The Colorado statesman., 1910-08-20
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Colorado City will hold a flower
show on the Gath and 25th.
The new Congregational church at
Molina has been dedicated.
Wellingtons annual harvest jubilee
will be held September 18th.
Bud Haley of Salida killed two bears
on Little Rock creek the other day.
Alfalfa prices in the Poudre valley
are ranging from IS to s12 per ton.
The d. & r. G. is preparing to build
handsome rev depot at Del Norte.
Brandon is hoping the Missouri Pa
cific will make that town division
point.
Olathe has already shipped forty
cars of potatoes and fifty tons are be-
ing loaded daily.
Palisade has a full crop of fruit this
season and will ship more than during
any previous year.
The beet crop around Wiley is re-
ported as about so per cent better than
that of last year.
The new Odd Fellows temple at
Colorado Springs will be dedicated
September Sth.
Mayor Houston of Greeley has de-
clared war on all games of chance, IN
cluding church raffles.
Fremont county fruit prospects are
reported as follows: Apples so per
cent, pears so, plums so.
Bertha Dresser, aged 6, fell from
carousal at Golden, receiving injuries
which resulted in her death.
The Union Pacific will establish mo-
tor car service on its new Denver-Boul-
der line about November 1st.
Willard Patton, aged 10, died at
Grand Junction as a result OF being
kicked in the head by horse.
G. E. Miles and N. ]. Jay of Mays
vile have invented an electric incu-
bator which is said to be success.
The directors of the Latham Reser-
voir Company at Greeley will expend
$4,000 to largely increase the storage
capacity of their pond.
Jose Manuel Archuleta, for whom
Archuleta county was named, died at
Conejos, where he had lived many
years, at the age of 81.
The Colorado Springs authorities are
considering an improvement to the
city water facilities that will call tor
an expenditure of 100000.
John Berrelen. farmer near Wav-
erly, killed himself when gun which
he was pulling from a binder by the
muzzle was discharged accidentally.
A commercial club has been organ
lied at Moffat and the first meeting
was largely attended by citizens en-
thusiastic over the outlook for their
town.
The old Gold Issue cyanide mill at
Cripple Creek was struck by lightning,
causing it's destruction by fire, with an
estimated loss of $15O,OOO to 100000,
Mrs. Clyde Vickers of Marshall Pass
is the proud mother of triplets, two
boys and a girl. Mrs. Vickers is 19
years of age and weighs ninety-eight
pounds.
The stork brought handful OF girls
three, count 'em-to the home OF MI
and Mrs. Grant Jones, living near Gree
ley. The little lassies weighed between
five and six pounds each.
The Great Western Sugar Company
is building an alfalfa meal mill at
Sterling. The plant will have capac'
ity of grinding five and half tons per
hour and will cost $4,000.
Three prominent citizens of Greeley
we're hailed into court for playing
poker, but when they proved they were
playing "just for fun without money
at stake, they were released.
H. T. Hackley, farmer, was prob
ably fatally hurt by being struck by
train near Gill. He was thrown twenty
feet in the air by the impact and his
team of mules met instant death.
The foundation of the Western Slope
Normal at Gunnison is about ready for
the superstructure. which VIII be OF
brick with white stone trimmings. 1t
will be beautiful building.
The State Highway Commission has
made the following appropriations: TO
Mesa county, for the road from De-
Beque to Pallsade, $4,000; to Prowers
county, 81 900; to Montrose county, ST.
500. to Archuleta county, $1,000.
The State Highway Commission has
declared the road being built from
Brush to the state line state high
way and appropriated $1,400 each to
Washington and Yuma counties pro-
vided those counties use twice that
amount in work on the road.
The Clear Creek county commission
ers have purchased rock crusher to
be used in connection with road build
ing in that county. 1t is hoped that by
the use of crushed rock the heavy rains
in the mountains will not damage the
roads as much as formerly.
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