The Holly chieftain., 1911-05-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

Arvada will have Strawberry
Day in June.
The Epworth League convention at
Sterling has closed.
Robert NJ. Miles shot and killed
Lewis Staten at Trinidad.
Platteville Chamber of Commerce
has seventy-one members.
Mrs, Annie Nealy, one of the Oldest
residents of Boulder, is dead.
An addition is to be built to the
Mead school this summer.
Electric lighted street signs are to
be given trial in Colorado Springs.
The forest fires in Ute Pass has
been put out by government fire fight.
ers.
The Durango Board of Trade added
lSl memt4rs in a three-days cam,
paign.
Mrs. John Gregory. aged 73, and a
pioneer of Colorado, died at her home
in Cripple Creek.
Victor Lemons. Mexican, wanted
for murder at Fort Collins, was cap.
tured near Pierce.
Colorado Springs is again a wet
town. liquor license having been
granted two hotels.
The Colorado Association of Letter
Carriers will meet in convention in
Boulder June 28th.
Holyoke and Julesburg played a
good game Of ball at Holyoke. Score:
Holyoke, Z; Julesburg, 6.
Mrs. Margaret B. Wicks, aged 72. a
pioneer of Pueblo and widow of the
late Platt Wicks, is dead.
Telluride and Silverton have been
designated as new postal repositories
by the postmaster general.
The thirty annual encamp.
ment of the G. A. R. will be held at
Salida June 9Th, 7th and Sth
Fire destroyed the Keen Lumber
and Supply Company's buildings at
Fort Lupton, with loss of $500.
Preparations for the proper observ-
| ance of Memorial Day are under way
by the Evans post of the G. A. r.
The two-year-old son of Jack Lewis
of Windsor, was fatally injured by
falling into tub OF boiling soapsuds.
The Colorado Postmaster's Associa-
tion went on record in Denver in
favor of Sunday closing of postof-
fices.
Trinidad scored its first shutout of
the season by defeating the Los An
geles team of Japs.-dgith score of
| 8 to 0.
Greeley farmers believe that in
flax they have found a new crop
which can be grown successfully on
dry land.
Edward Lundberg, 12 years old, was
killed at Colorado Springs when a
horse threw him against a culvert,
crushing his skull.
Steve Elkin and Chas. Lockett, of
Steamboat Springs, on recent hunt
captured one male and one female
bear and three cubs.
One of the features of the Woodmen
of the World state convention to be
held in Pueblo July 4th. will be the
initiation of a elias of 1000 members
The army headquarters at Denver
is the only one that will be abolished
under the new order creating the
three grand military divisions in the
United States.
The planning mill Of the Colorado &
Southern railroad in Denver was de-
stroyed by fire when the building
caught fire from sparks from a pass
ing locomotive.
The proposed woman's eight-hour
law, which failed of passage in the
last Legislature, is to be submitted
to the voters of the state under the
initiative and referendum.
That there is five times as much
wheat as ever before, and that it is
in normal condition, is the statement
J. l.. Eaches, manager of the Platte
valley mill in Fort Morgan.
Arrangements have been completed
by which the baseball team of the
State Prep school at Boulder
meet Pueblo high school for the cham
ponship Of the state, May 9th.
Stock growers are jubilant over the
turn that has come in their affairs
in Colorado. The Pacific coast buy
efs have been cleaning up the State
within the last few days of every
available fat animal they could lay
their hands on.