The Glenwood post., 1911-09-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
state Worth While.
ern Newspapcr Union News Service,

Denver postal savings bank is doing
a fine business.
The safe of James Abo, at Morrison
was robbed of 5000.
A postal savings bank has been
opened in Denver.
The Platteville cannery is putting
out 10000 cans daily.
Ten people were injured in the
Union Pacific wreck near kersey
William Clark of Pierce, aged SO,
lied from the effects Of hiccoughs.
A new industry, the Castle Rock
Brick & Tile Co., will be launched
;oon.
Meeker will soon have the first wire
ess telegraph station of the Western
;lope.
The enrolment of the State univer-
;ity of Boulder is something over 400
students.
The thirty-fifth session of the Uni
versity of Colorado has opened at
Boulder.
James Wilson and F. Dupree are in
all in Colorado City charged with
'orgery.
The new county of Crowley is low
doing business with Ordway as the
county seat
The Colorado Springs police have
been asked to locate Frank Russell,
20, who has disappeared.
Ninety days in Jail is the penalty
lin Sebers must pay for trying to fir,
IN the streets of Greeley.
Robt. Witt, watchman for the
Santa Fe at Colorado Springs, was
struck by train and killed.
The prize stalk of corn for Boulder
county bears eleven large ears and
was grown by o. l.. Linch.
The Salida high school has made ar
rangements for splendid lecture
course of five numbers.
Preparations are well under way for
the Weld county fair. to be held at
Greeley September is to %
Lloyd Clark, aged twelve, son of j.
A. Clark, of Alamosa, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting.
Frank Pollock of Greeley is sleep
ing under one of his peach trees every
night with a gun under his head.
Pumpkin pie, coffee, doughnuts, ap-
pies and cider will be the menu at the
Longmont Pumpkin Pie Day, Sept. 2S.
The four-year-old daughter of Bert
Reynolds of Kersey, fell into a tub OF
fatal
After twenty-four years of service as
general claim agent for the Denver
City Tramway Company, Samuel c.
Dorsey has resigned.
Jacob, five-year-old son Of John
Hoff of Greeley, is in a hospital with
a fractured skull, as the result of a
colt stepping on his head
Milliard Hill, aged thirty-eight, was
killed in the Mohican mine. on Battle
Mountain, at Victor, his head being
crushed under 5O0-pound boulder.
R. w. Hadkinson. fifty-five years
old was struck by Rock Island train
at Colorado Springs and fatally in
jured.
The fifty-first annual communication
of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ. of
, Colorado will be held in Denver, Sept.
19 and 20.
Twyman Kisinger, OF the Little
Beaver, near Meeker, threshed 250
acres of fall wheat, averaging forty
bushels to the acre.
The twenty-two-yearold son of NJ.
c. Phelps, superintendent Of the Colo
RADIO Midland died in Colorado
Springs following an operation
Cabbage will bring the growers OF
Weld county close to s230,000 this sea
son, as the yield is the best in years
and the market price 30 cents per 100
pounds.
The Fremont County Horticulture
Society has decided to make an ex.
haustive exhibit at the American Ap
pie Exposition at Denver November
12 to IS.
A demonstration train showing the
progress of railroading during the last
thirty years is being run over the sys,
Fe railroad, and it will arrive in Den.
yer the evening of Sept. %.
A gain of six per cent is shown in
the building activity in Denver as com,
pared with the figures for August,
1910, according to the official reports
compiled by the American Contractor
of Chicago.
Potatoes weighing over half a
pound each have been shown by
James Woods, whose farm is close to
Gill. He also dug twenty-five pota-
toes from one hill and found that they
weighed altogether ten and half
pounds.
The activity OF the La Plata min
ing district has become so pronounced
that scarcely week passes without