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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
5
Two seat buggy offered by H I Maxwell. Readable description mentions a two seater, model or maker initials, and a price or condition reference. Suitable for a small rural advertisement with basic listing details.
Miss Orwell leaves for Carlinville Ill after a reappointment to the city high school staff. Several locals travel or relocate including Mr. and Mrs. Porter to McComb Ill and Principal Tucker to Colorado Springs for summer study. A teaching staff member attends Greeley graduation and various civic events unfold, from Sunday School organization to dog tax collection.
Miss Ilene Bodenhamer leaves for Las Vegas New Mexico for the summer. Mrs George C Maxwell visits Ionia Michigan. Miss Dorothy Burt plans a vacation in Coldwater Kansas. C A Gamble returns to the sugar factory in Rocky Ford and expects his mother later. Miss Maxwell Ray of Denver visits Rocky Ford and attends the Powell wedding. The Floradora Concert Co. will perform at the Grand Denver on June 7 with sixty performers. G M Hall named to a committee by the Arkansas Valley Ditch Association in Pueblo to study river water carriage for reservoirs.
A compact page lists help wanted for washing and ironing at a residence, a cash offer for cattle, lost items including a buckskin mare colt and carpenter’s brace, eyeglasses, and a six horsepower Olds engine. Also real estate, piano sale, and a bar sale notice. Local names include Mrs Z T Roberts A E Jenkins L R Fenlason F A Karpe M A Randall W F Stark C E Bolton Music Co. Abode Baro sale announced.
Rocky Ford notices advertise cash purchases for livestock and real estate services from City Realty Co and J W Young Co. Dr T B Wilson moves office after June 3 to Shelton’s upper rooms. Opera Block Market buys fat cattle hens and sells meals. Stauffer’s Real Estate offers insurance. St John Bros market bikes tires. Maccabee social hosted by Mrs Schuyler Swink June 11. Yeomen to organize debating society June 4 with Prof Kellogg address.
A school board meeting was scheduled but no quorum formed due to bad weather last night. Many teachers seek reappointment or new jobs as Colorado lures educators from the East. The Rocky Ford school board faces a flood of applications amid a Western teaching boom.
Mrs L R Fenlason hosted eastern visitors with two social gatherings in their honor. A card party for twelve featured a prize wooden stein won by Mrs Silverman and a five course dinner in a decorated dining room. A larger reception for about forty local friends followed with pink and green decorations and green tapers. The visitors included Mr and Mrs Eugene Silverman of Milwaukee and Mr Fritz and Miss Stare of Decatur Ill.
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