The state herald., 1910-12-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth falling.

Greeley's municipal skating pond is
completed.
Mrs. Ellen Senton Beckwith died in
Longmont, at the age of 80.
The automobile of Gus Nietzke ran
away on the Ell Moro near Trinidad,
and two persons were seriously in
jured.
Jack Markham, one of the first set.
tiers of Windsor, who had lived IN
that vinicity As years, died of paraly.
sis, aged so.
1t is reported that grading camp
Tor the Burlington railroad has been
established between La Sale and
Hudson.
Walter Currie, a noted British min
ing expert. is in Colorado for the
purpose of inspecting methods of ore
treatment.
A new postoffice will soon be es-
tablished about fifteen miles north
east of Grover probably in the house
of G. F. Thorman.
Farmers organized in Greeley under
the name of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union, with II. n.
Bickling, president.
Farmers of Fort Lupton locality re.
cetyed s5O,O00 during the last twelve
months for milk from 1900 cows fur
nished the condensory.
A Colorado Springs attorney has
received an ear of corn from friends
in Iowa which contains 1900 kernels
and weighs over two pounds.
The Rev. w. F. Highly has resigned
as pastor of the st. Thomas chapel,
Palisade, and accepted a call to st.
Marks parish in Durango.
Peanuts twenty years old, carried to
Sweden nineteen years ago and
brought back to Colorado, were found
to have lost none of their flavor.
II. L. Bishop, superintendent of the
free employment bureau in Colorado
Springs, reports that his bureau found
work for 2l7 men and 1S9 women dur.
ing November.
Dr. J. II. Franklin, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Colorado
Springs. who has been absent several
months inspecting missions in Africa,
has returned.
NaJtenbcrg, the youngest town in
the county, located on the D., l.. & n.
w. railroad, has already made a great
shipping record, the total being about
$4,000 mostly of beets
Just two weeks after the death of
Ross Tisdel. his cousin and chum, Er-
nest King. son Of Mrs. Mary King or
Greeley, died from grief over the loss
Of his comrade.
Fire believed to have been Of in,
cendiary origin destroyed a stack Of
over GO tons OF fine alfalfa hay on the
farm OF John Oster seven miles south.
east Of La Sale.
The Hotchkiss school district iStyc
banner one Of the state, We believe
There is now attending school five
pair Of twins. four pair who do not
attend, making nine pair in the dis.
trlct.
The Western Slope Fruit Growers
Association. capitalized at S910Ooo
has been Incorporated as the first
step toward combining all the fruit
growing associations In western Colo.
rado.
In the County Court In Gunnison
George F. scodghu OF Marble was
fined 5000 and costs, amounting TO
total OF $500. for alleged bootlcgglnE
In the dry territory OF Gunnison coun.
ty.
Weld county is 10 De represented a.
the annual state horticultural ronven
tion at Rifle Dec ~ and l3 by men
from Greeley and Fort Lupt0n. C. r
Root, George D. Spear and D. r. Sto-.
Der viii ho among the speakers.
Following the lines of the latest
discovery In medical science Greeley
physicians have made cancer vac
cine 10 be used In the case OF % pa.
tlcnt operated on there in hope OF pre-
venting a recurrence Of the disease
n successful. they will continue their
work on large scale
At the meeting of the Farmers In.
Ion In Grand Junction. At which rep.
reEentatiyos from Rifle and Delta
were present, movement for an in
dependent telephone system was inau
surated, which viii be connected with
the Independent system In Delta AMI
Garfield counties.
The Great Western Sugar Company
NJ Greeley issued checks for sigo.oo)
to the beet growers Of the Greeley.
Eaton and Windsor districts In flnnl
payment for all hccts delivered TO the
factory during November and Dpccm.
/ bcr making a total payment his year
. to the beet farmers Of these three dis.
trlets Of exactly ti.O00,00O. and to.
tai payment to farmers and smpiosrs
NJ factories of 'i.iSO.0O0,
The Bureau Of Plant Industry, D.
| partmcnt Of Agriculture, IN cartlng