Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-11-11
LITTLE coLof.aoo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

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rado Milk Producers Association.
Clarke A. Coffin has been appointed
postmaster at HiIlrose, Morgan coun'
~. Colorado, vice D. d. Monroe, re-
signed.
C. W. Rodeffer Of Johnstcwn netted
$1,000 from III acres Of sugar beetS.
T. r. Larson's l20 acres brought the
same amount
lanes Edwards and Edward Butler
Of Dacona paid heavy fines for playing
the part Of bold bad men and shoot-
ing up a business house in Dacona-
Weld county may have turkeyless
Thanksgiving this year II the flocks
continue TO be attacked by blacH
head" which Is killing off hundreds
The annual conference of the Colo
rado Student Volunteer movement VIII
be held at Colorado College, Colorado
Springs, next Friday. Saturday and
Sunday.
The Colorado Springs end OF the
state road being built to Canon City
will be completed by the end OF this
month. The convicts will then WORK
on the Fremont cornty end.
With twenty enthusiastic members.
the Kersey Gun Club has been organ
Ized. and already preparations are un
der way for the first shoot. which VIA
be held on Thanksgiving day.
Efforts are being made to organize
Y. VI. c. A. branch in Fruita. The
suggestion was enthusiastically re-
ceived at meeting of Fruita citizens
and the matter will be taken up.
A representative Of the Wright
brothers has been at Colorado Springs
several days trying to arrange for al
aeroplane flight. but the guarantee he
insists on is considered too high.
A branch OF the Farmers union has
been organized at Montrose. with
membership Of eighteen. The union
plans to establish a branch store there
soon as a supply depot for farmers in
this section.
While digging a post hole in his
Darn at Montrose. c. r. Smith un-
covered a sigar box which contained
1852 In bills. 81 In silver and a small
diamond. The box had been buried
for some time, as the wood was de-
cayed.
The Rev. Father J. p. Carrigan, for
merly Of ST. Patrick's church in Dem
yer. has taken charge Of st. Stephens
Catholic church at Glenwood Springs.
and outlying missions in Routt, Rio
Blanco. Eagle. Garfield. Pitkin and
Gunnison counties.
The first 190-foot section Of the big
concrete dam for the Palisades and
Mesa county irrigation districts has
been completed and accepted by the
engineer. The second section will be
completed within a month. The cost
Of the work will be $4,000.
That a shower OF meteors recently
fell on Coal ridge. about 25 miles east
Of Greeley. is the opinion OF parties
VINO visited the section a few days
ago and report that hundreds of me-
teoric stones mark a site which a
month ago was a sandy knoll.
Canning crops at Fort Lupton have
brought growers close to 100000 this
year. as the season has been an excel
lent one for all varieties, and biz
yields of garden crops. Tomatoes.
pumpkins. beans. cucumbers and cab
bage have given large returns.
Arthor Denton. is years old, and
Raymond Officer were killed instantly
at Trinidad by the premature explo-
sion Of a shot in the old Thompson
mine near Sophris. operated by the
were going through the mine firing the
shot.
Greeley beet growers are harvest
Ing their crop made easily and salts
factorily than ever before and the
crop is nearly all in factory bins. With
10000 acres grown in the Greeley, Ea.-
on and Windsor districts, the yield is
estimated at 100000 tons and the crop
will easily represent s1.7O5.OOO.
That antelope on the plains east of
Greeley are being ruthlessly slaught.
cred is report being Investigated by
game wardens. Seeing a band of
antelope pursued and shot at, James
Armstead followed the frail of the
hunter and was driven back by bullets
fired at him by men supposed to be
killing antelope.
Because 1t is in splendid repair and
because there are no wilted. frozen,
sliced beets to handle. the Windsor
sugar factory is slicing $50 tons every
twenty-four hours. although the mill
was built for only 900 tons capacity.
From 1000 to 2.40O sacks of sugar is
put up every twenty-four hours, each
sack weighing about 125 pounds.
For the purpose of getting more
business for Greeley. prominent mer.
chants held meeting and formed the
Greeley Traffic Associoti,p ,,,i,h ~