The Raymer enterprise., 1911-06-22
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

A postal savings bank will open In
Salida June 26th.
Delta will have postal savings
bank after July 3rd.
Glenwood Springs strawberry fes.
tiyal was a great success.
Elks of Canon City are soon to be
housed in their own club home.
Rocky Ford parties are figuring on
putting in moving picture show at
Swink.
After three attempts, Mike Logan of
Salida, has succeeded in taking his
own life.
In a fight with a drunken Mexican
in Pueblo, Patrolman ]. A. Grady was
badly cut.
Prospects are good for the estab.
lishment Of creamery and cheese
factory at Windsor.
improvements, to cost $4,000 will
be made by the D. & R. G. railway
at Colorado Springs.
The State Teachers College opened
In Greeley June Goth with an enroll
ment of 600 students.
Most of the trust companies will
i'hsye to reorganize In order to comply
with the new banking law.
The Cheyenne Indians defeated the
Trinidad ball team In game at Chey
enne by a score OF 3 to l.
Two little children were swept to
death In the swift running waters Of
irrigating canals near Golden.
L. NJ. Anderson, convicted of check
forseries at Pueblo. was given three
to five years in the penitentiary.
The Colorado National Life Assur'
anc Company has consolidated with
the Columbian National Life Of Bos
ten.
The strawberry crop around. Long
mont is fair and between 150 and 200
crates Of berries are being shipped
daily.
There is prospect that an expert
mental farm to be conducted by dr.!
farming methods may be established
at Sligo.
Frank Volpe, an Italian, was con
victed Of murder at Moffat and giver
a sentence of from ten to twenty
years.
Taxpayers in western Pueblo coun
ty will soon vote on the question Of es
tsblishing the Pueblo Irrigation dis
trict.
In a recent game OF ball at Wray be
tween the married and the single men
the former were victorious by scor,
of ~ to /.
The oil wells at Akron has reached
a depth of LOGS feet and the opera
tors are waiting for more cable t
continue the digging.
A five.mile motorcycle race for q
purse of $3.50 will be one of the fea
utres of the Fourth Of July celebra
ton at Grand Junction.
Plans for the establishment of al
immense duck hatchery with the use
of the surface of large reservoir
near Greeley are under consideration
Field Superintendent Timothy Of thu
sugar factory, says that of 5000 acres
of beets planted for the Greeley fac
tory, only 1000 acres was lost by
wind, dry weather, etc.
Arrangements are being made fol
the approaching term of the For
Lewis school. A dairy department II
to be inaugurated with twenty pure
bred cows.
Dummy" Rosson, who Is vel
known in Rocky Ford, Fowler ant
other Otero county towns, has beer
taken over by the 'Des Moines, Iowa
base ball team.
The lifeless body Of woman wa.
recently found near Newdale by tn,
tracks OF the Santa Fe railroad. In
qulry revealed the fact she was {
Mrs. Trivett Of Eskridge, Kan.
An unusual revival OF interest IL
grange circles has been manifested IL
the Louisville district by the erection
Of a $500 grange hall by the Clark
son Valley Grange Association.
Five thousand eight hundred dol
lars has been raised recently by thu
farmers OF Niwot for the erection o
a cooperative creamery. to be devoted
to the interests OF the dairymen ant
farmers of that district.
Platteyille will celebrate with a biz
Fourth of July programme this year
The new race track has been com
pleted and there will be ball game
balloon ascension. fireworks and |
grand ball.
Farmers along the Arkansas II
Pueblo county are happy at hayin,
their bitches filled for the first tim,
since last September. A heavy rail-
up the river caused a rise OF thre,
feet and sent the water through al
irrigation bitches.
George Glon won fast wrestling
match from Clarence Ecklund nj For