The Holly chieftain., 1911-10-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

The boys of Windsor have formed
an athletic club.
The d. & R. G. freight depot at
Canon City is completed.
The first carload of potatoes has
been shipped from Gill.
The d. & r. G. depot at Olathe was
entered by thieves and 500 stolen.
Potato cellar parties promise to be-
come popular in Windsor society.
A company will be organized to
prospect for oil in the vicinity of
Pierce.
The campaign in Denver for the
summer White House fund is progress
ing finely.
Thomas H. Johnston has been ap-
pointed postmaster at saltwater,
Grand county.
Mrs. Mary A. Kretchmer, for forty
years a resident of Colorado, died in
her home in Pueblo.
The assessed valuation Of Greeley
for 1911 is $2,702,5 $50. about $4,000
less than last year.
Everything is in readiness for the
Colorado Electric Show. which begins
in Denver October 18th.
Colonel James Leonard, who has
been familiar figure in Denver for
the last thirty years, is dead.
A bitter cold rain, with snow in
some sections, has given southern
Colorado its first touch of winter.
Beet digging is on in all parts OF
the Greeley district and recent rains
have put the ground in excellent
shape.
G. G. Phillip of Fort Lupton. has a
hen which has adopted a family of
eight young kittens and is taking good
care of them.
Frank r. Castleman, director Of
athletics at the University of Colo
RADIO, is advocating an intercollegiate
cross-country run.
Northern Colorado is the scene o.
more activity in railroad, ditch and
reservoir building this fall than ever
before in its history.
Harvey Marquis, a carpenter, was
killed by locomotive when crossing
bridge at San Carlos, on the Rio
Grande, south of Pueblo.
G. w. McGovern Of Salida has on
exhibition a turnip weighing ten
pounds and measuring % inches in
circumference.
Z Paul Frank, KIN sahh temploye of the
Pueblo Electric Company. is in pre-
carious condition as the result of a
rattlesnake bite.
OF the 40,S03 children enrolled in
the public schools of Denver for the
present year 36,522 are the sons and
daughters Of American parents.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Board of Missions of the Interior will
be held in the Congregational Church
in Denver October Gath, 25th and Goth
In order to boost the Denver Apple
Show the Grand Junction Fruit Grow
ers' Association has offered to pay the
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yer from the Grand Valley.
The high school building at Steam
boat Springs, just being completed at
a cost Of 100000, was built in the rec
ord time of two months to replace the
building destroyed by fire.
The Burlington railroad has formed
an alliance with the Santa Fe and
hereafter tourists from the Northwest
will come to Denver via Omaha in
Santa Fe cars.
Planning to invest $500, 900 in Grand
valley real estate, with the expecta-
tion Of clearing 100000. syndicate
Of Los Angeles men is preparing to en-
ter the field at Grand Junction within
few months.
The granite monument erected at a
cost of several thousand dollars at
Trinidad has been unveiled over the
graves of forty-five Polish miners who
act death in mine disasters in thai
unty within the past year.
The Ditch Association of the Ar
kansas valley met at Lamar and
levied an assessment of $3.50 per
cubic foot on the established priorities
of the valley to get money to fight
the suit brought against the valley
bitches by Kansas bitches.
Reports from the cloudburst on the
summit of Sierra Blanca mountain
sweeping both sides of the range, car.
rying millions of tons of water into