The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1910-07-29
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Thomas A. Mills. aged 81, died at
Fruita.
Las Animas is to have its third
bank.
Five miles Of the big canal at Cedar
have been completed.
A central chmarity organization is
being formed at Salida.
7. w. Robson OF Hartman got 473 |
bushels of wheat from six acres.
September 23rd is the date set for
the annual harvest carnival at Ault.
The annual reunion OF the pioneers
at Cope will be held August 18th and
18th.
September 18th will be Northern
Colorado Day" at the Denver Interstate
Fair.
Montrose Masons have incorporated
with capital s0f $4,000 to build a
temple.
The water In the Cache la Poudre is
reported to be the lowest it has been
in ten years.
Jose Veletes, q Mexican of Salida,
was given sixty days for stabbing
Harry Rose.
The Ouray Pioneer Association will
hold its annual gathering at Hollis
grove near Ridgway September 9Th.
Timothy O'Connor, resident of the
Grand valley for twenty-five years,
died at Grand Junction at the age of 73.
Edwin w. Baxter, a resident OF
southern Colorado for forty years.
died at Pueblo at the age of sixty-two.
The contract for the section of the
new Santa Fe trail" between Rocky
Ford and Fowler has been let at
$S,sS5.
The Colorado Telephone Company
is spending $4,000 for Improvements
in the Arkansas valley. $4,000 of it
in La Junta.
Ouray county officials will ask the
state to appropriate $500 to build
concrete approaches to the state bridge
at Ridgway.
The work Of grading for the Den.
yer, Laramie 4 Northwestern be.
tween Greeley and Severance will
start in few days.
Delirious from typhoid fever. Otis
Kretzer, an employe of the Pueblo
county poor farm, cut his throat with
a razor, death resulting.
The state convention Of the Fedora
; ton OF Labor will be held at Grand
junction beginning August Sth. About
10n 6oloUotac will attend
Farmers around Ridgway expect to
gather about 100000 bushels of wheat
from their $500 acres this year. There
Is mill at Ridgway, too.
| The electric light franchise recently
granted to A. V. Walther by the town
of Ridgway has been extended and TAX
en- over by new company.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has
started movement for the decora-
tive lighting Of Union avenue from
the union depot to the court house.
| The Montezuma County Pioneers
Association will meet at Mancns Sep
temper 2nd.~ Those who went to the
San Juan country prior to 1885 are eli
| gib1e to membership.
7 The new hotel to be built at Fowler
will be three stories in height and
equipped with elevator. electric lights.
baths, and other modern convent
ences.
Mrs Rhoda Lutes. the Oldest lady Of
the western slope. died at Grand juno
ton as the result OF fall which she
sustained several days ago. She was
little over IS pears old.
The federal Bureau Of Mines. re-
Gently Instituted, has decided upon
Trinidad as one Of the first points
at which a mine rescue station will
be established.
Harold Stevens Of Grand Junction
will receive an automobile as the re.
suit of his hustling qualities In sub
scription contest conducted by an
eastern fruit paper.
e. L,-Estep OF East Hoibrook mar
keted 1888 bushels Of wheat at La
Junta, which he threshed from forty
five acres, an average yield of thirty.
four bushels to the acre. &e
A new town will be established on
the Denver & Rio Grande between New
Castle and Silt, to be called Chapman
A town company has been organized
and petition made for a postoffice.
The heavy rains last week in Clear
Creek county destroyed the homes OF
H. B. Baker, R. r. Graham and Rob
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