The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-07-15
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ing bonds.
A Good Roads Club is being formed
at Saguache.
A Christian church is being organ
lied at Montrose.
Johnstown will now have railroad
mail service twice daily.
Colonel Roosevelt will be asked to
visit Rocky Ford Melon Day.
Two Buttes wants meat shop
Must be prosperous community.
The National Dental Association will
meet in Denver July 18th to 22d.
A farmers institute will be held at
Goff's grove near Cheraw July 30th.
The question of new high school
building is being looked up at Golden.
The Rocky Ford creamery will like
ly get into new hands and start up
| again.
Boulder Chautauqua registrations
are double what they were at this time
last year.
Las Animas county has expended
$4,000 for new iron and steel bridges
this spring.
Col. Roosevelt has telegraphed to
Denver that he will be there August
18th, arriving at TO-: 80 a. m.
Watonga Is new postoffice estab-
l.shed in Saguache county with P. d.
Solomon as postmaster.
The contract has been let for the
new Catholic church at Sterling. 1t
calls for 100000 structure.
The Montrose County Sunday
School Association will run an excur-
sion to Ouray on the 10Th.
Mr.. Scarpello of Niwot thinks his
sixty-five acres Of wheat will yield
thrty-five bushels per acre.
Denver building permits for June
were $1.427.0O0. an increase over June.
1909. of $S53.3s5. or ca per cent.
Clifford Ferguson. aged 90. of Brigh-
ton, was assaulted by number of un-
known men and severely beaten.
The new election upon the County
High School proposition in Logan
county will be held August Sth.
The new school building at Windsor
has been completed at cost Of $40.-
900. 1t is modern in every detail.
The largest wheat crop ever grown
in the Arkansas valley is being har-
vested from Pueblo east to the state
line.
The Boulder County Metal Mining
Association is planning big picnic
on the Chautauqua grounds Labor Day.
September 9Th.
Fort Morgan citizens voted to grant
Paul Challiss of Greeley a franchise
for a gas. plant. and he will start upon
his $50, 900 system at once.
At Moffat there is new hotel in
process of construction. a couple of
business houses, and bonds have been
placed for new schoolhouse.
]. NJ. Palmer of Rocky Ford, who
raises alfalfa for the seed, will real
ize about $1S5 per acre from his 1910
crop. Last year it was $16S per acre.
Traceyville, one and one-half miles
west of Fort Lupton. is the newest
town in Weld county. 1t is railroad
station and beet dump is being built
Owing to the scarcity OF water at
the camp grounds. the Colorado Ma
tional Guard will not attend the annual
maneuvers at Dale creek, Wyoming,
this year.
Mrs. Minnie E. Jones of Denver has
filed suit against beauty doctor for
100000 damages resulting from a
treatment which was to give her
plump cleeks.
Maps have been filed with the coun-
ty clerk at Trinidad by the C. F. & l.
to hold 76,124,939 cubic feet of water
and cost $4,000.
Bartolomeo Vicari met death In the
Sheridan crosscut at Telluride. and his
body was found Thursday. he evident
ly having fallen down the chute, a dis
lance of fifty feet.
1t is stated that the proposed sugar
factory at Monte Vista has been
financed. and that the only contin-
gency in the matter of it's building is
whether or not the test crops planted
fill the requirements in sugar content.
AS result OF the dry, hot weather
Of the last ten days most of the young
potato bugs have died and farmers say
there never was better prospect for
big potato harvest around Greeley.
Clarence Howard of Cathedral. six
years old. with his lariat, kept -four
men supplied with calves during re-
cent branding bee there. AS an expert
with the rope it is said his equal
would be hard to find.
An ordinance will be introduced into
the Denver City Council within short
time providing for a wheel tax. By this
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