The Glenwood post., 1911-09-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Smal Happenings occurring OvoF the
State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Joknstown has q new band Of fif-
teen pieces.
The state entomologist reports Colo
RADIO nurseries in fine condition.
The first weeks enrolment of the
Alamosa schools showed 500 pupils.
Greeley is to get the state meeting
Of the Undertakers' association in
1918.
Charles Wiley. county treasurer of
Gilpin county, died at the age OF AZ
years.
The Presbyterian church Of Wind
sor is arranging to open free read
ing room.
Idaho Springs will entertain the
Colorado Elks in their annual conven-
tion in 1912.
The machinery for the Alamosa ice
and cold storage plant has arrived and
been installed.
A meteor. gigantic in its proper
tions, was seen to fall near Fort Col
lins. recently.
Fifteen hundred autos from out of
town have visited Canon City during
the past summer.
John Moser and Ed Orton. promi-
nent farmers of La Sale, were fined
s25 each for fighting.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Library X Association will be held in
Denver November 27.
l.. NJ. Rich. a laborer. was run down
by Boulder interurban near Bloom
field and instantly killed.
A new sanitorium chiefly for the
treatment of rheumatic diseases is
shortly to be opened in Boulder.
Fort Morgan won first place in both
singles and doubles in the Northeast
ern Colorado Tennis Tournament.
Experienced burglars made an or
ganized attempt to work the entire
town of Trinidad one night recently.
Fishing is reported at it's best in all
parts of the state, the weather and
low water being favorable to large
catches.
A direct long distance telephone
line has been completed between Den
yer and Ell Paso. Texas, distance Of
$50 miles.
Bitten by a centipede at her home
in Pueblo, Mrs. s. E. James is in a
serious condition, with two physicians
attending her.
The Elks' convention closed at
Ouray with a grand display of fire.
works. The three days of the meet
ing were most successful.
After deliberating fifteen hours the
jury in the case against Mike Hickey,
at Fort Lupton. accused of stealing
horses, acquitted him.
Claude o. Akers. while riding mo-
torcycle near Colorado Springs on the
Pueblo road, collided with an automo-
bile, and died two hour later.
One of the best paying departments
of Weld is its County Court. and one
day recently it earned $117, and col
lected $11O of that amount.
Mechanics lien against the Pueblo
Rocky Ford Land & Irrigation "ompa-
ny, at Pueblo, for $60.O55, was filed
by two Denver contracting firms.
Ranchmen in the vicinity of Salida
are very much interested in establish
ment of creamery at that place. and
it is probably movement now on foot
will succeed.
In broad daylight the real estate Of
flee of Rich-Hutchinson. at Grand
Junction, was entered by thieves and
$50 in money and valuables were
taken.
Mayor Robert w. Speer, mayor of
Denver, has been invited to address
the noted Knife and Fork Club of
Kansas City, which has entertained
many famous persons.
Assistant Superintendent Hughes of
the Department of Fisheries, Washing
ton, D. c., planted half million fish
in Big Thompson river between Love-
land and Estes Park.
Colorado College at Colorado
Springs has changed its regular re-
ligious exercises by the introduction of
a weekly vesper service to be held
every Sunday afternoon.
Meeker claims to enviable record
of sending more young people to uni
versities and colleges throughout the
country this year than any town its
size in the United States
The Santa Fe. Union Pacific, Colo
RADIO & Southern and Denver & Rio
Grande are contemplating improve
ments in their Denver freight termi-
mails, the entire cost to be $2,O00,00O.
1t was reported by fishermen that
thousands of fish ranging from two to
twenty inches in length are floating
on the surface and washed upon the
banks in the vicinity Of the Halligan
dam cayaral nilas from Fort Collins