The Glenwood post., 1910-10-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.


Canon City expects to ship 1000 or
1000 carloads of apples this season.
Canon City Elks are about to build
100000 clubhouse. They have 500
members.
At Georgetown forest fire is raging
in East Argentine in the vicinity OF
the Sidney tunnel.
An Eaton man sold 1000 sacks OF po-
tatoes for $1.OO0-yet to be dug,
sacked and stored.
Magpies are killing off Chinese
pheasants around Greeley. The
Chinese must go.
Ten cars of potatoes were sent out
of Greeley by one firm Wednesday at
80 cents hundred.
A Greeley woman has a portion OF
bed curtain which was brought over
in the Mayflower in 1920.
There is no longer doubt of Colora-
dos ample representation at the big
Pittsburg land show, Oct 1929.
La Sale has substituted chain
gang in place of the proverbial latch
string for impecunious visitors of the
hobo variety.
Ninety degrees above at Greeley
Sunday and Monday. Just five years
ago the thermometer stood at 10 de-
grees below.
The Colorado Manufacturers Asso-
citation has endorsed the project to in
stall a permanent exhibit Of state
products in Denver.
Denver automobiles must not ap-
proach closer than four feet to street
cars, and stern and forward lights
must be provided.
The President has signed a procla-
nation eliminating 2,561 acres from
state of Colorado.
The community kitchen" and din
ing room to accommodate about fifty
families planned by the women of
Greeley is progressing.
A Denver man has leased the ex-
elusive privilege of hunting frogs on
several large reservoirs in Weld coun-
ty, believing there is fortune in it
from the jump.
The Pueblo Canning Company has
made one shipment of - carloads of
Pueblo county picked cucumbers to
Tacoma, Wash, the largest cucumber
shipment on record from this county.
Larkspur, aconite, loco weed and
other poisonous growths, common to
some sections of Colorado are being
experimental with by government eX-
perts with the primal object of saving
stock.
The enormous crop of fall and win
ter apples which the Manzanola dis
trict has raised this year, which ex
ceeds by 100 per cent any crop ever
before produced in this district, is
moving.
Local postoffice receipts for the
quarter ending Sept. 80. at Colorado
Springs. shows an increase of s1,10o
over the corresponding quarter of 1909,
being $37,5S5 this year and $36.474
last year.
The Mutual Light and Power Com
pany will ask for franchise in Pali-
sade, and announces that the wires
will be extended to include Clifton.
In this event, many ranchers no doubt
will be able to secure the same serv-
ice
While driving his automobile across
the railroad tracks into Fort Collins,
Dow Law, a wealthy farmer of this
district, was struck by freight train
and his little daughter badly hurt. Mr..
7 with minor iniurinr Tho
child will recover.
With the grade of the Dent-Fort
Collins railroad entirely completed
through western Weld county into
Fort Collins all men and teams have
been pulled off of the new line and
the railroad company is making its
final settlements on the twenty-five
miles of grade costing $175,OO0.
The Salvation Army Fall Congress
will meet in Denver Friday, October
14-1S. This congress is Nn the inter
ests of the work in Colorado, Utah,
Idaho. Wyoming, Montana, Arizona
and New Mexico. Commissioner Thorn
as Estiol of Chicago will preside. He
is territorial commander for the West
ern department
Fred Crane of Windsor holds the
record, so far as known, for the high,
est test of sugar per cent in his beet
crop ever known here, it averaging
1876 per cent. He has twenty acres
in beets, which will harvest twenty
tons to the acre, and as Mr.. Crane
will receive $6.25 ton for his crop
It will bring him $4,000.
A five-point buck, weighing 221
pounds, was killed by NJ. A. Mazufoo,
superintendent of the Strong mine, at
Jump Rabbit lodge, north of Cripple
Creek. Deer are more plentiful than
in years in Teller county this season,
large number having been shot here
since October 1. During the last ten
day three bucks were killed within
two miles of the city limits.
AS the result of a report received