The Glenwood post., 1906-09-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Denver have formed a cross-country
rlnning club.
A cabbage exhibited by W. S. Brown
at Florence is five feet in circumfer-
ence and weighs nearly forty-five
pounds.
| The girl students at the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley still quite gen
orally keep up the custom, inaugurated
come two years ago, of going without
hats.
L. N. Zalinger, formerly publisher of
the Denver Eye, has started new
weekly paper in Denver, the South
| Denver Sun, which will advocate Re
| publican politics.
The application of w. A. Merriell, X.
! F. Skelley, A. A. Belts, E. J. Dalton
and O. D. Belts, to organize the First
National Bank of Fruita, with $4,000
| capital, has been approved by the
| comptroller of the currency.
Walter L. Barnes. for four years Ii
brarian at Albany New York, has been
| appointed assistant librarian at the
Buckingham library, University of Col
| who has rendered her resignation after
| serving three hears as assistant.
| The Fremont County Fair closed on
the 21st, and was the most successful!
event in the history of the association,
and the directors rejoiced tonight
over the fact of the large surplus in
the treasury after paying all the bills.
Mrs. Rebecca Eaton, wife of the late
| ex-GOv. B. H. Eaton will give a $4,000
pipe organ to the Park Congregational
Church at Greeley, to commemorate
the life and character of her daughter,
Mrs. Jennie Eaton-Petrikin. who died
recently.
Supervising Architect Taylor, of the
Treasury Department, is expected to
| arrive in Denver December list to ex
anime the sites that have been offered
for the new Denver postotfice building.
Congress has appropriated 100000 for
the purchase of site.
By the use of a lam of forty-eight
oxen, Senator Clayton has constructed
bitches on marshy land north of Gree
ley, whereby $50 acres of land has
been drained. This land will now be
valuable for garden purposes and will
be plated in five-acre tracts.
Thomas Appleton. recently in
charge of the Evanston, Wyoming.
public building, has been ordered to
Colorado to examine the sites offered
for the proposed federal building at
Boulder and trinidad. for which the
sum of 100000 each has been appro.
priated.
Greeley taxpayers voted by large
majority in favor of granting the Gree
ley Gas & Electric Company a fran
Chise The company will now issue
bonds, enlarge it's plant, build a new
power house and install a new system
of making gas. About $40, 900 will be
expended
Agents of the General Land Office
are waging an energetic campaign
against locators of mining claims on
forest reservations where there is no
evidence Of mineral on the land. In a
number of instances contest proceed
ings have been brought in local
land office against holders of such
| claims.
Miss Ethlyn Feger, a graduate of
the Greeley high school and of Colo
RADIO College and daughter Of ]. F.
Feger at Greeley, passed successfully
the state examination for pharmacist
in Denver last week and is now en-
titled to be known as a registered
druggist Miss Feger is twenty-four
years old, fine chemist and will as
SlSL utI ldllbE III llt STORE.
The fame of Colorado fruit is to be
spread to Boston this month, because
Mrs Martha A. Shute of the State Hor-
ticultural Board will leave for a
months trip in Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Canada. And she has
packed one trunk to the limit with
choice specimens of Colorado apples
with which to astonish the owners of
New England and Canadian orchards.
J. C. Lawrence, aged sixty-eight a
| wealthy and successful veterinary sur
| geon, died at Canon City Monday un-
| der circumstances that have caused
| talk of suicide. Lawrence, it is said
| became intoxicated during the fair the
| previous week and remained from that
| time until his death in a stupor. In
| his room was found a bottle labeled
| laudanum and it is believed that he
took about four ounces of the drug dur
! ing the week.
Albert Lawrence, living four miles
east of Greeley on land near the river
is said to have just harvested the big
| gest crop of onions on record in the
| district. Twenty acres planted to well
| low globe onions averaged 400 sacks to
the acre, making a crop of 5000 sacks
| AT Alit pitotlil plItt VI 10 ttIlo
per hundred, the crop brings So
500. 1t cost just $50 an acre to grow
and place the crop on the market, thus
| leaving the grower $500 as net gain.
| Kemary Ritter, a wealthy stockman
whose family lives at Walsenburg Col
orado, and who owned large interests
at Naravista, Colorado, died at the Ter
ritorial Insane Asylum here last night,
says an East Las Vegas dispatch of
September 23d. He was admitted
from Union county, this territory.
where he had lived for a time. The
body has been shipped to Walsenburg
for burial. Ritter made his most sue
cessful financial deal after his mind
was unhinged, just before he was
brought to the asylum, eighteen
months ago.
The dry farming" congress will be
held in Denver on November 23d, oath