The Glenwood post., 1912-03-23
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Alamosa will hold a city election on
April 2.
Colorado druggists will hold their
annual convention in Denver in Aug
ust.
Mrs Lucy Jane Elizabeth Dawson
Of Longmont has Just celebrated her
ninety-fifth birthday.
Jacob Berger, aged seventy-eight,
a resident of Boulder county for the
past twenty years, is dead.
George Sleborn. a resident of Long
mont since 1887, is dead from Bright's
disease. He was sixty-six.
The Postoffice Department desig-
mated Cedaredge as a postal savings
depository. effective April IL.
The Meeker Rod and Gun Club, the
only society of its kind on the West
ern slope, has been organized.
| A fire destroyed a two-story mer-
camille building on Main street in
Fort Lupton, entailing loss of $780,
900.
mother of five children, committed
suicide on ranch at Hohney, near
Trinidad.
Tom Jones and Frank Meyers, min
ers, had an alteration in a saloon at
Victor. during which Meyers was
stabbed in the thigh.
The Town Board and all citizens of
Erie will cooperate in celebrating Ar
Dor Day. Each family will contribute
a tree for each of it's members.
The supreme council of the Pro-
gressive Moose of America has issued
n dispensation for Denver Lodge No.
i, the first lodge to be organized.
The Fort Collins branch of the
Farmers Educational and Coopera-
tive union voted to send $25 to aid
destitute farmers in eastern Colorado.
The Woman's Club of Colorado
Springs is to have new clubhouse,
and each member is supposed to earn
81 to contribute toward the building
fund.
]. H. Hollis, well known among Col
orado commission men, was arrested
in Colorado Springs charged with en-
bezzlement by warrant sworn out at
La Junta.
William Hilliar, Sr., one of the best
known coal miners in the Oak Creek
district, was fatally crushed by falling
rock in the Juniper mine and lived but
a short time.
People are looking for warm fight
over the removal of the Routt county
seat and while Steamboat Springs is
the largest town in the county it will
have hard scrap.
Deciding to engage in farming in
the West, Mrs. Rose R. Herkett of
! Chicago bought the 320-acre Asa Ster-
ling farm, south OF Kuner, paying
$4,000 for it.
The Santa Fe has cleared its tracks
through Kansas and traffic has been
resumed. About 300 passengers had
been stalled at La Junta and were fed
at local hotels.
Mike Carr, an old time miner, dropped
dead in a restaurant at Central City
from hemorrhage of the lungs. Carr
was siXty-four and had lived in Cen
tral City forty years.
Miss Ruby Kirksey, laundry en-
ploye at Trinidad may lose her right
hand as the result of an accident,
when she was caught in mangle ma
chine. which she was operating.
A vigilance committee of men stu.
dents at the State university at Boul-
der will likely be formed to run down
Jack the pepper who has been
prowling around on University hill.
Bert Gross, an old time miner of
Cripple Creek, was perhaps fatally in
jured when he was struck by slab
of rock weighing about 1000 pounds
on the 4OO-foot level of the Ell Paso
mine.
The Y. NJ. C. A. has mapped out a
ninehole golf course on the Mesa road,
northwest of Colorado Springs, and
this sport has been added to the al
ready long list of healthful athletics at
that institution.
The county grand jury, which has
been in session the past two weeks at
Grand Junction, returned fifteen in
dictments, but the names were not
made public. Most of the cases are
believed to be against bootleggers.
Accused of having circulated Con-
federate money over Boulder county,
Leo Stark was arrested in Boulder and
taken to Dacona to face trial for pass
ing the worthless currency on Peter
Petrapulos. with whom he had board
ed.
Robert Gottbehuet of Greeley may
lose his life as the result of an acci-
dent. He was shoveling snow from
the roof of the Masonic temple when
his foot slipped and he fell three
stories to the sidewalk. crushing his
skull and breaking his left arm.
Caught in snowslide that was pre-
cipitated by the conclusion following
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