Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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been struck at Montrose.
The citizens of Florence now have
in their possession an aeroplane.
Crops in the Uncompahgre valley
have the best prospects ever seen.
The Colorado Telephone Company is
erecting an exchange building at
Holly.
1t is said the crops this year will be
the largest in the history of Lincoln
county.
More than lis tons of fruit have al
ready been shipped from the Palisade
section.
The Farmers Union of Weld county
is to build a flour mill, probably at
Milliken.
Knute Johnson of Cripple Creek per-
ished in the recent forest fire at Por-
cupine. Ont.
The Modern Woodmen have inaugu
rated movement to hold a big picnic
at Ouray soon.
Four miles of rails have been laid
on the Colorado & Southern yelling
ton-Cheyenne line.
Weldon defeated the Merino ball
team by a score of to 4. securing 16
hits off Herb Bandemoor.
| Fire in the Slope mine at Frederick
destroyed the entire surface workings,
entailing loss of $4,000.
In a fall from a willow tree. Frank
Newbury, aged years, of Steamboat
Springs. bit his tongue in two.
over two hundred men and children
are engaged in gathering the straw
berry crop at Steamboat Springs.
The 22-months-old baby of Paul
Traverse of Montrose. died from the
effects of eating parlor matches.
Indications are that every well
equipped school in the state will be
supplied with talking machine.
T. E. Ashburn of Montrose, until re-
Gently principal of the Olathe school,
Is undergoing fast of thirty days.
James NJ Cameron and Judge
James E. Dey, two pioneers of the
Grand valley are dead at Grand juno
ton.
Colorado will send a delegation of
at least twenty men to the monster
land show in New York city next No
vember.
Roy Jamison and Lloyd Holman.
two boys of Boulder, were badly in
jured by the explosion of .22-caliber
cartridge
The Pueblo Traction and Lighting
Company plans to spend nearly two
million dollars in improvements and
extensions.
Mrs. r. NJ. Warden of Dallas, Tex,
lost purse on the c. & S. train near
Trinidad. which contained a diamond
worth $4,000 and 800 in money.
The tenth annual celebration of the
Gunnison County Stock Growers AS
ISOLATION, held in Gunuison. was a
great success.
Between eighty and ninety women
will be graduated from the Colorado
Teachers college at Greeley, at the
close of the summer session.
Ell Paso county is to have dry
farming exhibit of its own in connec-
ton with the International Congress
show at Colorado Springs.
State Veterinary Charles Lamb
states that a number OF horses have
died over the state. with what is
known in the East as swamp fever.
With a full force the Silver State
canning factory at Fort Lupton opened
FOR business and is canning beans. The
Barwise factory will open soon
Richard A. Ballnger former secre-
tary of the interior. will deliver an adj
dress at the Public Lands convention,
to be held in Denver in September.
Peanuts are being grown success
fully in the country about Crossword
lake, thirty-five miles east of Greeley.
The crop is planted on a sandy loan.
Ralph Van Horn. a ranchman. who
lived about nineteen miles south of
Wray, died from lockjaw. the result
of being scratched on the thumb by
an old nail.
At smoker at Salida Ed Davis Of
Fort Collins. lightweight wrestler. de
feated Jack Alexander OF Salida in
two straight falls. in thirteen and five
minutes.
Greeley has its potato day, Fort
Collins its lamb roasts, Glenwood
Springs it's strawberry festival. and
Platteville will inaugurate Picnic
day" on Saturday, September End. this
year.
After probably the longest wait in
its history the rains of the past weeks
started a flow of water in Two ButteS
creek and now the big reservoir at
Lamar has about seventeen feet of
available water in it.
Charles Weatherwax withdrew his
plea of not guilty in the County Court
at Montrose and entered a plea OF
! puiIty IN three charges Of hoorlepginy