The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-01
LITTLE coLonADo ,rEMs.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
Stats Worth Telling.

670.75 to be reelected.
The tax levy for Pueblo for. next
year will be twenty mills.
The total deposits in the Your
Greeley banks is close to $2.0O0.o0O.
An Olathe firm shipped five car
loads of potatoes to Boulder recently.
Machinery for the condensed milk
factory is being installed in Johns
town.
Located nine miles northwest Of
Olathe is the new townsite Of Or
chardview.
Recently at the city hall the dent
lists of Larimer county held . very in
teresting meeting.
Ed Smith of Masonville had the
misfortune to be badly injured by a
vicious hog recently.
Charles Gaines. member of a promi-
nent family of Olathe. became violent
ly insane a few days ago.
John Howell. one of the picturesque
and pioneer mining men of the West,
died in Denver recently.
The demonstration train will arrive
at Rocky Ford Wednesday. December
30th. and will remain over night.
Ordway Lodge A. F. and A. M. has
been chartered by the Grand Lodge OF
Masons and given number 1876.
A wreck en- the Midland. on the
west end. near Newcastle. resulted in
the death Of Fireman Waters and
Porter A. j. Carson.
Manitou may get letter carrier
system. as the postoffice there did
over $4,000 worth of business this
year. -. -,
Hon. w. II. McCaskill.. representa-
tive from Otero county. died ',yery
suddenly in Rock Ford. the result of
apoplexy. .s' d.
Davis C. Ortiz. bartender of
rueblo. threw himself, under the
wheels OF freight engine and was in
stantly killed. e.. -
The sounding OF bugle may be
adopted as the official signal in the
grade schools OF Denver for assem-
bling the children.
Pansies are blooming In Greeley
gardens. p. H. Davis picked large
box full from his yard. covering them
for the first time.
Shortly after beginning work Will
liam Roddy. aged So. machinist IN
the Colorado Midland shops at Colo
RADIO Springs. dropped dead.
Great preparations are being made
for the annual poultry show OF the
Northern Colorado Poultry Associa.
tion in Fort Collins next month.
Road Master w. J. Trainor reports
that the county has put in some ce-
ment bridges and corrugated culverts
on range line roads,. west OF Ordway.
The Farmers union Of Mesa county
was formally organized, at q meeting
In Grand Junction of delegates from
Palisade. Fruita. DeBaque and Clifton.
Automobiles of. Greeley county
and surrounding towns are contemplate
ing an organization for the bettermeht
of the present roads and the building
of new ones 49,! 49,.
A special trsinS from Colorado to
the Chicago land show on Colorado
day. December /. ,is planned by the,
Arkansas Valley Commercial Associa-
ton. ,t .".s.
A, permit has been granted for, the
erection of a machine shop In Fort
Collins. Kansas capital is Interested.
1t will make alfalfa mill and farm
machinery. 81 80
The effective advertising being
done at Grand Junction. on behalf of
the Grand valley in the East is al
ready having It's effect in the influx
OF homeseekers.
p Plans are being perfected for a
good roads convention which will be
held In Denver, probably in January.
under the auspices OF the Rocky Noun
tain Highway Association. ~
This has been a great purnpkin
year in Colorado and a number Of
factories are now chopping up and
canning the best crop OF the golden
fruit ever taken of in this state.
Work on Greeley's municipal skat-
ing pond is under way and the CEN
ter of the racetrack at Island Grove
Park. city property. is the site for the
big rink. The expense 10 being met
by public spirited citizens.
The students OF Colorado college.
Colorado Springs. have started cam
paign to raise $500 to pay the salary
of Harry Ewing, missionary in
charge of Y. NJ. c. A. work at Buenos
Ayres. who is supported by the col
lege. -'
Two C. Boulder's Oldest citizens,
Mai. Miles Jain. aged II. and Silas l..
Brown. aged rs. died within six hours
.of each other. Mr.. Brown had lived
In Boulder thirty years. Maj. Jain
had been a resident Of the county fiA
ty years. - -
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