The Elbert County tribune., 1914-12-25

Meade is to have new bank, hotel
and garage.
A Farmers Union will be organized
in the Grand Valley on JAM at a
mass meeting to be held in Grand
Junction
A package of valuable flower seeds
which was shipped from the growers
in Germany last July, has been re-
ceived at Boulder.
Thomas O'Brien, a pioneer who
made his first trip to Colorado in 1853
died at Mercy hospital in Denver, after
brief illness of dropsy.
Prof. j. H. Matthews, one Of the
best known of Colorado educators,
died at his home in Denver, as re-
suit of stroke of apoplexy.
There is little work for the grand
jury to do this year, according to Dis
trict Judge j. w. Sheafor, who swore
in the panel at Colorado Springs.
Pueblo was the coolest place in the
state as well as on the country's map
Monday morning when the tempera-
ture at seven o'clock fell to -16.
Weld county has one automobile to
every nine families, or one for every
thirty-six residents Of the county, ac-
cording to the report of the county
clerk.
The Evans Commercial Club and the
town board are planning to get the
creamery plant that is to be estab-
lished some place along the Union Pa
cific railroad.
After Timothy Readon, &c years old,
had attempted to wreck his home in
Denver his wife tied him to the bedS
where she kept him several hours bes
fore she called the police.
While whiting on a piece of pine
board, Edward Cunningham of Mill
ken allowed the knife to slip and cut
off the entire fleshy part OF his hand
alongside the little finger.
The coldest weather Denver has ex-
perienced since 1897 at this date,
when the temperature was below,
struck the city Monday night. The
mercury dropped to below
Popcorn and peanuts raised by the
children in their own garden decorat-
ed a Christmas tree that was the cen
ter of attraction at party at the
Minnequa kindergarten at Pueblo.
A cold storage plant where parcel
post packages containing perishable
foods may be kept until they can be
sent to their destinations seems as
sured for Denver's new federal build
ing.
The Christmas offering of the Great
Western Sugar Company to the farm
ers OF Colorado in the form Of pay
ment for beets delivered to the facto-
ries Of the state, amounted to $780,.
900.
A physical examination of the school
children of Greeley discloses the fact
that 20% of the 1,10O students of the
public schools are afflicted with some
physical defect that interferes with
their studies.
Funeral services over the remains
of Oliver Howard, seventy-four, a pio.
neer resident and the first school
teacher of Greeley, were attended by
one of the largest crowds ever at a
funeral there
The death of Miss Emma McCallen
in Denver. following an attack of pneu.
monia, is the fourth that has come to
the McCallen home within two years
During this time four of the five Nc
Callen sisters have died
North Lincoln park, in the heart OF
the business district of Greeley, has
been flooded and municipal skating
pond established to save the children
the Inconvenience and danger of skat
ing on the river bed
Masquerading in mems clothing
pretty eighteen-year-old Mollie Ullery
formerly waitress in an Alamosa 40
tel, was arrested at Trinidad when
she arrived with J. w. Trent, former
ly clerk at the same hotel
Alleged gamblers and violators OF
the Sunday saloon closing law fell
in groups. in Denver, as the result OF
another cleanup ORDER issued by Chief
of Police O'Neill. Forty-four men
were arrested as principals and wit
nesses.
Arthur (Dutch) Gross, cowpuncher
who was shot through the head by
Sam Moore of the N Bar ranch Il
miles north of Grand Junction in the
Book Cliff mountains, was brought tc
the valley and placed in the Glover
Lawn hospital at Fruita
Two more Denverites added their
testimony to that already given in the
efforts of Mrs. Arthur Little of De
troit to prove that she was born OF
white parents and was adopted by a
negro family in Denver in 1856. Mrs
e. w. Turner and w McGinnis, living
at 2314 Arapahoe street, remember the
case.
James T.. Hamilton president of the