The Glenwood post., 1910-12-10
LITTLE coloHADo iTEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Greeleys municipal skating pond is
completed.
An old-fashioned literary society has
been organized in Gill.
Mrs. Ellen Senton Beckwith died IN
Longmont, at the age of 80.
Fort Collins will be lighted by
combination of gas and electricity.
A franchise for lighting the town OF
Fort Lupton with electricity has been
granted.
The automobile of Gus Nietzke ran
away on the Ell Moro near Trinidad,
and two persons were seriously IN
jured
Jack Markham, one of the first set
tiers of Windsor, who had lived In
that vinicity As years, died of paraly-
sis, aged so.
1t is reported that a grading camp
for the Burlington railroad has been
established between La Sale and
Hudson.
ing expert, is in Colorado for the
purpose of inspecting methods of ore
treatment.
A new postoffice will soon be es-
tablished about fifteen miles north
east of Grover, probably in the house
of G. F. Thorman.
The annual institute and fruit fair
of the Fremont County Horticultural
Society will be held in Canon City the
first week in January.
Farmers of Fort Lupton locality re-
ceived $4,000 during the last twelve
months for milk from 1,20O cows fur
nished the condensory.
A Colorado Springs attorney has
received an ear of corn from friends
in Iowa which contains l,200 kernels
and weighs over two pounds.
Peanuts twenty years old, carried to
Sweden nineteen years ago and
brought back to Colorado, were found
to have lost none of their flavor.
Thirty-five miners at the Keystone
mine near Colorado Springs went on
strike, refusing to work with a new
weigher because he was not union
man
H. l.. Bishop, superintendent of the
free employment bureau in Colorado
Springs, reports that his bureau found
work for 217 men and 1s9 women dur
ing November
The Colorado Telephone Company
will spend 100000 in building an ad
dition to the present offices and max
ing improvements in the system in Pu-
eblo next year.
Wattenberg, the youngest town in
the county, located on the D.. l.. & N.
w. railroad, has already made great
shipping record, the total being about
$4,000 mostly of beets.
Fire believed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed a stack OF
over 60 tons of fine alfalfa hay on the
farm of John Oster seven miles south.
east of La Sale.
The Ell Paso County Ministerial AS
sociation Of Colorado Springs appoint
ed committee to arrange for state
conference to be held soon to discuss
marriage and divorce evils.
The Hotchkiss school district is the
banner one of the state. we believe
There is now attending school five
pair of twins. four pair who do not
attend, making nine pair in the dis
trict.
In the County Court in Gunnison
George F. Scodghill OF Marble was
fined 5000 and costs, amounting to
total of $500, for alleged bootlegging
in the dry territory of Gunnison coun-
ty.
The announcement Of General Man.
ager Clark of the Denver & Rio
Grande that work on new depot will
be started by January LIST was re-
ceived with great rejoicing in Colo
RADIO Springs.
The famous Meredith case in which
the trustees of the Stratton estate OF
Colorado Springs are being sued for
$77.6O0 by E. A. Meredith. is being re-
tried in District Court on order OF the
Supreme Court.
Because of lack of interest shown
by Sons of Veterans the c. J. Stol-
brand post was dsbanded at Fort Col
Inns. While there are 200 Sons of Vet
Grams in the city, only six regularly at
tended meetings.
Weld county Is to be represented at
the annual state horticultural conven.
tion at Rifle Dec 12 and 13 by men
from Greeley and Fort Lupton. c. r.
Root. George ]. Spear and D. X. Sto.-
ler will be among the speakers.
At the meeting of the Farmers I'm
ion in Grand Junction. at which rep
resentatives from Rifle and Delta
were present. a movement for an in.
dependent telephone system was inau.
gurated, which will be connected with
the indenendent systana in Dolta anl