The Colorado statesman., 1910-09-10
LITTLE
COLORADO
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Wellington's Jubilee Day occurs on
Sept. 18th.
An auxiliary of the Sons of Veterans
is being formed at New Windsor.
ouray is jubliant over the capture
of the 1911 Colorado Elks' convention
Loveland experienced the most Sc
we're windstorm of the season Monday.
over s2.5OO,O0O is the mineral out
put of Colorado for the month OF Au-
gust.
Henry T. West, one of the Oldest
Greeley pioneers, has taken up his res
ldence In Idaho.
Ten thousand black bass of the big
mouth variety we're placed in the Gun
nison last week under state superVls-
ion.
A Roman chariot race is to be one
of the novel features at the Fremont
County Fair. Canon City, September
1916.
The Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany is said to be about to merge the
local concern with the City Service
Company.
Reports from the Greeley potato dis
trict are to the effect that the damage
from frost was not so extensive as
first feared.
The Boulder Moose opened a earni-
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.
The Good Roads committee of Boul-
der is formulating plans for building
road which will bring the farmers
of the surrounding country into closer
communication with the city.
The Democratic county convention
of Durango elected delegates to the
state convention Saturday. The con-
vention demanded recognition for La
Plata county on the state ticket.
Dr. George Glover of Fort Collins,
Colo, was elected president OF the
American Veterinary Medical Associa
ton Monday at the convention in prog
ress In San Francisco.
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.
A New York expert buyer and seller
of monkeys proposes to start
monkey sanitarium in Colorado, where
that bane of the monkey-tuberculosl
can be SO readily cured.
With an attendance of from 10000
to IL, 900 and over one hundred walters
delivering pie and trimmings, Long
mont's Pumpkin Pie Day goes down IN
history as the most successful thus
far held
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.
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.
By vote of 6,956 to 1891 the tax
payers of Denver decided in favor OF
issuing water bonds to the amount Oh
SIS. 900 900 in spite of the Federal
courts Injunction against the issuance
of said bonds.
The Denver mint is turning out S2O
gold pieces at the rate of $2Oo,OOo
worth a day. The increased call for
gold coin for export is given as the
reason for the order, which was Is
sued from Washington.
Sewell Morris, Jr., living nine miles
southeast of Lamar. Neb., accidentally
shot himself while climbing over
fence at Holyoke. The shot tore OH
the two middle fingers on the left hand
and he will perhaps lose the whole
hand.
The Colorado Springs fire depart
ment has challenged the Pueblo fire
department to an exhibition fire drill
with Pompier ladders at the State FAR
and Irrigation Exposition at Pueblo.
The challenge will probably be ac-
cepted.
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 Copps, assist