The Springfield herald., 1908-07-31
STATE news ITEMS


A turkey gobbler sitting on thirteen
duck eggs Is freak on the farm Of e.
K Packard at Eaton.
The annual convention OF the Ameri-
can Bankers Association will be held
At Denver September 2sth to October
1rd.
Steps are being taken to form a
Farmers union at Fort Morgan. This
organization is backing an independ-
ent sugar factory for North Fort Nor
gan.
County Surveyor Youngquist OF Nor.
gan county has Just completed map
Of the county, giving all the irrigation
districts, as well as those which are
contemplated.
At the opening of the Greeley Chau-
tauqua assembly July oath, Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin spoke for four
hours. Stranger still. the audience
stayed to listen to him.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso
citation, at It's meeting in Colorado
Springs placed itself on record as OF,
POSED to government guarantee of de-
posits in national banks.
The Fort Morgan Commercial Club
has decided to employ landscape ar
tist to investigate different tracts un-
der consideration for public park
and push the matter to completion.
Owing to the renewed business of
the smelters. 1t is announced that the
Eiler smelter at Pueblo will be opened
within two months. Machinery Is be-
ing overhauled and new equipment in
stalled.
The following new postmasters have
been appointed: Stratton. Kit Carson,
county, Joseph A. Smith, vice w. X.
Smith. resigned; Sugar City, Otero
county. Thomas w. Butler, vice w. +.
Tarpo1. resigned.
Lieutenant Governor Harper has ap-
pointed !. N. Janney water commits
sioner for district thirty-five. to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Max Atencio. Mr. Janney resides at
Zapato In Costello county.
Street signs and house numbers are
being placed at Fort Morgan and
large force Is at work on cement cross
ings. In few days the council hopes
to be able to meet the requirements
for free city delivery of mail.
The first money order ever issued in
Greeley is framed and hangs in the
Greeley postoffice. 1t was sent by the
late Ningnra Hall, the first merchant
of Greeley. to Jonas Harrington OF
western New York. and was for $3.50.
The sl25.O addition to Glocknsr
sAnitariuTI at Colorado Springs VII be
formally opened Aug. 18th with music
and addresses by Mayor ID. N. Heizer,
Grand Exalted Ruler Of the Elks R. l..
Holland, Mrs. Francis w. Goddard,
president OF the Glockner Relief Asso-
citation; Rt. Rev. Bishop N. C. MatZ of
A
of the knights OF Columbus.
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
in Lpngmont this year on August 18th.
The ladies of Longmont will make H.
900 pies. and with the pies will be
barrels of coffee With the festival
proper will be an Industrial parade
in which the farming interests will be
represented. In the evening there will
be fireworks and a masked carnival.
David h Moffat sailed from Europe
July 21st on his return trip after
brief visit to his daughter, Mrs. J. A.
McClurg, and his grand daughter. Miss
Marjorie. in Paris. The date of his
sailing also chanced to mark his sixty
ninth birthday. and his relatives and
friends in Colorado kept the telegraph
and cable companies busy conveying to
Mr. M0ffat their messages of congrat-
Ulation.
The Empson Packing Company OF
1ngInont has made filing in the of
flee of the clerk and recorder OF Boul-
der county, on reservoir site to be
filled with waters of Left Hand. Boul-
der and Dry creeks. The capacity OF
the reservoir is to be 75.5S2 900 cubic
feet and the water will be used for
irrigation purposes. The dam is to be
twenty six feet high and the estimated
cost is $4,000.
Articles OF incorporation of the con
soIidated roads of the Rio Grande
Railway Company, including the Den
yer & Rio CIR nde and the Rio Grande
Western Railway Companies, were
filed with the Secretary of State at
Denver Monday. The papers n that
the new corporation is capitalized at
$3S. 100000 The papers were signed
by the president of the company and
the board of directors. The fees for fill
ing were over $4,000.
Rapid construction work is being
done on the Moffat road. Rails were
laid into Toponas July 23rd. and the
regular passenger trains will run to
that point after August 10th. Be-
tween Mccoy anu 1Hillpd lne TdllS are
being laid without ballasting the track.
As soon as all the iron is down, the
construction crew will return and do
the work of ballasting BY August 25th
the regular trains will be running into
Yampa and construction work will be
in full blast beyond that point
Three teachers have been added to
The State Normal faculty for the COM
ing year. They are Theophilus Fritz.
who comes from the State University
Of Oklahoma to become the head of the
musical department.: w. T. Stephens of
the State Normal school Of Winona,
Minnesota. who will conduct research
work in the department of education,
and John T. Lister Of Cleveland. form
erIy a teacher in the school, who re-
turns to take charge of the physical
training department.
Thirty-five men were put to work
July 22nd at Pueblo as car repairers
by the Denver & Rio Grande, bringing
the force up to 105 men. which is as
large as that employed before, the big
cut was made all over the system. The
men will work on heavy car repairs.
in the attempt to get many cars now