The Holly chieftain., 1909-10-22
COLORADO ITEMS

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Colorado Springs has definitely de.
eided to build . Sunday school adj
tion to cost between $4,000 and
$4,000
John Condor. an oldtime miner in
southwestern Colorado. was killed by
the explosion Of q missed shot in the
Camp Bird mine At Ouray ON the 18th
inst. His helper. Joe Koenig. was
badly hurt.
The new Denver public library.
which has cost. including the grounds.
1885, 900. toward which Andrew Car.
nsgie made . donation of $2O0. 900.
Il expected to be ready for occupancy
BY Christmas.
At the state meeting of the Retail
Credit Mems Association at Boulder.
H. A. Galbraith OF Denver was elected
president and NJ H. Lowe Of Greeley
secretary. Denver was selected as
the next meeting place.
OF the 800 census enumerators that
will be employed to take the federal
census in the northern district Of Col.
RADIO. the greater number will be wom-
en-. according to A. B. McGaffey, su-
pervisor Of the census for the district.
About 100 enumerators will be re-
quired in the state. and both men and
women are eligible.
Beet harvest has begun in the Ar
kansas valley has begun and the
farmers expect the crop will be
worth 100000. The factory Of the
Holly Sugar Company and the Amer
lean Sugar Company's factories at
swink. Holly. Rocky Ford. Las AMI
mas and Lamar have been thoroughly
overhaulsd ready for work.
The visiting party Of thirty members
Of the japanese commercial commits
sionsrs. including the leading finan-
cial maSnates Of the japanese empire,
10 scheduled to arrive in Denver No
vember 18th. The Denver Chamber
Of Commerce will have charge Of their
entertainment and is planning . spe-
cial train to Fort Collins and northern
Colorado.
Work has been begun by the Chris.
tian Church Association on the new
children's home in Denver. The site
has been purchased and the building
10 being erected with money donated
to the association by Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w. Warren Of Loveland. The build.
ing 10 . two and one-half-story brick
structure with full basement. II IL
to cost about $4,000. and win &C
commodate about go children.
Ovid Plum, first vice president Of
the Society Of Union Colony Pioneers,
celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday
on the 18th inst. He is the only per.
son now living in Greeley who attend.
cd the meeting which Horace Greeley
and N. @. Meeker called in New York
City at Cooper's Institute in 1868 for
the purpose Of organizing Union Col.
ony. which founded the city Of Gree
ley.
The first report Of the Colorado &C.
olosical survey. created by the lesis-
laturs three years ago. will be issued
In few days by State Geologist
George. It covers 142 pages, has many
Illustrations. contains complete re-
ports on the surveys of the tungsten
areas Of Boulder county. the Monte.
yuma mining district, the foothills Tor:
nations Of northern Colorado and Of
the Hahn's Peak region.
The Railroad Red Book for octo-
Der, which has just been issued by
Publisher J. Harry Carson at Denver.
for the passenger department Of the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Com.
pany, presents q pictorial story of
President Taft's trip through Colorado
on the occasion Of the recent opening
of the Gunnison tunnel of the I'm.
compahgre irrigation project of the
government.
Booker T. Washington, the famous
oolored educator. will lecture Monday.
November I. at the Peoples Taber.
nacls in Denver. All receipts from the
lecture will be applied to the fund
which ID being raised by the mem.
bers Of the Young Mems Christian
Brotherhood to erect q new building in
Denver. The Y. M. c. B. il the Y. M,
G. A. Of the colored people and its
leaders are anxious to build q home
for the organization.
Columbus day was celebrated At
Trinidad on most elaborate scale,
there being an immense crowd, among
them people from northern New Mex.
leo and the various surrounding towns