The Springfield herald., 1912-05-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Meeker's postal savings bank is
proving marked success.
All the rural schools in Pueblo coun.
ty have closed for the season.
The Elks OF Grand Junction have
decided to erect u $4,000 home.
The International Association of Auc
tioneers will meet in Denver June 5.
The contract for water works at
Miliken. to cost $12,9S5, has been let.
School census shows that Mesa
county has 6,242 children of school
age.
Water is running into the Milton
reservoir near Eaton, for the first
time.
Grand Junction sugar factory has
secured the largest acreage OF beets
in its history.
May "a Lamar celebrated the twen.
ty-sixth anniversary OF the sale of its
first town lots.
Fire destroyed the Big Bear stamp
mill at Telluride. The plant was val
ued at $50O.OOO.
Grand Junction is building $780,.
900 mountain water system to be com.
pleted In June.
| A committee of Kersey citizens is
soliciting acreage for an Independent
sugar factory.
Wednesday, June 5. has been set for
the observance of Pixies Peak Day at
Colorado Springs.
The largest class in the history OF
the Colorado School OF Mines was
graduated this year.
A fund has been completed to main
tain an information bureau at Estes
Park next summer.
At cost of $4,000 Greeley has
completed filtration basin at the
head Of it's water works system.
Milliken's City Council has planted
the City park. consisting OF several
acres, with tomatoes in place of grass.
Warm weather has caused a rapid
rise of the White river, until 1t is
now on the verge of breaking Its
banks.
Business men Of Colorado Springs
are considering the advisability OF or
ganizing a 100000 electric light
company.
Sixty-five men have been enlisted
during the month of May at the Den
yer United States marine recruiting
| station.
The preferred creditors of the long
since defunct State Bank OF Rocky
Ford will soon have their claims set
tied in full.
| The Redland dam. two miles south
of Grand Junction. is threatened with
destruction by high water in the Gun
nison river.
| David H. Wilson, prominent Den
yer newspaper man, editor OF Munich
pal Facts, died suddenly in his home
in that city.
John H. Day. aged seventy-seven,
pioneer of Montrose county and a
county commissioner years ago, died
in Montrose.
From now on every rail turned out
from the Pueblo iron works will un-
dergo a thorough inspection before be-
ing accepted by railroads.
| J.E. Coulter, bird fancier of Meeker,
Is undertaking to raise for game pur-
| poses in that section the Chinese
ringed-neck pheasants.
Before 1000 spectators. the annual
May Day frolic at the Teachers col
lege at Greeley too place. 400 students
participating in the Greek festival
Petitions for submission of the con-
stitutional amendment that will give
cities in the state commission govern
ment have been circulated In Pueblo.
| All freight and passenger traffic on
the Rio Grande Southern between Du-
range and Telluride has been aban-
doned indefinitely owing to washouts.
DR.. ]. H. Spencer, acting as supply
pastor of the Capitol Hill Baptist
church of Denver, has been called to
the pastorate of the First Baptist
church of Colorado Springs.
Leroy Lyon, the Boulder marksman.
won the state individual championship
broke the state record in the shoot
of the National guard at Golden.
For the purpose OF voting on the
question of contracting bonded debt
OF $2,5OO for the erection and furnish
ing of new school building at Hud-
son, an election is called for June 8.
Charles burning was fined $100 in
Rocky Ford for bootlegging. With
costs, the penalty amounted to $114.
He has begun the serving of the fifty
seven days that it will take to work
out the fine.
Renewed interest is being shown in
the. Denver-Chicago automobile run,
under the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce and other local commercial
bodies, which was to have started from
Denver recently and which has been
postponed until June %.
Frank W. Smith. blacksmith of
Rock Ford, was fatally injured at his
shop by the bursting of an emery
wheel, large piece of which struck
his head.
company of Fort Collins business
men contemplate quarrying a large
deposit of granite sixteen miles from
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