The Springfield herald., 1910-09-09
LITTLE
COLORADO
Over $2.5OO.O0O is the mineral out
put of Colorado for the month of Au-
I T E M 8

Day, Sep. 4th, by attending church in
body.
The Episcopalians of Greeley are
about to begin the construction of
100000 stone church.
Sheep sickness is battling veterina-
rians in Middle park and the sheep
are dying by hundreds.
Canon City has been selected as the
next meeting place of the grand lodge
of the Colorado knights of Pythias.
A Presbyterian church has been or
ganized at Lebanon. the first of that
denomination in Montezuma county.
Gov. Shafroth has publicly expressed
his Willingness to accept renomina-
tion-and. presumably. an election.
Ten thousand black bass of the big
mouth variety were placed in the Gun
nison last week under state supervis-
ion.
A Roman chariot race is to be one
of the novel features at the Fremont
County Fair. Canon City. September
14-16.
The Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany is said to be about to merge the
local concern with the City Service
Company.
The Boulder Moose opened a carni-
week. the object being to raise funds
for sick benefits.
The excavation for the new Denver
postoffice is completed. The contract
specifies the building shall be under
roof by December. 1911.
The Farmers Cooperative Union
has closed deals for stores at Long
mont and Berthoud and a local chap
ter will soon be formed at Greeley.
Rats have become such pest in
Greeley that the mayor has ordered
the city marshal to arrest their accu.
mutation by determination il possible.
Galeton is now the correct name for
the town which was previously known
as Gale and the postoffice as Zita, on
the Pleasant Valley branch of the U. p.
Prof. ii. NJ Moorehouse. represent.
ing the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, is engaged in an exhaust
i've study of beet-growing and market
ing.
In Colorado ten postmasters have
signified their desire to conduct pos
tai savings banks and seventeen banks
have applied to be designated as de-
positories.
The Park County Democratic con-
vention endorsed the calling of the ex-
ira session and commended the Legis-
lature for passing the initiative and
referendum.
Gathering pine cones for the govern
ment is new and profitable employ
ment for the boys up about Lyons. and
is said to net from 81 to SO for six to
eight hours work.
While her nine small children stared
in horror, Mrs. Lillian Jameson of
Denver. wife of J. z. Jameson, Tues
day night drank carbolic acid and died
within n few minutes.
A New York expert buyer and seller
of monkeys proposes to start n
monkey sanitarium in Colorado. where
that bane of the monkey-tuberculosis
can be so readily cured.
Directors of the Greeley Poudre IT.
rigation district are negotiating with
IS. d. Sanborn for the purchase of pre-
lerred water rights out of Boyd lake.
which the latter owns.
The jefferson County Fair is in full
operation this week at Lakeside with
the novelty of nighttime duplication
of the days routine under the glare
of 20O, 900 incandescents.
There is considerable competition
among farmers of Larimer county for
the biggest yields of wheat. oats and
barley. So far 50 bushels of wheat to
the acre is the record.
Fort Luptons eminently successful
Tomato Day wound up with scene of
apparent carnage equal to any in the
armored swashbuckling days of old, in
the form of tomato fight.
The North American Smelter &
Mines Company plans an electric rail
road to connect the Golden smelter
with the mines of Clear Creek and Gil
pin counties.
Word from Walden is to the effect
that the hay crop of that park has been
harvested, being equal to about nine
tenths of full crop, and that it has
already been sold at good prices.
Ernest Lindenmeyer, Of Denver,
years old but not much larger than
his name, fell two stories. following an
unfastened window screen, but escaped
with only slightly wrenched ankle.
Without a scuttle of coal, household
ers OF Severance are facing coal ia
mine. the l0cal dealers declaring they
cannot obtain a supply. The many
.urusaing machines employed in this
district made large inroads on tho
local stock, causing the present condi-
ton.
The members of the Fair Associa-
ton of Arapahoe County have decided,
on account of objections to the horse
racing feature. to hold no show this
fall.
The last appointments to fill vacan-
cies on the faculty of the State Agri-
cultural College have been made: Miss
Annie Robinson, instructor of home
economics; Miss Phoebe Cops, assist
ant. J. S, Standt, instructor in the de-