County Notes from the Holly News Previewing Local Goings On
County treasurer W W Reynolds trips through Holly on No 8 while Lamar visitor Markham talks business with the A V S B I L Co. Mrs Anna Hinman visits from Lamar. Prof Geo R Momyer leaves for Emporia to pursue education. J W Creech reports a 22 acre canta loupe field. XY ditch widening planned next fall. John R Gordon active as juror and county treasurer committee member. Holly Chieftain confirms a forthcoming brass band with fifteen instruments and regular practices to cover a Fourth of July event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. R. Momyer
Emporia
Kansas
Momyer
Holly
John R. Gordon
North Side
Water rights fight over Colorado fuel plant ditch plan
A Canon City sourced article alleges the Colorado Fuel and Iron company aims to divert Arkansas River water to support a Bessemer steel plant. Claim says 60 miles of ditch will take water from Royal Gorge flow August through June, with Boone ditch rights pivotal, threatening regional irrigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessemer
Great Steel
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Arkansas River
Royal Gorge
Denver & Rio Grande Railway
F. & I. Company
Boone Ditch
Col. Boone
Boonville
Pueblo
Canon City
Colo
Republican
C. F. & I. Company of
Boone
F. and I. Company
Otero County
Coats or Comfort Debate Defines Summer Dignity
The board of trade bans shirt sleeve trading and the University of Pennsylvania bars students in shirt waists from library entry, signaling a priority on comfort or dignity this season. The shirt sleeved worker is framed as part of the American industrial image yet deemed lacking in dignity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trade
University of Pennsylvania
Advise Them to Advertise. Hints for British Merchants
Captain Wyndhan British consul at Chicago issues annual report urging English merchants to study U S business and manufacturing methods. He notes rising American export plans, keen UK competition, and that heavy newspaper advertising by merchants has doubled some firms, though British trade in America is stagnant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Roosevelt
Chicago
Wyndhan
United Kingdom
United States
America
Kansas City
Colorado Honey Exhibit For St Louis Fair
The Colorado Worlds fair board is urged to allocate funds for a honey exhibit at the St Louis exposition. F A Stone, Beekeepers association of Colorado chair, says the plan must be settled within six weeks and this year’s honey must be sent. Colorado honey claimed first prize at the 1898 Transmississippi exhibition in Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
F. A. Stone
Beekeepers Association of Colorado
United States
Omaha
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Holly News
W. W. Reynolds
County
Mr. Markham
Lamar
Anna Hinman
Granada Times
J.W. Creech
Arkansas Water
Boards of Trade
Denver
la Junta
Preve
Cae
Postofice Building
Lamar, Golorado
Otero Canal
J. Louis
Franz Bros
California
Santa Fe
Pullman
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
General Convention
G.j.garvin
C. M. Lee
North Main ST
Lamar, Colo
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