The Holly chieftain., 1912-05-31
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

was dedicated recently.
Meeker's postal savings bank is
proving marked success.
All the rural schools in Pueblo coun-
ty have closed for the season.
The Elks of Grand Junction have
decided to erect q $4,000 home.
The International ASSOCIATION of Auc.
tioneers will meet IN Denver June 5.
The contract for water works at
Miliken. to cost t12.9s5, has been let.
School census shows that Mesa
county has 6,242 children of school
age.
Water is running into the Milton
reservoir near Eaton. for the first
time.
The estate Of Robert A. Austin will
pay $4,000 Inheritance tax to the
state.
Grand Junction sugar factory has
secured the largest acreage of beets
in Its history.
May "a Lamar celebrated the TWEEN.
ty-sixth anniversary Of the sale Of its
first town lots.
The highway from Boulder to Estes
Park has been opened and is in per.
feet condition.
Fire destroyed the Big Bear stamp
mill at Telluride. The plant was val
ued at 100000.
Grand Junction Is building a $780,,
900 mountain water system to be COM
pleted In June.
The Idaho Springs baseball team de.
feated the Gilpin Mines team of Cen
tral City. 6 to 3.
Robert L. Thasteen. one of the early
scettlers Of Loveland and pioneer Of
Colorado. is dead.
Wednesday, June 5. has been set for
the observance Of Pixies Peak Day at
Colorado Springs.
The largest class In the history OF
the Colorado School Of Mines was
graduated this year.
A new state anthem has been writ
ten for Colorado by Miss Marie Anne
Singletary of Denver.
Improvements planned to cost $685.
900 for the state insane asylum at Pu-
eblo have been started.
The acreage pledged for the pro-
posed La Sale Independent sugar fac.
tory has reached 6,000.
The 1000 laborers It work in the
Weld county beet feEds are in
sufficient to handle the crop.
At cost OF $4,000 Greeley has
completed filtration basin at the
head of its water works system.
Delivuk. the Austrian wrestler, de.
feated Tommy Ryan Of Colorado
Springs. getting two falls out Of three.
Milliken's City Council has planted
the City park. consisting Of several
acres. with tomatoes in place of grass.
Warm weather has caused q rapid
rise OF the White river. until 1t is
now ON the verge of breaking Its
banks.
Sixty-flve men have been enlisted
during the month of May at the Den
yer United States marine recruiting
station.
The preferred creditors Of the long.
since defunct State Bank of Rocky
Ford will soon have their claims set.
tied in full.
The Redland dam, two miles south
Of Grand Junction. is threatened with
destruction by high water in. the Gun.
nison river.
David H. Wilson, prominent Den
yer newspaper man. editor Of Munich
pal Facts, died suddenly in his home
in that city. ~
Potato planting has been started
throughout the Greeley district. At
least $4,000 acres of potatoes Will be
planted in the county this season.
From now on every rail turned out
from the Pueblo iron works will un-
dergo q thorough inspection before be.
ing accepted by railroads.
]. T. Coulter, bird fancier Of Meeker.
is undertaking to raise for game pur-
poses in that section the Chinese
ringed-neck pheasants
Before 1000 spectators, the annual
May Day frollc at the Teachers col.
lege at Greeley too place, 400 students
participating in the Greek festival.
Petitions for submission Of the con-
stitutionai amendment that will give
cities in the state commission govern