Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-03-01
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

gar beet factory.
Horace w. Ferguson, a pioneer of
Evans, is dead.
A glove factory will be opened in
Loveland March 1.
The next municipal election in La
mar will be held in April, 1913.
Georgetown is to have plant for
the manufacture of concrete brick.
Buckingham is making hard fight
against the division of Weld county.
James H. Smith. one of the wealth.
est citizens in Mesa county. is dead.
There were 1000 fewer deaths in
Denver in 1911 than in the preceding
year.
The cornerstone of the First Baptist
church at Grand Junction was recently
laid.
Richard Richardson, one of the
earliest settlers of Cripple Creek, is
dead.
The turkey trot and the bunny hug
dance hav been introduced in Grand
Junction.
A man. his wife and four sons are in
jail in Walsenburg awaiting sentence
by the court.
Four children of Diego Seracina, an
Italian miner of Segundo, have died
within a week.
The Mineequa steel works at Pueblo
has received an order for $1,000 tons
of steel rails.
The twenty-first annual fair of the
Arkansas Valley will open at Rocky
Ford September 8.
Rudolph Unholz. the fighting Boer,
and Eddie Johnson. fought ten rounds
to draw at Pueblo.
The state fish hatchery at Steam
boat Springs has just Matched out
100000 brook trout.
Italian, Archuleta county's famous
sub-chief. died recently at his home
near Pagosa Junction.
Kersey farmers and business men
will cooperate in the organization of
commercial club.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Camp of Platte
vile, recently celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary.
Ben Peck. aged sixty-three. at one
time county assessor of Routt coun-
ty, is dead at Hayden.
James A. King, a well-known pio-
neer of northern Colorado. is dead at
his home near Boulder.
Mrs. Hannah button. sixty-five, the
largest woman in Colorado. weighing
$50 pounds. died in Rifle.
Civil Service examinations will be
held March 13 and IA for school
teachers in the Philippines.
The Fort Morgan high school de-
feated the Brush high school at bas-
ketball by score of SO to 10.
Il. G. Wallace, a pioneer. seventy
three years old, was found frozen to
death recently at Hahn's Peak.
Fat lambs are being shipped from
Greeley to Eastern markets, several
carloads having already been shipped.
W. E. Wilson, convicted of wife
beating at Pueblo. was sentenced to
serve out a 500 fine on the city wood
pile.
AS result OF an accident on the c.
& S. train at Lynn, twenty-one miles
from Trinidad, four persons were in
jured.
The three-year-old son of Dan Van
derpool at Greeley, fell backward into
q tub of boiling water and was fatal
ly injured.
Evergreen has subscribed $1,000 to-
ward connecting the Bear Creek road
with the route connecting Idaho
Springs with Denver.
The city of La Junta has bought six
acres of land adjoining the town on
which wells will be sunk to increase
the city's water supply.
The new home and club building of
the Canon City Elks was recently dedi-
Gated with appropriate ceremony. The
new building cost $4,000.
The new government river-testing
station at Meeker is said to be in bad
condition and the big iron bridge is in
danger of being carried away.
As a special feature of the enter
tainment of the Grand Army in Boul-
der next summer a chorus of eighty
boys is being trained to sing.
Kid Parker of Denver knocked out
Kid Anaya of Fort Collins. in the
seventh round of a scheduled ten
round bout at Fort Lupton.
The state auditor has refused to pay
the employees of the penitentiary until