The state herald., 1912-02-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State 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 be
held In Denver March II 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 a 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. G..
7. U. will be held in Delta March
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 a week.
The Louden Irrigation district has
decided to enlarge the capacity of its
ditch at Loveland.
The Douglas Irrigation Company.
capitalized at s213.O00. 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. c. T. U. will be held in Salida 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 Den.
Yer and fatally injured.
For failure to take out city license
to run an employment agency in Pu-
eblo. japanese was fined 500.
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 n ward at the
state penitentlary 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 a charge of bootlegging at Boulder
Rev. ID. X. Roberts, for the past
eight years pastor OF the Welsh Pres.
byterian church in Denver, has re.
signed.
The voters Of Ebert county want
the question of erecting $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.
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
II, 10 and 10.
School teachers OF FL Paso, Teller,
Douglas and Ebert counties will hold
their annual institute In Colorado
Springs July 20.
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 Meekor, has
suspended operations.
Guy II. Ward. manager OF tho ster.
ling Lumber a Investment company's
yard at Merlno. has been arrested on
u charge OF embozzlcment.
The tenth annual convention of tho
Colorado Retail Hardware and Implc-
mont Dealers Association In being
held In Denver this week.
At the second annual meeting OF
the prowors County Good Roads Asso.
citation Interest In the Santa Fe Trail
highway was aroused anow.
Tho electric light and power line.
being constructed from Pueblo
through the Arkanaaa valley. will bc
ready for operation In the spring.