The Colorado statesman., 1910-09-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Fort Collins beets are found to con-
tain better sugar content than during
the two previous seasons.
The Colorado Electric Light, Power
and Railway convention at Glenwood
is the largest they ever held.
Secretary Ballinger was in Denver
Wednesday and delivered an address.
He is on his way to Washington.
Farmers of the Grover district are
planning to raise an immense amount
of winter wheat. One man has 1000
acres planted.
d. II. Carlton, one of the first set
tiers of Greeley and an original Union
colonist, died Monday night in Pleas
ant Valley, aged Sc.
In the Walsenburg and Picton dis
tricts the towns have turned out to
run down a half blood negro-lndian,
named Henry Wortham, who assaulted
an 1S-year-old girl.
Colorado Springs is in correspond
ence with the Wright Brothers, plan
ming an aviation exhibition next fall
suggestive time of the year to an
aviator, by the way.
The construction force of the Inde-
pendent Telephone company, building
line from Omaha to Denver, is at
work near Fort Collins with large
crew, and pushing work.
Many notable men from various sec
tions of the country will attend the
celebration at the formal opening OF
the Denver Chamber of Commerce
new building November 18th.
The Boulder Commercial Club is
planning a new road to the farming
districts, running from Boulder to Val
mont and connecting with Louisville,
Lafayette and other eastern towns by
the old Arapahoe road.
The new st. Stephens Boys Board
ing school has opened at Austin Bluffs,
northeast of Colorado Springs. Glib
son Bell, head master, will have three
assistants. Only ten boys are at hand
to enter.
Most of the witnesses and jurors at
Steamboat Springs, in attendance on
the District Court had to bring their
own bedding, on account of the Hahn's
Peak fire of two months ago. There
are about $50 in attendance.
James Collins was finde $50 and
costs at Greeley for bootlegging.
Thomas Gervais, one of the alleged
rioters at Frederick, was bound over
to the County Court and his bond
fixed to the amount of $1,000.
The Weld County Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold it's exhi-
bition in Greeley Dec. IA, Is, 16 and
I17. C. H. Rhoades of Topeka, Kan,
will be the judge. The association
which was organized recently has al
ready 100 members.
Preparations have been completed
for one of the biggest days ever cele-
brated in Weld county when Friday
Ault will hold its annual carnival and
show to it's visitors exhibits of its
splendid crops and the hustling town
Of Ault is less than dozen years old.
The cannery at Fort Collins started
Tuesday. Only about thirty-day run
is expected on account of the short
age of tomatoes, but growers declare
that they have never had better yields,
and that the quality is exceptionally
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here this year.
One of the most interesting features
to be seen at the Weld county fair
this year, which will open Monday,
will be the four generations of horses
owned by John Daughlin. The Oldest
weighs 1000 pounds, the next in years,
1900, the following 1900 and the
fourth is a small colt.
Six thousands of bushels of wheat a
day are being delivered by the farm
ers to the Denver, Laramie & North
western railroad at the new town of
Millikan, in Weld county. The wheat
is bought by the elevator people and
while thousands of bushels are stored.
thousands are shipped out every day.
The State Board of Health has re-
ceived a report of the birth of triplets
in Weld county. They are of the
good, old and somewhat numerous,
family of Jones and their names are
Vivian, Verna and Vada. Any idea
that the Jones family is liable to be-
come extinct should be put in cold
storage.
Automobile riding for pleasure prom
ises to be revolutionized by a novel
wheel, the invention of DR.. G. H.
Downing, a dentist of Evans, who
Tuesday filed his intention to take out
a patent. The wheel proposes to do
away with ordinary jarring of the ma
chine and will work wonders for
smooth riding.
Through a mutual agreement the
towns of Kansas holding membership
in the Arkansas Valley Commercial
Association have withdrawn from the
association and henceforth there will
be two associations, known as the Ar
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