The Springfield herald., 1912-10-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A heavy snow fell all over Colorado
on the 10th.
The University Of Colorado night
school at Boulder has opened.
Sevcnty-five delegates attended the
annual M. E. Church conference at
Pueblo.
The 2Sth annual session Of the Weld
County Teachers Association was held
at Greeley.
Tho students at the School OF
Mines in Golden saved the Livingston
Club from burning.
Miss Ruth Boettcher of Denver has
been selected queen Of the Mountain
and Plain Festival.
Thirty-seven deer were taken to
Loveland during the open season
They averaged in weight about 1870
pounds.
All churches of Greeley have com
bined and taken over the Fairgrounds
secured for the city by the Rev. D. D.
Forward.
Miss Katherine st. Clair was de-
clared Larimer county's maid of honor
at the Festival of Mountain and Plain
in Denver.
Miss Olive Mcbride of Aspen was
elected maid OF honor from Pitkin
county at the Mountain and Plain Fes-
tival in Denver.
Three Denver society women and a
man prominent in business and social
circles, are seriously i'll with appen'
dicitis in the hospitals Of Denver.
An outdoor beefsteak fry in Chey.
enne caiion entertained the visiting
railway passenger agents and advertis-
ing men In Colorado Springs.
N. F. Clute. eighty. pioneer OF
Colorado Springs. sustained fatal inju'
rtes when struck by an automobile
driven by Joseph Rieheman.
Earl Foster and Bayard Bailey,
Loveland boys, had the fight of their
lives in the mountains with an eagle
they had shot and supposed dead.
A fall of rock at the Ravenswood
mine killed two miners at Walsenburg
hSy alS Jodh Suli AOAtyp AoiliOu
and Christ Beljan. twenty-five. single
The Colorado chapter of the Moth
ers' Congress will battle for women's
emancipation from the corset. The
mothers demand equal waists as well
as equal rights.
Engineer John Cleggs, age thirty
and Fireman Clark Augustine, twenty
two, were killed when the boiler of an
engine exploded at Sellar. on the Colo
RADIO G Southern.
Secretary OF the Interior Fisher will
be present Friday. October IS and
throw the first shovelful of dirt on the
big $4,OO0.000 government Grand Val
ley irrigation project.
A campaign to bring 5000 families
to Colorado to take up homesteads in
the irrigated section about Fort Nor
gan has been undertaken by the Fort
Morgan Chamber of Commerce.
Denver must keep its leper. G. w
Bronson. who escaped from Califor
MIA hospital and was apprehended by
Colorado officers and placed In a tent
near the Sand Greek pesthouse.
Charging that her husband wanted
her to lead life of shame to support
him, Miss Leslye Brown field suit in
the County Court at Pueblo for di
vorce from Thomas Brown, a switch,
man.
The forty-first annual meeting oi
the Synod of Colorado was held in
the Presbyterion church in Denver
The Woman's Synodical Missionary
Society met in that church at the
same time.
Boulder will soon have large i'm
plement manufacturing concern, II the
committee appointed by the CONNER
cial Association reports fayorably on i
proposition submitted by a manufac
turing concern.
Five men who possessed but foul
legs among them were each sentenced
to thirty days in the county jail In
Denver by Magistrate Morris. All o
the prisoners were found guilty Of va
grancy charges.
The commissioners of Prowers
Bent, Otero and Crowley counties
were at Holly to further investigate
the work of Doctors Kaupp. Glover
and Williams in the vaccination anC
cure of diseased horses.
David Hurley, aged sixty-five, build
er of tho Denver & Interurban elec
trio line to Boulder and of the stree
railway system of Fort Collins, dice
at Amarillo. Texas, from injuries sus
tanned in a railroad wreck severa
days ago.
Sbriners from Colorado, New Mex
leo and Wyoming, 1000 strong, jour
neyed to the oasis of Denver with
their wives. daughters and sweet
hearts to participate in the big Har
vest Home Festival by Ell Jcbel TEN
pie.
L. C. Paddock, state immigration
commissioner, has assembled an as
sortment of products of the dry farm
ing sections of the state to be dis
played at the anual meeting of the In