The Ordway new era., 1911-11-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

The drys claim Grand Junction py
majority OF 400 votes.
After years of agitation Meeker now
has modern sewer system.
John O'Boyle. one OF the first set
tiers of Grand Junction. Is dead.
Miss Dora Bohn will represent
Lyons at the Apple exposition in Den.
YER.
Lottie V. MOblcy has been appointed
postmaster ut Angota. Rio Blancn
county.
The people OF Denver own $l3.0Oo..
900 worth OF automobiles and motor.
cycles.
Gunnison county cattlemen have re-
Gently shipped go cars OF fat cattle
to market.
The final count of the election ut
Grand Junction shows an anti.saloon
majority of 3G2.
Oklahoma Is for Denver rs the place
for holding the next Democratic ma.
t.Onal convention.
The Mines freshmen defeated the
Manual Training High school at Gold.
cn by score Of 20 TO 0.
Gov. Shafroth has issued his
Thanksgiving Day proclamation set.
ting aside November 30 rs n holiday.
1t Is probable that Colorado Spring.
will appropriate funds for the mail.
| tcnance OF the weather bureau at Colo.
| rado college.
ii. j. McAnani. mayor pro TEN. OF
Fort Lupton. died after long Illness.
He came to Fort Lupton twenty years
ago and was identified with all public
| interests.
John Horton. aged seventy. n resi-
dent of Lovcland for years. was ac-
cIdentally killed while hauling fence
posts from the mountains twenty-five
miles northwest of that place.
The War Department will not move
the office OF the purchasing commits
sary department from Denver to Fort
| Logan and the army will continue to
purchase its supplies in Denver, as
| usual.
The body OF man about 80. thought
to be J. W. Woodruff of Stonington.
was discovered in the road twenty
two miles south OF Holly. a coroner's
jury after investigating concluded the
man had died of apopleXy.
Circulation of petitions have been
begun by members of the Citizens
party and the Direct Legislation
League of Denver for signatures for
special election on the commission
form OF government.
| Colorado carried away all honors
In sugar beet competition Mt the New
York Land Show. None of the hun
dred or more entries compared with
Colorado beets and the only question
the Judge had to decide was which of
the Colorado entries was the best.
The second pay day at the Long
mont sugar factory, when the farmers
receive their money for the beets
which they have delivered, Will occur
on November 10, and on that day
checks will be written to the amount
of $431,OO0.
The special Rock Island train which
toured eastern Colorado spreading i'll
formation OH dry farming methods
and urging dry farmers to take up the
dairy and poultry industries. in addi-
ton to raising grain, has returned to
| Colorado Springs.
The shecpmen of southern Colorado
held their fourth meeting OF this sea
son in Lamar and discussed the marxct t
| prices of New Mexico lambs, regarded
Us fully fifty cents Il head too high.
The Lamar district will feed 100000
at present figures.
The board of managers of the Freed
mems Aid Society of the Methodist
church ended its two days session in
Pueblo. The board will ask the 15D
| Methodist conferences in the country
to aid in raising $llO. 900 for establish
ment of more schools and industrial!
institutions in the south for the bene.
tit of the negro.
Because the last Legislature placed
the appropriation for their work ill
| the third class, thus making only 4
part of the money available, four i'm
portant branches of the Agricultural
| College at Fort Collins will be com
PEELED to suspend operations at the
end of November unless state officers
provide funds.
The Supreme Court granted to
Frank Harold Hcnwood, slayer of S.
Louis Won Phul and George +. Cope
land, in Denver, now sentenced to life
Imprisonment at Canon City for the
latter killing, a writ of supcrsedeas
which acts as a stay of execution OF
the sentence until the court may re
view the evidence in detail.
The Grceley-Hydro Electric Com
pany, which will generate electricity
for power purposes for Greeley and its
vicinity from the Poudre and Lara
| mic rivers has nOSScSSiOu OF the ma