The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1910-07-16
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day.
Alamosa's new hotel is about com
pleted.
Montrose will issue $4,000 refund
ing bonds.
A Good Roads Club ID being formed
at Saguache.
A Christian church Il being organ
lied at Montrose.
Johnstown will now have railroad
mall service twice daily.
Colonel Roosevelt win be asked to
visit Rocky Ford Melon Day.
Two Buttes wants meat shop.
Must be prosperous community.
The National Dental Association will
meet In Denver July 18th to 22d.
A farmers institute will be held at
Colts grove near Cheraw. July goth.
The question OF new high school
building is being looked up at Golden.
The Rocky Ford creamery will like
ly get into new hands and start up
again.
Boulder Chautauqua registrations
are double what they were at this time
last year.
Las Animas county has expended
$4,000 for new iron and steel bridges
this spring.
Col. Roosevelt has telegraphed to
Denver that he will be there August
2sth. arriving at 1890 a. m.
Watonga is a new postoffice estab-
l,shed in saguache county with P. D.
Solomon AZ postmaster.
The contract has been let for the
new Catholic church at Sterling. It
calls for = $4,000 structure.
The Montrose County Sunday
School Association will run an excur-
sion to Ouray ON the 18th.
Mr.. scarpello Of Niwot thinks his
sixty.five acres Of wheat will yield
thirty.five bushels per acre.
Denver building permits for June
were 31,427 900, an increase over June.
1909. Of $863.3S5. or 81 per cent.
Clifford Ferguson. aged 20. Of Brigh.
ton, was assaulted by number Of I'm.
known men and severely beaten.
The new election upon the County
High School proposition in Logan
county will be held August Sth.
The new school building at Windsor
has been completed at . cost Of $780,
900. 1t Is modern In every detail.
The largest wheat crop ever grown
in the Arkansas valley Ii being har-
vested from Pueblo east to the state
line.
The Boulder County Metal Mining
Association IL planning big picnic
ON the Chantauqua grounds Labor Day
September 9Th.
Fort Morgan citissns voted to grant
Paul Challiss Of Greeley a franchise
for gas plant. and he will start upon
his $4,000 system At once.
At Moffat there IL new hotel In
process of construction. couple Of
business houses, and bonds have been
placed for q new schoolhouse.
]. M. Palmer Of Rocky Ford, who
raises alfalfa for the seed, will real.
ixe about 31s5 per acre from his 1910
crop. Last year 1t was 316S per acre.
Traceyville. one and one-half miles
west Of Fort Lupten, is the newest
town in Weld county. 1t Is a railroad
station and beet dump Is being built
Owing to the scarcity Of water al
the camp grounds. the Colorado Ma
tional Guard win not attend the annual
maneuvers at Dale creek. Wyoming
this year.
| Mrs. Minnie E. Jones Of Denver has
| filed suit against beauty doctor for
| $4,000 damages resulting from q
treatment which was to give her
plump cleeks.
Maps have been filed with the coun
ty clerk at Trinidad by the C. F. q 1
Co. for the new Purgatoire reservoir
to hold 76,124.s39 cubic feet of watel
| and cost 10000.
Bartolomeo Vicari met death in the
Sheridan crosscut at Telluride. and his
body was found Thursday. he evident
| ly having fallen down the chute, dis
lance Of fifty feet.
1t ia stated that the proposed sugar
financed. and that the only contin
sency IN the matter OF lt0 Duiluin8 IL
whether or not the test crops planted
fill the requirements in sugar content
As result Of the dry. hot weather
Of the last ten days most of the young
potato bugs have died and farmers say
there never was better prospect fol
q big potato harvest around Greeley.
Clarence Howard OF Cathedral. SIX
years old, with his lariat, kept fou'
men supplied with calves during a 70
cent branding bee there. As an expert
with the rope 1t Is said his equal
would be hard to find.
An ordinance will be introduced into
the Denver City Council within short
time providing for wheel tax. BY this
ordinance every vehicle in the city will
be taxed and the money expended upon
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