Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-04
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Ground has been broken for the new
Jail at Greeley.
Oak Creek is having an electric
light plant installed.
Thieves stole $50 from a Longmont
store in daylight.
The rainfall over the San Luis val
ley recently has been heavy.
The d. & R. G. Is to build new $780,
900 depot at Montrose.
The citizens of Hereford have organ
ized a commercial club.
Longmont has shipped its first car
of apples for this season.
The postoffice at Briggsdale has
ben made a money order office.
The Western Slope fair is to be held
at Montrose September 10 to %.
The date of Platteville's Pickle Day
has been set for September 2.
Rocky Ford and La Junta have been
recently visited by heavy rains.
Fifty business men of Boulder have
organized mutual insurance compa'
ny.
The U. P has begun the erection of
new 10000 pressed brick depot at
Eaton.
Striking his head on a bed post may
prove fatal to Charles Holmes. an Au,t
barber.
Considerable damage has been done
Del Norte and vicinity by cloudbursts.
range.
The citizens of LoveIand have de-
cided to hold their Harvest Carnival
Aug. 80.
Levi Brown and wife were arrested
in Pueblo charged with manufacturing
opium.
Fourteen thousand sheep were recent
ly shipped from Mack to parties at
Omaha.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
establishment of Fort Morgan was eel
ebrated recently.
VIM. H. Smith harvested from four
acres near Boulder. eighty bushels OF
oats to the acre.
1t is claimed twenty-five cars OF
strawberries will be shipped from
Steamboat Springs.
While swimming in the San Juan
river near Creede. Frank Perrk, aged
twelve, was drowned.
Colorado agriculturists and fruit
growers are assured of enough cars to
handle their crop.
The st. Peters Catholic church at
Montrose was recently damaged TO the
amount of $4,000 by fire.
The new federal building at Fort
Collins will be constructed OF lime
stone and block granite.
William Buttle. shift boss in the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride.
was killed by a fall OF rock.
Two Wright biplanes have arrived
in Colorado Springs and with them ex-
hibition flights will be made.
The Fort Collins Bank and Trust
Company has consolidated with the
First National bank of that city.
The first carload of string means
ever shipped out of northern Colorado
went from Fort Lupton to Kansas
City.
C. F. Rigden of Denver, Western
manager OF the Capital Life Insurance
Company. was found dead in hotel
in Telluride.
Incorporation papers have been filed
at Telluride for the San Miguel Irri-
CATION and Land Co. with a capitaliza-
tion of 81 100000
The negro X. of p. of Colorado held
three-day state convention in Pu-
eblo with about fifty out of town dele
gates in attendance.
Calhan recently had good roads
day when every able-bodied man in
the community worked to make good
roads out Of bad ones.
On the charge OF being the man who
drugged and robbed c. E. Hewitt of
La Junta. VIII Lawrence. a negro. has
been arrested at Pueblo.
The State Military Board has or
dered that the First Regiment band
be mustered ont OF service This is
the only military band In the state.
The North Side schol bonds OF Pu-
eblo bearing four and one-half per
cent interest. have been sold to Post
master Walpole OF that city for $780,
600.
George William GLADDEN., seventf
years of age. second cousin to Grover
Cleveland. pioner miner of Colorado,
early settler in Cripple Creek. died
suddenly in that city
That mining in Colorado has been
given decided impetus by the pros
pectors' grubstake campaign is evil
denced by the increased activity in
the mining machinery business.
Judge Lewis in the United States
| Circuit Court has dismissed the suit