The Springfield herald., 1910-12-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth TsIlino.

Longmont. at the age of 90.
The automobile of Gus Nietzke ran
away on the Ell Moro near Trinidad.
and two persons were seriously in
jured.
Jack Markham, one of the first set
tiers of Windsor. who had lived In
that vinicity As years, died of paraly-
sis. aged so.
1t is reported that a grading camp
for the Burlington railroad has been
established between La Sale and
Hudson.
Walter Currie, a noted British min
ing expert, is in Colorado for the
purpose of inspecting methods Of ore
treatment.
A new postoffice will soon be es-
tablished about fifteen miles north
east of Grover. probably in the house
OF G. F. Thorman
Farmers organized in Greeley Under
the name of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union. with H. N.
Bickling, president.
Farmers Of Fort Lupton locality re-
ceived $4,000 during the last twelve
months for milk from 1900 cows fur
nished the condensory.
A Colorado Springs attorney has
received an ear of corn from friends
in Iowa which contains 1900 kernels
and weighs over two pounds.
The Rev. w. F. Highly has resigned
as pastor of the ST. Thomas chapel.
Palisade. and accepted call to st.
Marks parish in Durango.
Peanuts twenty years old, carried to
Sweden nineteen years ago and
brought back to Colorado. were found
to have lost none of their flavor.
H. l.. Bishop, superintendent OF the
free employment bureau in Colorado
Springs, reports that his bureau found
work for PIT men and 1S9 women dur
ing November.
DR.. j. II. Franklin, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Colorado
Springs. who has been absent several
months inspecting missions in Africa,
has returned.
Wattenberg, the youngest town in
the county. located on the D., l.. & N.
w. railroad, has already made great
shipping record, the total being about
$4,000 mostly of beets.
Just two weeks after the death of
Ross Tisdel, his cousin and chum, Err
nest King, son of Mrs. Mary King of
Greeley, died from grief over the loss
of his comrade.
Fire believed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed stack of
over co tons of fine alfalfa hay on the
farm of John Oster seven miles south
east of La Sale.
The Hotchkiss school district is the
banner one of the state, we believe.
There is now attending school five
pair of twins. four pair who do not
attend, making nine pair in the dis
trict
The Western Slope Fruit Growers
Association. capitalized at 100000,
has been Incorporated as the first
step toward combining all the fruit
growing associations in western Colo
rado.
In the County Court in Gunnison
George F. Scodghill of Marble was
fined 5000 and costs, amounting to 4
total of $500, for alleged bootlegging
in the dry territory of Gunnison coun-
ty.
Weld county is to be represented at
the annual state horticultural conven
tion at Rifle Dec ~ and 13 by men
from Greeley and Fort Lupton. c. r.
Root. George ]. Spear and d. R. Stoc.
Ter will be among the speakers.
Following the lines of the latest
discovery in medical science Greeley
physicians have made a cancer vac
cine to be used in the case of pa
tient operated on there in hope of pre-
venting a recurrence of the disease.
II successful. they will continue their
work on large scale.
At the meeting of the Farmers Un.
ion in Grand Junction, at which rep
resentatives from Rifle and Delta
were present, movement for an in
dependent telephone system was inau.
gurated. which will be connected with
the independent system in Delta AMI
Garfield counties.
The Great Western Sugar Company
of Greeley issued checks for 100000
to the beet growers of the Greeley,
Eaton and Windsor districts in final
payment for all beets delivered to the
factory during November and Decem-
ber. making total payment his year
to the beet farmers of these three dis
tricts of exactly $1,O00.O00. and to-
tai payment to farmers and eimpioyes
at factories of $1,1S0.000.
The Bureau of Plant Industry. De.
partment of Agriculture, is casting
around for botanists or those familiar
with plant nutrition. To this end the |
United States Civil Service Commits
sion announces the holding of exami.
nations In Colorado for the purpose o.
filling a list of eligibles from which
vacancies may be filled, on December
80, 1910.
That the Chicago, Burlington 4
Quincy railroad will begin work on its
Greeley-Hudson line early in January
the second day of the
the general belief in rail
road circles.