The Colorado statesman., 1910-07-23
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A Moose lodge has been organized
in Loveland.
Telephone rates in Alamosa are to
reduced August 1st.
The Cottonwood dam near Molina
will be raised five feet higher
Loma's new school building will be
completed in time for the fall term.
Somerset athletes have organized
an association and laid out field.
Work on Boulder's new $4,000 gov
ernment building is nearly completed.
The annual reunion of the pioneers
at Cope will be held August 18th and
18th.
September 14th will be Northern
Colorado Day" at the Denver Interstate
Fair.
Longmont City Council has granted
franchise for piping natural gas to
the city.
Montrose Masons have Incorporated
with capital of $4,000 to build a
temple.
La Veta Methodists have just or
| utItu lOl a new ShuiNh " Scoh
$4,000.
The Pueblo county Democratic con-
vention will be held at Pueblo Septem-
her 10th.
A quarter section of state land at
Ramah has been purchased for park
purposes.
The water in the Cache la Poudre is
reported to be the lowest it has been
in ten years.
The Sons of Colorado will hold their
annual celebration at City Park, Den
yer, August 1st.
Contracts have been let for the con-
struction of fifty miles of new roads
in Bent county.
Mayor Reeder of Palisade is agitat-
ing the question or a public park
among his councilmen.
Citizens of Olathe have held mass
meeting to discuss plans for the in
stallation of waterworks.
J. T. Noteworthy is preparing to is
sue from Greeley a new newspaper to
be called THE Insurgent.'
The Burlington City Council has
purchased block of ground which
will be made into a park.
The Town Council at Rifle is inves-
tigating park proposition in connec-
tion with the famous Rifle falls.
Charles King, a tailor of La Junta,
while going to. Swink Saturday, fell
from the train and was killed.
Mrs. Emma Bergner of Boulder has
Just located a sister at Holdrege, Neb.,
after a separation of forty-two years.
John Hill, while charging holes in
the Favorite mine at Ophir, was III
stantly killed by boulder striking
| him.
Colorado Springs has received the
endorsement of the South Dakota Dry
Farming Association for the 1911 Con-
gresg.
The Basalt Eagle carries a depart
ment of fishing records, and the fig
ures range from IL TO 65 for one days
catch.
Trinidad business men have started
a movement to have a government
mine rescue station established in
that vicinity.
Irving H. Paine, aged 6S, and Isaac
Miller, aged II, original members of
the Union colony which settled Gree
ley, are dead.
A new steel bridge across the Rio
Grande river near Alamosa has been
contracted for. Money available for it
amounts to about $4,000.
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 postoffice.
Fire at Brighton Tuesday night
damaged the plant of the Blade so
that most of the machinery in the
pressrom was put out of commission.
Fire started in a barber shop adjoin-
ing.
The Boulder City Council has re,
jected all bids for the Albion dam and
will have the work done under the SUI
pervision of an engineer to be en-
ployed by the city. The cost will be
about $150,000.
Gen. William II. Lessg died at the
Soldiers Home at Monte Vista Mon
day night at the age of So He was
brave soldier of the Civil War, and in
the early days of Denver his fine home
was a social center.
The Rocky Ford canning factory is
running a double shift Cherries in
various forms were shipped last week
to the value of $4,000 and to date the
bill for Rocky Ford cherries amounts
to over $4,000.
The body of dead man was found
in the bushes on the banks of the Ar
kansas river at Cleora which is sup
of Innnh