The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-06-01

La Sale is planning to celebrate
the Fourth OF July in the old fash
ion way.
When the home of James Bronelli
burned at Pueblo he lost $500 in cur
rency.
Paving the business section OF Colo
RADIO Springs will be started about the
middle of August.
Mrs. Sarah Markley. wife of Mat
thew Markley. who came to Platteville
in 1870. is dead.
The plan for the construction of a
100000 Elks home in Denver is TAX
ing definite shape.
OF the total tax OF s950.000 to be
collected in Weld county this year. but
100000 has been paid.
James Lee. a wealthy Johnstown
farmer has been convicted OF kidnap-
ping his own child.
Two attorneys Of walsenburg were
fined $500 each by District Judge
Hunter for contempt Of court.
The county commissioners Of Chat
fee county are getting the roads In
that vicinity In good condition
John w. Green OF Paonia has been
appointed magnetic observer in the
coast and geodetic survey service.
Arthur Given. living on homestead
near Orchard. was burned to death In
a fire which destroyed his home.
Farmers of northern Colorado are
rejoicing over a twelve-hour rain that
came Just In time to save the crops.
The coroner's jury returned a yer
dict that Miss Bolma Smith OF Som
crset came to her death from an over
dose OF laudanum.
Eve thousand replies have already
been received in Denver from trout
season postcards sent out recently.
George w. Click has been appointed
carried and Walter C. Aten substitute
carrier on Grand Junction rural route
No. 4.
The proposed consolidation OF the
Palisade and Mt. Lincoln high schools
has been rejected by the Mt. Lincoln
people.
Denver lodges OF Odd Fellows have
decided upon June 18th as the date for
Memorial services for those who died
during the year.
A burglar entered the home of
Chas. F. Arcularius. in Colorado
Springs. in daylight and carried away
$500 worth Of silver.
Ed Mason. held at Steamboat
Springs on the charge OF horse steal
ing at Hahn's Peak. escaped by set
ting fire to the county jail.
Over fifty Chinese ringneck and
golden pheasants were liberated re-
Gently at the ranch OF +. W. Fuqua.
seven miles east OF Greeley.
The commissioners OF Ell Paso
county have increased their subscrip-
ton to the International Dry Farming
Congress from $500 to $4,000.
The Southern hotel burned AT
Brush. Several Denver travelling men
saved their lives by jumping out OF
the windows. The loss is $4,000.
A large shaft building on the Cliff
ton Belle mine In the Russell district,
was struck by lightning and burned
to the ground. The loss was $500
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the postoffice department to establish
daily mail service between Longmont
and Lyons at hours recommended by
the Lyons Commercial Association.
For several weeks body of poll
ticians, under control OF the Citizens
party, has been at work on plans for n
new charter to place Denver under
the Commission form of govern
ment"
One of the entertainment features
Of the G.. A. II. encampment at Salida.
on the 9Th, 7th and Sth Of June will
be an excursion to Marshall pass.
The fare will be only 81 for the round
trip and will be open to everybody.
While shooting at sparrows in his
strawberry patch with a shotgun, at
Canon City, William Wright shot into
the house OF n neighbcr. painfully
wounding Mrs. A. II. Jones and her
dauohter.