The Holly chieftain., 1912-05-17
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMe.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newsnaper Union News Service.
Ailliken has let the contract for the
construction Of . $4,000 water works
system.
Bailey and vicinity have been visit
ed by a heavy rain. the first of the
season.
One hundred Denver business men
have organized the Mountain Park
League.
Yeggmen entered . jewslry store in
Denver recently and stole $4,000
worth Of diamonds.
Johnstown will hold an election to
vote $4,000 in bonds for the construc-
ton OF . water system.
The Rev. e. N. Scott has been in.
stalled ~ pastor Of the First Pres
byterian church at Lamar.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer. agsd ninety.
three. for seventeen years Q resident
OF Colorado Springs. ID dead.
Boulder county fruit men say cherry
and plum trees have been damaged
very little BY the recent cold.
Nearly every locality in the state
has been visited BY heavy rain. accom-
panied by considerable snow.
Veterans of the Civil War who have
homesteads near Raymer. are plan.
ming . reunion on Decoration Day.
The Burns theater. at Colorado
Springs. built at . cost Of 100000
has been opened to the public.
Material for the new pea huller At
Johnstown 10 being hauled and work
will commence on the building at
once.
Greeley will send out 5000 postal
cards May IS, the day designated by
Governor Shafroth Is State Post Card
Day.
The shaft house at the Gem mine
at Idaho Springs. was burned, entail
Ing loss of about $4,000. partially in.
sured.
Oak Greek. on the twentieth of this
month. will begin the enjoyment Of an
electric light service furnished by its
own plant.
A. N. Blessing. a prominent ranch
man and fruit grower Of Montrose.
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
w. F. Edmundson. Grover ranch.
man. is installing an irrigation pump
Ing plant consisting Of one large pump
and forty wells.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer. ninety-three
years old. who said she was distant
relative Of President TAFT. IL dead in
Colorado Springs.
At the school election on Spring
Creek mesa. near Montrose. $1,000 in
funds were voted for grounds and
four-room building.
Good Roads Day was observed in
nearly every locality of the state, but
In many places the road work was in.
terfered with by rain.
Construction work on the new st.
Johns German Lutheran church. be-
ing built In Denver at cost Of $780,.
900. is progressing rapidly.
The Elks and the Caledonian clubs
have made arrangements for one Of
the biggest Fourth Of July celebra.
tions ever held in Walsenburg.
Cisto Bronz. an Italian miner, met
death in the 500-foot level in the Ga.
lena mine in Central City by being
buried alive under tons of rock and
earth.
Work has been begun on the Maroon
creek bridge. at Aspen, which the
state has voted 10000 to help build.
Much will be done by citizens free to
the county.
At a cost of $4,000 Gilcrest has pur.
chased an engine to generate electri-
cal power for lighting to be installed
within thirty days and supply street
lamps and homes.
A sheriffs deed has been given B,
F. Lowell of Colorado Springs for the
property of the Colorado Consolidated
Mines Company of Georgetown to sat.
isfy Judgment Of $3s.475.84.
A resolution demanding that Cover
nor Shafroth call an extra session of
the Legislature to re-enact House bill
200 was passed by the Board Of Coun-
ty Commissioners at Grand Junction.
Judge Harry P. Gamble at Boulder
imposed the first sentence under the
new non-support low, when he gave
Tom Macy one years Imprisonment