The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-09-07
LITTLE
COLORADO
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sept. ID.
Greeley public. schools open with
larger enrolment than ever before.
Greeley working men observe Labor
Day, Sep. 4th, by attending church In
body.
The Episcopalians of Greeley are
about to begin the construction OF u
100000 stone church.
Sheep sickness is battling veterina-
rians in Middle park and the sheep
are dying by hundreds.
Sheriff Nisbet of Denver has been
reelected president of the Colorado
Sheriffs' Association.
Canon City has been selected as the
next meeting place of the grand lodge
OF the Colorado Knights of Pythias.
A Presbyterian church has been or
ganized at Lebanon, the first OF that
denomination in Montezuma county.
Gov. Shafroth has publicly expressed
his willingness to accept renomina-
tion-and, presumably, an election.
The Holly Sugar Company will offer
special premiums for the best exhibits
of sugar beets at the Pueblo State
Fair.
The threshing that has been done in
Lake View neighborhood shows the
grain to be fine and the yield above
the average.
Rats have become such a pest in
Greeley that the mayor has ordered
the city marshal to arrest their accu-
mutation by determination IL possible.
Galeton is now the correct name for
the town which was previously known
as Gale and the postoffice as Zita. on
the Pleasant Valley branch of the u p.
The Colorado Rifle Team comes
home from the annual shoot at Camp
Perry, Ohio. with thirty gold, bronze
and silver medals and 5000 in cash
prizes.
Prof H NJ. Moorehouse. represent
ing the Department Of Agriculture at
Washington. is engaged in an exhaust
i've study Of beet-growing and market
ing.
In Colorado ten postmasters have
signified their desire to conduct pos
tai savings banks and seventeen banks
have applied to be designated as de-
positories.
While her nine small children stared
in horror, Mrs Lillian Jameson OF
Denver. wife of ]. 2. Jameson. Tues
day night drank carbolic acid and died
within a few minutes.
Directors OF the Greeley Poudre ir-
rigation district are negotiating with
b. D. Sanborn for the purchase OF pre-
ferred water rights out OF Boyd lake.
which the latter owns
There Is considerable competition
among farmers of Larimer county for
the biggest yields OF wheat. oats and
barley. So far 95 bushels Of wheat to
the acre is the record.
The North American Smelter &
Mines Company plans an electric rail.
road to connect the Golden smelter
with the mines OF Clear Creek and Gil.
pin counties.
Word from Walden is to the effect
that the hay crop of that park has been
harvested. being equal to about nine
tenths OF q full crop. and that 1t has
already been sold at good prices.
Ernest Lindenmeyer. Of Denver. 2
years old but not much larger than
his name, fell two stories. following an
unfastened window screen. but escaped
with only slightly wrenched ankle.
The propriety of Col. Roosevelt's
criticism OF some United States SUI
preme Court decisions before the Colo
RADIO Legislature. while in Denver. is
creating considerable discussion east.
Denver-Joseph II. H. Jacoby OF Sc
attic. Wash, was Wednesday elected
commander-in-chief of the United
Spanish War Veterans. and Oklahoma
City selected as the place for holding
the national encampment of 1911.
The State Board of Health has Sc
cured the services of an expert on
dairy sanitation from the government
bureau with the purpose of placing
Denver and Colorado diaries in the
highest sanitary condition.
Elm" is the pretty name of the new
station established on the Denver. Lar
annie & Northwestern railroad. eight
miles west OF Greeley. and heavy ship
ments of grain are being made from
there to Denver and Greeley.
Contractor Underwood OF Fort Col
Inns is to get 100000 for building a
big reservoir near Las Vegas, New
Mexico. The reservoir will take water
from the Gallinas river and a valley.
which promises to be one Of the most
fertile in the world. is to be devel
oped.
Peaches. the largest weighing 15H
ounces. being 37s inches in diameter
End 117s inches in circumference, and
taking but ten to make a yard. have
set this years pace for big liberia
peaches. They we're brought in by J.
II. Litleton of First Fruit Ridge.
Grand Junction district. Mr.. Litleton
is going to put his peaches in cold
storage for the Mesa County Fair and
hopes for prizes on them.
With an attendance of from 10000
| to $1,000 and over one hundred walters
delivering pie and trimmings, Long.
mont's Pumpkin Pie Day goes down in
history as the most successful thus
| far held.
The mining committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce is sending out a cir