Eastern Colorado times., 1912-09-20
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Small Happenings Occurring Over ths
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rPueblo's $s00.0o0 court house prob
ably will be opened November l.
The special grand jury at Denver IN
its final report. returned forty-six true
bills.
| w. w. Roam was chosen head of the
Elks at the reunion held at Idaho
Springs.
The thermometer fell to eighteen
degrees above zero at Leadville Sun
day morning.
The placing Of q dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted In
a walk-out Of 100 Japanese fruit pick
ers.
After forty-eight years bullet has
been discovered in the chest of Joseph
Blonger of Denver. veteran Of the
Civil War.
Ornamental side lights are to be
placed in the down town section Of
Erie at once. There will be twenty
four posts.
James Thomas fell from swiftly
moving Rio Grande passenger train
north of Pueblo escaped without brok-
en- bones.
/ The new st. Philomena's Catholic
church in Denver was dedicated by
Bishop N. C. Matz, before a congrega-
tion Of 600.
Melvin Blum, eighteen, son of ia
high school, died at Pueblo from spin
al meningitis.
: AS an Inheritance tax from the es-
tate Of the late Thomas 8. Hayden the
state Of Colorado will receive the sum
Of $s.32s.19.
The burial of Richard John Van Val
kenburg, pioneer and one Of the old
est Odd Fellows in the state. took
place in Denver.
NJ. Morris. a stranger at Pueblo.
committed suicide In Jail a few min
utes after he had been locked up on .
charge Of forgery.
Work at the Rocky Ford sugar fac
tory will begin Sept. 26, and orders
have been issued to beet growers to
begin hauling beets.
Heavy rains set back cantaloupe
picking in the Rocky Ford district and
have made the fruit soft and unfit to
ship for several days.
Meeker has brand new curfew law,
and marshal who intends to enforce
it. Eight o'clock is the hour set for
the children to be off the streets.
Rio Blanco county. in case the trans
continental automobile highway goes
through that section, will mike "Scen-
cry gulch" the show place of Colorado.
The body Of baby girl. which ap-
parently had been dead but short |
time, was found in q box floating in q |
creek at the west end of Colorado |
City.
Many persons from Rocky Ford at
tended the exercises in connection
with the unveiling of the monument
erected by the D. A. R. at old Fort
Benton.
Newman Erb, controlling factor in
the Moffat road. has signed contract
for 425 freight cars, most Of them for
coal traffic, to be delivered at an
early date.
That the hair of Colorado women is
brittle, faded and generally in poor
condition in a majority of cases is. the
statement Of Paul Jergelot, French
hair importer, visiting in Greeley.
Lost on bleak stretch of prairie,
miles from any human habitation, in
the severe storm that has swept the
section near Trinidad, Porter Hover
and Harry Caldwell almost perished of
exposure.
The use of scarf pin which she
grasped while held in the arms of an
unidentified man, saved Mrs. Margaret
Waters Collins, bride of three
months at Colorado Springs from be.
ing assaulted.
Following a raid on their apartments
in fashionable part Of Grand juno
tion, Mrs. c. F. Middaugh and daugh-
ter, Mary, twenty-one, two prominent
society women of western Colorado,
were ordered to leave the city.
Hale and hearty, and still able to do
days work that would fatigue the av-
erage young man, Marvin Mead, so,
inventor OF hay press, has just cele-
brated his anniversary surrounded by
many OF his descendants at Pueblo.
Friday, the. thirteenth, proved a hoo
doc at Loveland when rain interfered
with the program of fair attractions.
In spite of the inclement weather
| thousands turned ont and dec1ared the