Trainload of Settlers Arrive at Excelsior Ranch
A Sunday afternoon train delivered six or seven settler families from Buffalo Kansas with horses cattle and household goods. Families will settle on the Excelsior ranch while others rent homes in Sanford and Manassa areas until homes are built. The party includes A A Shockey and several relatives and neighbors. Local reception urged to welcome new farmers as the valley grows. A Roosevelt rural life commission sits in Denver studying crop rotation with recommendations to plant orchards and delay cotton. A dry farm witness complains 160 acres cannot support a family and condemns land promoters for settling families without irrigation.
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Missouri Pacific
Buffalo
Kan
Alamosa
A. A. Shockey
Frank Crowther
Sanford
Frank Hutchinson
Greenville Epperson
Excelsior Ranch
Baker House
Hansen Ranch
la Jara
J. P. Pfitter
Art Jones
Dewey
Oklahoma
Excelsior
Rural Life Commission
Roosevelt
Denver
South
Colorado Dry Farms
Sanford Notes Brighten Week with Weddings and Local Visits
Lauretta Peterson recovers and Adella and Florence return from Manassa. Marcus Funk plans move to Trenton Utah for his son Willard’s cereal factory project. Bittner Company to perform Why Women Sin in Sanford. Cephas Stover to wed in Pueblo. Henry Foster notes. Mrs Carr visits Manassa. Chas Carr based at Mare Island navy yard. Public school music by Prof King Driggs. Denver trip boosts faith in intermountain growth.
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Adella Peterson
Florence Cornum
Manassa
Sanford
A. P. Morrinsen
Denver
Joseph A. McRae
J. L. Mortensen
Elmer Dunn
Bittner Company
Sanford Opera House
Will C. Murphy
Marcus Funk
Trenton
Utah
Willard
Cerial
Great Battle Creek
Michigan
Cerial Food Co
Swen Peterson
Cephas Stover
Pueblo
Chas. Carr
Shade Boice
Vallego
California
Mare Island Navy Yard
Save Your Horse Deacon Colic Remedy Ad
An old ad touts Deacon's Colic Specific as the best remedy, advertised as legal for sale by H. O. Ellis and M. H. Deacon in Colorado towns. It seeks sales agents and promises large profits, asking for a permanent local representative for a national company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deacon
H. O. Ellis
la Jara
M. H. Deacon
Monte Vista
Colo
Weddings and wanderings mark December in Manassa
In Manassa on December 16, second year students brood over exams while three weddings occur that week. Chas Holmes has returned from a year in Thaho and Utah seeking a home in the sunny San Luis Valley. Walter Foster wed last Saturday at his brother’s home.
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Chas. Holmes
Thaho
Utah
Sunny
San Luis Valley
Walter Foster
Start Now to End Indigestion with Pape's Diapepsin
An ad-style note urging immediate action against stomach trouble. It touts quick relief from indigestion and gas, promises complete digestion within minutes, and promotes a 50 cent Diapepsin at drugstores. It also includes a weather quip about almanac accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Special Stockholders Meeting of La Jara Building and Loan
Notice calls a special stockholders meeting at the secretary office on Tuesday evening December 22 1908 at 7 30 pm to name directors. Seven directors to be elected at the annual meeting set for Monday evening January 4 1909 at ?. La Jara Colorado December 7 1908 by order of the board Clifton H Wilder secretary. First publication December 11 1908 Last publication December 18 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Jara
Clifton H. Wilder
Annual Stockholders Meeting of The La Jara Association
Notice for the La Jara association stockholders in Conejos County Colorado. Meeting on Monday January 4, 1909 at 7:30 p.m. to elect seven directors for the coming year and to transact other business. Dated La Jara December 7, 1908. By order of the board Clifton H. Wilder. First publication December 11 1908. Last publication January 1 1909.
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la Jara
Clifton H. Wilder
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Samuel Tefft
Mason
C. H. Gray
Mr. Irvin
Lauretta Peterson
Mount Blanca
San Luis
King Driggs
Andrew Nielson
Dean Taylor
Bishop W. ©. Crowther
Moroni Taylor
Henry Foster
Particuliams Company
W. Taylor St
Chicago
Special
Annual Stockholders’ Meeting
C. I. Stephenson Osteopath OF
Hotel la Jara
Rogers Bros
the Chronicle
H. C. Cash
Pearson Brothers
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