The Glenwood post., 1911-08-05
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
Gtate Worth While.

AL IOWA CluD mas Deen organized al
Alamosa.
Ground has been broken for the new
Jail at Greeley.
Oak Creek is having an electric
light plant installed.
Thieves stole $19O from a Longmont
store in daylight.
Grover and Briggsdale are now con-
nected by stageline.
The Park hotel at La .'"nta was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Boulder will have postal savings
bank, beginning in August.
The rainfall over the San Luis val
ley recently has been heavy
A movement is on foot to build a
new city hall for Pueblo.
The postoffice at Briggsdale has
oen made money order office.
The Western Slope fair is to be held
At Montrose September 10 to %.
The date of Platteville's Pickle Day
nas been set for September 2.
A saloon in Ouray was robbed by
lone highwayman who secured $65.
Preparations are being made for
the apple show, to be held at Delta.
next G. A. r. encampment in Denver.
County tax assessors of the state, as
required by law, met at Denver August
lst
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Church at Trinidad has been put in
place.
The U. P. has begun the erection of
4 new 100000 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 manufa curing
opium.
Colorado Springs is celebrating the
fortieth birthday of the city with
six-day fete.
While swimming in the San Juan
river near Creede, Frank Perrk, aged
Twelve, was drowned.
The Western Slope Normal summer
school opened at Gunnison with about
seventy-five present.
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 fall 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
rado district of the WellsFargo 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 B. 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
been issued.
The record wheat yield of sixty
three bushels per acre has been
threshed by Adam Mitchie, three miles
south of Fort Collins.
The law passed by the last Legisla.
ture increasing the fees for filing in
the state engineers office goes into
effort early in August.
The Castle Rock Brick & Tile Com.
pany has been organized with capital
of $4,000, to manufacture high-class
brick and tile products.
Madeleine Martinez, while coming to
Pueblo on foot after a visit with
friends north of that city, was held
up and robbed of $4O0.
An auxiliary to the Erie Commercial
Club, the first organization of the
kind in the county, has been formed
by the women of Erie.
j. A. Perry, aged 80, laborer on the
farm of Wesley Gerkin, five miles
southwest of Brush. was thrown into a
threshing machine and killed.
The 12-year-old son of NJ. Brown,
farmer of Severance, is seriously ill
with what is thought to be arsenic
poisoning from handling Paris green.
Members of the Colorado Electric
Club are now actively preparing for
the coming second annual electric
show to be held at the Auditorium in
Denver the week commencing October
14th.
With the greatest secrecy, without