The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-18

wealthy resident of Evans since 1879,
Is dead.
The Southern Colorado Hardware &
Implements Association will meet in
Pueblo.
Wholesalers and jobbers in Grand
Junction do an annual business of
$750,O00
Kersey is to have new creamery
| if plans of the Commercial Club are
carried out.
The annual snowfall of the ranges
IN northern Colorado is above the
rormal amount.
The county of Jackson is offering
$50 each for grown wolves and $40
each for cubs.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
| rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
OF Grand Junction.
| Much interest is taken in the farm
ors' institute to be held at Fort Col
Inns February 1925.
The Rio Grande railway has taken
over the Pitkin-Baldwin branch of the
Colorado & Southern.
T. H. Wisden, aged s3, of Montrose,
died from the effects of injuries re-
| Ceived in a runaway.
Fire supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed the home of
| Charles Georgii at Pierce.
The fourth annual convention of the
knights of Pythias of the Western
! Slope was held in Montrose.
The Greeley women have organized
an automobile club with a charter
membership of thirty.
Don't drink" is the personal mes
sage from President Taft to the Sun
day school children of Grand juno
ton.
Progress on the LaramiePoudre
tunnel is hampered this month by the
fact that a soft material has been en-
countered.
Within a week work will begin on
the construction of a $4,000 brick
vaudeville and moving picture theater
III Boulder.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
shows an increase in net earnings of
S164,14O for December, 1910, over De-
cember, 1909.
II. B. Scammeli, a graduate of the
Colorado Agricultural College, has
been appointed assistant entomologist
of Minnesota.
Howell brothers of Montrose report
the sale of their herd of Short Horn
cattle to Heald brothers of Ridgway
for $4,000.
The fears of the Grand valley
CT chardists that the warm weather
would prematurely develop fruit were
olspelled by a snowstorm.
"All together will be the slogan
with which the residents of the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the $3,O00,O00 fruit crop.
The jury in the damage case of Mel
' in Deering against the city of Salida
brought in it's verdict in the District
Court awarding damages to the
omount of $4,000.
At meeting of the Colorado State
Automobile Association in Denver,
Ralph w. Smith was elected president,
Elmer E. Sommers, secretary and
manager, and John w. Springer, treas
urer.
More than 800 people, 312 to be ex-
act, sang the praises of their native
O. adopted state at the Albany hotel
in Denver on the occasion of the first
annual banquet of the Illinois Society
of Colorado.
Homesteaders in eastern Weld coun-
ty have offered to donate land for ex-
reriment farming if a portion of the
Carnegie endowment fund for scien-
t:fic research is placed there, as prom
lsed.
Careful investigation shows that
fully $4,000 acres in the vicinity of
Nunn, which settlers supposed would
be included within the boundaries of
the Greeley-Poudre irrigation district
Is outside of it.
Forty managers, superintendent and
master mechanics in the eleven beet
sugar factories of the Great Western
Sugar Company are in Denver to
take part in the big annual "get-to-
gether" meeting with the heads of the
corporation for the purpose of discus
sing improvements for the coming
year.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is working on plan for the PEN
sioning of employees who have been
" ith the company for certain num-