The Holly chieftain., 1912-08-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
lawson boosters are preparing for
grand Labor Day celebration.
George Sherman. fifty-two. commit
ted suicide at his livery stable in Mof-
fat.
Golden is to have new postoffice
if the government does not renew its
present lease.
The City Council Of Greeley has de-
cided to have the streets of that town
sprinkled with oil.
1t takes 10000 gallons of water
day to sprinkle the streets of Grand
Junction.
The roads between Marble and
Crested Butte are still in bad shape
from snowslides and washouts.
Thrown from horse while riding to
Pueblo, Albert Milsey OF Fisher. re-
ceived injuries from which he died.
Six OF the seven men Who escaped
from the Uinta county jail after over
powering Jailer Fife. are still at large.
Fifteen hundred Methodists of the
state gathered at Strattou park, Colo
RADIO Springs. Aug. 6. for basket
picnic.
A buffalo barbecue will be feature
OF the entertainment at the convention
of the State Bankers Association at
Pueblo.
Kersey is going after the big silver
loving cup offered for the best district
exhibit at the Weld Comfy fair in Sep
tember
One report says that during a recent
hail storm in Weld county stones
twenty feet long, fourteen feet wide
and eight inches thick fell.
The Colorado Scientific Society will
meeting of the Lake Superior Mining
Institute. August 2S. 20 and so.
Mayor Arnold has announced that
he and the city administration were
going to back up fall festival for
Denver which will be held this year.
The highways leading into Denver
are to be patrolled at intervals by men
on motorcycles to prevent the over
flow of irrigation bitches on the roads.
AS result of the visit of thirty-five
farmers from Nebraska and Kansas 10
the San Luis valley, more than 5000
acres of land in that valley has been
sold.
Thomas B. Whittington, for thirty
a{ {rh Of hn
and l. Company, most of that time
superintendent Of the pipe foundry at
the Pueblo plant, is dead
Miss Signe Carfzen, thirty-eight
years old, a music teacher. was as
saulted and killed near East Alameda
avenue and Forest street. in South
Montclair, Denver, by an unknown
fiend.
The body of Mrs. Mabel Flannery,
thirty-two, who committed suicide by
drowning in the Grand Valley irriga-
tion ditch near Palisade was found
floating in the stream by several
children.
AS result of peculiar accident,
which occurred when huge furniture
car in the center OF a train "buckled"
in the Royal Gorge, left the track and
plunged into the Arkansas river, three
men will probably die.
The damage done 10 the twin spire
of the Immaculate Conception cathed-
raj at Denver, which was struck by a
bolt of lightning during rainstorm,
IT, To
McMenamin, pastor, 10 be 100000.
Mortified when she saw a rattle
snake creeping toward her three
months old baby in the kitchen of her
home at Pierce, Mrs ]. ]. Stephenson
forgot her fear of reptiles and seized
the snake with her hands and threw
1t out the door.
The United States Forestry Service
has begun the work OF gathering and
extracting pine tree seed for the plant
ing of new trees next year. The Of
ficials hope to plant 5000 acres with
the seed, and most of this work will
be done in Colorado.
Jean Talbot Miller. who fired four
shots into the head Of his sweetheart,
Georgiana Lichtenwalter, because she
would not elope with him, was SEN
fenced to serve term of from seven
to fourteen years in the penitentiary
by Judge Shattuck Of Denver.
The eleventh of list of auto fatali
ties that have saddened Denver since
July may be added as the result of
n ri a
road, in which three-year-old Harry