The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1910-07-08
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Avon is to have telephone connec-
ton.
Akron real estate men have organ.
lied an exchange.
Two Buttes wants a meat shop.
Must be a prosperous community.
Lamar reports an unusually good
prospect for big beet yield.
]. A. Caster of Brandon has well
1873 feet deep with ninety-two feet OF
water.
Granada Ia reviving its promotion
club, and the last meeting was well
attended. l
The new German Evangelical church
at Idalia will be dedicated on Sunday,
July Sd.
J. H. Billiard of Sheridan Lake was
convicted of cruelty to animals ana
fined $25.
The Peoples State Bank of Towner
has arranged for the erection OF fine
new banking home.
A number of men employed at the
Ohio-Colorado smelter at Salida have
received increases in their wages.
George L. Shepherd. member OF
the original Union Colony, died at
Greeley Sunday at the age of eighty
two.
The Wiley Journal says the alfalfa
crop has never before had such uni
formly heavy crop nor matured SO
early.
Mrs. G. S. Neer OF Jersey took car
bolic acid with fatal effect Sunday.
She was respondent on account of ILL.,
health.
A Windsor man has invented beet
topper which local men think enough
of to form company for its manu-
facture.
Because he refused to drink with
him Lucas Trujillo Monday night shot
and killed John Clay lin saloon at
Jansen.
H. l. Hague, miner Of the Green
Canon Coal Company at AguIlar. was
killed Monday morning by falling
rock.
Ell Paso county tax collections for
$15.391. 46 more than for the same per-
Tod last year.
| Denver postal receipts for the fiscal
year ended June both were S1.131.-
0S4.72, an increase over 1909 of over
II per cent.
Steamboat Springs expects to ship,
$4,000 crates of strawberries this year.
The price will be far more satisfactory
than last season.
The Arkansas Valley Fair Associa.
ton has let the contract for new
grandstand at Rocky Ford to cost be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000.
The Orchard Mesa project near
Grand Junction, which cost million
and half, is reported as completed.
II will water $4,000 acres.
Routt county estimators figure that
| the population of the county VIII be
more than twice what 1t was IN 1900.
Louis Shatell, deserter from the
battleshfp Kentucky, gave himself up
to officers at Colorado Springs Sunday
and will be turned over to the naval
authorities on the coast.
While Mrs. j. Ashton, wife OF the
owner OF Horseshoe inn at Estes
Park, was out driving Monday her
horse ran away, throwing her and her
ten-months-old baby out. The baby
was killed.
J. H. Van Tuyl, Western Union
!iDeman of Trinidad. when shocked by
live wire, was thrown to the pave
ment, sustaining a fracture of the
skull and broken shoulder. He died
Wednesday night.
The Empson canneries about the
| Greeley district will experiment on the
canning Of Gull potatoes, and assur.
| ances are given of the success of the
| process, upon which Mr.. Empson has
labored many years.
The Colorado team chosen to take
| part in the annual national rifle shoot
| at Camp Perry. Ohio. will be captained
by Major c. c. Townsend OF Greeley.
| The Colorado team last year won
trophy in the same event.
Major w. A. Mensch, millionaire
Of Kingman, Ariz., and one of the
founders of the mining camp Of Frisco,
this state, is visiting the scenes OF his
early career in Summit county after
an absence of twenty-seven years.
Roland Saunders jaw was broken
by kick from the family horse while
at his fathers orchard in Vineland.
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