The Holly chieftain., 1910-09-09
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body.
The Episcopslians Of Greeley are
about to begin the construction OF
10000 stone church.
Sheep sickness ID battling vetertnar
rians in Middle park and the sheep
arc dying By hundreds.
Canon City has been selected ~ the
next meeting place Of the grand lodge
Of the Colombo 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 Gum
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 carni-
val Monday to continue through the
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 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 extermination II 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. H. 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 a.. 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 a 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. e. Jameson, Tues
day night drank carbolic acid and died
within few minutes.
A New York expert buyer and seller
Of monkeys proposes to start
monkey sanitarium in Colorado, where
that bane Of the monkey-tuberculos
can be 50 readily cured.
Directors Of the Greeley-Poudre ir-
rigation district are negotiating with
B. D. Sanborn, for the purchase of pre-
ferred 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 100000 incandescents.
There is considerable competition
among farmers Of Larimer county for
the biggest yields of wheat. oats and
barley. So far 95 bushels of wheat to
| the acre is the record.
Fort Lupton's 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 tomata fight
The North American Smelter 4
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 mark has heen