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®lte ©ut evpvfee. WILL R. MONKMAN. Publisher. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1911 Subscription Rates. One year •..#■•.sl.s° Six Months 75 Three Month* Jfi W. O. W. Smoker The Woodmen are planning for a big time at their meeting tonight. Rocky Ford Camp No. 195 has recently been round ing up prospective candidates for the monster log rolling at Pueblo on July 4th and the final count will take place tonight when it is expected the total will almost reach the hundred mark. With this bunch for initiation they expect to capture some good prizes at Fueblo, and the smokefest tonight is a : advance celebration. Get a Chautauqua season ticket early and then beglu to talk Chautau qua. A penny newspaper la a penny Chautauqua. Both Instruct and enter tain. The Chautauqua keeps people home, and In that It centers community growth. When you give a boy or girl a week at a Chautauqua you give them a big boost to better things. When a town has a Chautauqua It has the cream of the big city in music and entertainment, with all the scum left out. TbeCbnutauqun has the Indorsement of the best people of the community. It’s the case wherever there is a good Chautauaua_ Don't fail to buy Stauffer’s home ren dered lard. It* the best on earth. Furnished Rooms for light housekeep ng at 210 Swink Ava. 3tf Buy your celery, lettuce and all vege tables at StaufTers. Its the freshest in town. From now until July Ist Is the time to set Late Cabbage Plants. I have a good supply of Danish Ballhead from best imported seed, also Excelsior Flat Dutch, All Seasons and Surehead. Price 25c per 100; $2 per 1000; $1.75 per 1000 in 10,000 lob. Special prices on Urge lob. D. V. BURRELL Get in on the Ground Floor HTHE CHRITTON CHERRY CLIPPER COMPANY offers for * sale a limited amount of its stock at Twenty-five Cents a Share, par value One Dollar. This is bound to be an excellent dividend paying proposition. Incorporation . man of Pueblo> Co, °- rp, . Attorney. H. M. Minor, who is the City Attorney for the City This company was incorporated under the laws of the State of At* n „ , „ , ~ , . . . t . . r* i i ai. no i j ext ,n,i m. • . , , . of Rockv Ford, an able lawyer, well versed m the laws appertaining Colorado on the 23rd day of May, 1911. The capital stock is $50,000, - s. i ™ . TtN to patents, legal adviser for the company, divided into 00.000 shares of the par value of $l.OO each. Purposes of the Company To place before the using public the appliance known as the President, James M. Chritton, an old time resident of Rocky Chritton Cherry Clipper and either to have the same manufactured or Ford, Colorado. The inventor of the Chritton Cherry Clipper. '"yBBI' . ■ to equip a factory at Rocky Ford for the manufacture of same. Vice-President. James A. Goodner, president of tne Goodner "Uf fra- p 1 • Pump Co., also of Rocky Ford. Colo. IT -f.\ Conclusion Secretary and General Manager. Alfred Cooper of Pueblo, Colo., Jf '* In presentinfc this proposition we invite a careful investigation whose ability insures a careful, husiness-iike administration of the " 1 ‘ nto tbe mer ‘ ts °*' tb ' s patented article, which is a time and labor duties dependent upon this office. V > necesslty for every person who has hernes to harvest - Treasurer, Robert A. Krembzow. a favorably known real estate 1 . See Samples at Judge Chritton’s Office » O But 20,000 shares of stock are offered for sale. None of the money received goes in any way~ for promotion or to buy patents. Judge Chritton will not receive a cent in money. He took the value of his patents in stock in the company. Apply to JAMES M. CHRITTON, President, or ALFRED COOPER, General Manager, KIMZEY-COVER BUILDING, ROCKY FORD, COLORADO OBITUARIES EMMA COLEMAN From tho result of injuries receivod in a peculiar accident on Friday last Mrs. J. R. Coleman passed away at her home. 410 North Third street, on Saturday, evening. Mrs, Coleman was standing on a chair trying to reach the top of the cupboard when the chair tipped and she fell across the back, rupturing the intestines and receiving other internal injuries resulting in her death within a few hours The deceased was about 48 years old and leaves a husband and six children to mourn her sudden demisa. Funeral services were conduced from Sprinker’s chapel on Monday afternoon by Rev. Beaver and interment was in Valley View cemetery. THOMAS WHITAKER After a week’s illness the old gardener familiarly known as “Uncle Tom” on Sunday morning succumbed to an attack of typhoid fever and attendant complica tions. Deceased was 65 year-. o f age ard had been a resident of this ci y 'bout 12 years. He left five children—John and Robert Whitaker of Dodge City, Kan„ Mesdames Nedrow and Howard of Imperial, Neb., and Mrs, H. L. Martin of Albany, Mo.