The Glenwood post., 1912-03-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

|
Akron reports a heavy fall of snow.
Pa!,sade will hold it's spring election
! April 2.
Georgetown has secured perpetual
water right
| The Swedish Baptist church in Gree
ley has been nearly completed.
During the month of February there
| were 291 deaths in Denver.
The twenty-seventh storm of the
winter has visited Trinidad.
James Conners, a resident OF
Georgetown for thirty years, is dead
A new grandstand at the Longmont
baseball grounds is being constructed.
Construction work has been started
on a new Catholic church at Meeker.
Greeley for twenty-eight years, is
dead
The Silverton branch of the Denver
& Rio Grande is tied up by snow
Slides
On the ranch of Joe Kunzman, near
kersey. there is a six-legged yearling
lamb.
A railroad will be built from Meek
er ten miles south to tap the coal
fields.
Forty-two miles of the Old Santa Fe
trail from Denver will be a twenty
foot pike.
Boulder has secured an addition Of
three elk for the Chautauqua park in
that city.
At the Wilson park saw mill, 20
miles from Meeker, snow eight feet
deep is reported.
Mrs. Marian G. Gilbert, who was ac-
cused of killing her husband in Pueb.
10, was acquitted.
For the first time pea acreage will
be contracted for in the Fort Lupton
district this season.
fell s'xty-three feet from hoist and
was fatally injured.
A special grand jury has convened
in Grand Junction to investigate the
bootlegging situation.
A movement has been started in
Trinidad to do away with the nickel
in-the-slot telephones.
In a wreck on the Rio Grande four
miles east of Salida one trainman was
killed and three injured
In June Grand Junction will cele-'
brate the thirtieth anniversary of the
incorporation of the town.
The Windsor creamery has been
opened for business. Cream will be
furnished from $50 COWS.
Ell Paso, Boulder, Weld and Pueblo
counties have decided to hold presi-
dental preference elections.
In slashing battle at Longmont
Earl Puryear of Denver won decision
over AL Tobin of Longmont.
Members of the Kersey Commercial
Club are going out among the farm
ers and soliciting membership.
Many people who attended church
supper in Greeley were taken violent
ly i'll with symptoms of poisoning
The Routt county extension of the
Laramie. Hahn's Peak & Pacific rail-
way will be commenced April 1.
Adjutant General Chase has re.
quested the State Land Board to
loan $15O,OOO for the erection of
an armory at Denver.
The Greeley Hydro-Electric Compa-
ny will ask that city for franchise
to furnish a current for heat, light and
power purposes.
Several of the Farmers Union Trad
ing Compay stores on the Western
slope, recently closed, have been re-
opened
The Colorado Grain Dealers Asso
citation has decided to establish a
state bureau of inspection in Denver
with deputies in the principal towns
of the state.
Burglars broke into the hardware
store of Ellis & Hood at Florence and
stole $500 worth of goods. Three men
were arrested and put in Jail at Canon
City pending investigation.
Stockmen of Moffat county have or
ganized a wolf bounty association and
$40 each will be paid for grown wolves
and $40 for pups. this amount being
in addition to the bounty paid by the
county.
The Aurora State bank was entered
by lone robber recently who secured
between $500 and 5000 in cash While
the bandit was attempting to make
his escape he was shot and mortally
wounded.
Grand Junction has raised the $500
bonus asked by the Ziegler Brothers,
of Muscatine, Ia, and the latter will
invest 100000 in a cannery in that
city. The plant will be completed in
the spring.
By an agreement entered into recent