The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth Telling.

Denver will have a new Union de-
pot two years hence.
About $4,000 has been subscribed
for the Eaton cannery.
The new ice plant at Kersey is now
ready for business.
War is to be waged by Denver
against fake eyeglass dealers.
Denver recently won a ten-inning
game rom Lincoln, score 1 to 0.
Loren Lister was recently drowned
near Palisade in the Grand river.
The home of ]. A. Y Alderman, liv-
ing near Castle Rock, was burned.
Plans are under way for organiza-
tion of a brass band in Grand juno.
ton.
The Weld County Bar Association
was organized recently with twenty
members.
Peter Stoehr. aged rs. dropped dead
at his home in Montrose from heart
disease.
The four-year old son OF E. E. Pres
nall of near Rocky Ford was drowned
recently.
The School of Mines graduating
class has been doing mill work at ida
no Springs.
Fire destroyed 200 feet of the East
Evans 600-foot bridge doing probably
$4,000 damage.
Two hundred thousand fish will be
placed In the headwaters of Mesa coun-
ty streams this summer.
Jack Reynolds of Omaha fell un-
der a train at Grand Junction and
had one foot cut off.
The baseball team from the Univer.
sity OF Kieo of Japan has asked for
a game In Grand Junction May S.
special train carrying 100 work
ers to the sugar beet fields OF Mont
rose and Delta has gone from Denver
Mrs. g. S. Barnes. aged eighty-three,
one OF the best known residents and
pioneers of Colorado Springs is dead.
While digging a well near Num-, F.
A. Carr struck a stream which has an
amber color and which foams like
beer.
The second fire within a year Wis.
tied the Monroe paint shop in Trini-
dod and damaged building and stock
$4,000
Mrs. George p. Avery has an.
nounced her candidacy for the school
board of Fort Collins at the election
next month.
Delta is to have a sane Fourth OF
July. declares the Fair Association,
under whose auspices the affair will
be carried out.
Charles Sears and Walter Lock
were Jailed in La Junta for robbing d.
b. Mckenzie. an old man. They got
$50 or $40.
The tunnel through Red Point south
OF Carbondale. is about finished. II be-
ing but a matter OF few days until
II is complete.
Senator Guggenheim has been re-
quested by citizens OF Hugo TO secure
an appropriation for a public building
for that town.
Plans for the new Eaton Union Pa
cific depot have arrived and contracts
will soon be let. II will be OF brick
and stone. 23x100 feet.
Mayor Handle OF Colorado Springs
notified denizens OF the red light dis
trict that they must vacate their
abodes and leave town.
Milton II. Kerr. for three years pas
tor of the Unitarian church at Gree
ley. accepted the position OF principal
OF the Fort Morgan High school
Contracts for 1l.200 acres of beets
have been signed by growers In the
Loveland district with the probability
that the acreage will reach 1880.
Seven Western slope towns will
take part In the first annual high
school athletic and oratoricai contest
in Grand Junction April 27. 2s and 20.
The national board OF the Young
Women's Christian Association has an.
nounced that the Western division will
hold its conference at Cascade June
20 to 80.
Work is progressing on the new ar
mory at Windsor. which will be fin.
ished by July and opened with a ball.
Capt. J. II. Shane has forty men In
Company f.
Oscar Vandebur, deputy sheriff at
Delagua, has been named and identl-
fled as the man who fired the shot
that resulted in the death OF Pongrac
Culk, an Austrian miner. March 10.