The Glenwood post., 1911-04-29
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over ths
State Worth Telling.

ganized at Kersey.
About $4,000 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 rom Lincoln, score to 0.
Loren Lister was recently drowned
near Palisade in the Grand river.
The home of ]. A. Y. Alderman, liv-
ing near Castle Rock, was burned.
Bert Snider was given six months
in Jail in Pueblo for beating his wife.
Hiram Heckles, aged so, pioneer
of the Cripple Creek district, is dead.
Plans are under way for organiza.
tion of brass band in Grand juno
ton.
Beginning about the middle of May
the streets of Holly will be sprinkled
daily.
Peter Stoehr, aged IS, dropped dead
at his home in Montrose from heart
disease.
Fire destroyed 200 feet of the East
Evans 6OO-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.
Charloc Ii oil cNl1ior
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
a 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 All
aeroplane exhibition for Grand juno
tion during the Mesa county fair. next
fall.
While digging a well near Mum, F.
A. Carr struck a stream which has an
amber color and which foams like
beer.
Charles Sears and Walter Lock
were jailed in La Junta for robbng 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 Guggenhem 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 1920 acres of beets
have been signed by growers in the
Loveland district with the probability
that the acreage will reach 11.5OO.
Seven Western slope towns will
take part in the first annual high
school athletic and oratorical contest
in Grand Junction April 81, % and 20.
DR.. w. H. McGlauflin. general su.
perintendent of Universalist churches
in America. is in Colorado Springs to
establish a church with regular pas
tor.
The national board of the Young
Women's Christian Association has an
hold it's 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 l.
Work is progressing on the new ar
mory at Windsor, which will be fin
ished by July and opened with a ball.
Capt. J. H. Shane has forty men in
Company f.
The Boulder Presbytery is in ses.
sion in Fort Morgan and elected Rev.
J. w. Currens, student pastor of the
University of Colorado, moderator for
the coming year.
During the coming season, the Colo
rado Golf Club will conduct a series of
eighteen-hole contests in Denver, be-
tween two teams, Overland and Lake
wood, which are to be made up from.
the club roster.
For the first time this year the
baseball team of the University of
Colorado played in championship