Amendment to Ordinance No 14 of La Jara
A town board amends Section 1L of Ordinance No 14 in La Jara Colorado. Sidewalks on Main Street are fixed at ten feet while other sidewalks vary to four or six feet by street. Concrete construction mandated for key streets. wood sidewalks require specific dimensions and materials. Publication dates noted as June 18 and July 2, 1900.
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Town OF
LA Jara
Main Street
Broadway
Walnut Streets
Second O Fourth Streets
Second Street
Fourth Street
Fifth Street
Second
Fifth Streets
Walnut Street
Poplar Street
Board of Trustee
Board of Trustees
State of
Colorado
For Rent and For Sale Notices in Local Ad Column
Five room new dwelling and three roomed cottage with artesian water offered for rent. An eight room dwelling, practically new, with hot and cold water is for sale cheap by Thos McCunniff.
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McCunniff
Transplanting Plants and Local Community Roads
Spring remains cool delaying tender plant work with June as a safe planting rule for delicate crops. Advice covers watering, shading, and pruning to prevent wilting while roots recover and new growth forms. Plus reports on Excelsior ranch road work, canal-route traffic benefits, La Jara roads, local business ads, and band reorganizations.
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W. Paddock
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Excelsior
Empire Canal
la Jara
Local notes include travel, family, farming and town improvements
Regulars report J W Sego heading to New Mexico for summer range. Fishing lags due to high water while crops improve with more warmth and rain. Bishop Ball plans east visit. Grover Smith misses San Luis valley girls. Conejos Milling Co to build a new elevator with spring dump to speed grain unloading. neighbors help each other harvest.
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Grover Smith
Nebraska
San Luis
Conejos Milling Co
The Humble Egg and Man’s Freshness in Verse
A playful couplet compares the egg’s steadiness to a man’s tendency to be overly fresh. It uses a thorn in the flesh metaphor to suggest restraint and self control. The piece critiques social moods with light humor and archaic tone.
Card of Thanks from La Jara resident
A letter from Howard N Amer thanks La Jara residents for their kindness during his wife’s illness and expresses a desire to repay the town for its support. The message is dated June 17 1909 and published in the La Jara Chronicle.
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la Jara
Colo
la Jara Chronicle
Howard N, Amer
One of the Essentials of happy homes a health product
An advertisement extols a wholesome family remedy Syrup of Figs in Alixir of Senna as a trusted product approved by physicians and the Well-Informed of the World. It urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. elixir, available through leading druggists.
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Senna
California Fig Syrup Co
Uly
Desert Land Entry Final Proof Notice Del Norte 1909
William M Bainbridge of Colorado Springs Colorado filed notice of intention to make Final Proof to establish his Desert Land Entry for Section 12 Township 36 North Range 7 East New Mexico Principal Meridian before the Register and Receiver at Del Norte Colorado on July 2 1909 Witnesses named Duglas Bernard Richard Elbert Charles Foster William Braiden all from Colorado locations First publication June 18 1909 Last publication July 16 1909.
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Department of the Interior
del Norte
Colo
William M Bainbridge
Colorado Springs
N. M. P. Meridian
Colorado
Duglas Bernard
la Jara
Richard Elbert
Monte Vista
Charles Foster
William Braiden
E Fairbanks
Register
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Leroy
General Merchandise
Kinton Bldg
Main St
Meat Market
J. W. Finney
Pat. Lopez
The
Clifton H. Wilder
Murphy-Newcomb Hardware Co
Sporting Goods
G. G. Oliver’s
Bountiful
J. W. Sego
New Mexico
John Boice
Tom Bailey
Will Jack
Durango
D. J. Kirtland
F. M. Rogers
Denver
E. K. Ball
B.S. L
Win. Silvers
Georgia
Reno
Coakley Ranch
U.S
BACA
Sunny San
Luis Valley
Fort Garland
Boca
Satara Drug Store
H. O. Ellis
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