The Lamar register., 1910-10-26
LITTLE coLoHADo ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

yada.
The Farmers National Bank of Ault
proposes to double it's capitalization
Of $4,000.
The light freezes and frosts have
done no damage to potatoes and beets
in the Greeley district.
Conrad. Benzowosay was killed in
the mine at Hastings, near Trinidad
Friday, by fall Of rock.
Ell Paso county will vote at the
coming election on a proposed, $780,
900 bond issue for road improvement
Conditions among the cattle of
northern Colorado have never been
better. according to ]. A. Merrill, gov
eminent inspector.
Eight feet of snow and freezing
temperature on the Moffat road above
1ollan1 again brings up the old ques-
ton of the whereabouts Of last sum-
mer's salary.
Forty land buyers from Kansas. IL
linois and other middle west states ar
rived at La Junta by automobile, &C.
companied by agents who are selling
1900 acres south of Pueblo.
The Grand Junction city council
has voted to macadamize the upper
portion of Seventh street as an expert
ment. II successful many streets will
be macadamized.
Deeds have been put on record in the
office of the county clerk showing that
the Burlington railroad has spent $15.-
900 in securing rights of way between
Greeley and Hudson.
The First National bank of Clifton
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. A. ]. belong is
president; ]. F. Fleming. vice presi-
dent; G. w. Thompson. cashier.
1t is the plan of the Associated
Relief organization at Greeley to Sc
cure employment for needy persons
who are strong and well instead Of
making them objects of charity.
Samuel Griffith, farmer living
near Milliken, has Just finished har-
vesting ten acres Of potatoes that gave
an average yield of 203 sacks to the
acre. They netted the owner $1,000.
Because of success Of the expert
Cascade avenue, at Colorado Springs,
Commissioner Lawton will ask for an
appropriation next year to extend the
work to several more streets.
Julius c. Gunter. formerly of Trini-
dad, has been chosen by the Demo
cratic state executive committee to
take the place of the late Justice r.
w. Steele on the party ticket as can
didate for the supreme bench.
The date of the Milliken jubilee
has been changed to October
goth. Elaborate preparations are be-
ing made for rousing time and 1t is
expected that one Of the biggest
crowds ever in the town will be there.
Cattle in the sixty square miles of
territory embraced in the district
east Of Greeley. bounded on the north
by the Wyoming line and on the east
by the Julesburg branch of the Bur
lington. are absolutely free from scab.
says the government inspector. DIR. ].
Merrill.
ton for the year has been made by
+. w. Brown. who has sold S2S6 worth
of potatoes from one and one-half
acres of land. He estimates that the
entire twenty-seven acres will yield
returns fully as good as the acre and
a half which he has harvested.
Thomas Mahoney. secretary of the
Grand Junction chamber OF commerce.
has wired Mrs. Martha A. Shute sec
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ture. to urge all Colorado fruit grow
ers to send exhibits to the Fruit Grow
ers' exhibition at Council Bluffs.
Iowa, November 10th to 18th.
The weather at Lamar during the
last few weeks has been ideal for the
maturing of sugar beets and the har-
vest is now far enough along to war
rant the assertion that this fall has
been the best for those engaged in the
industry of any since the American
Beet Sugar Company established its
factory there.
The cornerstone of the Gunnison
Normal school win be laid October
25th. The grand lodge A. F. & A. NJ.
OF Colorado will have charge of the
Eutsto
all over the state will be present.
The town of Gunnison is making
elaborate preparations to properly OBJ
serve this first step toward the realiza-
ton of a dream OF twenty-five years
That the Burlington railroad in
tends to begin its proposed cutoff
from Hudson to Greeley, a distance OF
twenty-five miles. to connect with the
Colorado & Southern, recently &C.
quired by the Hill interests. is shown
by the fact that rights-of-way through
half a dozen farms have been pur-
chased. DIR. r. McArthus received Il
check for $4,000 for right of way
thdough his farm southeast of the
city. Other similar transactions were
recorded.
AS result of the sliding scale sys-
tenn Of paying beet growers. based on
sugar contents. farmers in the Fort
Collins district are getting more mon
ey than ever for beets. Out of 1922
growers. 1888 received more than five