The Springfield herald., 1911-07-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over thu
State Worth While.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A Postal Savings Bank has been
opened in Greeley.
A two-inch rain fell In parts OF
Kiowa county recently.
New potatoes are selling four
pounds for 25 cents.
Lafayette is to have an artesian
well in the near future.
Great preparations are being made
FOR the Lamar Chautauqua to be held
soon.
A barn belonging to Silas Ashley OF
Brandon was destroyed by fire re-
Gently.
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.
Details are being worked out for n
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.
Pueblo county lost well known and
highly respected pioneer in the death
of j. H. Divelbiss. aged sixty-eight.
VIM. II. Beery. aged seventy-three.
Colorado pioneer and Civil War vet
eran. died recently in Cripple Creek.
The Teachers Institute will be held
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.
Mrs H. ]. Hopkins of Pueblo was
chloroformed in her home and the
house ransacked and valuables taken.
N. w. Watson of Copperhill, Tenn.
was killed by falling from the top of
freight train between the cars at
Bowen.
In spite of the drought the govern
ment estimates the crop Of wheat now
growing in Colorado to be 1914 of
normal yield.
Roy w. Lanphier, prominent young
business man of Leadville, and son-in-
law of John c. Skinner. died in
Denver hospital.
The Weld County Fair Association
has set its dates. The fair will be
held at Greeley on September IS, 10,
20. 81 and %, 1911.
The Y. NJ. c. A. and the Civic I'm
provement Society of Montrose, have
decided to establish a public play
ground for children.
The Idaho Springs postoffice has
been designated a branch OF the Pos
tai Savings bank and will be opened
to receive deposits July 18th.
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 s450,OOO bond issue, planned for
Grand Junction, for the construction
of the Kennah creek water system.
Andy Elofson, a miner in Russell!
Gulch, was killed by his horse running
away and throwing him among pile
Of rocks, fracturing his skull, break
ing several ribs and causing other in
juries.
Good Roads Day" was observed at
Hastings, small mining camp near
Trinidad, when thirty-five men and
seventeen teams turned out to repair
seven-mile stretch of road between
Ludlow and Delagus.
The report of State Bank Commits
sioner E. w. Pfeiffer, shows that in
the last five months there has been an
increase of $6S3,952.14 in the deposits
of the 100 banks under his supervi-
sion.
That no town or city in Colorado
with the exception of Denver has the
right to establish the commission form
of government will be the contention
made in the suit to be filed in Federal
Court.
Beginning July Is, Colorado will
have twenty-six postal savings banks
in operation, with the distinction of
having one leading all of the $50 es-
tablished in amount of deposits. This
is Leadville.
Federal Judge Lewis of Pueblo has
appointed Samuel Trimble master in
chancery to sell the properties and as
sets of the Colorado Railway, Light
G. Power Company of Trinidad Aug
at Trinidad.
Native and rainbow trout to the
amount of 100000 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
cinity will be a bumper one is believed
by the farmers, who have planted ex-
tensively, as beet six inches long and
three inches in circumference repre-
sents the average at this time.
Mesa and Delta counties are now in
a race for fruit raising supremacy and