West Holbrook Correspondence Snapshot
Dora Sprout visits Missouri to see parents. Earl Bennett leaves for Kansas City with Bennett & Sons sheep for the fourth spring shipment. Miss Mabel Cook heads to Onaga Kansas after teaching at Riverside. Rocky Ford friends attend a social. A Western rain and hail cause no damage. M E parsonage ice cream social raises about $11 for the aid treasury. Tank improvements praised by C M Harrison and wife. Mrs W H Anderson hosts relatives from West Virginia. Letter to the editor praises the American flag over the Grand Opera House. Ed Kouns notes replanting sugar beets after earlier destruction and worm scare subsides. Fowler Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Sprout
Missouri
Earl Bennett
Kansas City
Bennett & Sons
Mabel Cook
Onaga
Kas
Riverside
Hawkey
Wasson
McCullin
Jouck
Rocky Ford
Pearle Cartwright
Holbrook Valley
M. E. Parsonage
Ladies Aid
Aid
C. M. Harrison
Center
West Holbrook
W. H. Anderson
West Virginia
Judge Hoffmire Dead in Los Angeles
James Hoffmire former resident of La Junta and father of Thos R Hoffmire died Friday May 15 in Los Angeles after two weeks there seeking health benefits. In Arkansas Valley days he was a prominent attorney. Other notes include crops in Omer country favorable, beets in good shape, and spring moisture. plus various travel rates and notices from local officials and business leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hoffmire
la Junta
Thos. R. Hoffmire
Los Angeles
California
Arkansas Valley
Hoffmire
Lincoln
Omer Country
Fowler Tribune
Colo
Beet sugar industry shows frost recovery and new by products
Manager Wietzer says April freeze will not hinder beet acreage this season as replanting proceeds amid adequate moisture. A New York chemist claims four beet pulp by products—alcohol, an in demand acid, glue, and coal—can be extracted cheaply, though initial trials failed. Roosevelt visited Oxnard plant, praising the industry and its future. German visitors in Denver heard W K Winterhalter discuss Colorado agricultural resources and beet culture in the Arkansas Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wietzer
New York
Sea
American Beet Sugar Co
Norfolk
Neb
S$beet Sugar Co
Steffens
Osmore
Col. Lockhart
Chicago
California
Roosevelt
Oxnard
Henry T. Oxnard
Mr. Oxnard
Oxnard Courier
Missouri
United States
Denver
W. K. Winterhalter
Colorado
Winterhalter
Arkansas Valley
Excelsior Farm Vegetable Plants Promote Garden Start
An assorted newspaper snippet lists Excelsior Farm vegetable plants ready for sale and notes ongoing local ads including Overland Racing Association meeting details, fares to Denver, and various classified notices for sale and help wanted. G. D. McGoy offers a ten year old brown horse for fifty dollars, with location eight miles west of Rocky Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Excelsior Farm
All Purpose Horse
Brown
Call
Rocky Ford
G. D. McGoy
P.O. Box
Colorado to gather data in Arkansas River water dispute
The Pueblo Star Journal reports that Colorado will begin collecting data through the state engineer to defend against Kansas in the interstate Arkansas River water case. The piece praises Professor Carpenter for his qualifications and urges Colorado to keep up the legal fight to ensure a final determination and deter other states from similar suits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas River
Arkansas Valley
Kansas
Colorado
Topeka
Sunflower
Commonwealth
Carpenter
Pueblo Star Journal
Pleasant May Party At Mrs Royal's With Womans Relief Corps
A May drive eight miles west of Rocky Ford gathered about forty five ladies from Womans Relief Corps No 16 at Mrs Adelia Royal and her sons Herbert and Frank and Grandma Royal age eighty. A six hour visit featured a fine dinner ice cream cake and fruit, planned Memorial Sunday and Decoration Day, with war songs and a guest Reverend McCullock of Manzanola. A cordial farewell praised the Royals as royal entertainers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womans’ Relief Corps
No. 16
Rocky Ford
Adelia Royal
Herbert
Frank
Grandma Royal
McCullock
Manzanola
Mrs. Royal
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Farmers & Merchants Bank
van Buskirk's State Bank
E. W. Balfour
Ph. van Buskirk
Pres
A. J. Stewart
Asst. Cashier
Rocky Ford Brass
Iron Foundry
Fourth ST. and
Elm Ave
Inds. C
Eneral
K Schram & Waterfall
Queen of the West
Rocky Ford Milling and Elevator Co
J. A. Crissman, Mer
George R. Daring
Canon City Coal
Garden Place Hospital
C. H. Baldwin
Beymer Land & Investment CO
Scienake
Kirwan & Son
Uesests
Rocky Ford Fair Ground
France
Martin
the Enverprise
Grand Opera House
Ed Kouns
Judge Hoffmire
Omer
Missouri River
Minnesota
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Memphis
Tenn
F. G. Currian
Agt
Santa Fe
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
F.G. Curran
Clatio
Veteran Ai
Veteran Association of the Blue and the Gray
A. C. Sloan
C. M. Robins
Fort Collins Express
The
Express
West
Lamar Register
George E. Ayer
Dodge City
Kans
Lockhart Live Stock Company
James A. Lockhart
W. H. Lockhart
Elizabeth Lockhart
N. Second Street
J. H. Burr
W. Swink Ave
Houx-Brown Grocery Co
C. F. Abel's
Te State Bank
Godding
W. Swink
EL J. Smith
Just
Osborne and Champion
E. R. Cook
R. W. English Lumber Go
Deale IN
HM. A. Dawley
Mar
Rocky Ford, Cole
J. E. Orr, Rocky Ford
Williams & Clark
Carpenters and Builders
Fhwee
Turner
Ooky Ford
Colgrado
General Carpenter Shop
Peraitere Repairing and Gere Werk O Pestatty
S. M. Kellogg, D. D
Osteopathic
American School of Osteopathy
Wilson’s
Col
St. Lo
Kanms City
Oklahoma
Texas
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Birmingham
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Songer Traffic Department
Mercial Bevuiding
Saint Louis
C. £. Wright
Hill
A. Sabin
Beall
Sabin & Beall
Attorneys
Rocky Ford and
John
Horn
Lamar
W. B. Gobin
Rocky Ford, Colo
Chile
Collison & Son, Props
L. BR. Colby
Colby
Otero County
Tae
Exors
C. F. Hall
Knighte
H. oTis Browns
R. Ky
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