Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-05-20
COLORADO.
STATE NEWS

The Bapt1StS are organizing con-
gregation at Kirk.
The Evans town council has stopped
Sunday baseball there.
A band has been organized at Ster-
ling with twenty tooters.
Frederick E. Cole has been appoint
ed postmaster at Arriba.
Wray is becoming metropolitan with
twenty-seven automobiles.
Romeo's new hotel will cost over
$4,000. The contract has been let.
The Norwood country will be con-
nected with Telluride by telephone.
Patsie C. Nolan has been appointed
postmaster at Eureka, San Juan coun-
ty.
The Lincoln county Sunday school
institute will be held at Limon May
10th.
About $4,000 fruit trees were mar
keted by one firm alone in Montrose
this year.
The Logan County Sunday School
convention will be held in Sterling.
May 25th.
The government oil survey of the
western slope is to be started within
a few weeks.
Colorado Springs census guessers
believe that city will show a popula-
tion Of 54,237.
VIII. Beatty killed monster gray
wolf with his six-shooter near Parshall
one day last week.
A Fowler farmer has pig which ap-
peared on earth with only three legs.
And pork SO high, too.
Fifty thousand trout fry were placed
in Beaver creek, near Florence, last
week by the authorities.
Mrs. Aurilla Snodgrass. a resident
Of Golden for forty-seven years. died
at that place at the age Of eighty.
Senator Guggenheim Monday intro
duced bill granting the town Of
fruita $40 acres for park.
Uneva lake, 10000 feet up. near
Frisco. will be restocked with trout
by the company controlling 1t.
In addition to other important build.
hotel to cost $4,000 will be erected.
The spring wheat acreage IN Lar
inner county this year will show 100
per cent increase over last.
Frank Deputy is appointed post
master at lockwood. La Plata county,
Colo. vice b. E. Swire. resigned.
The old own Of Montezuma, in Sum-
nit county. is blinking at the new
electric lights recently installed there.
Traffic on the aerial tramway from
Silver Plume to the summit Of Sun
rise peak will be opened about June
18th.
The Logan County Farmers Asso-
citation will hold an all-day picnic at
Harris grove. south Of Sterling. June
4th.
An institute for teachers OF Jeffer-
son. Gilpin and Clear Creek counties
will be held at Golden June 18th to
cath.
Arthur Dillon. living near Montrose.
caught a coyote on his ranch the other
day which was decorated with a sheep
bell.
The sailing plant OF the Kuner Pick.
le Company at Brighton was burned
down Thursday night with a loss Of
$4,000.
A business lot In Greeley sold the
other day for $4,000. or $4.75 per front
foot-a record price for the spud me-
tropolis.
Iowa capitalists are making their
second visit to Kersey to consider the
establishment Of . canning factory
there.
A Vernon correspondent says the
wheat Is looking fine and prospects
are good for another banner crop this
year.
Sixty thousand trout were planted
In Decker's lake and the streams be-
tween Crested Butte and Jacks Cabin
last week.
The Engiewood marshal spread his
net for the autoists the other day and
tagged thirty.two infected with the
speed bug.
The vallery Town Company has ar
ranged to plant shade trees sixty feet
apart on both sides Of every street
in the town.
The Arvada town council has put
the ban on barb wire fences in the
town limits where they run along i'm.
proved sidewalks.
BY a tire exploding an auto near
Martha Aulfebrook Of Denver to the
extent of a broken wrist, and other
members OF the party slightly.
A stove in a store at Estes Park
blew up the other night, breaking
every window in the building and
knocking the front door out. One of
the customers in the store was 30
injured that he was confined to his
bed for a couple of days.
Senator Guggenheim Tuesday Of.
fered an amendment to the sundry
civil appropriations bill to provide an
appropriation of $4,000 for building
a bulustrade and making other in.