The Paonia newspaper., 1911-03-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Greeley has had $1,000 laundry
fire.
Pueblo has purchased an auto fire
truck.
Delta has organized a company of
state militia.
Seventeen lecturers accompany the
Agricultural College special.
The Delta County Farmers Institute
held two days session recently.
The Montrose section is jubilant.
Storms have retarded the budding of
fruit trees.
John Gastrich. an Austrian miner,
was killed at the Delagua mine by
fall of rock.
For the municipal election at Eaton
two tickets are in the field. the Citi.
zens and the Independent.
Grand Junction is taking steps to-
ward the organization of company
for the manufacture of paper.
w. II. Green. a negro, formerly city
jailer. is the latest candidate for the
City Council of Colorado Springs.
Municipal ownership OF lighting
the election campaign In Fort Collins.
Platteville proposes to lay cement
sidewalks and about $500 worth OF
street crossings will be put in this
spring.
Representatives OF the Union Pa.
cific Colonization department are in
vestigating various tracts of land In
Weld county.
Eaton has organized a commercial
club with a membership of 120. The
new club combines the old Eaton
social club.
Stephan v. Tappen. a wealthy farm
er and a resident OF the Montrose sec
tion for twenty-eight years. died at his
home of cancer.
w. II. Wilder is forming a stock
company of Grand Junction capitalists
to drill for oil in the government tract
south of Fruita.
The Commercial Club of Gill is try
ing to secure the Arnish colony-not
necessarily because OF religious affili-
alton with the sect.
Rev. Lewis Walker OF Demorest. n.
j.. has been chosen pastor of the Bap-
tist church on Montrose. and will as
sumo charge about April LIST.
The Rev. J. l.. Marsh. for three
years pastor OF All Souls Unitarian
church. at Colorado Springs. has re-
signed and will retire from the min
istry.
The class OF 1911 OF the State Nor
NAL school at Greeley have voted to
give the students. beginning with next |
winter. a fine skating pond costing /.
$500.
With twenty-five men at work the /
new cement and steel bridge over the /
Platte. between Evans and LaSalle. is |
going up in almost record breaking /
time.
At Silverton five persons. two wom-
en-, a baby and two men. were swept 1
away in a snowslide which caught the /
Gold King mine boarding house near
here.
Greeley reports more sales and in
quiries in regard to northern Colorado
land by individuals and colonists than
any corresponding period in eight
months.
No action affecting saloons at MILL
ken will be taken at the county cleo
tion in April. as the thirty days re-
quired by law to submit the question
has not been taken advantage of.
Business men OF Eaton have offered
Inducements TO +. +. Stockover. presi-
dent of the Greeley Car Seal Company.
to establish its factory at that place.
and the company is considering the
Isaac N. Stevens. for eight years
owner OF the Pueblo Chieftain and can
didate for congressman-at-large on the
last Republican ticket, has disposed OF
his newspaper and will retire from the
newspaper field.
A proposition to irrigate 1,200
acres near Fort Lupton for garden
truck was presented to the CONNER
cisl club recently by engineers of the
Northern Colorado Power Company
and is considered feasible.
An Injunction was asked in District
Court at Lamar to restrain the com
missioners OF Prowers county from
a contract with the Kansas
City Bridge Company for building nine
bridges over the Amity canal.
Along the head OF the st. vrain, Big
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