The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-09-14
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


was robbed of $500.
A postal savings bank has been
opened in Denver.
Ten thousand people attended Love
lands Harvest Festival.
At Victor Tom Jones shot and IA
tally wounded James O'Neill.
Ten people were injured in the
Union Pacific wreck near kersey.
The United Brethren will build a
$4,000 church in Colorado Springs.
A postal savings bank will be es-
tablished at Lamar September 18th.
Colorado Springs inaugurate
system of decorative street lighting.
A new industry. the Castle Rock
Brick & Tile Co, will be launched
soon.
Meeker will soon have the first wire
less telegraph station of the Western
slope.
The enrolment of the State unlver-
;Ity of Boulder is something over 400
students.
A sanitarium for the treatment OF
rheumatic diseases is 10 be opened in
Boulder.
The thirty-flfth session of the Uni
versity OF Colorado has opened at
Boulder.
James Wilson and F. Dupree are in
Jail in Colorado City charged with
forgery.
The total appropriation made by the
Eighteenth General Assembly is si,-
576,945.o5.
The new county OF Crowley is Low
doing business with ordway as the
county seat
Lyman Alonzo White. pioneer and
old Indian fighter. died at his home
at Longmont
Ninety days in Jail is the penalty
Jim Sebers must pay for trying to fir;
on the streets OF Greeley.
Robt. Witt, watchman for the
Santa Fe at Colorado Springs. was
struck by train and killed.
The prize stalk of corn for Boulder
sounty bears eleven large ears and
was grown by o. l.. Linch.
The Salida high school has made ar
rangemen;s for a splendid lecture
course of five numbers.
+. A. Taylor. formerly of Denver.
has been appointed director OF agri-
culture In the Philippines.
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair. to be held at
Greeley September is TO %.
Lloyd Clark, aged twelve. son OF J.
A. Clark. of Aiamosa, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting.
Pumpkin pie. coffee. doughnuts. ap-
pies and cider will be the menu at the
Longmont Pumpkin Pie Day. Sept 2s.
At the Alamosa opera house. Mike
Malone of Denver and frankie White
of Chicago fought fifteen rounds to a
draw.
II. w. Hadkinson. fifty-five years
old was struck by a Rock Iiand train
at Colorado Springs and fatally in
jured.
The fifty-first annual communication
OF the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ. OF
Colorado Will be held in Denver. Sept
10 and 20.
W. S. Zell has DISAPPEARED from Colo
RADIO Springs. 1t is alleged, with sew
eral hundred dollars OF other peoples
money.
Twyman Kisinger. OF the Little
Beaver. near Meeker. threshed $50
acres of fall wheat, averaging forty
bushels to the acre.
Rev. William S. Neenan of the
Denver cathedral. has been appoint
ed resident rector OF St Peters
church of Rocky Ford.
Jacob. five-year-old son OF John
Hoff of Greeley, is in hospital with
a fractured skull. as the result Of a
colt stepping on his head.
Milliard Hill, aged thirty-eight, was
killed in the Mohican mine. on Battle
Mountain. at Victor. his head being
crushed under a 500-pound boulder.
A demonstration train showing the
progress of railroading during the last
thirty years is being run over the sys-
tenn OF the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad. and 1t WIN arrive in Den
yer the evening of Sept. 2S.
The activity of the La Plata min
Ing district has become so pronounced
that scarcely week passes without
some prospector or mine operator re-
cording good strike OF high-grade