The Springfield herald., 1911-07-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
Ctato Worth While.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The citizens OF Florence now have
in their possession an aeroplane.
The Colorado Telephone Company is
erecting an exchange building at
Holly.
1t is said the crops this year will be
the largest in the history OF Lincoln
county.
More than lis tons of fruit have al
ready been shipped from the Palisade
section.
The Farmers Union of Weld county
is to build flour mill, probably at
Milliken.
Knute Johnson of Cripple Creek per-
ished In the recent forest fire at Por-
cupine, Ont.
The capital stock of the Denver Ma
tional Bank is to be increased from
s750,000 to $1.000,00O.
Fire in the Slope mine at Frederick
destroyed the entire surface workings.
entailing loss of $4,000.
In fall from a willow tree, Frank
Newbury, aged years, of Steamboat
Springs, bit his tongue in two.
The State Agricultural College will
exhibit choice live stock at the Weld
County fair in September.
Over two hundred men and children
are engaged in gathering the straw
berry crop at Steamboat Springs.
Indications are that every well
equipped school In the state will be
supplied with a talking machine.
T. E. Ashburn of Montrose, until re-
Gently principal of the Olathe school,
Is undergoing fast of thirty days.
Determined to have only the most
up-to-date equipment for its schools,
Erie has ordered sanitary fountains.
A cyclone hit Amherts, east of Hol-
yoke, destroying two buildings. heavy
rain with hail. no one seriously hurt.
James NJ Cameron and Judge
James E. Dey, two pioneers of the
Grand valley are dead at Grand juno
tion.
The question of establishing home
for fallen women and orphan children
at Grand Junction is being agitated by
the churches.
Mrs. r. NJ Warden of Dallas. Tex,
lost purse on the C. & S. train near
Trinidad, which contained diamond
worth $4,000 and 800 in money.
The tenth annual celebration of the
Gunnson County Stock Growers AS
sociation. held in Gunnison. was
great success.
Between eighty and ninety women
will be graduated from the Colorado
Teachers college at Greeley, at the
close of the summer session.
Having two extra legs growing in
front of its wings, four-legged chick
en- is curiosity In the poultry yard OF
Grandmother Koehler at Piatteville.
State Veterinary Charles Lamb
states that number of horses have
died over the state, with what Is
known in the East as swamp fever.
Richard A. Ballinger. former secre-
tary of the interior. will deliver an ad-
dress at the Public Lands convention,
to be held in Denver in September.
While swimming in the Grand river
near Grand Junction, Owen Walsh
seventeen-year-old son of NJ. ]. Walsh.
peach king" of Mesa county, was
drowned.
Patrolman William b. Hendrey OF
Trinidad has been temporarily sus-
pended from the local police force for
beating Mexican into insensibility
on the street.
James E. Dean, farmer living five
miles east of Windsor. struck flow
of artesian water at depth of 500
feet. He will utilize the flow to irri
gate his farm.
The life of the locust trees OF Colo
RADIO is threatened this year by bug
known as the locut borer, according to
Albert Mauff, secretary of the State
Board of Horticulture.
Judge John Easter, who built the
first house in Denver. and who was the
first mayor of Goldfield. Colo, cele-
brated his eighty-second birthday at
his home In the latter city.
Samuel s. Sharpe of Minneapolis
was elected president of the National
Real Estate Exchanges. He was
elected unanimously at the annual
meeting in Denver.
The Erie Commercial Club has ap-
pointed committee to investigate
the possibility of securing cream
cry, and already farmers of that sec
tion have promised support.
Uncle Jake Cox, a pioneer of the
Wray section, and a veteran of the
| Civil War, is laid up with two broken
ribs and several bruises, being thrown
from his buggy in a runaway Sunday.
Lee Buck and Fred Arnold claim
the distinction of being the champion
chicken raisers of Weld county Their
combined hatch this spring numbers
4,300 birds. Buck raised 1900 and Ar
mold 1900.
Greeley has it's potato day, Fort
Collins its lamb roasts, Glenwood
Springs its strawberry festival, and
PlatteviIIe will inaugurate Picnic
day" on Saturday, September End, this
year.
The body of a man supposed to b.