The Holly chieftain., 1912-02-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over tn
stats Worth While,


Snow is rapidly disappearing In the
vicinity of Meeker.
A fire bug is said to be busy In the
Bessimer addition of Pueblo.
Denver Automobile show will b.
held In Denver March IL to 16.
The worst February storm for years
recently visited Breckenridge.
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.
Lamar has secured n five-number
course of lectures for Its high school.
An unusually heavy snow fall is re-
ported in the mountains west Of sa-
Ida
Western slope convention of W. C.
T. U. will be held in Delta March I
to 6.
At Kersey a commercial club will
be organized by farmers and business
men.
A man, his wife and four sons are in
Jail in Walsenburg awaiting sentence
by the court.
The Yampa Commercial Club has
been organized by the business men
of that place.
Four children of Diego Seracina, an
Italian miner of Segundo. have died
within week.
The Louden Irrigation district has
decided to enlarge the capacity of Its
ditch at Loveland.
The Douglas Irrigation Company,
capitalized at $4,000. has been incor.
porated at Greeley.
A new Sunday closing ordinance
has been passed by the City Council
of Colorado Springs.
The twelfth district convention Of the
w. G. T. U. will be held in Sallda Feb
ruary 20 to March 1.
Owing to the illness of Judge shu-
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.
For failure to take out city license
to run an employment agency in Pu-
eblo. Japanese was fined 800.
A heavy snow slide occurred on
Ruby mountain. near West Argentine,
and considerable damage was done.
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 500 each and costs
on charge of bootlegging at Boulder.
Rev. D. X. Roberts. for the past
eight years pastor of the Welsh Pres
byterian church in Denver. has re-
signed.
The voters Of Elbert county want
the question Of erecting a $4,000 court
house at Kiowa submitted to the peo-
pie.
Fred w. Springer, a prominent
young man Of Trinidad, was instantly
killed when he was struck by an auto
mobile. -
In Weld county there is an entire
school district owned by one man and
the pupils in the district are all his
children. c
Following his conviction for bootleg.
ging at Fort Morgan, L. p. Pitney was
given $50 days in Jail and fined $500
and costs.
The Boulder post. G. A. R., has be.
gun plans for the entertainment Of the
Grand Army encampment there May
IA, 15 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 H. Ward. manager OF the ster.
ling Lumber & Investment Company's
yard at Merinc, has been arrested on
charge OF embezzlement
The tenth annual convention Of the
Colorado Retail Hardware and Imple-
ment Dealers Association is being