The Glenwood post., 1908-08-29


Lake have drawn good crowds this
year and have been well worth seeing.
The State Federation of Womens
clubs will hold its annual meeting at
Colorado Springs September 22d to
2Gth.
Denver men have incorporated the
Longmont Oil and Gas Company to
drill wells in Boulder and Weld coun-
ties.
| In its reports the Colorado Springs
health department bases its percent
ages on an estimated population of
$4,000.
Indications are that Labor Day,
September 7th. will be celebrated in
all the larger towns of the state on
generous scale.
1t has been decided to hold the an
nual tri-county fair of Garfield, Eagle
and Pitkin counties in Glenwood
Springs this year.
Rocky Ford invites the whole world
to a feast of free watermelons and can
taloupes on Thursday, September Sd
the far-famed Watermelon Day.
The contract for the erection of the
Fremont county Jail has been let to
Alderman U. S. Okey of Canon City for
$l7,176 and work will soon be COM
| menced.
The Democratic state convention
will be held in Pueblo on Tuesday, the
Sth of September, four days before the
| Republican state convention will be
held in Denver.
Mrs. Carolyn Kirchoff was instantly
| killed and her son-in-law, J. H. Han
ming, seriously injured in boiler ex-
plosion at Hustled, Ell Paso county on
Thursday, the goth inst.
The Taft and Sherman flambeau
club of Ell Paso county is making ar
rangements to send delegation of 500
to attend the Republican state conven-
ton in Denver September 18th.
The abstract of assessment of JEFF
ferson county shows the total net val
uation foi 1908 to be s5,250,176, an in
crease of $110,502 over last year The
increase is mostly on improvements.
City Engineer R. II. Ashworth esti-
mates that ten miles of new sidewalk
has been laid in Colorado City this
summer. The city is advertising two
and one-half miles of additional side
walk
The picnic of the Denver Retail
Grocers' Association at Glacier lake on
the 18th inst. was attended by nearly
5000 persons. Nearly every grocery
in Denver was locked up for the en-
tire day.
A life size bronze statue of Horace
Greeley will be erected in Lincoln
park at Greeley. 1t will be presented
to the city by citizens who are loyal
to the memory of the founder of the
town of Greeley and who desire to per-
petuate it.
The Colorado & Midland railroad
and the Postal Telegraph Company
have filed protests with the state
board of equalization declaring that
the assessments fixed on their prop
erty are too high, both companies al
leging poor business during the past
| year.
For the third time, and the second
this summer, the Denver & Rio Grande
safe in the Manitou depot was blown
open on the night of the 18th inst. by
cracksmen. who secured less than IS
cash for their work. Many valuable
express packages in the office were un-
disturbed.
Damage estimated at from $4,000
and county bridges, ranch lands and
private property by flood caused by
cloudburst, occurring along the crest
of the Greenhorn range, south of Flor
ence, between Z and 8 o'clock Satur-
day night.
The beet factories at Rocky Ford
and at Swink will open the campaign
October 10th. At Las Animas and
Lamar the factories will not run this
fall because of the poor crop, but the
beets raised at those places will be
bought at Rocky Ford. The Rocky
Ford district crop will be about three
fourths OF the normal yield.
The Seventh Day Adventists, in ses-
sion at Pueblo. elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: East
ern Colorado. Elder ]. W. Lair, pres
ident; Elder F. M. Wilcox, vice pres
ident and secretary of conference;
western Colorado, Ed. F. W. Kennedy.
president; Elder G. F. Watson, vice
president; w. M. Andreas, secretary
Of conference.
In order to retire its outstanding
bonds and get some money in the
treasury for immediate use whenever
necessary, the voting trustees Of the
Northern Colorado Power Company
will hold meeting September 5th for
the purpose of authorizing a bond is-
sue Of $6,000,000. Half of this issue
will be used to retire the $1,000 900
worth Of bonds now outstanding, and
the other 100000 will be available
for extensions and improvements in
the present equipment.
The Canon City mica mill has just
received an order from large manu-
featuring firm in Indiana for three
carloads of ground mica. This Is one
Of the biggest contracts Of the kind
ever awarded in the state. The mar.
ket for ground mica is constantly ex.
panding as new uses for 1t are found in
the industrial world. Aside from paint
pigments and making, wall paper, col.