The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-08-03
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
Ctate Worth While.

Ground has been broken for the new
Jail at Greeley.
Oak Creek is having an electric
light plant installed.
Thieves stole $3.50 from a Longmont
store in daylight
Grover and Briggsdale are now con-
nected by a stageline.
The Park hotel at La Junta was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Boulder will have a postal savings
bank. beginning in August.
The rainfall over the San Luis val
ley recently has been heavy.
The d. G. R. G. is to build a new $780,
900 depot at Montrose.
The citizens of Hereford have organ
lied commercial club.
The postoffice at Briggsdale has
ben made a money order office.
The Western Slope fair is to be held
at Montrose September 10 to 20.
The date OF Platteville's Pickle Day
has been set for September 2.
Rocky Ford and La Junta have been
recently visited by heavy rains.
Efforts are being made to have the
next G. A. r. encampment in Denver.
Fifty business men of Boulder have
organized mutual insurance compa'
ny.
The cornerstone of the new NJ. E.
Church at Trinidad has been put in
place.
The U. p. has begun the erection OF
new $4,000 pressed brick depot at
Eaton.
The citizens of Loveland have de-
cided to hold their Harvest Carnival
Aug. 80.
Levi Brown and wife were arrested
in Pueblo charged with manufacturing
opium.
Fourteen thousand sheep were recent
ly shipped from Mack to parties at
Omaha.
Colorado Springs is celebrating the
fortieth birthday of the city with a
six-day fete.
The twenty-fifth anniversary Of the
establishment OF Fort Morgan was eel
ebrated recently.
VIM. H. Smith harvested from four
acres near Boulder. eighty bushels OF
oats to the acre.
While swimming in the San Juan
river near Creede. Frank Perrk, aged
twelve, was drowned.
The st. Peters Catholic church at
Montrose was recently damaged to the
amount Of $4,000 by fire.
The new federal building at Fort
Collins will be constructed OF lime
stone and block granite.
John Haley was given three years
in the penitentiary at Pueblo. for
stealing two pairs of spurs.
William Buttle, a shift boss in the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride.
was killed by fan OF rock.
The Wood Mountain Mining and
Milling Company's $4,000 mill at
Boulder was destroyed by fire.
The first carload OF string means
ever shipped out OF northern Colorado
went from Fort Lupton to Kansas
City.
The new superintendent of the Colo
RADIO district of the Wells-Fargo sys-
TEN, A. T. Payne, has arrived in Den
yer.
President Taft may be the guest OF
the Weld County Fair Association on
Potato Day at Greeley. September
21st.
Rev. Samuel d. Meyer, who was con-
fined in a hospital at Pueblo. killed
himself by jumping from third story
window.
The Pueblo postoffice will remain
closed all day Sundays after August
goth, an order to that effect having
been issued.
Madeleine Martinez. while coming to
Pueblo on foot after a visit with
friends north OF that city, was held
up and robbed OF $500.
An auxiliary to the Erie Commercial
Club, the first organization of the
kind in the county, has been formed
by the women of Erie.
On the charge OF being the man who
| drugged and robbed c. r. Hewitt OF
La Junta, VIII Lawrence. negro. has
been arrested at Pueblo.
The State Military Board has or
dered that the First Regiment band
| be mustered out of service. This Is
| a. ori, ,,,tIf.ory hand I'm tho state