The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-06-12
COLORADO ITEMS


$4,000 for the erection of an audi
torium
The board OF trade of GlenwooI
Springs has planned good fellowship
excursion to Loadvile June Sth
The headquarters of the forest SUI
pervisor of the Medicine Bow national
forest, Estes Park. have been restored
TO Fort Collins.
The school census just completed
III Fort Morgan SHOW an increase
from ".2 children of school age in 1900
10 Al in 1908.
BY union Of Methodists and Con
s'esallCnalists new church has been
erected at Coal Creek, which is larger
than the church burned last June.
Harry Dowell of Greeley. formerly
Of the Victor schools, has a SNOWFALL
bush in his yard upon which three
1ourths of tire blossoms are a bright
scarlet.
DR.. and Mrs. w. S. Friedman and
their little son leave Denver June 10th
for three months trip abroad. They
sail on the kaiZerin Augusta-V Victoria
June 18th.
Company c of Aunt is preparing
TO send a rifle team to the state en-
campment at Golden next July. The
team will consist OF eigh, men under
Lieutenant SwOne
Frederick y. Donaldson of Denver
has won a $500 scholarship for four
months travel anl study in Europe,
awarded by the Philadelphc. acad
emy of fine arts.
Tho Dbin ncsnpiutinp Of Jl,ullor ic
making preparations to give the Ohio
delegates to the Democratic National
Convention u grea! outing after that
convention adjour1,s.
The Pioneers Society of Colorado
and the Sons of Colorado are consider
ing proposition to purchase the
Chamber of Commerce. building in
Denver as permanent headquarters.
Six Greeley business men, happy
over the rain Of Saturday and Sunday,
have computed that the fall, which
was 2.l5 inches in the Greeley dis
trict, means that each acre received
3la tons Of water.
The second day of the Frontier day
festival at Cheyenne next August will
be Northern Colorado day, and the last
day will be known as Denver day,
when great crowds are expected from
the Colorado capital.
Preston Smith. known as the cham
piOn broncho buster Of Middle Park,
was almost instantly Killed May 23rd.
while braakin" Il bronch0 on Trouble
some ranch, a few miles from Sulphur
Springs.
The annual class field and track
meet at the Agricultural college re-
suited in the sophumores winning
victory by on point. The final score
stood: Soph0mores. So; freshmen, 50;
seniors, ., and juniors, |.
For the first time ir the history of
the town Lyons now has Il Sunday
mail. Though the efforts of the Lyons
Commercial Association a star route
from LongmOnt via Hygiene was estab
lished by the Posrottice department.
The Short Line railroad will estab-
lsh an agency in Denver during the
tourist season and William Carruth-
ors. district passenger and freight
agent for the road for several years,
will be manager of the office.
Professor Wendell Paddock, horti-
culturist of Colorado Agricultural col
lcge states that Il large number OF car
loads of fruit will be raised on the
western slope this year. The falling
of in fruit production in Colorado in
1907, owing to freezing, was not eXcep-
iiOnal as other fruit sections of the
United States suffered from the same
cause
Secretary Mills Of the Denver
Cham nt { ('nfIIslprrp received ipla-
cram from Congry yssMau BInynss. stat
ing that the bill for the purchase Of
the Rucker and Fabian tracts, adjoin
ing For, Logan. has passed both
houses of Congress and the $lloOoO
to be paid for the land Will soon be
available. The tracLs contain $40
acres.
Deputy Cattle Inspector Rowe. at
Greeley is credited with saying that
there are less than 1000 head of cat
tie now on iced III northern Colorado.
OF these 1000 are at Longmont Goo at
Eaton. 200. CT l.ovcland and none in
Fort Collins or Greeley. LOngm0nt
fed G.VOO head this season, more than
ANY one locality in northern Colorado,
where a total Of 10000 We're prepared
for market.
Three cOnviCts escaped from the
road building camp al Starkvillc last
week. They are George Mason, sent
up in November. 1905, from Garfield
county for five to six years for rob
berry: Dan Mcdonald, sent up in Sep
tember, 1907, from Lake county, for
two years on a burglary charge and
George King, Sent up from Mesa coun-
ty in October 1907, for five to six
years for larceny.
st. Paups NJ. T.. church in Denver
is 10 have one of the most unique insti-
tutional churches in the country to be
erected at the cost of 5000. OF this
sum $4,000 was voted to the church
at the meeting of the boards of the
Southern Methodist churches in st.
Joseph, Missouri. May 9th. on the coll
ditiOn that 10000 was raised by the
congregation. The church will have
rooms for young men and women of
small salaries, kitchen dining room,