The Paonia newspaper., 1911-01-20

After a fight of nearly two years
rural free delivery has been secured
for Arvada.
movement is on foot to establish
a commission form of government in
Fort Collins
The fifteenth attempt to make an
aeroplane flight in Pueblo resulted in
another failure.
The annual convention of the Colo
rado Retail Merchants Association
was held in Greeley.
John Bostrom was fined $50 and
costs by Judge Hatch, at Greeley for
stabbing his brother.
over 200 dairymen OF the state
gathered at the Windsor hotel in Den
Yer in annual meeting.
The Postoffice Department has au-
thorized the establishment OF free
mail delivery in Sterling.
Articles OF incorporation OF the In.
vestors Mining Company. capitalized
at $4,000. were filed in Boulder.
Mack F. Bebee. pioneer OF the
state, died at his home in Denver. Mr..
Bebee was in his eightieth year.
Pinned under his automobile when
1t turned turtle. A Wood. a homestead
er living near Cornish. was fatally
hurt
Neil F. Graham Of Fort Collins. has
been appointed TO succeed Judge Gar
rigues OF Eighth Judicial District
Court
Joe Anstead. miner about so years
old. was found dead In a cabin in
Longfellow's gulch. four miles east of
Sallda.
Work on the abutment OF the new
concrete and steel bridge across the
Platte river. Evans. commenced re-
Gently.
George Truckermille is installing
machinery to utilize the natural gas
from an artesian well on his ranch
near Hooper.
There were number OF snow
slides "on the run" recently. on both
the Snefnes and the Red Mountain
roads. near ouray.
Charged with robblng the posioffice
at Gardner. Dewey Miller. a sixteen
year-old walsenburg boy. was arrested
Mt ranch house near Pueblo.
A movement is on foot to organize a
Western Slope Teachers Association.
composed OF the educators from the
seven counties OF the twelfth normal
district.
\ reduction from nine to eight hours
day and from six TO five days per
week has been announced TO in the
Trinidad shops OF the Colorado *
Southern.
Sixty county commissioners OF Col
orado. a delegate from each county Ia
the state. attended the meeting of the
Colorado County Commissioners Asso-
citation in Denver.
II the dispatches from Washington
are correct. the Uncompahgre valley
project has been allotted the total sum
of s3.545.0O0. In the recommendation
from the army board.
That wild magpies are learning to-
talk is the report brought in by George
Somers. who. while hunting on the
plains near Grover. says he heard i
flock OF magpies in tree speak the
words Hello" and Goodbye" dozens
Of times.
Lumber made from cottonwood
trees has been tried. tested and found
the superior OF all other for floors of
beet dumps and bridges. and thou
sands of cottonwood trees. whose
owners wish to replace them with
hardwood. will be marketed for a good
price and sawed into lumber at saw
mill. one mile northwest of Greeley.
erected especially for this purpose
II the proposed plan submitted by
the Northern Colorado Power Compa.
ny to the merchants of Boulder for the
installation of lighting system alone
the four principal blocks. consisting of
thirty-two poles. each carrying two
150-wat Tungsten lamps. costing
about 5000 to install and 1900 an.
nually to maintain. is successful. that
city will be as well lighted along its
main thoroughfare as is Denver
That the measures suggested to Sc
cure good roads in Colorado at the
meeting of the good road conference
which closed two-days session at
the Albany hotel in Denver will be
vigorously pushed and that the slogan
Good Roads in Colorado" has a real
Significance. was declared in an en-.