Gilpin observer., 1912-02-15


tute.
In La Plata county in 1911 there
were SO marriages, 20 divorces and 173
births.
Santa Fe Trail Band of Pueblo" is
newly organized municipal band in
Pueblo.
DR.. H. F. Dunkel, for thirty years
resident of Gunnison, died suddenly in
that city.
A box factory is to be erected at
Pueblo and started by the middle of
the summer
Very few farmers attended the
Farmers Institute recently held at
Grand Junction.
John Eaton and c. Smith of Estes
Park have been arrested for killing
deer out of season.
The price of eggs in Denver has
taken drop. selling at % to 26 cents
per dozen wholesale.
Miss Luella McGalpin of Weld coun-
ty has been appointed nurse in the
Panama canal service.
The Colorado Realty Dealers Asso-
citation will hold its annual convention
in Denver in April.
The liquor question will be submit
ted to the voters of Evans at the CON-
ing spring election.
Ezra Snyder. aged sixty. who was
badly crushed by boulder in the Port
land mine at Victor. died
Hugh T. O'Reilly, financial secre-
tary Of the Denver lodge of knights
of Columbus, died recently.
The estimated production of the
1912 crop of Steamboat strawberries
is placed at fifty carloads.
The Larimer County Fair Associa.
ton is being organized for the purpose
OF holding annual fairs at Loveland.
E. L. Brown has been elected vice
president Of the Denver G. Rio Grande
railroad, with headquarters in Denver.
All but two of the Palisade land
owners have signed the contract for
the right-of-way for the highline canal.
The 100000 stock in the store of
the Bell Mercantile Company OF
Yampa was practically destroyed by
fire.
The Arkansas Valley Railway, Light
and Power Company have plans COM
pleted for four-story building in Pu.
eblo.
The new creamery at Windsor has
been incorporated with a capital OF
$4,000. The plant has been put into
operation.
Arrangements are being made for
the twenty-first annual meeting OF the
Arkansas Valley Fair Association at
Rocky Ford.
Hot soup is being served to the stu
dents Of the Longmont high school
who live too far away to go home for
lunch at noon.
Fifty million dollars will be spent
in Colorado and Utah during the next
five years by the Rio Grande railroad
in improving the system.
Acreage for cucumbers for pickle
company is being contracted for at
Greeley. Farmers are to receive $22
per ton for cucumbers.
Colorado's Stationary Engineers
Association will celebrate its twenty
ninth anniversary in Denver with a
ball and reception.
Mrs. Clara Louisa Farley, who has
lived in Trinidad since 1882, claims to
have been for five years housemaid
for President Lincoln.
Another suit for reduction in
freight rates between the Gulf and
Denver has been filed with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.
The city of Lyons has filed an in
junction to restrain the town of Long
mont from using water from the ST
Vrain river for power purposes.
Parents and teachers of the public
schools in Pueblo have taken a stand
in opposition to the installing of pool
and billiard tables in the schools.
The Manitou school board has sold
$4,000 worth of bonds recently issued
for the purpose of constructing a COM
bination gymnasium and auditorium.
At meeting of all the commercial
bodies Of the state in Colorado
Springs recently, campaign was out,
lined to attract tourists to Colorado.
Andrew Berglund, native of
Sweden and resident of Littleton for
thirty-eight years, was drowned when
he fell from n bridge into a millrace.
Greeley merchants, believing they
lose thousands of dollars annually
through unjust freight rates, have
agreed to employ freight rate expert
six months out of each year to ad-
Just the matter
The County Commissioners of JEFF
ferson county have appropriated $2..
900 to help pay for the construction or
the new Lookout Mountain road that
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