The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

The Rocky Mountain store at VIII
liamsburg was burglarized recently.
A $4,000 ice and storage plant is
being erected in Grand Junction.
An effort will be made this year to
give Sterling a good base ball team.
The Farmers Union has closed a
two days session in Colorado Springs.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook will lecture
In Grand Junction on February 9th.
With Mrs. ]. S. Harrison as post
mistress the postoffice at Gil has been
opened.
Frederick Kruse, former mayor of
Central City and a Colorado pioneer,
is dead.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from As cents dozen to %
cents.
During the year 1910 Colorado shoe
factories turned out s35O,000 worth OF
shoes.
Mrs. L. H. Newman. aged "A.
wealthy resident of Evans since 1879.
Is dead.
The Southern Colorado Hardware &
Implements Association will meet in
Pueblo.
The Western Slope Teachers Con-
yention will be held in Grand Junction
April LIST.
Wholesalers and jobbers in Grand
Junction do an annual business of
sI50.000.
The Ohio Society of Colorado viii
hold its annual meeting in Denver
March 4th.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
Of Grand Junction.
Oil has been struck in well near
Lamar. as a result of years of labor
aud much expense.
Much interest is taken in the farm
ors' Institute to be held at Fort Col
Inns February 1926.
The Rio Grande railway has taken
over the Pitkin-Baldwin branch of the
Colorado & Southern.
T. II. Wisden. aged So. of Montrose.
died from the effects OF injuries re-
oeived in a runaway.
Mrs. Rafael Esper. a Mexican wom-
an los years old. was burned to death
recently in Florence.
Mrs. Richard Pearce. wife of Gen
Richard Pearce. for years British vice
consul of Denver. is dead in London.
Don't drink" is the personal mes
sage from President Taft to the Sun
day school children OF Grand juno
ton.
The Grand Valley Poultry Club has
been organized and each member IL
required to raise 500 chickens each
year.
Logan county's first Annual Poultry
Show which has Just closed, was one
CT the most successful ever held In
the state.
Charles ID. Simonson. Eastern gener.
al agent of the Santa Fe and Colorado
Midland since the early SOS. is dead in
New York.
Three big steam shovels are at
work on the grade for the Colorado &
Southern extension from Wellington
TO Cheyenne.
The Secretary OF the Interior has
been authorized to sell the city OF
Trinidad 100 acres of public land for
water storage purposes.
Contracts have been signed which
assure the immediate commencement
of work on the Stanley Lake irrigation
project north of Denver.
"All together" will be the slogan
-. - a.
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the 100000 fruit crop.
Through the finding OF the body Of
Wilson l.. Davis. a prominent ranch
man of Paonia. the mystery surround
ing his disappearance. March 6. 1907.
is solved. His decomposed body was
found where he had hanged himself.
At a meeting of the Colorado State
Automobile Association in Denver,
Ralph W. Smith was elected president.
Elmer E. Sommers. secretary and
manager. and John w. Springer. treas
urer.
A meeting similar to the grasshop-
per meetings on the eastern slope has
been called for February 25th at
Fruita, when plans for concerted
fight against the codling moth will be
laid by the orchardists of the Grand
valley.
Quite a number of fruit men of
the Arkansas valley are preparing to
smudge this spring at any time that
Jack Frost comes nipping around.
The Montrose Fruit Orchards Com
pany has leased 1000 acres to an
eastern slope man. The tract is in
the vicinity of Shenandoah, and Is
partly set to young fruit tree.
Sale of the Big Four ranch, near
Car bondale, comprising 1900 acres.
vas completed when title deeds
passed to Howard w. Yeoman Of
Cleveland, Ohio. in exchange for $685.
coo cash.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
operates and maintains first-class din
ing stations at Pueblo. Salida. Min
turn, Grand Junction, Helper. Thistle
end Wildly.
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