The Elbert County tribune., 1912-09-13
urrLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
State Worth While.

ing for her husband. who disappeared
five months ago.
First-class postmasters of the Unit
ed States will hold their annual con-
vention in Denver next year.
Forty pretty girls served hot bis
cults. sandwiches, coffee and fruit at
Erie's Biscuit Day celebration
The biggest shipments of peaches
ever made from the Western slope In
q single week were moved this week.
The placing OF a dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted In
a walk-out OF 100 Japanese fruit pick
ers.
The annual council Of the sixth de-
partment OF the Episcopal Church will
be held in Grand Junction October
1S-19-20.
The voters of Jackson county will
pass On a proposition to issue bonds to
build a court house at the November
election.
Colorado Harvest Week" is expect
ed to prove one of the main features
of the Festival of Mountain and Plain
at Denver.
At the close of registration at the
State Agricultural college at Fort
Collins $50 students had been enrolled
for the coming term.
The Swiss government has appoint
ed Max Waessel vice consul for
Switzerland ct Denver. Mr.. Wacssel
has resided in Denver eight years.
With only the family present, Bruce
G. Eaton, one of the wealthiest men in
Weld county, was married to Miss
Martha L. Finch of Denver at Greeley.
William j. Bryan will probably
speak at the State fair in Pueblo. Sep.
tember II. Theodore Roosevelt is the
State fair speaker. September 10.
The Rev. Richard ]. Van Valken-
burg, grand chaplain of the Odd Eel
lows of Colorado, died here at his
home. He was eighty-nine years old.
According to Hebrew chronologists,
the world, dating from it's creation,
was 5,673- years old on the 18th. That
day is the first day of the Jewish New
| Year.
E. r. Bennett, expert of the State
Agricultural college, who has been in
specting the Greeley potato district,
says there will be only half a normal
crop OF tubers this year.
A contract was signed in New York
by which Newman Erb and his associ-
ates assume control of the Moffat
road and undertake it's future exten.
sion and development.
An increase of approximately ST.
100000 over three months ago is
shown by the bank deposits in Colo
RADIO Springs. They total $1O.944,27S.
as against $9,sss, ,701.54 in June.
Glenwood Springs won the final
game in the polo series between the
Denver Country Club and Glenwood
and won the Rocky Mountain chal-
lenge cup. The score was to 5N.
F. H. A. Lyle, manager of the Glen.
wood Hot Springs and Hotel Company
and tho Glenwood Light & Water
Company, died at Glenwood Springs
sanitarium, following an operation for
appendicitis.
One of the features of the Bent
County fair was the display OF the
worlds sugars entered by the Ameri
can Beet Sugar Company. This includ
ed 500 specimens from every sugar
producing country.
Four persons were killed and two Sc
riously injured at Glenwood Springs
when a runaway trolley car ran
against a stone wall, completely
wrecking the car and crushing four oil
the passengers.
A gasoline explosion wrecked the
rear of the Miller tailor shop at Boul
der and c. d. Miller, the proprietor
was probably fatally burned. His as
sistant - Richard Stoneman, also was
! severely burned.
A homemade incubator. constructed
by DR.. C. w. Hail at the Denver Coun
ty hospital In twenty minutes, saved
the life of the three and quarter
pound baby born to Mrs. Margare
Robertson.
The report of the Denver postal saw
ings bank for the first year shows
that 1857 accounts were opened ant
1883 withdrawn. The deposits reached
3.732.ss, of which $156.257 wa.
withdrawn. leaving $227.475.ss now OF
deposit.
Miss Katherine Foss of Encamp
ment, Wyo., has asked Mayor Arnold
of Denver to help find her sister, Lena
Foss twenty-five years old, who dis
appeared from Encampment two
weeks ago and is reported to be in
Denver.
That her husband was in favor OF
her committing suicide and went Sc
! far as to promise that he would buy
the carbolic acid If she would take 1t
Bridget Lain secured a divorce from
David H. Lain, railroad man. at
Pueblo.