The Springfield herald., 1911-02-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

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Twenty-three carloads of sheep left
Fort Collins recently.
Rodney Marsh, veteran of the Civil
War died in Fort Collins.
s. p. Madeira, Colorado pioneer.
died at Colorado Springs.
Elmer Conner of Colorado Springs
has been adjudged insane.
Work on the sanitary sewer will be
started soon in Colorado Springs.
Burglars entered Pueblo pawn
shop and took $3.50 worth of Jewels.
A human skeleton has been discov-
cred in the old mines near Aguilar.
The Rocky Mountain store at Will
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 good base ball team.
The Farmers Union has closed q
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 Gill has been
opened.
Frederick Kruse, former mayor Of
Central City and Colorado pioneer.
is dead.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from As cents dozen to 25
cents.
During the year 1910 Colorado shoe
factories turned out $350.000 worth Of
| shoes.
Mrs. L. H. Newman. aged "a. 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
$75O.OOO.
The Ohio Society Of Colorado will
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 result of years Of labor
and much expense.
Much interest is taken In the farm
ers' institute to be held at Fort Col
Inns February 1926.
The Rio Grande railway has taken
over the Pitkin-Baldwin branch of the
Colorado G Southern.
T. II. Wisden. aged SO. of Montrose.
died from the effects OF injuries re-
ceived in runaway.
Mrs. Rafael Esper, Mexican wom-
an 10S 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 Sum
day school children of Grand juno
tion.
The Grand Valley Poultry Club has
been organized and each member is
required to raise 500 chickens each
year.
Logan countys first Annual Poultry
Show which has just closed, was one
CT the most successful ever held in
the state.
Charles D. 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 1GO 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
with which the residents of the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the $3,O0O,OOO fruit crop.
Through the 1lndln8 OF the DoQy OF
Wilson l.. Davis, 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 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.
Ouite a number of fruit men of