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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
1
A compact page item listing a Santa Fe time table, a 4 in leaves wanted ad for a competent girl, and local notices. Also promotional testimonials for Herbine tonic and Ballard's Snow Liniment, plus a calves for sale inquiry from O. B. Stauffer. Includes farming notes and a fence post sale inquiry.
An editor seeking fortune in 1889 Oklahoma suffered severe diarrhea from heat and water exposure. A neighbor gave Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, dosed twice, and within an hour he slept soundly and soon recovered. The ad notes the remedy available at druggists and mentions a mandolin for sale at Enterprise.
The Manzanola Sun analyzes canal decrees east of Pueblo, estimating 4000 cubic feet per second needed to meet all ditches if supply comes from Arkansas headwaters. It describes three classes of water service perpetual, middle, and flood ditches, and explains how flood seasons, seepage, and side streams affect priority for the Catlin High Line Fort Lyons and others with data on pre 1884 and 1885 86 decrees and district 67.
At Tuesday evening meeting the school directors opened three bids for screening 94 Liberty and Washington windows. G C Hawkey bid 145.00 and won. Holbaum Christon and Schuyler Lawton bid 184.50. Prof J E Bryant of Scottsville Ky Seminary elected principal of Liberty high school.
A letter from An Anxious Farms urges drastic sanitary reforms in Rocky Ford Arkansas Valley. It proposes halving shade trees, grading streets to avoid standing water, closing vaults, and creating brick troughs with nightly disinfecting, funded by a wagon and bid process. The plan advocates fines or imprisonment for littering and asks for city action while noting scarce contagion beyond scarlet fever.
The Ordway New Era urges firm enforcement of the misdemeanor ordinance after saloon-backed protests during arrests. It warns laxity could push Ordway toward a dry election and calls for law and order. Also notes rental listings, Rocky Ford Fifteen Years Ago items, and local business ads and notices.
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