La Junta tribune., July 27, 1898, Image 1

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

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Volume XIX
! It Still Continues! $
5 We will still continue our £
# special invoice sale. We have #
x turned out a good many goods J
5 since commencing our special J
4 sale, and we want to keep it up. *
J All summer suits have been J
5 marked down in price form 25 \
2 to 50 per cent to close them out *
# at once. When we can sell you £
J a fine suit at $lO.OO, tailor made J
£ and for less than what the cloth S
£ in it cost, you make the mistake 4
r of your life when you don’t come T
J and get one. We will slaugh- J
A ter prices on all summer goods 4
# to close them out before taking #
J stock. J
Ladies, now is the time for 2
J you to get a nice pair of Oxford £
j ties at less than cost price. We J
5 have a lot of small sizes, from 2 £
£ to 4, fine hand turned, goods #
1 worth from $2.50 to $3.50, will J
close them out at $1.50. Come £
and get your choice before they 5
are all gone. *
The Price-Draper Clothing Co. £
I CHEAPNESS! !
I -—a—- ;i
The tendency of the times is toward a will-o’- _ ?
ff . "
the-wisp called “cheapness.” }
T While prices have been going down, qualities Y
V * have been going down too, and deception has l>e- ' %
come so widespread as to almost pass unnoticed.
y' We lay it down as a principle, eternal as the * %
Z<i hills, that “cheap” things are never cheap. They '
y * are neither durable nor satisfactory. < j
£ You have got to pay a fair price £
J' if you want to get a good article.
'ff Good things cannot be purchased at the price of ( A
bad things. Tinware is no exception to the
rule. No one can sell an absolutely “straight” £
(J article for less money than we can. J
There are several grades of Tinware. We jj
J ' handle the highest grade in this town, and guar
antee satisfaction in quality and prices. We are
' sole agent for * J
Lisk’s Celebrated Anti-Rust Ware, , £
J ) Guaranteed against rust or corrosion for five * C
fi years—and we will be here to make every piece ,ft
1 , good. We carry the only line of Delftware in tg
the city, and cordially invite an inspection of the ( &
<; „u„. w. for
L fair prices £
$: b. & i
THE PIONEER HARDWARE MEN.
LA JUNTA TRIBUNE.
PUBLISHID IVIRY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.
LA JUNTA, OTERO COUNTY, COLORADO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. 1898.
SUMMER CLEARING SALE!
LOOK HERS!
Ladies' fine black mitts, the
25c kind 18c
LOOK HERE!
Shirt waist sets, the 15c ones,
only 08c
LOOK HERE!
Ladies' and Children’s belts
in all colors, worth 15c, foi 10c
LOOK HEHEIt
Ladies' white duck skirts re
duced from $2.50 to.. ..il m oo !
LOOK HERE!
Ladies’ crash skirts reduced
from $2.50 to ....'i.oo
$3.00 linen skirts now r >2. 00
$4 00 linen skirts now >2.50
READ THIS!
Ladies' crash suits that wer«
$3-50, now >32.50
Ladies’ crash suits that wer<-
$4.00, now .... $3.00
Ladies' crash suits that wer»
*4- 50, now . 33.50!
WRAPPERS, i
$2.25 light colored wrappers £1.75
$2.00 light colored wrapper*. sl*so
$1.75 light colored wrapp&t*
*1.50 light colored wrappers.sl.oo
cTT KENDALL
LOCAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS.
The Dewey.
Joys for J ewelry.
Trade at the Palace drug store.
Dick Lake has accepted a posi
tion with Melvin Bros.
Melvin Bros', pays fancj prices
for fancy fat stock. See tle-m.
Eight per cent money fur city or
farm loans.—VV. R. Gibson, Cen
tral block.
Miss Maud Peck, of Las Ani
mas, was visiting friends in town
last Saturday.
You can never complete a nice
Sunday dinner without guing to
Melvin Bros’, market.
H. C. Wood, a newspaper man
of Castle Rock, was in town Mon
day and made the Triiium a pleas
ant call.
