The Holly chieftain., 1911-04-28
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

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A first class ball team is to be or
ganized At Kersey.
About. SO. 200 has been subscribed
for the Eaton cannery.
The new ice plant At Kersey is now
ready for business.
Denver recently won a ten-inning
game from Lincoln. score to o.
Loren Lister was recently drowned
near Palisade in the Grand river.
The home OF J. A. Y. Alderman, iv-
ing near Castle Rock, was burned.
Bert Snider vas given six months
in Jail in Pueblo for beating his wife.
Hiram Heckles. aged so, pioneer
of the Cripple Greek district, is dead
Plans are under way for organiza.
tion of a brass band in Grand juno.
ton.
Beginning about the middle Of May
the streets of Holly will be sprinkled
daily.
Peter Stoehr. aged rs, dropped dead
at his home in Montrose from heart
disease.
Fire destroyed 200 feet of the East
Evans 60O-foot bridge doing probably
$4,000 damage.
No trace of VIM. Ward, who disap-
peared from Windsor recently. has
been found.
There are now only about seventy
cars OF sheep on feed for market In
northern Colorado.
Charles T. Howard. an old soldier
and pioneer of northern Colorado. died
suddenly at Longmont
Two hundred thousand fish will be
placed in the headwaters of Mesa coun.
ty streams this summer.
The baseball team from the Univer
sity Of Kieo Of Japan has asked for
game in Grand Junction May S.
Colorado now heads the list of states
for loss of life In coal mine accidents,
with Alabama close second.
Mrs. G. s. Barnes, aged eighty-three,
one of the best known residents and
pioneers of Colorado Springs is dead
Efforts are being made to secure an
aeroplane exhibition for Grand juno
ton during the Mesa county fair, next
fall.
While digging a well near Num-, F.
A. Carr struck stream which has an
amber color and which foams like
beer.
Charles Sears and Walter Lock
were Jailed in La Junta for robbing D.
B. Mckenzie. an old man. They got
$50 or $40.
Representative Martin has nominal
ed Phillip Ogrodowski Of Trinidad as
alternate candidate for cadetship a.
Annapolis.
The Gold Belt theater in Telluride,
an immense frame building erected in
the bonanza days, was burned recent
ly, loss $4,000.
Senator Guggenheim has been re-
quested by citizens Of Hugo to secure
an appropriation for public building
for that town.
Plans for the new Eaton Union Pa
cific depot have arrived and contracts
will soon be let 1t will be of brick
and stone, 23x100 feet.
Milton R. 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 1890 acres Of beets
have been signed by, growers in the
Loveland district with the probability
that the acreage will reach 1850.
Seven Western slope towns will
take part in the first annual high
school athletic and oratorical contest
in Grand Junction April ~. 20 and 20.
DR.. w. H. McGlauflin. general su-
perintendent of Universalist churches
in America, is in Colorado Springs to
establish church with regular pas
tor.
The national board of the Young
Women's Christian Association has an
nounced that the Western division viii!
hold its conference at Cascade June
20 to 80.
Senator Guggenheim has been ad-
vised by the Postoffice Department
that rural free delivery service will be
extended from Broomfield, commenc-
ing May /.
Work is progressing on the new ar
mory at Windsor, which will be fin
ished by July and opened with ball.
Capt. j. H. Shane has forty men in
Company E.