The Glenwood post., 1910-09-03
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The Fort Collins band won first
prize at the Elks convention.
At Montrose the Socialists have
nominated a county ticket.
Denver will try to secure next years
national convention of gas men.
Greeley public schools open with
larger enrolment than ever before.
Sheriff Nisbet of Denver has been
reelected president of the Colorado
Sheriffs' Association.
Boulder allows the Elks to depart
only to take on the X. Of P. state
meeting for the rest of the week.
Union printers picnic, with program
Of music and speeches. at the Home in
Colorado Springs. Sunday. Sept 4th.
The Holly Sugar Company will offer
special premiums for the best exhibits
of sugar beets at the Pueblo State
Fair.
Reports of seventy-five and eighty
| five bushels of wheat to the acre COIL
tinue to come in from northern Colo
| RADIO.
Over 100000 trout fry have been
supplied by the fish hatchery at
Creede for stocking streams in New
Mexico.
The threshing that has been done in
Lake View neighborhood shows the
grain to be fine and the yield above
| the average.
The Woman's Club of Denver have
| appointed a special committee to
search out the blind with the object of
instructing them.
The contract for moving 100000 Gu
bic yards of dirt on the main canal of
the Pueblo & Rocky Ford Irrigation
Company has been let
| At Pueblo the Republicans have set
Saturday, Sept. II, for the county con-
vention. Primaries previous Thursday.
Made up of 435 delegates.
Herman Hecht picked an Elberta
peach from his Vineland orchard near
Palisade that measured II inches in
circumference and weighed 13 ounces.
The Colorado Rifle Team comes
home from the annual shoot at Camp
Perry, Ohio, with thirty gold, bronze
and silver medals and $500 in cash
prizes.
Investigation into rumors that the
| Standard Bottling works of Denver is
employing child labor will be taken
up by the Denver Trades and Labor
Assembly.
The Streets of All Nations is the
title of the dainty entertainment to be
| uiy in hn nd Not
II. under the auspices Of the Denver
Woman's Club.
Rocky Ford sent out 3O,50O crates of
cantaloupes, sixty-one carloads, Thurs
day. The quality this year is said to
be the best in the history of the in
dustry in the Arkansas Valley.
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 1t with stick.
Fire Friday night completely de-
stroyed the Santiago mill, within the
corporate limits of Georgetown. The
loss is $4,000. fully insured. Said to
be of incendiary origin.
Hundreds Of bushels of grasshop-
pers. taken from the fields of this dis
trict, are being buried to enrich the
soil of the fields which were partially
destroyed. BY the devices used farm
ers are taking from fifty to eighty
bushels of grasshoppers from their
fields every hour in the localities
where the grasshoppers are the worst.
Peaches. the largest weighing 15A
ounces, being 3H inches in diameter
and 11A inches in circumference, and
taking but ten to make a yard, have
set this years pace for big Elberta
peaches. They were brought in by j.
H. 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.
While being returned to the Pueblo
Jail after being fined 500 in court on
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 mania with Kerr.
For the first time probably since
the ancient cliff dwellers of the 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. a Greeley boy,
have charge of the work.
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