The Glenwood post., 1910-07-16
LITTLE
COLORADO
ITEM 8
I T e N 3

A depot will be built at Willard.
Cheraw stores will close on Sun
day
Alamosa's new hotel is about COM
pleted.
Montrose will issue $4,000 refund
ing bonds.
A Good Roads Club is being formed
at Saguache.
lied at Montrose.
Johnstown will now have railroad
mail service twice daily.
Colonel Roosevelt will be asked to
visit Rocky Ford Melon Day.
A farmers institute will be held at
Goff's grove near Cheraw July 30th.
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
29th, arriving at 10: 80 a. m.
Watonga is a 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.
Mr.. Scarpello of Niwot thinks his
siXty-five acres of wheat will yield
thirty-five bushels per acre.
Denver building permits for June
We're 81 ,427,0OO, an increase over June,
1909, of $s53,3S5, or 67 per cent.
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.
Pablo Valdez of Trinidad is dead
from blood poisoning, as the result of
having cut corn from one of his toes.
The largest wheat crop ever grown
in the Arkansas valley is being har-
vested from Pueblo east to the state
line.
Fort Morgan citizens voted to grant
Paul Challiss of Greeley franchise
for gas plant, and he will start upon
his $4,000 system at once.
j. 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
AS a 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 a better prospect for
Il big potato harvest around Greeley.
Benino Fernandez was instantly
killed at the Minnequa plant at Pu
eblo by being run down by large
crane. He evidently stepped in front
of it without seeing it.
Mrs. S. Yarberry. wife of a well
known ranchman of Avondale, was
struck by lightning. receiving injuries
that may prove fatal, being badly
burned about the back and both legs
Peter Popovich. Pueblo grocer
committed suicide, by shooting him
self through the head Dependency
over financial matters is given as the
reason for his rash action in a note
which he left.
An ordinance will be introduced into
the Denver City Council within a short
time providing for wheel tax. BY this
ordinance every vehicle in the city will
be taxed and the money expended upon
the improvement of the roads.
Clarence Howard of Cathedral, six
men supplied with calves during a re-.
cent branding bee there. AS an expert
with the rope it is said his equal
would be hard to find.
State Veterinarian Lamb was called
to Montrose to try to discover what
| caused the death of five horses be.
longing to the Jesse Bell ranch. After
a consultation with two local con-
| freres, it was decided that the
equines had only been too well fed
Col. ] t. Sanderson of Boulder cele-
brated his ninety-first birthday last
week and regaled his visitors with
"reminiscences of the days when he
was operating the stage service west
ward from Kansas City with 5000
horses and LOO men.
r. H. Valentine, well-to-do farmer
living northwest of Greeley, disap-
peared four weeks ago and has not
been heard from. He stepped out of
the house saying he would be back in