The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1910-07-15
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CneraW stores Will close an oun-
day.
Alamosa's new hotel is about COM
pleted.
Montrose will issue $4,000 refund
ing bonds.
A Good Roads Club is being formed
at Saguache.
A Christian church is being organ
lied at Montrose.
Johnstown will now have railroad
mail service twice daily.
Colonel Roosevelt will be asked to
visit Rocky Ford Melon Day.
Two Buttes wants meat shop.
Must be prosperous community.
The National Dental Association will
meet in Denver July 18th to 22d.
A farmers institute will be held at
Colts grove near Cheraw July Both.
The question of a new high school
building is being looked up at Golden.
The Rocky Ford creamery will like
ly get into new hands and start up
again.
Boulder Chautauqua registrations
are double what they were at this time
last year.
Las Animas county has expended
$4,000 for new iron and steel bridges
this spring.
Col. Roosevelt has telegraphed to
Denver that he will be there August
29th, arriving at 1920 a. m.
Watonga Is new postoffice estab-
l.shed in Saguache county with P. d.
Solomon as postmaster.
The contract has been let for the
new Catholic church at Sterling. 1t
calls for $4,000 structure.
The Montrose County Sunday
School Association will run an excur-
sion to Ouray on the 10Th.
Mr.. Scarpello of Niwot thinks his
sixty-five acres of wheat will yield
thirty-five bushels per acre.
Denver building permits for June
were $1.427,0O0. an increase over June,
1909, of $s53,3s5, or CT per cent.
Clifford Ferguson, aged 20, of Brigh
ton, was assaulted by number of I'M
known men and severely beaten.
The new election upon the County
High School proposition in Logan
county will be held August sth.
The new school building at Windsor
has been completed at cost of $40.-
900. 1t is modern in every detail.
The largest wheat crop ever grown
in the Arkansas valley is being har-
vested from Pueblo east to the state
line.
The Boulder County Metal Mining
Association Is planning big picnic
on the Chautauqua grounds Labor Day.
September 5th.
Fort Morgan citizens voted to grant
Paul Challiss of Greeley franchise
for gas plant, and he will start upon
his $4,000 system at once.
At Moffat there is new hotel In
process OF construction, couple of
business houses, and bonds have been
placed for new schoolhouse.
J.. M. Palmer of Rocky Ford, who
raises alfalfa for the seed, will real
ize about $1S5 per acre from his 1910
crop. Last year it was $16S per acre.
Traceyville, one and one-half miles
west of Fort Lupton, is the newest
town in Weld county. 1t is railroad
station and beet dump is being built.
Owing to the scarcity of water at
the camp grounds, the Colorado Ma
tional Guard will not attend the annual
maneuvers at Dale creek, Wyoming.
this year.
Mrs. Minnie e. Jones of Denver has
filed suit against beauty doctor for
100000 damages resulting from
treatment which was to give her
plump cleeks.
Maps have been filed with the coun-
ty clerk at Trinidad by the c. F. & I.
Co. for the new Purgatoire reservoir,
to hold 76,124,939 cubic feet of water
and cost $4,000.
Bartolomeo Vicari met death in the
Sheridan crosscut at Telluride. and his
body was found Thursday, he evident
ly having fallen down the chute, dis
lance of fifty feet.
1t is stated that the proposed sugar
factory at Monte Vista has been
financed, and that the only contin-
gency in the matter of Its building is
whether or not the test crops planted
fill the requirements in sugar content.
As result Of the dry, hot weather
Of the last ten days most of the young
potato bugs have died and farmers say