Miss Minnie Stinson, ol Stans
burg, Mo., who has been visiting
friends in this city, returns home
this morning.
Andy Smith returned Sunday
morning from Colorado Springs,
where he has been visiting friends
during the past week.
The Rover Club baseball team,
of Pueblo, and the Rocky Ford
baseball experts will play a game
of baseball next Sunday at Rocky
Ford.
The Bloomer Girls were defeat
ed in Trinidad Sunday afteruoon
in a close and exciting game, the
score being 16 to 15. A large
crowd witnessed the game.
The ladies of the W. C. T. U.
will hold their regular semi-month
ly meeting on J uly 30th, at 3 o’clock
p. m., at the home of Mrs. E. P.
Hiscock. All interested in the
work are cordially welcome.
Tickets for the occasion of the
Trans-Mississippi National Expo
sition at Omaha, June Ist to No
vember Ist, 1898, will be on sale
from May 30th to October 13th.
Call at ticket office for rates,
Look Here! Read This Ad!
You will tint! all goods sold at the lowest prices. We intend
to sell in each department special values that deserve your
sincere attention.
There may In* other bargain sales, but you know from past ex
|>erience who among the merchants live up to their statements
in the newspa[»erH. Each and every article here mentioned
you will find on sale at our store at the prices named.
READ THIS!
$1.25 white parasols 75c!
51.50 white parasols with one
flounce $ 1.1 5
52.00 white parasols with two
flounces Si. 50 1
Children’s fancy parasols at
25c, 35c and 50c
HOW IS THIS?
Black silk grenadines, full
dress pattern, former price
5 10.00, now $6.50:
5i 2.00 silk grenadine pattern . $7.50 j
5i 3.50 silk grenadine pattern .58 50*1
wash Goods.
All of our 25c French organ
dies now 15c
15c organdies, grenadines and
dimities now . . 10c
ioc organdies now —— 7>4c
8c organdies and lawns now. 05c
G F. KENDALL.
route and trains. —W. O. Skinner,
Agent.
For fresh bread, pies or cakes go
to Fisher’s, postoffice news stand.
Mrs. Field and Miss Sutton, of
Horton, Kan., are visiting friends
in this city.
Highest cash price paid for fat
cattle, calves, poultry and produce
at the Columbia Meat Market.
Mrs. Laura Benedict left on No.
8 yesterday morning for Las Ani
mas to visit friends for a few days.
Farmers take your produce to
the cash market of R. S. Brock &
C 0.,, opposite the National Hotel.
G. D. Hubbard, of lonia, Mich.,
who is building J. K. Dye’s new
residence in Rocky Ford, was in
town Monday.
J. T. Lawless, of the Lamar
Sparks, was in town for an hour
Monday morning, on his way home
from a Sunday visit to Trinidad.
Miss Amy Prowers and Miss
Agnes Monroe, of Las Animas,
were La |unta visitors Saturday
and attended the Bloomer ball
game.
Two packers from New Mexico
on their way to join the Rough
Riders at Porto Rico, came in on
No. 22 yesterday morning and con
tinued their journey eastward on
No. 8.
“An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure.” “Delay is dan
gerous.” Prevent contagious di
seases during the hot summer
months by having Thompson thor
oughly disinfect your homes.
Eugene Rourke, of Bent Canon
purchased six lots in Mountain
View addition Saturday, and will
soon commence the erection of a
residence to cost between $3,000
and $4,000. Mr. Rourke is a
wealthy cattleman of Bent Canon,
and will become a permanent resi
dent of La Junta in order to give
his children the advantages of our
excellent public school system.
READ THIS!
50c shirt waists now ._. 25c
75c shirt waists now 50c
90c shirt waists now. 50c
5i.00 shirt waists now 75c
5125 shirt waists now ... 85c
51.50 shirt waists now 5i.00
52.00 shirt waists now 51.25
52.25 shirt waists now 51.50
SUMMER CORSETS.
Our regular 35c corset 25c
Our regular 50c corset 39c
Our regular 75c corset 50c
Our regular $l.OO corset.... 75c
Our regular 5 1.25 corset.. .. fi.oo
COLORED OXFORDS.
