The Holly chieftain., 1911-02-24
LlrrLe COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth Telling.

Twelve inches Of snow fell at Bould-
er.
Colorado's population now numbers
about 100000.
Twenty-three carloads of sheep left
Fort Collins recently.
Work on the cannery for Milliken
will begin at once.
Cantaloupe Growers Association
has been formed at Delta.
Rodney Marsh. veteran of the Civil
War died in Fort Collins.
S. P: Madeira. q Colorado pioneer.
died at Colorado Springs.
Elmer Conner of Colorado Springs
has been adjudged insane.
Work on the sanitary sewer will be
started soon in Colorado Springs.
Judge James l. Mccain, a Colo
RADIO pioneer, is dead at Greeley.
Burglars entered Pueblo pawn
shop and took $3.50 worth of jewels.
An effort will be made this year to
give Sterling a good base ball team.
A bridge across the Grand river at
Grand Junction is to be built soon.
The Farmers Union has closed
two days session in Colorado Springs.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook will lecture
in Grand Junction on February eth.
With Mrs. j. 8. Harrison as post.
mistress the postoffice at Gil has been
opened.
Frederick Kruse. former mayor of
Central City and Colorado pioneer.
is dead.
During the year 1910 Colorado shoe
factories turned out $35O,OOO worth of
shoes.
The Western Slope Teachers Con-
yention will be held in Grand Junction
April 1st.
VIM. H. Madden, a railroad man of
Salida, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself.
The Ohio Society of Colorado will
hold it's annual meeting in Denver
March 4th.
Oil has been struck in well near
Lamar, as a result of years of labor
and much expense.
The Ladies' Civic Club of Durango
have inaugurated movement to
teautify the city.
Irrigationists are rejoicing over the
recent snowfall at the head of the
Poudre river and on the Grand.
Logan county's first Annual Poultry
Show which has just closed, was one
CT the most successful ever held in
the state.
Three big steam shovels are at
work on the grade for the Colorado &,
| Southern extension from Wellington
TO Cheyenne.
Encouraging developments continue
at the oil well near lamar and there
is every evidence of an extensive
flow of oil.
Work on excavation has begun on
militia company. The building will
cost about $4,000.
Rev. G. A. Monroe, pastor of the
First Congregational church of Grand
Junction has ordered regular paid ad-
vertisements in the newspapers.
Butler Disman, son Of Benjamin
Disman, of Salida, has been appointed
assistant to Thomas Ward, Jr., United
States district attorney for Colorado.
Quite a number OF fruit men OF
the Arkansas valley are preparing to
smudge this spring at any time that
Jack Frost comes npping around.
At mass meeting at Fort Lupton,
1t was voted by 80 per cent of the tax
payers to take steps toward secur-
ing municipal water system by a
special election for a bond issue.
A bullsnake measuring six feet in
length and as large about the body as
4 mans wrist, was run over and cut
to pieces by the wheels of street
car in Grand Junction.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
operates and maintains first-class din
ing stations at Pueblo, Salida, Min
turn, Grand Junction, Helper, Thistle
and Wildly.
Charles E. McGruder, negro lieu
tenant in the fire department of Den
yer for the last sixteen years, has
been dismissed from the service by
the fire and police board.
Pueblo's freight shipments during
January were % per cent larger than
during the corresponding month Of
1910. Shipments of hay during the
month broke all records.
The Montrose Fruit Orchards Com.
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