Huerfano County, Colorado
News Of The Day

1890 January La Veta: Joe Kincaid of the windless Cuchara returned home from a month's visit with family in North Carolina. He reports having had a way up time.

1890 January Walsenburg: A pistol dropped out of the pocket of Ed Farr at the Twin Lakes Hotel last night, which discharged and wounded him in the knee.

1890 January Walsenburg: John Brown is operating the Stock Exchange Saloon.

1890 January Walsenburg: Judge Valdez is now a Notary Public and is opening an office on South Main Street.

1890 January Walsenburg: Levy and Moore's road crews are doing a fine job grading Seventh Street.

1890 January Walsenburg: Levy and Moore's road crews are doing a fine job grading Seventh Street.

1890 January Walsenburg: Postmaster David E. Muir says the Walsenburg post office has been moved from a fourth class to a third class post office.

1890 January Walsenburg: T. F. Martin bought $25,000 worth of Huerfano County funding bonds for his Huerfano County Bank.

1890 January Walsenburg: Ten or 12 carpenters came in the fore part of the week to work on the 25 new houses at Walsen mines.

1890 January Walsenburg: The doctors and druggists are having a harvest, a La Grippe. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, except that west wind yesterday.

1890 January Walsenburg: The masquerade ball at Mazzone's opera house on New Years eve, given by the Social Ten, was a grand success.

1890 January Walsenburg: The Metropolitan meat market next door to the post office is the daisy place to get something to eat. Just take a squint.

1890 January Walsenburg: The new houses at the mines are being pushed right along and when finished will be a small town themselves.

1890 January Walsenburg: The new jewelry firm of Johnson and Hansen has a $500 chromometer that keeps the exact time to the second.

1890 January Walsenburg: The Stock Exchange saloon now has a private room in the back for keyholders only.

1890 January Walsenburg: The Twin Lakes Hotel served an elegant New Year's dinner and enjoyed a large custom.

1890 January Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Sandstone Company is opening quarries west of town along the railroad with ledges of six colors of stone.

1890 January Walsenburg: The women are finding out every time they fall that the bustle is not such a bad thing to fall back on.

1890 January Walsenburg: Tommie King, 50, last night while intoxicated fell into the well behind the Stock Exchange saloon of John Brown and was discovered dead this morning.

1890 January Walsenburg: What is the matter with our country correspondents? Have they gone into winter quarters? If still alive please kick.

1890 February La Veta: G.S. Thompson was selected "delagate'' and J.G. Cozad "altarnit'' to go to Denver to advertise the town.

1890 February La Veta: La Veta druggist W.T. Lake has been staying in Walsenburg "attending a lawsuit.''

1890 February Walsenburg: A number of citizens met to begin fundraising for advertising the town of Walsenburg.

1890 February Walsenburg: Ben Elzenhoeffer bought out W.J. Standley's tinning department and opened a tin shop on West Sixth Street.

1890 February Walsenburg: Denver and Rio Grande Railroad paid out $5,280 for cattle injured in the wreck near Walsenburg recently.

1890 February Walsenburg: During January, 1,212 carloads of coal were shipped from Rouse.

1890 February Walsenburg: G.K. Vaughn has procured a new Remington typewriter and has opened an office in the court house.

1890 February Walsenburg: H. Blickhahn moved his harness shop to the building formerly occupied by Le Clerf's jewelry store, two doors south of the world office.

1890 February Walsenburg: J.J. Mathews and Agnes B. Muir were married by Rev. R.O. Charles of the Methodist Church.

1890 February Walsenburg: Mayor Martin, Clerk Roof, and Trustees Lowenbruck, Farr and Dick met with Attorney R.R. Ross to discuss fundraising to pay for advertising for the town.

1890 February Walsenburg: P. W. Sweeney and C. Caldwell the sawmill man contemplate building a good livery barn and stable in early spring.

1890 February Walsenburg: The ladies of the Presbyterian Church gave a Valentine's Day entertainment and supper at the court house. Admission was 10˘ and the supper 25˘.

1890 February Walsenburg: The rising walls of the Pythian Temple make a handsome improvement for north Main Street.

1890 February Walsenburg: The Sulphur Springs railroad office was discontinued and merged into the Walsenburg office.

1890 April La Veta: The town paid out $1.20 to Solomon Boyd for furnishing prisoners' meals.

1890 May La Veta: A.A. Foote was appointed town engineer.

1890 November La Veta: Mrs. J.A. Erwin was paid $21 by the town for boarding the pauper Charles Boehme for two weeks while he was ill.

