The Holly chieftain., 1910-11-25
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.


Stephen Helps of Bracewell harvest
ed 1000 sacks of potatoes from 80
acres.
Fort Lupton has granted franchise
pany.
Efforts are making to form basket
ball league of Western slope teams of
Colorado.
Justice B. F. Irvine of Colorado
City is seriously i'll with congestion Of
the brain.
All of the Colorado football e,eyens
are in practice for the final games Of
the season.
Over $11.5O0 of the $4,000 neces-
sary for an alfalfa mill in Gilcrest has
been raised.
A company has been organized in
La Junta to rebuild the opera house.
burned July 20.
Hiram Vreeland Wandell, prominent
business and mining man of Colorado
Springs is dead.
Fire burned the Bracewell school
house, five miles west of Greeley and
its contents. LOSS is $500.
Two railroad men were killed in the
yards of the Rio Grande Junction rail
road at Colorado Springs.
Two Loveland men each bagged wild
cats in the foothills, while on an expe-
dition intended only for rabbits.
A contract has been let by Greeley
for new filter basin, the third in the
water system, at cost Of about
| $4,000.
The Great Western Sugar Company
| distributed at Berthoud $4,000 in pay
ment of sugar beets delivered during
October.
Victor Peterson, farmer in the
Fort Collins district grew beets test
ing as high as % per cent sugar and
bringing $500.
The sounding OF bugle may be
adopted as the official signal in the
grade schools OF Denver for assem-
bling the children.
Pansies are blooming in Greeley
gardens. P. H. Davis picked large
box full from his yard. covering them
for the first time.
The Peyton Oil Company's well, be-
ing drilled near Peyton, has encoun-
tered considerable gas and a strike OF
oil is expected any day.
General Albert H. Jones, one Of the
best known of the older citizens of
Denver, and former United States
marshal of Colorado is dead.
Great preparations are being made
for the annual poultry show Of the
Northern Colorado Poultry Associa-
tion in Fort Collins next month.
The Farmers union of Mesa county
was formally organized at a meeting
in Grand Junction of delegates from
Palisade. Fruita. DeBeque and Clifton.
1t is reported that the Denver Res
ervoir & Irrigation Company is offer
ing contracts for completion of the
big Milton reservoir, east OF La Sale.
At the Fruit congress in Council
Bluffs, Ia, Colorado was awarded Sec
ond prize which means victory over
all other Western and Northern states.
The official count of the election re-
turns shows little change from the
early returns, the few changes SO far
having been in favor of the Repub-
licans.
special train from Colorado to
the Chicago land show on Colorado
day, December l, is planned by the
Arkansas Valley Commercial Associa-
tion.
The effective advertising being
done at Grand Junction, on behalf of
the Grand valley in the East is al
ready having it's effect in the influx
of homeseekers. 80.
James Dalrymple. chief deputy mine
inspector under John D. Jones, has
been appointed temporarily to the po-
sition of state mine inspector by Gov
ernor Shafroth to succeed Jones.
With the recovery of the body of
Master Mechanic James Young from
beneath pile of debris in the main
slope of Delagua mine No. 3 the list of
known dead has grown to seventy
five.
Colorado railroad and land men are
flocking to Chicago. which will be the
Mecca of the agricultural interests OF
the country during the United States
Land and Irrigation Exposition. Nov.
10 to Dec. 3.
Milton Fish, pastor Of the Mesa Bap-
tist church, Pueblo, caused a sensa-
| tion in his congregation when he read