The Springfield herald., 1910-11-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth Telling.

insurgency" has broken out IN the
Greeley band and new musical az
gregation is threatened.
Colorado postmasters appointed:
Masters. Weld county, Mary CalliEan.
vice j. w. Day. resigned; Resolis, FL
bert county. Sarah ]. Allen. vice, w.
H. Wells, removed.
II rattlesnakes are as numerous at
Platteville next season as this. a COM
pany will be formed to undertake
snake killing for profit and sell the
skins for belts, etc.
Contractors and force of so men
have begun the first work on the state
highway between Grand Junction and
Delta. The road will have a maximum
grade of four per cent.
Not only is the saccharing content
of the 1910 sugar beet in Colorado
higher by one per cent than that of
last years product. but the yield by
the acre in tons is higher.
T. II. Kibby. pioneer ranchman of
Johnstown. has the banner beet crop
of that locality. His 100 acres is
yielding twenty-four tons per acre and
tne DeetS are leStlhB ciSHteeH pei
cent sugar, selling for Sc per ton.
The county commissioners have APP
pointed II. w. Cooper. manager OF the
Morgan County Herald. as representa-
tive of the county to the United States
Land and Irrigation exposition, which
opens in the Coliseum in Chicago No.
vember 10.
At Fort Lupton following an opera
ton in which the entire under portion
of his right jaw was removed and two
thirds of the left one cut out in an
effort to cure an unusual disease
known as big jaw" P. NJ. Ramsdell.
aged 40, pioneer butcher, died Fri
day of the malady.
One of the best beet crops reported
in Greeley this season is that of The
odore Kibby. farmer living near
Johnstown, who has 100 acres which
are yielding an average of "a tons per
acre. His income from beets at 100
tons per day nets him 5000 everv
twelve hours, as they are testing Sc Il
ton in sugar.
c. j. Hartman. manager of the
pany, and j. F. Farmer have invented
an automatic switch, which is being
installed on the company's tracks.
Another new device invented by local
men is an automatic lubricator, which
is designed to eliminate the sreasing
of curves by hand.
Land which he secured from Uncle
4 10 vnI.
ued by James E. Graham at $4,000.
He has just made final proofs on his
800 acres. eight miles northeast of
Greeley. Graham secured that Land
by paying rs cents an acre down and
81 an acre every year. He estimates
his crop profits at 100000 year.
Mrs. Mabel Crouter. wife of Charles
Crouter. now of Wheatland. formerly
Greeley girl, Miss Mabel Hill. is
candidate for the state legislature IN
Wyoming and is the only woman up
for election to the legislature in that
state. Mrs. Crouter was. the daugh-
ter of A. Hill. pioneer Of Weld coun-
ty, after whom the town OF Hills
brough was named.
The Great Western will run a spe-
cial passenger train from Eaton to
Longmont next Saturday to carry the
Eaton football team and several hun
dred rooters. The Eaton team will
play the Longmont boys and the
game will be a hard fought one. The
teams are about evenly matched and
the test will prove which ia the cham
pion in the Northern Colorado Inter
Collegiate League probably.
Having fought desperately for
months to live until November 10th.
at the end of which time he could
make final proof on his homestead,
R. G. Hemingway, living two miles
northeast of Num-, died Sunday, after
marking off October Both on the cal
endar and saying, 81 believe l will
live ten days more" Hemmingwav
came from Boulder to this region five
years ago suffering with miners con-
sumption. He located on the home
stead and then began the struggle for
health. His widow and two children
will continue to live on the land, upon
WHICH lle "luOW Will DC hllUWeu 10
make the final proof.
The main road between Grand
Junction and Palisade has been thor
oughly dragged by the farmers who
live along it's length and as result
the autoists report that tie road has
never been in such remarkably good
condition. 1t is smooth as a floor,
leveled off nicely, free from ruts,
sticks and stones and an automobile
can attain fifty miles per nour on its
surface without danger, or even great
er speed. The farmers hope to always
be able to keep the road in such excel
lent shape and feel that they have
true grounds for complaining of the
condition of the streets in Grand
Junction, which at present are any
thing but good.
The workmen are pushing the con-
struction work on the elegant new hos
ptal structure at Grand Junction. The
walls will be completed before very
long.
Tho fjrcf carload Of North Park