The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-04-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

The new ice plant at Kersey Is now
ready for business.
The home of ]. A. Y. Alderman, liv-
ing near Castle Rock, was burned.
Bert snider was given six months
In jail in Pueblo for beating his wife.
Hiram Heckles, aged so. pioneer
OF the Cripple Creek district, is dead.
Glenwood Springs big annual festi-
val, Strawberry Day, will be held June
18th.
Beginning about the middle of May
the streets of Holly will be sprinkled
daily.
Peter Stoehr, aged rs, dropped dead
at his home in Montrose from heart
disease.
No trace Of VIM. Ward. who disap-
peared from Windsor recently. has
been found.
T. E. Nycherley. a miner. was at
tackled and killed at Lafayette by four
Mexicans.
The county board has let the con-
tract for the new high school building
at Castle Rock.
There are now only about seventy
cars Of sheep on feed for market in
northern Colorado.
Charles T. Howard, an old soldier
and pioneer of northern Colorado. died
suddenly at Iongmont.
The annual meeting of the White
River Stockgrowers' Association was
held in Meeker recently.
Two hundred thousand fish will be
placed in the headwaters Of Mesa coun-
ty streams this summer.
Colorado now heads the list of states
for loss of life in coal mine accidents.
with Alabama a close second.
w. p. Foreman. travelling auditor of
the Burlington railroad for thirty-eight
years. died in Denver recently.
The annual spring meeting Of the
Presbytery OF Denver was held at the
First Avenue Presbyterian church.
In a last and exciting game of base
Sale reds by a score Of to 1.
The business men OF Idaho Springs
have formed Merchants Protective
Association with a large membership.
Efforts are being made to secure an
aeroplane exhibition for Grand juno
ton during the Mesa county fair. next
fall.
Mrs. Cordelia Durfee. mother OF
Representative Alfred Durfee of Ere
mont county. died In Michigan re.
Gently.
Roy Engle. Robert Jones and Dick
Wells will soon be tried in District
Court in Pueblo on the charge OF horse
stealing.
Representative Martin has nominal
ed Phillip Ogrodowski of Trinidad as
alternate candidate for a cadetship a;
Annapolis.
Michigan has reached the position
of third state In the beet sugar indus
try. Colorado being first and Call
fornia second.
The Gold Belt theater in Telluride,
an immense frame building erected in
the bonanza days, was burned recent
ly. loss $4,000.
The Presbyterian Church of Trini.
dad burned the mortgage which has
been hanging over the church since Its
construction in 1901.
The Boulder Presbytery is in SEES
sion in Fort Morgan and elected Rev.
j. w. Currens. student pastor OF the
University of Colorado. moderator for
the coming year.
About ten miles of track for the
Fort Collins branch line of the Union
Pacific has been completed from
Dent. and track laying is progressing
at the rate of a mile a day.
Louis wechter. under sentence of
death for the murder of w. Clifford
Burrowes in Denver last February IL.
is in Canon City and will be hanged
during the week beginning July %.
Matt Thomas. Wilbur Webb. Clar.
ence Aiken and Clyde Coin. arrested
Feb. Z for driving Japanese workmen
out OF Delta county. had their pre-
liminary hearing and were acquitted.
The spring training campaign of the
Denver baseball club closed at Tulsa
Okla. with an exhibition game with
the Sapulpa club Of the Western as
ISOLATION. The Denvers won the con-
test by a score of seven to two.