The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-07-31
STATE news ITEMS

'he -hoIldt ICdu nave ueSiTOStu IuCI
valuable timber.
A turkey gobbler sitting on thirteen
duck eggs is freak on the farm of E
X. Packard at Eaton.
The annual convention of the Amerl
can Bankers Association will be held
at Denver September 2sth to October
3rd
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 cath, 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 its meeting in Colorado
Springs placed itself on record as op-
rosed to government guarantee of de-
posits in national banks.
The Fort Morgan Commercial Club
has decided to employ a landscape ar
tist to investigate different tracts un-
der consideration for a public park
and push the matter to completion.
Owing to the renewed business OF
the smelters, it 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. r.
Smith, resigned; Sugar City, Otero
county, Thomas w. Butler, vice w. F..
Tarpox, resigned.
Lieutenant Governor Harper has ap-
pointed l. 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 a
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 Niagara Hall, the first merchant
Of Greeley, to Jonas Harrington of
western New York, and was for $3.50.
The $125,0O0 addition to Glockner
sanitariurl at Colorado Springs will be
formally opened Aug. 18th with music
and addresses by Mayor D. 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
Denver and M. A. Gillis. grand knight
of the Knights of Columbus.
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
in Longmont this year on August 18th.
The ladies of Longmont will make 49,
900 pies, and with the pies will be
10000 sandwiches and seventy-five
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 masked carnival.
David H. Moffat sailed from Europe
July 21st on his return trip after Il
brief visit to his daughter, Mrs. J. A.
McClurg, and his granddaughter, Miss
Marjorie, in Paris. The date Of his
sailing also CHANGED to mark his sixty.
ninth birthday, and his relatives and
friends in Colorado kept the telegraph
and cable companies busy conveying to
Mr.. Moffat their messages of congrat-
ulatiOn.
The Empson Packing Company of
Longmont 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 1852, 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,
solidated roads of the Rio Grande
Railway Company. including the Den
yer & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande
Western Railway Companies, were
filed with the Secretary of State at
Denver Monday. The papers state that
the new corporation is capitalized at
PSS'poV,ooO. hO pdpClo were Sl6uGu
by the president of the company and
he 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 and Yampa the rails 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
fampa and construction work will be
in full blast beyond that point.
Three teachers have been added 10
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
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