The Holly chieftain., 1910-10-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over e"s
State Worth Telling.

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State Worth Telling.
Sterling is to have X. of p lodge.
Montrose will have poultry sho"
in February.
! An electric light plant for Montezu-
ma is being planned.
Colorado Springs will entertain the
1911 Dry Farming Congress.
Canon City Elks are about to build a
$4,000 clubhouse. They have 500
members.
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 az
so cents hundred.
Clarence B. Watkins OF the High
lands postoffice has been appointed a
postoffice inspector.
There is no longer doubt OF Colora-
dos ample representation at the Dig
Pittsburg land show. Oct. 1923.
Several deer have been bagged near
Canon City although the dry. warm
weather is detrimental to hunting.
La Sale has substituted a chain
| gang in place Of the proverbial latch
string for impecunious visitors OF the
hobo variety.
| 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 1861 acres from
the Arapahoe national forest in the
state Of Colorado.
The community kitchen" and din
ing room to accommodate about fifty
families planned by the women Of
Greeley is progressing.
Colorado Springs physicians are
active in making arrangements for the
| annual convention of the State Medi-
cal Society in this city October 11-13.
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 IL 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 $1,100
over the corresponding quarter of 1909,
being $37,5S5 this year and $36,474
last year.
The sugar beet crop for the state
will involve the distribution of $780,
900, according to careful estimates.
About $4,125,O0O will be distributed
among the farmers between Nov. Is
and the middle Of January.
A Denver man, Andrew Brott, Just
as flyer, has designed and built and
successfully made two flights in an
aeroplane indulging in all the dips,
turns, spurs and angles common to a
mining section.
A hnlldog killed porcupine at Col
orado Springs the other day; moi, how.
ever, until enough of the victims out
er covering had been transferred to
make 1t a question as to which was
porcupine and which was dog.
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, wealthy farmer of this
district. was struck by freight train
and his little daughter badly hurt Mr..
Law escape with minor injurier. The
child will recover.
With the grade of the Dent-Fort