The Springfield herald., 1910-07-29
LITTLE
COLORADO
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Fruita wants an auditorium.

Fruita wants an auditorium.
.FruItvale has one vacant house.
Thomas A. Mills, aged 81. died at
Fruita.
Las Animas IL to have It's third
bank.
Five miles of the big canal at Cedar
have been completed.
A central chmarity organization Is
being formed at Salida.
T. w. Robson of Hartman got 47a
bushels OF wheat from six acres.
September 23rd is the date set for
the annual harvest carnival at Ault.
The annual reunion of the pioneers
at Cope will be held August 18th and
18th.
September 14th will be Northern
Colorado Day" at the Denver Interstate
Fair.
Montrose Masons have incorporated
with a capital of $4,000 to build q
temple.
The water In the Cache 10 Poudre is
In ten years.
Jose veletes, q Mexican Of Salida.
was given sixty days for stabbing
Harry Rose.
The Ouray Pioneer Association will
hold It's annual gathering at Hollis
grove near Ridgway September 5th.
Timothy O'Connor. a resident Of the
Grand valley for twenty-five years.
died at Grand Junction at the age of 70.
Edwin w. Baxter. a resident of
southern Colorado for forty years.
died at Pueblo at the age Of sixty.two.
The contract for the section of tn.
new Santa Fee trail" between Rocky
Ford and Fowler has been let at
$685..
The Colorado Telephone Company
Is spending $4,000 for improvements
in the Arkansas valley. 100000 Of it
in La Junta.
Ouray county officials will ask the
state to appropriate $4,000 to build
concrete approaches to the state bridge
at Ridgway.
The work of grading for the Den
yer. Laramie & Northwestern be-
tween Greeley and Severance will
start In few days.
Delirious from typhoid fever. Otis
Kretzer, an employee of the Pueblo
county poor farm, cut his throat with
| a razor, death resulting.
The state convention of the Fedora
ton of Labor will be held at Grand
Junction beginning August 8th. About
| 200 delegates will attend.
Farmers around Ridgway expect to
gather about 100000 bushels of wheat
from their $500 acres this year. There
Is mill at Ridgway, too.
The electric light franchise recently
granted to A. v. Walther by the town
of Ridgway has been extended and TAX
en- over by a new company.
The Pueblo Commercial Club has
started a movement for the decora
tive lighting of Union avenue from
the union depot to the court house.
The Montezuma County Pioneers
Association will meet at Mancos Sep
temper End. Those who went to the
San Juan country prior to 1885 are ell
gible to membership.
The new hotel to be built at Fowler
| will be three stories In height and
equipped with elevator. electric lights
baths. and other modern convent
ences.
Mrs. Rhoda Lutes. the Oldest lady OF
the western slope. died at Grand juno
ton as the result OF fall which she
sustained several days ago. She was
a little over 95 pears old.
The federal Bureau OF Mines, re
Gently instituted. has decided upon
Trinidad as one of the first points
at which a mine rescue station Will
be established.
Harold Stevens of Grand Junction
| will receive an automobile as the re
suit of his hustling qualities in sub
scription contest conducted by ar
eastern fruit paper.
E. l.. Estep of East Holbrook mar
keted 1888 bushels of wheat at La
Junta, which he threshed from forty
five acres, an average yield of thirty
four bushels to the acre.
A new town will be established or
the Denver & Rio Grande between New
Castle and Silt, to be called Chapman
| A town company has been organized
and petition made for postoffice.
The heavy rains last week in Clear
Creek county destroyed the homes oil
H. B. Baker, R. r. Graham and Rob
ert Zoller at Idaho Springs and sc
damaged the Spring Creek and Chi
cago Gulch roads that the hauling Of
ore will be sediously affected fol
some time.
The Delta county commissioners
have asked the state highway commits
sion for an appropriation of $500 to ale
in building a first-class highway be
tween Delta and Grand Junction. There
is by far more good-roads work pro
posed in Colorado at this time than a
any other period of the states history
Colorado fisherman who persist II
taking fish from the public stream:
of the state and then selling them ir
market. without any form of license