The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A postal savings bank will open In
SaMda June 26th.
Delta will have a postal savings
bank after July 3rd.
The Woodmen Log Rolling at Eads
recently was well attended.
A postal savings bank will be in
stalled in Alamosa July 1st.
Elks of Canon City are soon to be
housed in their own club home.
There has recently been opened In
Oak Creek a new, modern hotel.
Rocky Ford parties are figuring on
putting in a moving picture show at
Swink.
After three attempts, Mike Logan OF
Salida, has succeeded in taking his
own life.
In a fight with drunken Mexican
in Pueblo, Patrolman ]. A. Grady was
badly cut.
Quite a a good many Kiowa county
young men have gone to the Kansas
harvest fields.
Prospects are good for the estab-
lishment of a creamery and cheese
factory at Windsor.
Improvements to cost $4,000 will
be made by the d. & r. G. railway
at Colorado Springs.
The 500-acre field OF flax east of
Brandon is growing nicely and was
not hurt by the dry weather.
The State Teachers College opened
In Greeley June goth with an enroll
ment of 600 students.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Trinidad ball team in a game at Chey-
enne by a score OF to /.
L. NJ. Anderson. convicted OF check
forgeries at Pueblo. was given three
to five years in the penitentiary.
The Colorado National Life Assur-
anc Company has consolidated with
the Columbian National Life Of Bos-
ten.
Beginning in June, 1912. the Uni
versity Of Colorado. at Boulder. will
offer a postgraduate course in opthal-
mology.
mere IL pfonpfCt iHdt an thptil-
mental farm TO be conducted by dry
farming methods may be established
at Sligo.
Two hundred and fourteen candi.
dates received degrees at the uni
versity OF Colorado. at Boulder on
June 7th.
Frank volpe. an Italian. was con-
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a sentence Of from ten to twenty
years
The annual session OF the Eight
eenth Normal Institute district will
be held in Lamar from July 2Ist to
August 18th.
Rock and Piney creeks have re-
Gently been supplied with about $1,000
young trout from the fish hatchery in
Routt county.
In a recent game OF ball at Wray be
tween the married and the single men.
the former were victorious by a score
of 12 to /.
The Yampa Valley mine. near Oak
creek has been working regularly On
half time. but with new Improvements
will now work full time.
Judge s. W. Parker. who formerly
resided at Olney Springs. and one
time Judge OF the Otero County Court.
died at his home at Modesto. Cal.
Arrangements are being made for
the approaching term OF the Fort
Lewis school A dairy department is
to be inaugurated with twenty pure
bred cows.
At the recent Log Rolling OF the
Modern Woodmen of Kiowa county.
Fowler. Sheridan Lake. Chivington.
Eads. Galatea. Hasweli and Arlington
were well represented.
Dummy" Rosson, who is well
known in Rocky Ford. Fowler and
other Otero county towns. has been
taken over by the Des Moines. Iowa.
base ball team.
An unusual revival OF interest In
grange circles has been manifested in
the Louisville district by the erection
of a $500 grange hall by the Clark
son Valley Grange Association.
Senator Guggenheim presented in
the Senate a resolution adopted by
the Colorado Legislature favoring a
grant to the state Of an additional mil
lion acres Of land under the Carey