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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
4
An old advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifying tonic that strengthens the stomach to purify liver and kidneys and boost blood production. It claims cures for liver and kidney troubles, promotes vigor, and cites professional endorsements and free medical books for request via mail to Dr. H V Pierce Buffalo NY.
Swink selects a new town board led by Mayor Dr. W. W. Brown with trustees D. S. Dean J. Dunlap H. A. McCall M. P. Mitchell S. J. Quick and C. A. Rose amid claims the election was illegal and two saloons seek licenses. Chas Reynolds becomes town treasurer and E. J. Gilday town clerk as talks on license fees proceed.
Newdale to hold Epworth League every Friday at the school house. Rev Gibeson and Miss Sarah Masters return from three week Beer Ranch trip north of Olney. Swink Factory dump site surveyed. Thieves stole $14.50 from Thomas Stockholm while away Sunday. Newdale baseball team beat homeseekers 20 to 14. Miss Anna Mickleson and Miss Martha Hensen attended State Epworth League convention in Trinidad. Mrs Lyda Maucher dies at Pueblo hospital and is buried in Olney cemetery. Olney Cemetery association organizes with W C Hanen president and others. deeds planned. Woven wire fence planned around cemetery.
Rumors of irrigation litigation surface as farmers allegedly took more water than fair. Beet growers and sheep raisers dominate this sector with J S Conard’s 800 breeding ewes and Green & Son’s 5,000 sheep requiring forty men for four to six weeks. Lamb crop expected at 85 to 90 percent. Green & Son employ thirty shearers at five cents per sheep. Mexican wool yields about four pounds per sheep. French Merinos about seven. Despite high wool prices, cash receipts are not profitable due to annual care costs around 65 cents per sheep.
The Box Springs Canal and Reserve Co. held their annual meeting in Ordway on June 5 but adjourned to be held at the Box Springs schoolhouse by the officers. Bulletin 114 from Fort Collins outlines insects and insecticides with author C P Gillesette, offering farmers and fruit growers guidance and formulas for control. Copies available from the Director of the Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Bulletin 110 from the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station reports a remarkable test of alfalfa seed vitality. New seed is not always required for good germination, with tests showing 88 to 66 percent germination for seeds aged eleven to sixteen years. Screenings reduced vitality with first quality at 70 to 79 percent, second quality 38 percent, and third quality 40 percent.
Public notice lists available printed matter including a one page folder on Rocky Ford country benefits a compact Santa Fe timetable and local ditch priority table plus street names for Rocky Ford. Provides practical items for travelers and residents at the office free of charge.
Bluffton resident M F Burroughs praises Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as the best for bowel trouble after years of use. He notes its likely need before summer ends and urges purchase from Avard's Pharmacy.
Farmers invited to inspect the French breeder Baron No 45995 owned by Rocky Ford Percheron Horse Association. Stallion will stand this season across from the sugar beet factory. Insurance foal term set at 15 dollars. G W Hallows manager and J L Maxey keeper listed.
The Enterprise Publishing Co. stockholders meeting will be held at the company office in Rocky Ford Colorado on Saturday July 21 2006 at 10 oclock a m for electing directors and other business. Belle G Barkley president D W Barkley secretary.
Numerous advertisements urge cures for stomach and liver troubles with Chamberlain's tablets and Electric Bitters. They promote free samples, emphasize constipation relief, and tout reliability from testimonials. Local real estate notes list ranches for sale near Rocky Ford, while dairy and livestock ads highlight Hereford bulls. Box Springs dam completion promises irrigation gains and regional optimism.
Unknown Friends praise Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel troubles and diarrhoea. Many users, though unnamed, endorse its effectiveness. Avard's Pharmacy sells the remedy for home use.
Willis T. Morgan a retired U S Army sergeant from Rural Route 1 Concord New Hampshire recalls two years in Cuba and two in the Philippines and credits Dr King s New Discovery for consumption with keeping him in perfect health He says it is the best medicine for coughs colds bronchial troubles and all lung diseases and notes a guaranteed price of one dollar with a free trial bottle offered at all druggists.
A notice touts a selection from Home Cookery at the W C T U Rest Room, touting Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as preventing blood poisoning after injuries. Testimonial from Chas Oswald of Rensselaersville, N Y, credits the salve with curing a severe neck sore in Seth Burch. Cures cuts wounds burns and sores. 25c at druggists.
Ordinance No 117 authorizes a bonded indebtedness of 100000 dollars to finance water works for fire and domestic use. The plan calls for sinking large artesian wells and upgrading pumping machinery to provide a safer, adequate supply, replacing the current impure water from surface and artesian wells. The city will levy taxes to pay the bonds.
City adopts bonds to fund water works construction with one hundred bonds of 1000 dollars each. Interest 5 percent, due 1921, redeemable after 1916. Taxes levied annually 1906 1920 to pay interest and principal, bond fund set aside from net water revenues, irrevocable until debt is paid.
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