The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-08-10
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| of sardines and died.
Cortez papers say there is good
opening for a dentist there.
The Ouray creamery churned 5000
rounds of butter in July.
The Union Pacific is building a
roundhouse at Briggdale.
The state realty dealers will meet
at Trinidad October 4th and 9Th.
The first directory of Alamosa and
| Conejos county is being compiled.
The Montezuma county fair will be
held at Cortez October 5th to It'll.
The Clear Creek Miner Is a new pa
rer started at Idaho Springs by r. d.
Blair.
The Denver & Rio Grande will build
depot and establish a station at Con-
crete.
Fruit shipments from Palisade up to
August LIST amounted to sixty-three
carloads.
George Gross, near Fort Collins, re-
ports a wheat yield of fifty-seven bush
els per acre.
E. F. Monroe will SOW 200 acres of
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
Mesita and the railroad is expected to
reach there in few days.
L. v. Carter Of Greeley found beet
n Told hax not fArfxy yaV1
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 = 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 29th.
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
pie Creek district will be opened with
q celebration in which several cities
win participate.
The town of Moffat. In the San Luis
valley. has two newspapers-theT Times
and the News-while few weeks ago
II had none.
William Newell. . druggist OF Sew
erance. was found guilty Of selling
liquor contrary to law and was as
ssssed $500 and costs.
G. o. Reshaw OF California mesa.
near Olathe. harvested three cars Of
rpuds from six acres Of ground. for
which he received 1874 net.
George Maxon Of Longmont. aged 60.
died Friday from injuries he sustained
by rolling out Of a hay NOV while
asleep q couple Of nights before.
While playing with an old gun which
was out OF repair. Calimilla Roundo.
aged eight, was shot and killed by his
playmate. Angelo Gagliardi. aged seven.
at Engleville
With a hook and line and an angle
worm for bait, r. c. Snider Of Platte
Vile caught German brook trout in
the St. vrain river that measured 26h
inches in length.
Alamosa is having a great deal of
city improvement done. including the
grading and filling Of streets and the
laying OF many blocks Of cement
walks.
A movement is on foot at Gunnison
to buy land and equip a fair ground
and several thousand dollars in sub
scriptions rewarded the first efforts
OF the boosters.
Otto Lewis, 66. Of Del Norte. and
Mrs. Rosina Hesser, 60. OF Boulder.
were married at the latter city as a re-
suit of a correspondence struck up
through a want ad.
John Steele, carpenter fifty-eight
years Of age. dropped dead at Lafay-
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 Y. Reed Of Colorado
Springs. who has large interests in the
neighborhood Of Fruita.
A stock company has been formed
by Longmont business men and CAPT.
taiized at $4,000 in 81 shares. to ex-
ploit a valveless pump recently pat
ented by G. J. Dourte Of that place.
Instead of valve 1t has revolving
piston which in turning opens one side
and lets water in and as 1t turns
closes the inlet and opens the outlet
1t will not clog like a valve pump.
A steam pillow gang breaking up land
on the 1.200-acre ranch of the Farmers
Land and Water Company. near Well
ington, have been dIversifying their Ia
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