The Holly chieftain., 1910-05-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


The Evans town council has stopped
Sunday baseball there.
School at Eagle has been closed on
account OF scarlet fever.
A band has been organized at Ster-
ling with twenty tooters.
Frederick E. Cole has been appoint
ed postmaster at Arriba.
The Order of Moose will build its
own lodge hall at Salida.
Wray is becoming metropolitan with
twenty-seven automobiles.
Clifton has petitioned the postoffice
department for rural mail route.
Patsie c. Nolan has been appointed
postmaster at Eureka, San Juan coun-
ty.
About $4,000 fruit trees were mar
keted by one firm alone in Montrose
this year.
Scott league and Oren Gray of
Yampa bagged four bears in two days
last week.
The Logan County Sunday School
convention will be held in Sterling.
May 25th.
The government oil survey of the
western slope is to be started within
few weeks.
Lake Crosho. eight miles from Yam
pa, is to be improved with a fine ho-
tel. launches. etc.
Colorado Springs census guessers
believe that city will show popula-
tion Of 54.237.
The mail service from Craig to
Baggs. Wyo. will be changed back to
three times week.
VIII. Beatty killed a monster gray
wolf with his six-shooter near Parshall
one day last week.
A Fowler farmer has pig which ap-
peared on earth with only three legs.
And pork so high. too.
One hundred acres of ground at
Steamboat Springs is being set with
100000 strawberry plants.
Fifty thousand trout fry were placed
in Beaver creek, near Florence, last
week by the authorities.
The Park County Cattle Growers
association will hold its annual meet
ing at Fairplay on the 2Sth.
Yampa people will build a good road
to Trapper's lake, one Of the most
famous resorts in the state.
Mrs. Aurilla Snodgrass, a resident
of Golden for forty-seyen years. died
at that place at the age of eighty.
Senator Guggenheim Monday intro.
duced bill granting the town OF
Fruita $40 acres for park.
Uneva lake. 10000 feet up. near
Frisco, will be restocked with trout
by the company controlling it.
Mrs. Helen Sill of Gunnison was
elected department president of the
w. R. C. at Grand Junction last week.
In addition to other important build.
ing operations at Saguache, a modern
hotel to cost $4,000 will be erected.
The Logan County Farmers Asso-
citation will hold an all-day picnic at
Harris grove, south of Sterling, Juna
4th.
The sailing plant Of the Kuner Pick
lie Company at Brighton was burned
down Thursday night with loss of
100000.
A business lot in Greeley sold the
other day for $16, 900, or $4.75 per front
foot-a record price for the spud me-
tropolis.
Iowa capitalists are making their
second visit to Kersey to consider the
establishment of a canning factory
there.
A Vernon correspondent says the
wheat is looking fine and prospects
are good for another banner crop this
year.
The Vallery Town Company has ar.
ranged to plant shade trees sixty feet
apart on both sides Of every street
in the town.
A movement has been started to es
tablish starch factory at New Castle
to take care of the surplus potatoes
Of Garfield county.
The Arvada town council has put
the ban on barb wire fences in the
town limits where they run along i'm.
proved sidewalks.
The D. & R. G. is reported to have
leased its Calumet line from Browns
Canon for twenty-one years to David
Heaton, who will call it the Box Canon
railroad.
BY a tire exploding an auto near
Florence turned over. injuring Miss
Martha Aulfebrook Of Denver to the
extent Of broken wrist. and other
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