Our 53.00 hand turned Ox
fords 52.50
Our $3.00 hand, turned strap. $2. 50
Our $2.50 colored Oxfords..(2.oo
Our fta.oo .colored Oxfords ,£i.&s
Our Si.3o colored Oxfords..Si. 25
C. F. KENDALL.
The Dewey.
1 rade at Joy’s.
We do job work too.
Buckey & Hart have plenty of
money to loan on good farms.
C. M. Robins and family have
moved into the house formerly oc
cupied by J. B. O’Neil.
Have a few choice suitings left
which I will make up at a great
reduction. See them. Robt. Slew
ing, Merchant Tailor.
Oscar P. Schmidt, county clerk
of Bent county, came up from
Las Animas Saturday to witness
the bloomer game of baseball.
Harry Bourne resigned his posi
tion with Melvin Bros. Saturday
night and leaves to-day for Hunts
ville, Mo., where he will enter the
employ of a drug firm to complete
his course as a pharmacist.
Rocky Ford was visited by a
heavy rainfall Sunday night, ac
companied by a very little hail.
The hail did no damage to growing
crops, however. In La junta there
was barely a sprinkle, not even
enough to settle the dust.
M. A. Reid, an itinerant actor
man, who has been spending bis
summer vacation in La Junta pre
vious to starting out on the road as
leading man of a famous dramatic
company, has left for parts un
known. He left “Dad’s Girl” and
an unpaid board bill behind to
wrestle with new conditions as best
they may.
The consumptive who bored the
life out of our merchants for sev
eral weeks with his advertising
fakes, played a short, but brilliant
engagement at Rocky Ford last
week. He pursued the same tac
tics there that he did here, collect
ing money in advance for advertis
ing schemes that never materialized
He claimed that whisky relieved
him from the pain of pulmonary
troubles, and from the diligence
Number 35.
| HOW IS THIS !
» Children’s strap slippers, size
sto 8, in black or tan ... 75c
Size 8 1 /t to 11 5i .00
Size 1 \ x /t to 2. 5125
CHILDRENS’ SHOES.
We have added to our stock
s M. D. Wells & Company’s
Celebrated Mastiff School
Shoes.
Box calf in button or lace, size
B *4 to 11 51.00
Size 11*/. to 13 si-75
Size 13 'j to 2 ...52.00
Kangaroo calf in button or
lace, same sizes same prices.
Youths’ shoes, size 2% to 5,
in box calf, front lace 52.00
( Misses dongola in lace or but
ton, fine uppers, welt soles,
( very nobby shoes, size B*4
to 11 51.50
Size 11 */ to 13 si-75
Size ’3*4 to 2 52.00
I Boys’ tan lace, low heel, very
nobby, back stay, can’t rip. 52.00
NEW SILKS.
Have just received a beauti
ful line of plain and taffeta
silks in shades suitable for
evening waists. Prices are
75c and —90 c
BATH TOWELS.
' New IHi£ sizes at ioc,
15c and 25c
C. F. KENDALL.
with which he used the “pain
killer” in this city, his lungs did
not hurt him much in La Junta.
He left Rocky Ford on the blind
baggage leaving an unpaid board
bill.
County Treasurer Bcerbohm re
ceived $800.05 week from the
state treasurer on account of a re
cent apportionment of state school
funds made by Grace Espey Pat
ton, state superintendent of public
instruction.
A new order recently published
by the postoffice department is now
to be put in force. Nothing but
sealed letter mail will be sent to a
destination other than the one
originally.U.li’ess prepay
ment of the extra postage be made.
A. W. Shelton was in from Hol
brook Saturday for the first time in
a month. He says he has been so
busy harvesting his first crop of
alfalfa that he has not had time to
visit the metropolis of the Arkansas
Valley. All his farm hands struck
to attend the bloomer baseball
game and A. W. came in to see
that none of them followed the
show off. He says the Holbrook
country is strictly in it this season
as far as crops are concerned.
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