La Junta tribune., April 06, 1898, Image 1

About La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939

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Volume XIX
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spared no expense to fix up a fine f
4S room and have bought direct from <j j t
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T and best line of Ladies’ and Chil- S
/fit dren’s Shoes ever brought to La X
4S Junta. We will give three special w
4ft sale days this week, commencing on W
jE Thursday morning, and on that date
jh we want five hundred Ladies to visit X
four new department.
To each Lady calling we will W
give a nice Easter Souvenir, free, and SK
/j\ all will be shown through the depart- X
/h ment and shown the new line of shoes W
for spring and summer. The follow
two days we will give to each Lady SK
>|\ buying a pair of shoes to the value of X
4ft $2.00 or over, oi any other cash sale W
to that amount, a fine gold pen and f
paper cutter. We would like to have ■.
h\ all the Ladies in Otero county call <j \
4ft and see our new department. With < f
4ft the compliments of the season,
Yours Very-Truly; y p
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| DON’T MAKE YOUR |
|! WIFE SPLIT WOOD! !jj
j, Get her a Gasoline stove. Gas ,g
v stoves are clean, economical and
(' threy require no wood spliting.
v' The “Insurance” is the only
2» stove in which provision is made
2> to prevent the escape of gasoline *E
should the burner be accidently
( ¥ blown out or left open. ( }
Gasoline, when used in the “In- \
suranee” stove, is as safe, if not
\* safer fuel than wood or coal. In
-2» surance and Jewell stoves are our < 6
2 * specialties. <C.
2 * A large assortment of Refriger- < \
L ators are on the road and it will tg
A pay you to await their arrival. All [
( * kinds of Ice Cream Freezers now
| ’ on hand. <
|' Hardware, Implements, Seeds, ' •
3r Harness, Plumbing, Sewerage. 1 j
LA JUNTA TRIBUNE.
niaunin every Wednesday and satudday.
LA JUNTA, OTERO COUNTY, COLORADO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6. 1898.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS.
Joy» for Jewelry.
Easter glove sale at Smith’s.
Trade at the Palace drug store.
Fine box stationery at the Palace
drug store.
Honest values at lowest prices at
Thompson's.
R. E. Chaffer is visiting friends
in Garden City.
Rubber stamps, pads, ink, etc.,
at Novelty Works.
Easter Souvenirs in the latest
designs at Fisher & Larsen’s.
J. W. Phenicie was down from
Rocky Ford Monday on business.
Newest and latest patterns in
queensware just received atThomp
son’s.
A. J. Stark, of Trinidad, visited
his son, F. M. Stark, of this city
last week.
The biggest values ever offered
the public in chinaware at Thomp
son's closing out sale.
Bring in your bicycles and get
them repaired before the spring
rush begins at the Novelty Works.
John Grier, the hospital cook,
left on No. 2 Monday for Topeka, j
where be will visit friends for a few j
days.
For building loans or 8 per cent |
farm loans, call on W. R. Gibson, j
Room 3 Central block, La Junta,
Colorado.
Mrs. J. K. Dye is planning to
build a tine dwelling on her lots on I
North Main street. Rocky Ford j
Enterprise.
Canon Radcliffe, of the Episco- j
pal diocese, held services at St.
Andrews church in this city Mon
day evening.
An Atchison man believes that
if he should go to war ami be shot
in the back, be would receive a
back pension.
Winter still linge rs in the lap of
spring. One day the <I list grits
and the next the snow flits through
the atmosphere.
Buy a pair of those fine residence
lots in Mountain View addition on
monthly payments of *5 each.—
C. L. Seeley, agent.
Melville D. Landon, better
known as Eli Perkins, the champ
ion liar of the United States, was
registered at the Harvey House
Monday. r
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kintner
and children left on No. 2 Satur
day to visit relativts and friends in
the east. They will be absent
about thirty days.
E. D. Carlton left on No. 2
Monday for Paris, Texas, where
he had been suminonod as a wit
ness in the courts. He will prob
ably be absent for ten days.
Grant Harbour, recently of Ana
conda, Colo., has opened a racket
store on Santa Fe avenue in the
room formerly occupied by Buckey
& Hart. He will be ready for bus
iness some time this week.
Mrs. G. W. Singer, of Syracuse,
Kan., a cousin of Ex-Lieutenant-
Governor James A. Troutman of
that state, arrived in this city. Mon
day and will be the guest of. her
son-in-law, F. M. Carlisle, for sev
eral weeks.
Mrs. J. K. Dye returned Thurs
day from Greenville, Mich., where
she was called a couple of weeks
ago to .attend the funeral of a
brother who was killed by the kick
of a horse. She visited relatives
at lona, same stafe, while absent.
—Rocky Ford Timea-Republican.
Mrs. Florer, mother of Mrs. T.
