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Subject: This Week in La Veta History - November 2003
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:19:17 EDT


This Week in La Veta History by Nancy Christofferson
Huerfano World - November 6, 2003

1904: The "Hayseeds" suffered defeat at the hands of the town base ball team
by a score of 36 to 12.
1907: Don't forget to vote on the bond issue to build a high school building.

1911: William Thomas, who now resides in Oakview, was Chief signalman to
Admiral Dewey during the battle of Manila.
1915: The town was turned upside down on Halloween; the streets looked as if
a cyclone had struck and people spent two days searching for their property,
and cleaning windows.
1918: Owing to the Spanish Influenza epidemic, we were spared the usual
political platform speeches preceeding an election.
1921: Hugh Sager and Miss Sarah Atchison were married Oct. 23 by Rev. Gunby.
They will build a house on his ranch east of town for their home.
1925: The high school seniors gave a Halloween masquerade party Friday night
at the schoolhouse. Ghosts and fortune tellers played an important part.
1929: For 40 years Huerfano County people crossed Mosca Pass, a wagon road
and mail route, to go duck hunting and now the sand dunes are famous though once
travelers just complained about crossing 10 miles of sand.
1933: In place of a regular meeting, the Camp Fire girls held a Mickey Mouse
party in the Recreation Hall Tuesday night, attended by 35 members and guests.
1937: The new farm-to-market road between here and Walsenburg, south of the
Cucharas River, will be completed after the last two bridges are done.
1940: The La Veta R.E.A. project has been linked with the San Isabel Electric
Association which operates in the Beulah-Rye area.
1943: Walter Campbell, one of four local ranchers who took stock to a
Hereford auction in Trinidad, says his bulls averaged $200 a head in the sale.
1949: La Veta's mill levy has been reduced from 18 to 15 for next year.
1953: A total of $63,477.87 was realized by local breeders in the second
feeder sale which offered 906 head of stock.
1958: Total receipts of $242,320.84 were recorded during the annual feeder
sale of the Huerfano County Hereford Breeders Association Friday in La Veta, in
which 1,717 animals were sold.
1962: Juniors on the honor roll are George Albright, James Carver, Karen
Kmetz and Wayman Percifull.
1966: Mr. and Mrs. Vern Bristol, who were married Oct. 19, 1916 in Roundup,
Mont., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a family dinner.
1970: The Snowy Range 4-H Club sponsored a Halloween dance Saturday night in
the L.V.H.S. gym with the proceeds to benefit the Colorado Boys Ranch.

This Week in La Veta History by Nancy Christofferson
Huerfano World - November 13, 2003

1902: The entertainment at Ryus Hall Saturday evening by the Young People's
Society of Christian Endeavor was a social and financial success, assuring them
of a new carpet for the Presbyterian Church.
1906: Messrs. Fruth and Autrey are daily expecting the Denver and Rio Grande
surveyors to complete laying the switch to their new coal mine.
1910: The Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will give a food
and apron sale in the new Estes building on Saturday from 2 o'clock until 6.
1914: Paul Ghiardi's new store is about ready to receive goods.
1917: The Royal Hawaiians will appear at Kincaid's Hall next Monday night.
1920: There is to be a masquerade ball tomorrow night in Kincaid's Hall.
1924: Alex Klobskey called at this office the other day and informed us that
his friends in La Veta would not see him again until next spring.
1927: An appropriation of approximately $40,000 could bring the highway east
far enough from La Veta Pass to eliminate both of the railroad crossings
between here and Ojo.
1931: Kid Ellis, passenger engineer here 13 years ago, and his wife of
Trinidad were visiting old friends around town Sunday.
1934: The La Veta Wildcat football team defeated Aguilar 20-6 in front of the
largest crowd of townspeople of the season.
1937: There are now 82 cabins in Cuchara Camps and five are to be built this
winter. There also are a picnic ground, dance hall and supply house.
1940: George "Spud" Kreutzer has been promoted to private first class in the
U.S. Army Air Corps at Lowry Field in Denver.
1944: At the La Veta High School mock election, Dewey received 35 votes and
Roosevelt, 20.
1948: The body of Pfc. Felix B. Mestas Jr., killed Sept. 29, 1944 in Italy,
is being returned to La Veta for burial.
1951: Beginning Saturday, the 9 p.m. curfew will be strictly enforced.
1955: About 100 Huerfano County farmers met and were assured a guaranteed
market for all the eggs they can produce from the General Mills program.
1958: Curtis Goemmer was elected president of the 4-H Electric Club, Fred
Scholes, vice president, Carl Drum, secretary and Janet Pene, treasurer.
1961: Over $1,600 was stolen last weekend from Young Brothers Conoco service
station, La Veta Cash and Carry and Lehman's Liquors.
1965: Nola Geiser was caught in the now-famous blackout in New York City
where she was attending the National Licensed Beverage Association convention.
1969: Eugene Sawyer took nine Boy Scouts to Colorado Springs to watch the Air
Force-Utah State football game.

This Week in La Veta History by Nancy Christofferson
Huerfano World - November 27, 2003

1903: Regular old fashioned wind storms have been visiting this section since
last Sunday and few hay stacks have retained their headpieces.
1907: Mr. Bergamo has commenced the construction of a stone residence on east
Field Street.
1911: Some of those working on the new schoolhouse for $2 a day asked for a
50 cent raise and were refused, causing a few to quit work.
1915: Buy Oakdale coal, lump $4.75 delivered, $4 at the car. Leave orders at
the bakery or with Elmer Read, back of Goemmer's blacksmith shop.
1918: The Spanish Influenza epidemic seems to be getting better in La Veta
but there have been several deaths this week at Oakview.
1921: The boys are trapping muskrats, for the price on hides and furs has
risen.
1925: Roy Heikes has moved his family to Oakview where he has found
employment.
1929: G.A. Mayes has moved his family down from Cuchara Camps to his mother's
house in town for the winter months.
1932: Many a turkey will be beheaded in a few days. Even with a depression,
there is still much to be thankful for, if the turkeys can see it that way.
1935: Several cattle shippers have been out all night tracking their animals
that someone has been letting out of the loading pens at the railroad
stockyards.
1938: The Smith family had its annual family dinner at the J.O. Smith
residence with about 32 relatives present.
1941: The Pied Pipers will play for a dance Nov. 22 in Kincaid Hall.
Admission 60 cents plus tax.
1945: The Gled Oil Company well being drilled in the Ojo anticline west of La
Veta is down 1,200 feet and expects to go to 3,500 feet to test the Dakota
sands.
1949: New officers elected for Tuesday Night Study Club are Constance
Ghiardi, president; [cut off]Frost, treasurer.
1952: La Veta Redskins lost to Manitou Springs 34-20 in the district playoff.

1957: Died, John Peter Goemmer, 81, leaving children George A., John, Ruth
Larsen and Elsie McDonald, as well as brother Gus A.
1960: The Redskins defeated Cripple Creek-Victor 34-6 to reach the Class C
football finals.
1963: LVHS students will present a comedy, "A Date with a Dream," featuring
Jim Carver, Sharon Sager, Jimmie Wagner, Barbara Dixon and Adelyn Duzenack.
1966: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leap and daughters spent the weekend in their new
home at Cuchara.
1970: All businesses will be closed Saturday afternoon for the La Veta-Hugh
semi-final football game.

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