The Glenwood post., 1911-06-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

postal savings bank will open In
Salida June goth
Delta will have a postal savings
bank after July 3rd.
Glenwood Springs strawberry fes-
tival was great success.
Elks of Canon City are soon to be
housed in their own club home.
Rocky Ford parties are figuring on
putting in a moving picture show at
Swink
After three attempts, Mike Logan OF
Salida, has succeeded in taking his
own life
In fight with drunken Mexican
in Pueblo, Patrolman ]. A. Grady was
badly cut.
Prospects are good for the estab-
lishment of creamery and cheese
factory at Windsor.
improvements to cost $4,000 will
be made by the d. & r. G. railway
at Colorado Springs.
The State Teachers College opened
in Greeley June goth with an enroll
ment of 600 students.
Most of the trust companies will
have to reorganize in order to comply
with the new banking law.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Trinidad ball team in a game at Chey-
enne by score of to /.
Two little children were swept to
death in the swift running waters of
irrigating canals near Golden.
L. NJ. Anderson, convicted of check
forgeres at Pueblo was given three
to five years in the penitentiary.
The Colorado National Life Assur
anc Company has consolidated with
the Columbian National Life of Bos-
ten.
The strawberry crop around Long
mont is fair and between $50 and 200
crates of berries are being shipped
daily.
There is a prospect that an expert
mental farm to be conducted by dry
farming methods may be established
at Sligo.
Frank Volpe, an italian, was con-
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sentence of from ten to twenty
years
| Taxpayers in western Pueblo coun-
ty will soon vote on the question of es-
tsblishing the Pueblo Irrigation dis
| trict.
| In a recent game OF ball at Wray be
tween the married and the single men
the former were victorious by score
| of ~ to /.
The oil wells at Akron has reached
depth of 1.O65 feet and the opera
tors are waiting for more cable tc
continue the digging
A five-mile motorcycle race for a
purse of $3.50 will be one of the fea
utres of the Fourth of July celebra
ton at Grand Junction.
Plans for the establishment of ar
immense duck hatchery with the use
of the surface of a large reservoir
near Greeley are under consideration
Field Superintendent Timothy of the
sugar factory, says that of 5000 acres
OF beets planted for the Greeley fac
wind, dry weather etc.
Arrangements are being made fo
the approaching term of the For
Lewis school. A dairy department il
to be inaugurated with twenty pur,
bred COWS.
Dummy" Rosson, who is vel
known in Rocky Ford, Fowler ant
other Otero county towns, has beef
taken over by the Des Moines, Iowa
base ball team
The lifeless body of a woman wa
recently found near Newdale by tn
qury revealed the fact she was
Mrs. Trivett of Eskrdge, Kan.
An unusual revival of interest il
grange circles has been manifested il
the Louisville district by the erection
of a $500 grange hall by the CLARK
son Valley Grange Association.
Five thousand eight hundred do
lars has been raised recently by tn
farmers of Niwot for the erection c
cooperative creamery, to be devote
. to the interests of the dairymen an
farmers of that district.
Platteville will celebrate with bi
Fourth of July programme this yea
, The new race track has been con
, pleted and there will be ball game
balloon ascension, fireworks and
grand ball.
! Farmers along the Arkansas
Pueblo county are haDDy AT hayin
i, their bitches filled for the first tim
since last September. A heavy raj
up the river caused rise of thre
feet and sent the water through a
: irrigation bitches.
George Gion won fast wrestlin
match from Clarence Ecklund at Fol
Morgan in alternate falls. Gion too