The Holly chieftain., 1911-09-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Johnstown has q new band OF fif-
teen pieces.
Manitou is organizing a commercial
association.
For bootlegging. Chris. Miller OF
Eril, was fined $135.65.
J. B. Bailey has been appointed
postmaster at Pawnee. Morgan coun-
ty.
Greeley is to get the state meeting
Of the Undertakers' association in
1913.
The Presbyterian church Of Wind
sor is arranging to open free read
Ing room.
Idaho Springs will entertain the
Colorado Elks in their annual conven-
ton in 1912.
Chicago capitalists are seeking sites
for the erection Of ice plants in north
ern Colorado.
A meteor. gigantic in its proper
tions. was seen to fall near Fort Col
Inns, recently.
John Moser and Ed Orton, promi-
nent farmers of La Sale. were fined
t25 each for fighting.
The farmers in the vicinity of
Greeley are planning to start
creamery in that city.
A new sanitorium chiefly for the
treatment OF rheumatic diseases Is
shortly to be opened in Boulder.
Fort Morgan won first place in both
singles and doubles in the Northeast
ern Colorado Tennis Tournament.
1t is rumored from New York that
President E. T. Jeffery of the Denver
& Rio Grande will soon resign.
Farmers have taken up potato rails
ing as never before, and the revenues
from that product will be surprising.
The coal mines at Somerset, near
Gunnison, are on fire, and the com-
pany is threatened with heavy loss.
The members of St. Mary's Catho-
lie Church in Montrose are to have a
handsome new home in the immediate
future.
Fishing is reported at its best in all
parts of the state, the weather and
low water being favorable to large
catches.
A direct long distance telephone
line has been completed between Den
yer and Ell Paso, Texas, distance of
$50 miles.
The state highway between Long
mont and Lafayette will be finished at
once by the Boulder County Com
missioners.
Bitten by centipede at her home
in Pueblo, Mrs. s. E. James is in a
serious condition, with two physicians
attending her.
The Elks' convention closed at
Ouray with grand display of fire
works. The three days Of the meet
ing were most successful.
After deliberating fifteen hours the
jury in the case against Mike Hickey.
at Fort Lupton, accused of stealing
horses. acquitted him.
Three hundred teams are new at
work on the Prewitt reservoir dam
near Keota and 200 more will be put
to work in a short time.
One OF the best paying departments
of Weld is its County Court. and one
day recently it earned s117, and col
lected $110 Of that amount.
Mechanics lien against the Pueblo
Rocky Ford Land & Irrigation rompa-
ny, at Pueblo, for $60.055, was filed
by two Denver contracting firms.
Mayor Robert w. Speer, mayor Of
Denver, has been invited to address
the noted Knife and Fork Club Of
Kansas City, which has entertained
many famous persons.
Prospecting for iron ore in the
mountains of Colorado is still going
on, most of the expense and all of the
labor being horne by private individ-
uals.
In broad daylight the real estate Of
flee of Rich-Hutchinson, at Grand
Junction, was entered by thieves and
$50 in money and valuables were
taken. ....
A fist fight between Claude E.
Street, state oil inspector, and Frank
Long, clerk In the secretary Of
stae's office, enlivened the corridors of
the capitol recently.
Meeker claims to enviable record
OF sending more young people to uni
versities and colleges throughout the
country this year than any town its
size in the United States