Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-02-02
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State Worth While.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
cannery will be erected at Wat
tenburg next season.
There is considerable trouble in
Boulder county over mining matters.
Mrs. Anna Wood, aged eighty, an old
time resident, died recently at Boul-
der.
Mat Grurrich, miner. was almost
slide.
The death rate in Colorado Springs
last year was 6.21 per 1000 inhabi-
tants.
The title to the Durango postoffice
site has passed to the federal govern
ment
Pueblo has a new ordinance which
is intended to control all motor-driven
vehicles.
The nine miles of road between Fort
Lupton and Hudson is to be i'm
proved.
Will Stanley. living one mile north
of Greeley, has sold his SO-acre farm
for $4,000.
Durango and the San Juan basin
are experiencing the mildest winter in
their history.
Twenty-seven car loads of potatoes
were recently shipped from Denver
to Wichita, Kans.
The La Junta High school basket
ball team defeated the Rocky Ford
team by a score of "a to 12.
The machinery for the new ice plant
at Rocky Ford has arrived and will be
installed at once.
Mrs. Mary N. Great. aged 70, a resi-
thirty-six years, is dead.
A "blind pig" operated by wom-
an, has been discovered in Marble and
Mrs. j. ] Gurley was fined 5000.
The Fort Lupton town hall has
been completed at a cost of $4,000.
1t includes Jail and fire house.
The University of Colorado has sue
ceeded in securing a football game
with the University of Oklahoma.
Fully 1900 farmers and business
men attended the opening of the an
nual Farmers Institute at Loveland.
The Evans Improvement Society,
composed of women. has decided to
purchase and install a fire alarm sys-
TEN.
G. F. Patrick has been appointed
county judge of Crowley county to
succeed ]. C. Lewis. who recently re-
signed.
The city of Greeley has set aside
$4,000 for improving vacant tract for
park and also $1,000 for improving
an old park.
over 10000 people attended the
Farmers Institute at Loveland on the
last day. Gov. Shafroth was the prin-
cipal speaker.
Petitions asking that prohibition for
the whole state be voted on at the
next general election, are being circu-
lated for signers in Weld county.
For returning a pocketbook. which
he saw a woman drop and which con-
tanned $3.50, John Wilson, of Colorado
Springs, received a reward of 25 cents.
Now that one-quarter Of the educa-
tional appropriation is available, much
work will be done by the Gunnison
Normal in the way of Improvements.
There is a plan on foot to merge
the Chamber of Commerce, Retail
Merchants Association and Retail
Credit Mems Association at Fort Col
Inns.
A new law in Pueblo makes 1t pos
sible for a drug store to dispense
liquor for a license of $500 a year
while a saloon is required to pay
$1,000.
The hold-up of freight train at
Garia recently was the work of eight
young Mexicans. who placed a dyna-
mite cap on the track as joke and
then left.
Because her husband refused to ac-
company her to a picture show, Mrs.
Minnie Wright of Montrose, attempted
to commit suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
Paul V. Maris, dairy expert of the
State Agricultural College, has ac-
cepted a position with the Agricul-
tural College of Oregon at an ad-
vanced salary.
Two young mountain lions. one from
Dolores and the other from Lyons,
have been turned into the City park
at Denver. One is ten months old and
the other four.
After having mourned the loss of
5000 diamond for several days. Harry
Swanson, of Greeley. ran his hand
into his coat pocket and found the
stone where he had put it.
Thirteen thousand new ties. two
flat cars and tool shed were burned
and 200 new rails were ruined, en-
falling a loss of 100000 to the Colo