The Holly chieftain., 1910-10-21
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oesss SHersh Telling.
Booze or - hoase will be the para
mount issue 1t Dsbeque at the comins
election.
Albert A. Rcd has been elected
president Of ths Boulder Commercial
Association.
Trinidad rsports the first rain in
more thaa thrsa Donths-crops fairly
good and frost Dropf.
Clara ]. Nar6iA has been appointed
postmaster st Iro0tOn, Ouray county.
Colorado. vice ". p. Stuart. resigned.
The publishsA report that Milliken
L. to have. salooos is strenuously de-
MED BY the Indignant mayor of that
town.
Jess Moore 0f 0alida killed q 35O-
pound, 6-point deef during the open
season-the largest recorded in that
section.
from Rio Blanco county with eleven
big bucks-ths best Denver record OF
the season.
Greeley IL making a war on dogs
and loafers. STRANGELY the town cut
up seems not to be involved in the
elimination process.
A movement has been started by
state and local authorities to improve
the roadway Of the dangerous Ute
Pass. above Manitou.
A series of free moving picture ex.
hibitions and free concerts tor the
winter at Denver's Auditorium are
now being considered.
Greeley physicians claim that
rabies is hereditary. 1t is said that
they found that dogs but month or
two old suffer from the disease.
The Railway Signal Association con-
vention at Richmond, Va, elected C.
E. Denrey president and will mold next
years session At Colorado Springs.
The Pierce district is being sub
jected to energetic prospecting. to
learn If the excellent grade of coal
there reaches commercial proportions.
A $4,000 suspender plant is to be at
tached to Denver's Industries, Its bust.
ness, of course. stretching over and
holding the trade Of the middle west.
Fort Lupton proposes to be city
Of lights as soon - the Northern Col
orado Power Company's sub-station on
the west side Of the river is COM
pleted.
Sixty cars OF cattle and sheep
shipped from Montrose in one day. es-
tablished a record ut that place. But
agricultural records in Colorado don't
ii
Gov. Warner and the three wardens
of the penitentiaries of Michigan.
legislative committee have been in
vestigating the convict-occupation
methods at Canon City.
At Boulder committee has been
appointed to raise funds to purchase
a $25,OO4 site for an auto oil refinery
The plant is to be built by the Colo.
RADIO U. g. Refinery Company.
So good is the yield and so satisfac-
tory have the profits been this season
on winter wheat it 10 very probable
that 1t will take the place of spring
wheat in the Greeley district.
T. c. Winbourn, pioneer OF Fort
Lupton. has eleven acres Of pumpkins.
The crop will harvest 200 tons and
bring $500. Statistics on how many
acres of pumpkin pies this represents
would be interesting.
Boys and girls of Weld county have
made good money this year in raising
peanuts. In the Eaton and Ault dis
tricts they have devoted the summer
to growing the goobers and have sold
them to merchants.
At Yampa DR.. J. H. Keir and Steve
Elkins, local guide and hunter, have
returned from bear hunt on which
eight bears we're killed. Timid Yam
paites should no longer be afraid to
to go home In the dark.
Photographs of every instrument
filed for record in the county clerks
office pertaining to the transfer Of
land since the organisation of the
county to the present time were com.
pleted to-day by the Weld County Abb
stract Company. after two years Of
daily work by one man.
Prairie dogs. supposed to be. dying
off as the irrigated territory en-
croaches onto their towns, have only
moved their settlements into higher,
unirrigated regions, where they are a
menace to surrounding crops. is the
report Of ranchers in. the Greeley dis
trict.
Owen & Rogers are shipping car