Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1912-02-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

DeuNer fsihS are preparing iS"A
winter carnival.
Snow is rapidly disappearing in the
vicinity of Meeker
Denver showed gain il building
operations during January.
A fire bug is said to be busy in the
Bessimer addition of Pueblo.
Denver Automobile show will be
held IN Denver March IL to 16.
Loveland has every prospect of hav-
ing an up-to-date, modern hotel.
On the 18th of February Rio Blanco
county was twenty-three years old.
Hugh Fegan, eighty, one of the old
est citizen in Boulder county, is dead.
Western slope convention of w. C.
T. U. will be held in Delta March
to 6.
At Kersey a commercial club will
be organized by farmers and business
men.
In La Plata county in 1911 there
were SO marriages, 20 divorces and 173
births.
DIR. Fl. F. Dunkel, for thirty years
resident of Gunnison, died suddenly in
that city.
A LIS factory is to be erected at
Puelap and started by the middle of
the suiAmer.
The Yampa Commercial Club has
been Organized by the business men
of that place.
The Douglas Irrigation Company,
capitalized at s21s,oOO, has been incor-
porated at Greeley.
A new Sunday closing ordinance
has been passed by the City Council
of Colorado Springs.
Oil in commercial quantities has
been struck near Vernal and the ex-
citement is high.
The twelfth district convention of the
w. C. T. U. will be held in Salida Feb
ruary 90 to March 1.
Owing to the illness of Judge Shut
mate. District Court at Meeker will
not open until March 4.
George Kennedy. aged fifteen. was
run down by an automobile in Dem
yer and fatally injured.
Eddie Johnson of Pueblo and Mike
Malone of Denver has been matched to
fight at Walsenburg February 20.
The first session of the Routt
County Teachers Association was
held recently at Steamboat Springs.
The existence of a ward at the
state penitentiary for the treatment
of dope fiends has been revealed.
Three men were sent to Jail for thir-
ty days and fined 800 each and costs
on a charge of bootlegging at Boulder.
All but two of the Palisade land
owners have signed the contract for
the right-ofway for the highline canal.
Sam Coco. foreman of the steel
works at Pueblo. was ambushed and
shot twice by supposed Black Hand
ers.
The Arkansas Valley Railway, Light
and Power Company have plans COM
ploted for a four-story building in Pu-
eblo
Rev. ID. X. Roberts, for the past
eight years pastor of the Welsh Pres
byterian church in Denver. has re-
signed.
The voters of Ebert county want
the question Of erecting a 100000 court
house at Kiowa submitted to the peo-
pie.
Following his conviction for bootleg
ging at Fort Morgan, l.. P. Pitney was
and costs.
The Boulder post, G. A. R.. has be-
gun plans for the entertainment of the
Grand Army encampment there May
IA, 10 and 16.
School teachers of Ell Paso. Teller.
Douglas and Ebert counties will hold
their annual institute in Colorado
Springs July %.
The government has discontinued
the handling of mail on Sunday over
several hundred miles of star routes in
northwestern Colorado.
The Colorado Pacific Development
Company. the largest operator in the
Rangley oil field, near Meeker. has
suspended operations.
Guy IL. Ward, manager of the Ster-
ling Lumber G Investment Company's
yard at Merino. has been arrested on
a charge of embeZzlement.
The Weld County Commercial Club
will supervise the work of securing
complete and accurate statistics of
every farm in the county.
Colorado's Stationary Engineers
Association will celebrate its twenty.
ninth anniversary in Denver with a
ball and reception.
At the second annual meeting of
the Prowers County Good Roads Asso-
citation interest in the Santa Fe Trail
highway was aroused anew.
The electric Light and mower line