If. Finney, has given the Presby
terian ladies a beautiful Easter gift
in the way of a quilt, being the
work of her own bands since com
ing to La Junta. Mrs. Floret is a
comparative stranger in pur city
and is 9* years of age, yet she
takes an intelligent interest in nil
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that concerns her friends and
neighbors. I
Have your prescriptions filled at
the Palace drug store.
Young spring chickens, broilers,
at the Boston restaurant.
Buckey & Hart have plenty of
money to loan on good farms. 1
For fresh bread, pies or cakes go
to Fisher's, postoffice news stand. 1
C. C. Washburn, of Rocky Ford,
was a county seat visitor Monday.
Clean up the back yard and get
ready for the springtime and gentle
Annie.
Thompson has the finest decor
ated china stock patterns imported
to this country.
Mrs. C. M. Robins, of La Junta,
is visiting Rocky Ford relatives and
friends.—Rocky Ford Enterprise.
Mrs. A. A. Frost, treasurer of
the Ladies Aid Society, says they
have earned (310 during the past
year.
F. B. Van Gundy, of the Rocky
Ford Times-Republican, was let
ting the light of his benign counte
nance fall upon the just and the
unjust of this burg last Monday.
A. W. Shelton left last Saturday
night for Kansas City with • ship
ment of four cars of sheep. He
anticipated a depressed market
owing to the large number of sheep
that are now being shipped and
did not expect to realize as good a
price for the last lot as former ones.
E. S. Corbin, O. S. t R. D., Eye
Specialist and Opthalmic Optician.
1 Head office 6a6 Sixteenth street,
: Denver, Colo. ■ Four years study
! of the eye, five years practical ex
• perience, statistician o! schools
t and instructor in the Colorado
r Optical College. Now at the Park
! House Parlors. Any dissatisfac
-1 tion of past trips gladly rectified
without cost Regular trips made. j t
Consultation and examination free, j i
George D. Parks, of Rogers, 11
Ark , was domiciled at the Harvey
House yesterday. I
Highest cash price paid for fat ]
cattle, calves, poultry and produce 1
at the Columbia Meat Market.
How about your eyes? Corbin
the specialist will tell you free, at
Park House Parlors this week.
W. J. Garvin, the Santa Fe
agent, contemplates bringing his
family here from La Junta soon.—
Lamar Register.
A. Everett has a very competent
and accommodating meat cutter at
his shop in the person of William
Fitzpatrick, who came here from
La Junta. —Lamar Register.
An incipient blaze at the stock
yards Sunday, during the high
wind, was extinguished before it
had gained much headway. Five
dollars will probably cover all the
damage done.
Roadmaster Marshall was in the
city Monday and together with S.
E. Marquand, Grant Reeder and
W. E. Tarbox went up Cheyenne
' creek duck hunting, but found
. game very shy and only succeeded
; in bagging seven mallards Cool
t idge Enterprise.
1 The moon last Saturday evening
I was an interesting spectacle. It
1 was encircled by the red, white and
- blue colors of the star spangled
! banner, which some of our citizens
. declared was a sure sign of war,
, and of the success of our army and
f navy. Others claimed that there
- waa “blood on the moon” and it
s augured ill for this nation. But
» behind it all .there was probably
It the man iq the moon with one eye
- closed and bis index finger along
1 aide of his ante laughing to him
Number 3.
self at the sensation he was creat
! ing on this mundane sphere by his
j pyrotechnic display.
Four seals from the seal rocks at)
the Golden Gate, San Franciacht
passed through this city by expresi
on No. 8 yesterday. Their desti
nation was Liverpool, England.
Pure blood, .good digestion and;
regular bowel movements are the;
results that follow the use of
Prickly Ash Bitters. It removes
lethargy due to a disordered livers
The preliminary examination of
John Freymeyer, charged with as-'
sault to kill H. L. Brannon las
week, took place at Rocky Fort
| Monday before Justice Green. H
( was bound over to the April tern
of the district court in the sun
of SI,OOO.
Mrs. A. C. Armstrong has not
completed the Standard Squar
Inch Tailor System of Dressmali
ing. A perfect fit without altert
tion. Call and see her, and g«
style of cut, price and finish. Sb
: has had experience in dressmakin
before and with the new systei
she will give perfect satisfaction. j
Last Saturday evening tbirt4
* one members of the Masonic fr*
1 ternity, of this city, and six frpj
Rocky Ford went to Lamar in
special car to assist the brethtw
; of that city in conferring the wow
: on the third degree. At LaM
I they were met by • delegatkj
i from Lamar Lodge, No. (jm ,
1 escorted to the lodge room,
until a late bout they were leybffi"*
1 tained in a manner that wißjJlw
i be remembered as one of tMMMff
: ant occasions so seldom egtjjHm
: The brethren of Lamar fully ajjijj
- oDstrated their ability to eMM||
i in a most pleasing manMg||jffi£;&
; tended the right hand o! MB ’
. in the true spirit of the *wßߧ| -