The Springfield herald., 1911-06-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Rocky Ford is planning for a Chau-
tauqua.
A postal savings bank will open in
Salida June 26th.
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 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 J. A. Grady was
badly cut.
Prospects are good for the estab-
lishment of a 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 game at Chey-
enne by score of to 1.
Two little children were swept to
death in the swift running waters OF
irrigating canals near Golden.
l.. NJ. Anderson, convicted of check
forgeries 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
cretes of berries are being shipped
daily.
There Is prospect that an expert
mental farm to be conducted by dry
farming methods may be established
at Sligo.
Frank Volpe, an Italian, was con-
victed of murder at Moffat and given
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
a depth of 1,065 feet and the opera
tors are waiting for more cable to
continue the digging.
A five-mile motorcycle race for
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 an
immense duck hatchery with the use
Of the surface Of 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
tory, only 1000 acres was lost by
wind, dry weather, etc.
Arrangements are being made for
the approaching term of the Fort
Lewis school, dairy department is
to be inaugurated with twenty pure
bred cows.
Dummy" Rosson, who is we'll
known in Rocky Ford. Fowler and
other Otero county towns, has been
taken over by the Des .Moines, Iowa,
base ball team.
The lifeless body of a woman was
recently found near Newdale by the
tracks of the Santa Fe railroad. In
quiry revealed the fact she was a
Mrs. Trivett of Eskridge, Kan.
An unusual revival of interest in
grange circles has been manifested in
the Louisville district by the erection
of a $500 grange hall by the Clark
son Valley Grange Association.
Five thousand eight hundred dol
lars has been raised recently by the
farmers of Niwot for the erection OF
a cooperative creamery, to be devoted
to the interests of the dairymen and
farmers of that district.
Platteville will celebrate with big
Fourth of July programme this year.
The new race track has been COM
pleted and there will be ball game,
balloon ascension, fireworks and a
grand ball.
Farmers along the Arkansas in
Pueblo county are happy at having
their bitches filled for the first time
since last September. A heavy rain
up the river caused rise of three
feet and sent the water through all
irrigation bitches.
George Gion won fast wrestling
match from Clarence Ecklund at Fort
Morgan in alternate falls. Gion took
the first in fifteen minutes. His op.
ponent then took the second In two
minutes and the third fall was Sc
cured by Gion In thirteen minutes.
| Work will start soon on an irriga-
ton project in the Big Park which