The Glenwood post., 1912-01-27
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

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Greeley's car seal factory will be in
operation within thirty days.
w. D. Snow. aged sixty-eight. pio-
neer of that district, died in Ault.
The new Knights of Pythias' hall at
Rocky Ford has been formally opened.
The Knights>pf Pythias of Rocky
Ford have dedicated their new build
ing.
John F. Morgan has been appointed
to third term as postmaster of Colo
rado City.
The Rock Island railroad is contem-
plating numerous improvements in
Colorado.
A masked robber entered a saloon
at Leadville recently and carried
away $3.50.
Mrs. Fred Allen. a farmers wife,
living near Wray, killed herself by TAX
ing strychnine.
vanadium alloy manufacturing
plant is in prospect for Denver in
the near future.
Rev. Father Richard De Palma,
widely known in that section, died in
Trinidad of cancer.
The machinery for the new ice plant
at Rocky Ford has arrived and will be
installed at once.
Charles l.. Hill, pioneer mining op-
orator, of Colorado. died recently at
Santa Monica. Cal,
Beginning February l, the mint at
Denver will coin nickels for the first
time in its history.
The "Old Time Cowboys reunion
was held in Denver recently and
closed with a big banquet.
The Eaton High School basketball
team defeated the Denver Y. M. C. A.
team by score of 35 to 16.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colorado-Wyoming Lumber Dealers
Association was held in Denver.
Boulder Troop D. of the Colorado
National Guard has begun a campaign
for an increased enlistment.
Mangled beyond recognition, the
body of Anton Manzarita, an Italian.
was found on railroad in Pueblo.
John M. Dunn, one of the .old-timers
of Meeker and the White River val
ley. died recently at Goldfield, Nevada.
D. NJ. Collins of Lamar died in hos
pital at Albuquerque, N M, as re-
suit of having an arm and leg cut
off.
The Denver-Greeley irrigation prof.
ect has been completed and water
turned into the Milton reservoir near
Platteville.
At Walsenburg, recently. robbers
stole the United States mail sack from
the rear of the postoffice in daylight,
and rifled it.
Rev. Greer A. Foote, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Glenwood
Springs. died following an operation
for appendicitis.
A bill has been introduced in both
Houses of Congress for the removal Of
the Federal Court from Montrose to
Grand Junction.
A mountain lion weighing forty
pounds and measuring eighteen inches
long was trapped by Arthur Hunt near
Georgetown recently.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union began its campaign for 1912 by
circulating petitions calling for anOth-
er prohibition election.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth of
good whisky was wasted when a rum
away team dashed into a plate glass
window of saloon in Pueblo
The jackson Resort Company. about
eight miles east of Boulder, sustained
a loss of $4,000 when their main build
ing and several smaller ones burned.
There was considerably more snow
in the mountains at the end of De-
cember than at the same period year
before, according to the snowfall bull
letin.
Rev. Elmer E. Higley, pastor of the
Grace M. e. church. Denver, has an
nounced that weekly moving picture
shows will be given at his church until
March,
The State Board of immigration has
elected l.. G. Paddock of Boulder to
be immigration commissioner, succeed.
ing Alfred Patek, who recently re-
signed.
A dehydrating plant, to cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000, and which
will handle fruits, vegetables and beet
pulp, will be built in Grand Junction
this summer.
Rio Blanco county commissioners
have appropriated money for the pur.
pose of changing the course of White
river distance of mile below
Meeker, thinking this will prevent FUR.
ther damage from ice gorges.
Milan Guanovitch, an aged gypsy,
was found guilty of kidnapping his
married daughter, in the court of La
Junta.' He is accused of having twice
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