1891 March La Veta: Emma Parks and Worth Baker were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Parks on the Wahatoya.

1891 March La Veta: Emma Parks and Worth Baker were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Parks on the Wahatoya.

1891 April La Veta: Sam Todd was appointed police magistrate.

1891 April La Veta: The Presbyterian Church was organized last Sunday with charter members Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Combes, C.B. McLaughlin, Mrs. J.H. Francisco, Mrs. James Hamilton, Mrs. J.B. King and Miss Sallie Quick.

1891 May La Veta: Town Board will notify the La Veta Town and Improvement Company to remove the old house, known as the Lewis property, standing in Ryus Avenue and all other property they may have standing in the streets.

1891 June La Veta: A.A. Conine resigned as street commissioner and Taylor Markley was appointed to replace him.

1891 June La Veta: The State Teachers Institute will have its convention in La Veta and Town Board will clean Francisco Park and erect stands for their use.

1892: County Directory: Commissioners - J.G. Hamilton, S.J. Capps, J.D. Montes. County court clerk - O.T. Kearns and county court judge - Henry Daigre. County clerk - Fred A. Roof; treasurer - A. Levy; assessor - Luz Gonzalez; surveyor - L.W. Burtch; coroner - Dr. O.W. Mathews; sheriff - Walter O'Malley. 

1892 January La Veta: It was estimated 350 people attended the Christmas trees at the churches in town. There was one at the Sager School the same evening.

1892 January La Veta: It was estimated that 350 attended the Christmas trees at the churches. There was one at Sager School the same evening.

1892 March La Veta: $18.17 was realized from the sale of the lumber used last summer for the convention in Francisco Park, sold at a price of 10˘ per 1000 foot.

1892 March La Veta: A tax of 10 mills has been set for the town.

1892 May La Veta: G.S. Emerson presented a petition to town council "praying that the stock be allowed to Run at Large.'' The petition was tabled.

1892 June La Veta: A Sabbath school has been started at Ritter School engineered by Mr. Jenni and Prof. Bradshaw.

1892 June La Veta: A.L. Francisco has his shop next door to the old post office on Francisco Street.

1892 June La Veta: Because of the severe storm Thursday, La Vetans decorated the graveyard and had their Memorial services on the Sabbath.

1892 June La Veta: Eighty people dined Sunday at the La Veta Hotel and many others picnicked in the grove.

1892 June La Veta: Everyone is glad to see the trains come over the hill every day. It looks like old times.

1892 June La Veta: John Dick and Mrs. Anna Prater were married at the home of George Dick on Bear Creek by Rev. C.H. Bissell.

1892 June La Veta: Juan Madrill was paid $1.90 by the town for working 11 days on the streets and Alex Mauldin $4.50 for working three days with his own team.

1892 June La Veta: Miss Laura Spielmann graduated from Tillotson Academy in Trinidad and will enter Colorado College this fall to pursue a full classical course.

1892 June La Veta: The old adobe Sager school house will soon be replaced with another building.

1892 June La Veta: The Sabbath schools in town accepted an invitation from the Wahatoya school to attend a picnic above Mr. Carver's in a small canon.

1892 June La Veta: Under the magic of the late rains, La Veta is beauteous in her robe of green.

1892 June Walsenburg: A new wagon road is planned, from the Catholic cemetery to the Rouse road near Standley Hill, which would save distance and crossing the railroad twice.

1892 June Walsenburg: David Farr moved his saloon into John Caviness's new building on Main Street.

1892 June Walsenburg: Hip! Hip! Rah for the band strawberry festival June 26.

1892 June Walsenburg: J.P. Kearns is having the front of the office painted. The trimmings are bimetallic, gold and silver.

1892 June Walsenburg: J.P. Kearns traded some old coal land near Pictou for the old Tourist City townsite the past week.

1892 June Walsenburg: Judge Hayden, who first noticed an odd geological formation 17 years ago near his home near Badito, started a company last summer to mine tin on Greenhorn mountain.

1892 June Walsenburg: Sunday's rainstorm did quite considerable damage along the Huerfano, causing bad washouts.

1892 June Walsenburg: The Drs. McGuire have purchased a fine electric battery of 40 cells with which to shock their patients.

1892 June Walsenburg: Word from Primrose is that crops are burning up and the grasshoppers are annoying.

1892 August La Veta: The CC&I has closed its iron mine at Placer because all of the ore is "used up."

1892 September Walsenburg: Yesterday was a disagreeable day through wind and sand.

1892 October La Veta: A large crowd was in from the country for the Republican convention but no one enjoyed himself like Uncle Tommy Middleton.

