The Glenwood post., 1910-11-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.


The town council of Milliken has
granted licenses to two saloons at
81 500 year each.
Insurgency" has broken out in the
Greeley band and new musical az
gregation is threatened
Colorado postmasters appointed,
Masters. Weld county. Mary Callihan.
vice ]. w. Day, resigned; Resolis, FL
bert county, Sarah ]. Allen, vice, w.
H. Wells, removed.
If rattlesnakes are as numerous at
Platteville next season as this, COM
pany will be formed to undertake
snake killing for profit and sell the
skins for belts, etc.
Contractors and a force of so men
have begun the first work on the state
highway between Grand Junction and
Delta. The road will have a maximum
grade of four per cent.
Not only is the saccharing content
of the 1910 sugar beet in Colorado
higher by one per cent than that of
last years product, but the yield by
| the acre in tons is higher.
r. H. Kibby, a pioneer ranchman Of
Johnstown, has the banner beet crop
of that locality. His 100 acres is
yielding twenty-four tons per acre and
! the beets are testing eighteen per
cent sugar, selling for Sc per ton.
The county commissioners have ap-
pointed H. w. Cooper, manager of the
Morgan County Herald, as representa-
tive of the county to the United States
Land and Irrigation exposition, which
opens in the Coliseum in Chicago No
vember 49,
| At Fort Lupton following an opera
ton in which the entire under portion
of his right jaw was removed and two
thirds OF the left one cut out in an
effort to cure an unusual disease
known as big jaw" p M. Ramsdell.
aged 40. pioneer butcher, died Fri
day of the malady.
One of the best beet crops reported
in Greeley this season is that of The
odore Kib5y, farmer living near
Johnstown, who has 100 acres which
are yielding an average of "a tons per
acre. His income from beets at 100
tons per day nets him 5000 everv
twelve hours, as they are testing Sc a
ton in sugar.
c. ]. Hartman, manager Of the
Greeley. and Denver railroad COM
pany, and j. F. Farmer have invented
an automatic switch, which ls being
installed on the company's tracks.
Another new device invented by local
| l,,I, oI,
is designed to eliminate the greasing
of curves by hand
| Land which he secured from Uncle
Sam for $1,000 five years ago is val
ued by James E. Graham at $4,000.
He has just made final proofs on his
800 acres, eight miles northeast of
Greeley. Graham secured that land
by paying 25 cents an acre down and
81 an acre every year He estimates
his crop profits at 100000 year.
Mrs. Mabel Crouter. wife of Charles
Crouter, now of Wheatland, formerly
candidate for the state legislature ia
| Wyoming and is the only woman up
for election to the legislature in that
state. Mrs. Crouter was the daugh-
ter of A. Hill, a pioneer of Weld couT-
ty, after whom the town of Hills
brough was named.
The Great Western will run a spe-
cial passenger train from Eaton to
Longmont next Saturday to carry the
Eaton football team and several hun
play the Longmont boys and the
game will be a hard fought one The
teams are about evenly matched and
the test will prove which is the cham
pion in the Northern Colorado Inter
Collegiate League probably.
Having fought desperately for
months to live until November 10th,
at the end of which time he could
make final proof on his homestead,
R. G. Hemingway, living two miles
northeast of Num-, died Sunday, after
marking off October 30th on the cal
endar and saying, 81 believe l will
live ten days more" Hemmingwav
came from Boulder to this region five
years ago suffering with miners con
sumption. He located on the home
stead and then began the struggle for
health. His widow and two children
will continue to live on the land, upon
which the widow will be allowed to
| make the final proof.
The main road between Grand
Junction and Palisade has been thor
oughly dragged by the farmers who
live along it's length and as a result
the autoists report that te road has
never been in such remarkably good
condition. 1t is smooth as floor,
leveled off nicely, free from ruts,
sticks and stones and an automobile
can attain fifty miles per nour on its