The new era., 1911-02-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
state Worth Telling.

Work on the cannery for Milliken
will begin at once.
Pueblo is after the next state con-
vention of the Y. M. c. A.
Fire originating in hotel in Grand
Junction did $4,000 damage. -
Interest is being renewed In the
mineral springs near Loveland.
The East Grow creek shack near
Barnsville was burned recently.
The Rocky Mountain store at Will
liamsburg was burglarized recently.
A $4,000 ice and storage plant is
being erected in Grand Junction.
Thomas Hall. prominent ranch
man and pioneer of Castle Rock. is
dead.
Frederick Kruse, former mayor of
Central City and Colorado pioneer,
is dead.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from As cents dozen to rs
cents.
Mrs. L. H. Newman, aged "a.
wealthy resident of Evans since 1879,
is dead.
The Southern Colorado Hardware &
Implements Association will meet in
Pueblo.
Wholesalers and jobbers in Grand
Junction do an annual business of
s75O,OOO.
Kersey is to have new creamery
if plans of the Commercial Club are
carried out
The annual snowfall of the ranges
IN northern Colorado is above the
FORMAL amount.
The county of Jackson is offering
each for cubs.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
OF Grand Junction.
Much interest is taken in the farm
ers' institute to be held at Fort Col
Inns February 1926.
The Rio Grande railway has taken
over the Pitkin-Baldwin branch of the
Colorado & Southern.
T. H. Wisden, aged SO, of Montrose.
oeived in runaway.
Fire supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed the home OF
Charles Georgii at Pierce.
The fourth annual convention of the
knights of Pythias of the Western
Slope was held in Montrose.
The Greeley women have organized
an automobile club with chartec
membership of thirty.
Don't drink" is the personal mes
sage from President Taft to the Sun
day school children of Grand juno
ton.
Progress on the Laramie-Poudre
tunnel is hampered this month by the
fsct that soft material has been en-
countered.
Within a week work will begin on
the construction of $4,000 brick
vaudeville and moving picture theater
IN Boulder.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
shows an increase in net earnings of
s164,14O for December, 1910. over De-
cember, 1909.
H. B. Scammeli, graduate of the
Colorado Agricultural College, has
been appointed assistant entomologist
of Minnesota.
Howell brothers of Montrose report
the sale of their herd of Short Horn
cattle to Heald brothers of Ridgway
for $4,000.
The fears of the Grand valley
cl chardists that the warm weather
would prematurely develop fruit were
olspelled by snowstorm.
"All together will be the slogan
with which the residents of the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the $3,00O,00O fruit crop.
The jury in the damage case of Mel
vim Deering against the city of Salida
brought in it's verdict in the District
Court awarding damages to the
amount of $4,000.
AT meeting of the Colorado State
Automobile Association in Denver,
Ralph w. Smith was elected president,
Elmer E. Sommers, secretary and
manager, and John w. Springer, treas
urer
More than 800 people, 312 to be. ex-
act, sang the praises Of their native
o adopted state at the Albany hotel
in Denver on the occasion of the first
annual banquet Of the Illinois Society
of Colorado.
Homesteaders in eastern Weld coun-
ty have offered to donate land for ex-
pertinent farming if a portion of the
Carnegie endowment fund for scien-
t:fic research is placed there. as prom
1sed
Careful investigation shows that
fully 1900 acres in the vicinity OF
Nunn. which settlers supposed would