The Springfield herald., 1910-08-12
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OF sardines and died.
Cortez papers say there is a good
opening for dentist there.
The Ouray creamery churned 5000
pounds of butter in July.
The Union Pacific is building a
roundhouse at Briggdale.
The state realty dealers will meet
at Trinidad October 4th and 5th.
The first directory of Alamosa and
Conejos county is being compiled.
The Montezuma county fair will be
held at Cortez October 5th to 7th.
The Clear Creek Miner Is a new pa.
Fer started at Idaho Springs by r. d.
Blair.
The Denver & Rio Grande will build
depot and establish station at Con
crete.
Fruit shipments from Palisade up to
August LIST amounted to sixty-three
carloads.
George Gross, near Fort Collins, re-
ports wheat yield of fifty-seven bush.
els per acre.
winter wheat on his dry farm at
Keenesburg.
The State Highway Commission has
apportioned $1,000 to Chaffee county
for improvement of roads.
A postoffice has been established at
reach there in few days.
L. V. Carter of Greeley found beet
in his field having a root forty-seven
inches long. This beets the record.
An electric road proposition to con-
meet Montrose. Delta. Olathe and other
towns is incubating at Montrose.
Former Illinois residents of northern
Colorado will hold their sixteenth an
nual picnic at Berthoud on the 18th.
A factory has been established at
Windsor for the manufacture of beet
toppers and dry land farming imple-
ments.
Frank Madden of Greeley the other
day received SIS which he had loaned
to q friend thirty-six years ago In st.
Louis.
Mesa county bankers are preparing
to entertain the State Bankers conven-
ton at Grand Junction, September 9th
to goth.
The 100 acres of beans around Gree
ley which were planted for canning
purposes are yielding three to five
tons per acre.
The big drainage tunnel In the Grip
n Sfric xaySl1 no, cd n
celebration in which several cities
will participate. -
The town of Moffat. in the San Luis
valley, has two newspapers-theT Times
and the News-while q few weeks ago
1t had none.
William Newell, druggist Of Sew
erance. was found guilty Of selling
liquor contrary to law and was as
sessed $500 and costs.
G. o. Reshaw of California mesa,
near Olathe, harvested three cars of
spuds from six acres of ground, for
which he received 1874 net.
George Maxon of Lcngmont. aged 60,
died Friday from injuries he sustained
by rolling out of a hay NOV while
While playing with an old gun which
was out of repair, Calimilla Roundo,
aged eight, was shot and killed by his
Angelo Gagliardi, aged seven,
at Engleville.
With hook and line and an angle
worm for bait, R. c. Snider of Platte
vile caught a German brook trout in
th IN ri1- hot
inches in length.
Alamosa is having great deal of
city improvement done, including the
grading and filling of streets and the
laying of many blocks of cement
walks.
to buy land and equip fair ground
and several thousand dollars in sub
scriptions rewarded the first efforts
of the boosters.
Otto Lewis, &C, Of Del Norte. and
Mrs. Rosina Hesser, 60, of Boulder,
were married at the latter city as re-
suit of a correspondence struck up
through a want ad.
John Steele, a carpenter fifty-eight
years VI age, uIOppSu uedi at Idldy
cite "Wednesday while walking to din
ner from work. He had just arrived
there from Denver the day before.
Miss Mabel Skinner of Fruita, last
years Colorado apple queen. is to be
presented with jeweled crown from
Paris by Werner u. Reed of Colorado
Springs. who has large interests in the
Teighborhood of Fruita.
A stock company has been formed
by Longmont business men and capt.
talized at $4,000 in 81 shares, to en-
plot valveless pump recently pat
ented by G. j. Dourte of that place.
Instead of valve it has a revolving
piston which in turning opens one side
and lets water in and as it turns
closes the inlet and opens the outlet.
1t will not clog like valve pump.
A steam pillow gang breaking up land
on the 1,2OO-acre ranch of the Farmers
Land and Water Company, near Well
ington. have been diversifying their la
bors by killing rattlesnakes. The last
report says the fortieth RATHER has
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