The Elbert County tribune., 1915-10-01

There are no vacant houses in Mil
liken
The new Mercy convent at Aupra
has been opened.
The Fruita flour mill is running
day and night.
The school baseball nine at Evans
has girl manager.
Work has begun on Craig's new
100000 waterworks system.
Glenwood Springs musicians are or
ganizing choral society.
Petty thieves have been bothering
business houses of Trinidad
The Trinidad City Council has CIV
en- it out that gambling must go.
Telluride Episcopalians are provid-
ing themselves with a church build
ing
A fine gravel road has just been
finished between Loveland and BertlN
oud
The Meeker town council has or
dered signs at street intersections a la
metropolis.
The Burlington Record issued a
daily edition during the Kit Carson
county fair.
Trout fry to the number OF 273,0OO
have been deposited in the streams
around Marble.
Otto Sauer, pioneer, grocer. mining
man. banker, died in Denver at the
age of II years.
Prominent citizens of Fort Morgan
are trying to figure out how to raise
funds for a county hospital.
Brush is to have an opera house A
new bank and numerous residences
have been built there this year
Eric Lugon was drowned near Oak
Creek while out hunting for a stray
calf which had wandered away.
Yampa farmers will petition the ex-
tension division of the State Agricul-
tural College for a farmers institute
The "all-star" American and Ma
tional League teams will play at
Greeley Oct. 30 on their way to the
coast.
C. S. Nolan, section foreman for the
Colorado & Southern at Nola. blew
out his brains. He was lately from
Missouri
The Commercial Club of Wiley has
designated October IL as Buttermilk
Day. 1t is proposed to make it an
annual event.
The State w. C. T. U. convention
sitting in Denver. has announced it's
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.
| Carlyle Very of Brush, while out
| hunting with another boy, was shot
| through the leg. Medical help not be-
ing available at once, he died a few
hours later.
| Citizens of Arriba have complained
to the State Public Utilities Commits
sion of their train service. They want
| Rock Island train each way to stol
there daily.
| One hundred tons of scrap metal
property of the Book Cliff Railroad
Company. which has been accumuat
ing for twenty years, has been shipped
to an eastern ammunition firm which
will make shrapnel of it.
The company operating the alfalfa
mill at Hartman is preparing to in
stall an electric plant which will also
run the mill at Bristol. A proposition
will be made the town off Hartman
to furnish electric light.
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 IL the same parties were as
| sessed 800 and costs each for the
same offense.
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 D. &
R. G. track with his foot as his car
rounded curve and bore down upon
her on a grade.
John Zondek brought suit in the
Denver District Court against the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad Company for the
sum of $4,000, alleging the loss of four
toes in alighting from a train on
which he had been permitted a free
ride.
The Montgomery ranch near Derby
produced over 40 bushels of wheat to
/ ho nd