The Springfield herald., 1912-05-03
LITTLE COLORADO I1EMs.l
Small Happenings Occurring Over th-
state Worth While.
we..ern New.paper Union New. Service.


to Silverton has been discontinued.
Prices of meats have practically
doubled within the last week in Den
yer.
In Boulder hereafter express will oe
delivered free to every portion of ,he
city.
The Loveland Civic Extension Club
has plans on foot for beautifying that
city.
Moffat county officers are after
hunters who are killing elk for their
teeth.
Five carloads of seed have been dis
tributed among the farmers in Logan
county.
The upper section of the Uncom.
pahgre will be stocked with trout this
summer.
Albert A. Ives of Hiawatha has been
arrested on the charge of selling liquor
without license.
Sebastian Marriaker. well-known
mine carpenter Of Central City, was
found dead in his cabin.
The ministers of Colorado Springs
are still at work on the proposed Sun
day closing ordinance.
A considerable quantity Of seed has
been delivered to the needy farmers
of the Sterling district.
There will be at least quarter of
a million trees and shrubs set out in
Otero county this spring.
There is $9.9S9,445.1 on deposit in
the six banks of Colorado Springs. ac-
cording to official statements.
DIR. H. w. Kirby of Georgetown las
been appointed to the state board of
health by Governor Shafroth.
The first Labor Temple west of
Omaha is being planned by the Trades
and Labor Assembly of Pueblo.
Peter Campon, nineteen years old.
was drowned while swimming in the
lake at Central park in Trinidad.
The department encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held in Boulder May IA. Is and 16.
Someone robbed the depot at Evans
taking the first consignment of
whisky to the saloon at that place.
The Moffat road, it is reported, has
let twenty-six-mile tracklaying con-
tract and grading is to begin at once.
Owing to disagreement, all but
one OF the trustees of All Souls Uni
tarion church in Colorado Springs,
have resigned.
Miss Margaret O'Hearn. teacher
OF Johnstown. Is under arrest charged
with whipping ten-year-old boy with
a horsewhip.
The two boys who confessed to the
ny in Grand Junction Of $4,000, will
not be prosecuted.
John Weese, well known ranch
man living near Hygiene. and who was
one of the first settlers in the ST.
Vrain valley, is dead.
Work on the new Catholic church
at Meeker is expected to be resumed
soon, after having been suspended
through the winter.
A small tornado swept the coun-
try near Sterling recently and de-
stroyed considerable property and
killed many chickens.
Apples in the vicinity of Boulder
have been damaged rs per cent by
freezes, and cherries and other fruits
are said to be a total loss.
Farmers of Lucerne and Eaton who
went on the Chicago market recently
with several thousand fat lambs re-
ceived $9.45 per hundred, the highest
price in years.
The Knights and Ladies of Security
First district of Colorado, comprising
the cities of Denver, Loveland
Greeley, Longmont, Brighton, Boulder
and Fort Collins. met in bi-annual ses
sion at Denver recently.
Colorado has more divorce courts
than has England, Germany and
France combined" was the statement
made by DR.. William S. Friedman in
his address on the divorce evil at
Temple Emanuel in Denver
San Juan Odd Fellows Association.
comprising the lodges of Pagosa
Springs, Cortez, Mancos, Pennington,
Aztec and Durango. held a twoday
celebration at Durango, the occasion
being the ninety-third anniversary of
the order.
An enthusiastic meeting of the San
Juan Congress was held in Durango
with representatives from every com
mercial organization and county in the
Southwest present. Steps were taken
looking to the improvement of rail-
roads in that section.
Driven insane, his friends say, be-
caused physician had advised him
that he had galloping consumption.
and only a short time to live, Karl
Noreen, aged fifty-three of Steamboat
Springs, held stick of dynamite
against his head and blew it Off Both
hands were torn from his wrists.
If special election held six years
ago, at which it was voted to bond
.Johnstown for $4,000 water plant is
valid, that town will at once install
the plant.
Congressman Martin introduced a
bill increasing the limit of cost of the
public building at La Junta from $780,
900 to $4,000 and appropriating the
full amount for immediate use.
The Evans Improvement Society,