The Springfield herald., 1912-02-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

were % marriages., ~ divorces ana lIS
births.
Santa Fee Trail Band of Pueblo" Is
= newly organized municipal band in
Pueblo.
Park have been arrested for killing
deer out Of season.
The Elks' club rooms in Canon City,
costing $4,000, have been completed
and are now in use.
The price of eggs in Denver has
taken drop. selling at 23 to &c cents
per dozen wholesale.
The business men OF Weld county
will try to get convicts to work on the
county roads soon.
The Colorado Realty Dealers Asso-
citation will hold It's annual convention
in Denver in April.
The liquor question will be submit
ted to the voters of Evans at the COM
ing spring election.
Two lion cubs have been captured
alive by w. F. Porter at Ridgway and
a third one was killed.
The estimated production of the
1912 crop OF Steamboat strawberries
is placed at fifty carloads.
Mrs. Minnie Ward Patterson has
the distinction of being the first wom-
an minister in Colorado Springs.
E. l.. Brown has been elected vice
president of the Denver G Rio Grande
railroad, with headquarters in Denver.
The $4,000 stock in the store of
the Bell Mercantile Company OF
Yampa was practically destroyed by
fire.
The new creamery at Windsor has
been incorporated with capital Of
$4,000. The plant has been put into
operation.
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.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
trade school of the National Jewish
Hospital for Consumptives in Denver
has been laid.
Sixty representatives from counties
in central Colorado met in Colorado
Springs and organized the Lincoln
Memorial Association.
Colorado's Stationary Engineers
Association will celebrate it's twenty
ninth anniversary in Denver with
ball and reception.
Acreage for cucumbers for a pickle
company is being contracted for at
Greeley. Farmers are to receive $22
per ton for cucumbers.
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.
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 a resident of Littleton for
thirty-eight years, was drowned when
he fell from bridge into millrace
Boulder has asked for 1850 acres
adjoining its present city park, and
IL Congress grants the petition this
will be the largest city park in the
United States.
Colorado Products Week" in Den
yer is planned to be one of the great
est advertisements for home indus
try ever made. The date has not yet
been decided upon.
| The country around Hahn's peak is
rapidly becoming overrun with thou
sands of deer and elk. which have
been driven from their haunts in
| Wyoming by the recent cold.
On condition that the people of
| Grand Junction provide a site and 81
| 900 in cash, concern in Muscatine,
Iowa, proposes to install 100000
canning plant in that city.
The states brief and argument in
the case brought to test the right OF
the treasurer to collect state tax of
$25 from each druggist has been filed
ny ASSloldil AllOlh dShCldl SAd5.
| O'Connor.
A deal which will mean much to if
rigation and farming in Larimer
county was closed when the North
Poudre Irrigation Company CONSOLE
dated with the Mountain Supply and
Storage Company.
The Old-Timers' reunion at Meeker
was attended by 800 pioneers who had
been in the state twenty years or
more, and the counties of Rio Blanco.
Moffat, Routt and Garfield were rep
| resented:
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.
Hugh T. oReilly, financial secre-
tary of the Denver lodge of Knights
of Columbus, died recently.
The new Western classification of
freight rates. affecting may articles
| shiDped tn and from Colorado and