The Holly chieftain., 1910-09-02
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boxes of apples.
Two deaths have occurred at Colo
rado City from diphtheriA
Milliken will hold an Incorporation
election September 10th.
The Fort Collins band won first
prize at the Elks convention.
Boulder is to vote this year On .
charter form OF government.
Denver will try to secure next years
national convention Of gas men.
The saloon question is causing much
agitation amongst Boulder politicians.
The new Fruita canning factory has
started its first run ON tomatoes and
beans.
Boulder allows the Elks to depart
only to take on the K. of P. state
meeting for the rest of the week.
Reports of seventy-five and eighty
five bushels Of wheat to the acre con-
tfnue to come In from northern Colo
RADIO.
Colorado produces one-fourth Of the
beet sugar of the United States. Last
year the state turned out 280,000. 900
pounds.
over 100000 trout fry have been
supplied by the fish hatchery ut
Creede for stocking streams in New
Mexico
The Woman's Club Of Denver have
appointed a special committee to
search out the blind with the object Of
instructing them. a.
The contract for moving 100000 Gu
bic yards of dirt ON the main canal Of
the Pueblo & Rocky Ford Irrigation
Company has been let
Fully two hundred former residents
of the Sucker state attended the pic
mic of the Illinois society at the col
lege in Fort Collins last Thursday.
Investigation into rumors that the
Standard Bottling works Of Denver ts
employing child labor will be taken
up by the Denver Trades and Labor
Assembly.
The Streets of All Nations u the
title of the dainty entertainment to be
given in the Auditorium. Denver, Oct.
II. under the auspices Of the Denver
Woman's Club.
Miss Irene Howbeft. . resident OF
the Pixies Peak region since 1860 and
: member OF one Of Colorado's most
prominent families, died at Colorado
Springs at the age Of 90.
Mrs. William shaffner killed the
biggest rattlesnake ever seen in the
vicinity Of Pierce. 1t was four feet
long and six inches in circumference.
She killed it with stick.
Fire Friday night completely de-
stroyed the Santiago mill, within the
corporate limits of Georgetown. Ths
loss is $4,000. fully insured. Said to
be Of incendiary origin.
Garfield county commissioners have
decided to appropriate $500 to pay the
expenses Of gathering an exhibit to
send to the Interstate Fair at Denver
and the Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Fossils Of species Of prehistoric
deep-sea dwellers, known to science
as the pearly nautilus. estimated by
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School to be from 100000 to 6.O00.-
900 years old, have been found by
workmen near Greeley.
While being returned to the Pueblo
Jail after being fined 800 in court on
a vagrancy charge, Peter Kerr. an Al
legged kleptomaniac. made an attempt
to steal the hat of Magistrate Cham
bers, who assessed the fine. He had
almost reached the Jail to work out
the fine when the deputy discovered
the headpiece under the prisoners
coat. The police say petty thieving
is a mania with Kerr.
For the first time probably since
the ancient cliff dwellers of tho Mesa
Verde, southwest Of Mancos, carved
their homes from the sides Of the
mountain. human hands will erect
timbers and construct masonry in the
ruins. The walls and the rooms are
falling outward and an effort will be
made to preserve them by the gov
ernment. Prof. Edgar Hewitt and
Prof. Jesse Nusbaum, Greeley boy,
have charge of the work.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held its midsummer meeting at Buena
Vista Friday and Saturday and were
given a look-in at the new Kuenzel