Zobel and others.
The Denver count of votes for charter convention delegates was halted after City and County Clerk Richele began canvassing, following injunctions from Judge Mullins and Judge Palmer. The orders limit who may tally the ballots, leaving the tally temporarily stopped.
Fires across Long Island scorch several thousand acres between Ami tyville Eastport and areas near Central Islip Brentwood. Adirondack blazes reported. Also news from Valparaiso Chile where 63 drowned after the Arequipa sank in a gale and a new crude photographic $20 counterfeit is spotted in Washington.
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