The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-10-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News service.

Convention at Colorado Springs
iken
Red Cliff will be lighted by cleo
tricity.
An Adventist church is being built
at Klink.
Salida has a new brass band of
twenty-five pieces.
Glenwood Springs musicians are or
ganizing choral society.
Petty thieves have been bothering
business houses of Trinidad
Work has begun on Craig's new
100000 waterworks system.
Enrolment at the Colorado Agricul-
tural College at Fort Collins, $50.
A good many blocks of new cement
sidewalk are being laid in Gunnison.
The Stockmen's Bank has been or
ganized at Collbran with s25.O00 capi-
tai
A fine gravel road has just been
finished between Loveland and Berth
oud
The Burlington Record issued a
daily edition during the Kit Carson
county fair.
The Greeley Tribune r epublican re-
ports an epidemic of hog cholera in
Weld county
Trout fry to the number of 273, 900
have been deposited in the streams
around Marble.
The Platteville waterworks bond
election carried for the proposition by
about 3lh to l.
One acre of ground in the city OF
Monte Vista produced twenty-six tons
of sugar beets
A farmer near Waverly had a field
of barley which averaged seventy-six
bushels to the acre.
w. H. Bannister of Palisade shipped
5000 boxes or twelve carloads of
pears from twelve acres.
Otto and Alvin Hubbs, near Johns
town, threshed over 10000 bushels
from $50 acres of dry land.
Yampa farmers will petition the ex-
tension division of the State Agricul-
tural College for farmers institute.
Morton Hartman of Longmont had
field OF eighty acres of wheat that
yielded an average of 81 bushels to
the acre.
The Commercial Club of Wiley has
designated October II as Buttermilk
Day. II is proposed to make it an
annual event.
The State w. c. T. u. convention.
sitting in Denver. has announced its
determination to fight the cigarette
to its determination in Colorado.
Sixty Italian reservists left Trini-
dad for the war front at home. This
is the fourth detachment to answer
the call from southern Colorado.
The 17-months-old child OF Mr. and
Mrs. j. p. Ostermiller. near Fort Nor
gan. was drowned while trying to
cross the Morgan ditch on plank.
Trains between Durango and Silver
ton have lately been compelled to
slow down on several occasions to
prevent killing deer on the track.
The Rocky Ford sugar factory will |
begin its campaign October 4th. |
Beets in that section are reported un-
usually good in yield and sugar con
tent.
County fairs all over Colorado have |
been reported to be unusually sue
cessful this year. Perhaps the Won
derful crops, both on irrigated and
dry land, had something to do with it.
The three English-speaking churches
of Wellington will combine as the
Western Federated church and will
supersede the present Methodist,
Congregational and Baptist congrega-
tions.
The Pagosa Lumber Company is
constructing railroad spur from
Dulce to a nearby point where they
have purchased immense quantities of
standing timber, and viii install a
large sawmill.
Prof. Junius Henderson. curator OF
the museum of the University of
Colorado at Boulder. has returned
from the coast, where he secured a
very fine collection of mollusks. fos-
sils and shells which will be added to
the museum.
r. Guida of Firestone and George
Hall of Frederick were each fined in
the Weld County Court 5000 and costs
for selling liquor on Sunday. On Au-
gust II the same parties were as
sessed 500 and costs each for the
same offense.
A section man probably saved the
life of the five-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Williams at Lead
vile by pushing her from the ID. &
r. G. track with his foot as his car
rounded curve and bore down upon
her on a grade.
Otto FrantZ of Rocky Ford amused
himself on September goth by picking
two jars of strawberries. He hopes