— all of whom with the exception of the last named were present at the funeral, which took place from the Dobbs & Lyon chapel on Tuesday morning. Rev. Collins officiating. LAWRENCE LUCERO The year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Lucero died at the home of the parents, 509 North Fifth street, on Tues day morning. Funeral services were conducted from the Sprinker chapel on Wednesday morning MYRTLE LUCUS At her home on North Seventh street, on Wednesday morning. Mrs. W. E. Lucus succumbed to tuberculosis. Deceased was but 22 years old and a recent arrival from Manzanola, where her husband has been an employe of Beaty Bros, for the past year. Accompanied by the bereaved husband and an aunt. Mrs. P. A. Hilton, the body was shipped to the old home in Douglas. Kan., on Wednesday evening. ANNIE PRALL At the home of her daughter. Mrs. Geo. Russell. 505 South Tenth street, at 7 o’clock on Tuesday evening, Mrs. Annie Mackey Prall passed away, after a lin gering illness with Bright’s disease. The deceased was 67 years old, and for many years had made her home in this city with her daughters. Mrs. Russell and Mr* A. P. Kendtg. The last named for the past couple of weeks has been here from her present home in California, and other relatives at the bedside of Mrs. Prall in her last hours were her two sisters from New Jersey. Funeral services were conducted at 5 o’clock on Wednesday by Rev. Beaver, and a few hours later the remains, ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. Russell and the two sisters left for the old family burying ground at Princeton, 111. Card of Thanks. We desire to thank the people of Rocky Ford for their kindness to our father dur ing his recent sickness and death, and for the many kindnesses shown us while in your midst. John Whitaker, . Robert Whitaker, Mrs Alice Nedrow. Mrs. J. L. Howard, Mrs. A. L. Martin. Notice of Annual Meeting We hereby notify the members of The Chamber of Commerce of Rocky Ford that the annual meeting will be he'd on Wednesday, July 12. 191 1, at 7:30 p. m. in the Business Men’s club rooms. This meeting is for the purpose of elect ing a new board of directors and to transact such other business as may properly come before it. We urge every person in the vicinity of Rocky Ford to come to this meeting, whether a member or not. This will be a very important meeting and we trust that we will have a large attendance. "Get out and boost for a greater Rocky Ford.” H. I. MAXWELL, Pres. CLAUDE E. SWINK. Sec. -6 NOTICE TO AUTOMOBILE OWNERS The New Santa Fe Trail Garage As fociatlon has recency issued a com plete and official gut-J? book of the New Santa Fe Trn'l from Kansas City, Mo., to Canon City, Colo. The maps are on a scale of four miles to i £he Inch and the log Is compiled from I speedometer records taken on special I runs made by Association members | Both log and maps aro accurate to ( tho tenth of a mile In the country and to the fraction of. a block in the towns, leading the motorist right to the door of the leading garage and ho tel In each place. The book contains an article by R. H. Faxon. Pros, of tho New Trail Association, telling tho, Story of the New Trail- No automo bile owner should be without one as It aaves the nuking of a thousand and tmo embarrassing questions while away from home on the Trail. On \ Bale by the Tucker-Vernon Publishing Co., Lamed, Kansas. Heavy paper, one dollar. Cloth.; ane dollar and twenty-five. Gasoline Engine for sale. Just right size for seed thresher. Apply to Cash Produce Co. Stauffer’s have on sale some extra fancy spring lamb and mutton. If you don’t get satis faction elsewhere try us. We have the goods. ‘ npERE ARE SEVEN -1- Musical companies nml more than a dozen JmHKEjtf'..' tertni tiers, lecturers nml ora , tors on the Chaut»iu<|iin pro- j ’* ' gram that wo fire to have in V^ |■ .|gph- M commencing next ■ week. That's a } * when you consider the qnal ity of each Tito * -vf ~.J$ hand came all the way from ‘ * Europe Ferraute’s Royal "t Italian Guards. It’s the best y Chautauqua hnud west of the You never saw more variety on - \y k A variety couldn’t be given. It would qua- Get a season ticket and go every day -or get a season ticket ' ™ ' and go whenever you can. It will be wor th while to have a season ticket if you go only once in a while lt’s the best thing that comes to 15SSSS^^^S^^^55 this town all summer, and if you ALLAN A. TANNER, ON M LABOR miss it you’re missing something BID LANDON, CHARACTER DEIM PROBLEMS.” great. , EATOR. With a season it costs B about 15c a number. Easy? O! how easy!! p—— H ■ k MISS BERTHA WELLS, TROMBON- - T IST. A LANDON BTUDY. »|SS HAZEL LATHROP, BOPRANO.