The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-07-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Wiley has been discontinued.
Mrs. VIM. Smith, pioneer of Wind
sor. after long illness. is dead.
The Salida Commercial Club will
give its first annual banquet soon.
The Poudre and Platte rivers are
rising and bitches are running full
Loveland is to have a new hotel and
one which will be credit to the city.
Lincoln county has one field of 600
acres in flax. the largest in the state.
The school census of Mesa county
shows 6,121 children in the scholastic
age.
The cottonwood trees on the streets
Of Loveland will be cut down hext
winter.
The Greeley beet and potato crop
are said to be past danger. fine rains
having fallen.
The Colorado State Bankers Asso-
citation held its tenth annual conven-
ton in Denver.
Fred Allen has killed seventy-sev-
en- rattlesnakes on his quarter sew
ton near Fooston.
H. A. Edie is the only rural mail car
rier in Colorado who delivered mail
in an automobile.
]. NJ. McCutcheon, a wealthy pion-
eer of La Sale has donated land to
that town for park.
C. w. Jones, aged sixty, who was
fatally hurt by being thrown from his
wagon near Boulder, died.
A man believed to be Ellis Uselton.
of indianapolis. Ind, was killed by a
Rio Grande train in Pueblo.
Dan Cassidy, one of the motorcycle
riders at Lakeside park. Denver. was
badly hurt in an accident recently.
Ignacio Revoc. a miner from Old
Mexico. was killed by a fall OF rock
in the C. F. & I. mine at Berwind.
Heavy rain throughout the Kiowa
section insures bumper crops in the
Divide country as well as the Kiowa
valley.
Martin Olson. aged 81. was acci-
dentally drowned in Oberon lake, one
and one-half miles northwest Of Ar
vada.
The Boulder Business Girls Club
will open up a large ice cream parlor
and donate the profits to the Boulder
band.
A. T. Waterbury, aged Go. a ranch
man of Sugar Loaf. Boulder county.
was thrown from his wagon and badly
hurt.
The Union Pacific has changed
names OF the station on the new line
to Fort Collins from Kidder to Boyd
Lake.
Secretary Wilson of the Department
of Agriculture will attend the
Dry Farming Congress In Colorado
Springs.
L. B. Burke. who was injured some
time ago in the Pinto mine at Cripple
Creek. has been awarded $4,000
damages.
Canon City will be compelled to pay
$500 before It can secure two con-
demned brass cannon for park orna-
mentation.
The Senate passed the bill provid-
ing for the appointment OF an addi-
tional federal Judge for the district
of Colorado.
The customs department in Denver
handled s23S.S6674 worth of business
for Uncle Sam during the month end.
ing June goth.
William Throop. aged AZ. was killed
almost instantly at Longmont. when
his team ran away and he was thrown
from his wagon.
Martin Van Buren Kelsey, one OF
the first settlers of the Platte valley
and a resident since 1859. died at Fort
Lupton, aged 72.
The Grand Junction s450,000 water
bonds have been sold for 81 cents fiat
The bonds call for the delivery OF
s2S0,000 on August 31st.
In a contest for commercial club
membership, for a prize given by the
Denver Commercial Club, Platteville
won by a gain OF APO per cent.
Leandro Vigil, three years old. son
of ]. l.. Vigil OF Tercio, thirty miles
west of Trinidad, is dead as a result
of eating a box of strychnine pills.
Officers are taking every precaution
20 protect the negro. Bob Harris. who
Is in Jail in Pueblo charged with kill
ing Chief of Police John b. Craig at
Rocky Ford.
Guy l.. Allen of Boulder is inventor
of 81 new sewer tile nine making ma