The Glenwood post., 1907-02-09

The popular county clerk. Grant
Nj. Haughey came down from the
Peak Tuesday to get Whit of our
balmy spring breezes. Grant reports
four feet of snow at the county seat
and good prospects for foot more
since he left. Craig Courier.
Miss B, o. de la Matyr arrived in
Grand junction yesterday to make it
her home again which will be good
news to her many friends. At present
she will have her studio with A. N.
Anderson in the Price terrace on Col
orado avenue. Grand junction News.
Norman G. Croall has sold his
ranch near Emma, known as the old
[. w. Chatfed ranch, to Mark L..
Shippee and Nathan Ogden. The
price paid was Sl3, OOO Mr.. Ogden
takes the lower end and Mr.. Shippee
the upper end of this famous old
homestead Basalt Journal.
But few ranchmen in the entire
country can boast of having electric
| lighted homes and outbuildings and
also telephone connections with all
parts of the state as do many of our
Palisade ranchmen. And now num-
ber of them ale talking of erecting
sidewalks in front of their fruit
tracts. Guess we are getting to be
quite metropolitan. -Palisade Trib-
| une.
John Weiskopf of Steamboat has
invented tandem snowshoe, and
offers a prize to the first young, un-
married lady who successfully lides
them with him down Woodchuck hill.
1t got rumored about in some way
that the prize was to be the esteemed
editor of the Sentinel and now Mac
has all the work to do in the office as
John is kept busy trying OUT the
far ones of Steamboat on the snow
shoes. - Craig Courier.
The Colorado Telephone company
this week installed telephones at E.
Fl. lines livery barn, and in the resi-,
dences of DR.. J. H. Cole and Judge
Charles A. Morning. The Iinemen
engaged in setting the poles for the
new lines were considerably hampered
by the ground being frozen and there
fore employed dynamite in digging
the holes. The first explosion startled
the town, all manner of wild reports
being started as a result. -Yampa
| Leader.
The members of Yampa Camp No.
64l, Woodmen of the World, are con-
sidering forming building associa
tion for the purpose of erecting fine
lodge hall to cost about $40 600. The
camp has practically outgrown is
is rapidly increasing, therefore il is
| believed by many of the leading
inemb bers that the order should have
hall of its own The plan is to build
substantial brick building. with the
lodge room and banquet hall on the
second floor and two large stores be-
low. -Yampa Leader.
There will be plenty of snow in the
hills to furnish the usual abundance
of water for irrigation next summer.
AT the sawmill the snow now lies four
feet deep. while on top of the mesa it
is without doubt two feet deeper.
The windy weather a month ago
drifted great quantities of snow over
which is an important item in its
! conserN alton. With what snow we
are sure to get through February and
March, next summer is certain to see
great abundance of water in the
Plateau country. Plateau Voice.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Rife Creek Telephone
company, held in Rifle last Saturday,
was largely attended, the principal
business being the election of FIVE di-
rectors. The board for the ensuing
year is comprised of B. H. Thompson,
/. w. Graham, Dick Paris, George
E. ClarksoD and G. B. Coffin. The
directors met at later hour and or.
ganized by electing B. H. Thompson.
president; Dick Paris, vice presi-
dent; c. b. Coffin, secretary; George
E. Clarkson, treasurer, and |. w.
Graham, manager. The meeting was
harmonious throughout. The company
is in good shape financially, with no
outstanding debts and some money in
the treasury. Rifle Reveille.
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