The Glenwood post., 1911-07-08
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

x fOStdl savings Bank mas peeh
opened in Greeley.
Lafayette is to have an artesian
well in the near future.
President Taft probably will pay a
visit to Denver in October.
The United Spanish War Veterans
held two-days meeting in Pueblo.
Nine young coyotes were taken alive
from one burrow by Ed Overmeier OF
Grover
The day the Postal Savings bank
was opened in Loveland $3.50 were de-
posted.
July 2Sth and 29th has been decided
upon for a Frontier Day celebration
in Alamosa.
Details are being worked out for
plan for good roads for all northern
Colorado.
A sneak thief. who entered the
home of Judge Greeley w. Whitford
in Denver, secured $3.50 in money.
Two hundred and seventy-seven
thousand acres are under profitable
cultivation in Weld county.
The "Nimrods" of Ridgway are pre-
pairing to organize club, to be known
as the Ridgway Fish and Game CLUB.
The Teachers Institute will be he'll
in Colorado Springs at the time of the
summer school at Colorado college.
A decrease of 1000 in the school
census of Boulder county has beeen
experienced during the last year.
N. w. Watson OF Copperhili, Tenn.
was killed by falling from the top OF
freight train between the cars at
Bowen.
Sugar cane is one of the novel
crops OF Weld county. which promises
to become staple one for fodder for
stock.
June still holds first place for mar
riages in Weld county, eighteen
couples having taken out licenses last
month.
In spite of the drought the govern
ment estimates the crop of wheat now
growing in Colorado to be sS.4 of
normal yield.
Roy W. Lanphier, a prominent young
business man of Leadville. and son-in.
law of John c. Skinner. died in a
Denver hospital
Rev. F. f. Chandler of Florence,
has been given a unanimous call to
the pastorate of the Presbyterian
church of Trinidad.
The Weld County Fair Association
bac The faiy will hp
held at Greeley on September IS, 10.
20. 81 and %. 1911.
The raspberry crop is beginning to
come in at Longmont, and it is fully
expected that over 1000 crates will
be shipped the next few weeks.
At Dead Rock, small mining
camp in the western part OF Mont
rose county, Alex Peterson was killed
by John Foster after a quarrel.
The Wolftone mill at Nederland has
closed down for an indefinite period.
This was the only place where Local
miners could sell ore or concentrates.
Suit will be instituted to prevent
the $450.OO0 bond issue, planned for
Grand Junction. for the construction
of the Kennah creek water system.
of the purest quality can be produced
from the sap of pinon tree: expert
ments in this line are to be carried on
in Mesa county.
In Delta county there has been
formed an organization known as the
.nalta
ton The membership fee being
SlO0 year.
b ginning August 4, the new law
governing public drinking cups will be
rigidly enforced. according to the or
der issued by Health Commissioner
Sharpley.
The $4,000.O00 contract for con.
struction of double track between
Pueblo and Walsenburg for joint use
OF the Rio Grande and c. & S. rail
roads will be completed by July Goth.
Andy Elofson. miner in Russell
Gulch, was killed by his horse running
away and throwing him among a pile
Of rocks. fracturing his skull, break
ing several ribs and causing other in
juries.
Three hundred Ute Indians from
the Uintah and Uncompahgre valleys
have finished their three-day sacred
sun dance at Grand Junction, whicn
stamped out consumption among the
tribesmen for another year.
Federal Judge Lewis OF Pueblo ha,
appointed Samuel Trimble master in
chancery to sell the properties and as
sets of the Colorado Railway, Light
& Power Company of Trinidad Aug 2
at Trinidad.
Native and rainbow trout to the
amount of 250,00O have been received
from Denver by the Boulder Fish and
Game Club and will be placed in the
club hatchery. about five miles up
Boulder canon
That the beet crop in the Peckham vi.