The Colorado statesman., 1910-11-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.


! year will be twenty mills.
The total deposits in the four
Greeley banks is close to $2,0OO,000.
An Olathe firm shipped five car
loads of potatoes to Boulder recently.
Machinery for the condensed milk
factory is being installed in Johns
| town.
Located nine miles northwest of
Olathe is the new townsite OF Or
chardview.
Recently at the city hall the dent
| lists of Larimer county held very in
| teresting meeting.
Ed Smith of Masonvlle had the
misfortune to be badly injured by
vicious hog recently.
Charles Gaines, member of promi-
nent family of Olathe became violent
| ly insane a few days ago.
John Howell, one of the picturesque
and pioneer mining men of the West,
died in Denver recently.
The demonstration train will arrive
| at Rocky Ford Wednesday, December
| goth, and will remain over night.
Ordway Lodge A. F. and A. M. has
been chartered by the Grand Lodge OF
Masons and given number 1S5.
A wreck on the Midland, on the
west end, near Newcastle, resulted in
| the death of Fireman Waters and
! Porter A. j. Carson.
Manitou may get a letter carrier
\ system, as the postoffice there did
over $4,000 worth of business this
/ year
Hon. w. H. McCaskill, representa-
tive from Otero county, died very
suddenly in Rock Ford, the result of
apopleXy.
Davis C. Ortiz, a bartender of
r'ueblo, threw himself under the
wheels of freight engine and was in
stantly killed.
The sounding of a bugle may be
adopted as the official signal in the
grade schools of Denver for assem-
bling the children.
Pansies are blooming in Greeley
gardens. P. H. Davis picked a large
box full from his yard, covering them
for the first time.
liam Roddy, aged 55, a machinist In
the Colorado Midland shops at Colo
RADIO Springs, dropped dead.
Great preparations are being made
for the annual poultry show of the
Northern Colorado Poultry Associa-
ton in Fort Collins next month.
Road Master w. ]. Trainor reports
that the county has put in some ce-
ment bridges and corrugated culverts
on range line roads, west of Ordway.
The Farmers union of Mesa county,
was formally organized at meeting 1
in Grand Junction of delegates from
Palisade, Fruita, DeBeque and Clifton.
Automobiles of Greeley county
and surrounding towns are contemplat-
ing an organization for the betterment
of the present roads and the building
of new ones.
A special train from Colorado to
the Chicago land show on Colorado
day, December 1, is planned by the
Arkansas Valley Commercial Associa-
ton.
A permit has been granted for the
erection of machine shop in Fort
Collins. Kansas capital is interested
1t will make alfalfa mill and farm
machinery.
The effective advertising being
done at Grand Junction, on behalf of
the Grand valley in the East is al
ready having it's effect in the influx
of homeseekers.
|. Plans are being perfected for a
good roads convention which will be
held in Denver, probably in January,
under the auspices of the Rocky Noun
tain Highway Association.
This has been a great pumpkin
year in Colorado and number OF
factories are now chopping UP and
canning the best crop of the golden
fruit ever taken off in this state.
Work on Greeley's municipal skat-
ing pond is under way and the cen
ter of the racetrack at Island Grove
Park city property, is the site for the
big rink The expense is being met
by public spirited citizens.
| The students of Colorado college,
Colorado Springs, have started cam
paign to raise $500 to pay the salary
of Harry Ewing, a missionary in
charge of Y. NJ. c. A. work at Buenos
Ayres, who is supported by the col
lege.i
Two c" Boulder's oldest citizens,
Mai. Miles Jain, aged II, and Silas l..
Brown, aged 76, died within six hours
of each other. Mr.. Brown had lived
in Boulder thirty years. Maj. Jain
had been resident of the county fif-
ty years.
! Hobble skirts, sealskins, silk
! d.orrnr tnrhans and other feminine