Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-09-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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aew club house will be laid Oct. l.
The first weeks enrolment of the
Alamosa schools showed 500 pupils.
DIR. V. w. Porter of Lafayette has
oeen fined s25 for carrying a pistol.
Charles Wiley, county treasurer of
iilpin county, died at the age of 43
years.
The Colorado order of the Eastern
Star will hold its next annual meet
ng in Pueblo.
Jacob Haas. aged eighty-five, vet
eran of the Civil War and pioneer of
Cripple Creek is dead
Ida NJ Norton has been appointed
postmistress at Brandon. Kiowa coun-
.y, vice c. d. Blanchard.
Larimer county will receive addition
Al support from the state funds for
road Improvement work.
Authorities say the report that there
will be coal miners strike in Las
Animas county is untrue.
John Fillius, who died in Oakland.
Cal, recently, was a resident of
Georgetown from 1866 to 1891.
Special arrangements for the pro-
lection of President Taft while in
Denver, Oct 3, are being made.
A general movement of Rio Blanco
;outny cattle to Denver and Missouri
river markets has begun.
The two-year-old daughter of An
ION Grampo of Pueblo, fell into tub
Of hot water and died as a result.
The Union Pacific is putting out
handsome folders advertising the Dry
Farming Congress at Colorado Springs.
AS result of lighting his pipe i'm
mediately after washing his hands in
gasoline, Jud Marks of Milliken may
die.
Rev. S. E. Brewster OF Beaver, Pa.
has been called to the pastorate of the
First Christian church of Colorado
Springs.
Postmaster George Hohrbaugh Of
Aspen has been notified that that city
will have a postal savings bank sta
ton Oct. IS.
over 1000 people attended the
Western Slope Fair at Montrose and
saw one of the finest racing programs
ever given on that track.
The Western Slope Poultry Associa.
ton was organized at Montrose with
twenty-eight members and E. r
Blowers, Olathe. was made president.
John Q. Macdonald of Florence was
elected grand high priest by the Colo.
RADIO grand chapter. Royal Arch Ma
sons, at its annual meeting in Den
yer.
Sheriff Galloway of Montrose
stopped the proposed boxing bout be-
tween Dan Reed and Mickey Haney,
lightweights from Montrose and Den
yer.
The jury in the case of the state VS..
Daniel Stevenson and his daughter.
Martha. at Steamboat Springs. charged
with stealing cattle. returned a ver-
dict of guilty.
Manager Noble of the Rocky Ford
sugar factory says grinding of beets
will start about Oct. %. The cam
paign will last about as long as last
year. or 100 days.
knights Tempiar to the number of
500. from all parts OF Colorado. at
tended the thirty-sixth annual con
clave of the Colorado Commandery at
Colorado Springs.
Rev. Guy w. Wadsworth. pastor of
the First Presbyterian church of Pu-
eblo. has resigned and Oct. will be.
come western secretary of the Pres
byterian Temperance committee.
Lou Boudecker. a Pueblo heavy.
weight, was saved from a knockout at
the hands of RUDE Smith of Denver,
at Pueblo, when Mayor John 7. West
ordered that the battle be stopped.
The big coal mine of the Utah Fuel
Company at Somerset southeast of
Grand Junction is burning fiercely,
having caught fire from some I'M
known cause on one of the lower lev
els.
Anna Freeze, one of the Freeze
sisters, whose aerial act was feature
at the State Fair at Pueblo, fell dur
ing her performance and suffered a
broken collarbone, a fractured arm
and other injuries.
otero county won the Colorado
championship at the State Fair at Pn-
eblo when awarded the sweepstakes
for the best general exhibit. Mesa
county was second and SedgwicK
county third.
Although the heavy demand for
good roads has well nigh exhausted
the Gunnison county road fund for
1911, the interest in this greatly need
ed county improvement continues and
the officials of the county and of the
Rainbow Route Club are taking active
measures to prepare for the biggest
campaign in history next year.