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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1900
Page
5
Local ads tout Round Oak stoves as the best line, with Rocky Ford Grocery Co and Gerbing Son promoting direct factory purchases. Notes on Sunday closing, new shoe store, and repair services alongside cold meat and school tablets offerings.
The Law and Order League plans a Friday evening meeting at the Baptist church with Rev R A W N Wilson of Pueblo as speaker. Music by a ladies quartet and a male quartet accompanies the event. Sunday services are announced with sermons at the Baptist and Presbyterian churches and a Christian Science subject. The Dunkard Brethren hold their annual council meeting and plan the love feast, urging harmony among members before the feast on Saturday.
Stolen guitar reward and various ads fill a late 19th or early 20th century notice page. Listings include furniture arrivals, land for sale near Lambs, horses and bees for sale, rooms for rent, clocks and diamonds at Opera House Pharmacy, cottages for sale or rent north of Washington School, and a medical endorsement for Kodol Dyspepsia Care. Names include W. R. Dye, F. R. Merk, Henry Baker, C. M. Robins, N. W. Terry, Dr. W. H. Lewis, and Dr. Kearby. The tone is promotional and locality focused with multiple short notices.
A brief note touts Boschee's German Syrup as a universal cure for lung and throat troubles. It claims to heal inflammation ease expectoration and provide rest. Sold by W. E. Fenton & Co.
Local notes recount Mrs. T F Godding senior shopping for a birthday dinner with her family. The piece lists numerous Rocky Ford residents with visits, health updates, comings and goings, and social events including a Whist Club gathering hosted by Mrs H W Lance and attended by Mrs Fred A Sabin, Mrs Keimers, and Mrs Haskell.
J F Capitan suffers mountain fever confinement. Missionary ladies visit La Junta for Mrs Coltman China talk and dine at Mrs Finney’s home. Willards depart for Iowa. Mrs Van Horn visits Edina. Local societies prepare for theatre week at the Opera house with 15 25 and 45 cent admissions. Coggin Co honey shipment heads east. Santa Fe agent Rose offers Denver trips at 6 50 with final Nov 1 limit.
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