1892 October La Veta: Columbus Day was grandly celebrated with special school programs under the direction of Miss McGinnis and Mrs. Daigre.

1892 October La Veta: In the absence of Rev. C.F. McGee, former minister Rev. J.H. Vories held the pulpit in the Baptist Church.

1892 October La Veta: Joe Maupin, the Democratic candidate for governor, was here greeting old friends who remembered when he hung his first shingle in La Veta.

1892 October La Veta: Rev. G.F. McGee is now pastor at the Baptist Church, having replaced Rev. J.H. Vories.

1892 October La Veta:  A child of Jake Marker died in Rouse last Sunday and was buried here Monday.

1892 October Walsenburg: Harry Leon is hauling lumber for the new school house to be built at the Walsen mines.

1892 October Walsenburg: John Mullitz was killed Monday by a fall of rock in the Rouse mine. He is the fourth of six brothers to be killed in the mines.

1892 October Walsenburg: Married Oct. 27 at Cucharas, Juan Ruival and Leonada Valdes.

1892 October Walsenburg: Seventy-two students are enrolled at Walsen school and the teacher sorely needs an assistant.

1892 October Walsenburg: The cold weather is chasing the prospectors down out of the mountains and into Walsenburg.

1892 November La Veta: Charles Clements is now fireman at frequent intervals and J.M. Elrod night man at the round house.

1892 November La Veta: Charles Clements is now the fireman at frequent intervals and J.M. Elrod the night man at the round house.

1892 November La Veta: Ed Slawson and Jim Elrod of La Veta have about completed painting the inside of the new Walsen mine school.

1892 November La Veta: Ed Slawson and Jim Elrod of La Veta have about completed the painting of the inside of the new school at the Walsen mines.

1892 November La Veta: J.B. Petrie of the Wahatoya is shipping hay to Victor.

1892 November La Veta: Miss Emma Gillette will close her school in the Ritter district in two weeks.

1892 November La Veta: Mrs. P.Q. McComb sold the property next to her home in the north part of town to Charles Martin, who will live there this winter and build a new home in the spring.

1892 November La Veta: The Misses Rubie and Anna Willis left for Pueblo where they will live with their brother while they attend school.

1892 November La Veta: The Taylor brothers recently bought Star Livery at the corner of Main and Francisco Streets.

1892 November La Veta: Willet R. Willis barely defeated Joseph K. Kincaid for county commissioner from this district.

1892 November La Veta: William Smith is building a house between F.E. Baldwin's and William Danks'.

1892 November Walsenburg: School at the Walsen Mines closed Wednesday due to the illness of Mr. Mathews.

1892 November Walsenburg: The ME Church will give an oyster supper at the court house Christmas evening.

1892 November Walsenburg: The sad deaths of David Muir and William Holt a few weeks ago in the Walsen mine brought forth a great deal of commiseration for their families.

1892 November Walsenburg: The west gable of the new Catholic Church was blown down by Thursday's wind.

1892 November Walsenburg: Thomas Good, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Rouse, is happy for his better half is the mother of a darling girl baby.

1892 December La Veta: Both the Baptist and Methodist churches will have concert exercises and Christmas trees.

1892 December La Veta: Charles Mack bought the old Kerby ranch and is putting up a new stone barn.

1892 December La Veta: Charlie Mack has his stone barn up one story. The snow has caused the building to cease to grow.

1892 December La Veta: Dick brothers of Walsenburg have made arrangements with J.B. Petrie for 400 tons of La Veta ice. He intends to begin cutting next week on R.B. Willis' lake. 

1892 December La Veta: Dr. J.H. Morton is recovering from a 10-day bout of cold and fever.

1892 December La Veta: The band boys are off on a toot most of the time lately getting ready for the ball.

1892 December La Veta: The creamery has closed for the winter due to a shortage of milk.

1892 December La Veta: The going price for potatoes in La Veta is one and a half cents.

1892 December Walsenburg: Alva Ireland, who with his brother own the Coyote mine on Silver Mountain, was married to Grace Freeman by Rev. A.H. Quillian of Birmingham.

1892 December Walsenburg: Among the colony of colored miners imported to Rouse from Tennessee were five ordained Baptist preachers who have organized a Sabbath school.

1892 December Walsenburg: C.S. Brown, a Gardner businessman, has purchased the stock of J.D. Montes at Crestones.

1892 December Walsenburg: Died, Captain Monroe Coots, 50, of cancer of the lip. He had been a resident here for 22 years.

1892 December Walsenburg: F.M. Ownbey proposes bringing pure water to town from his place on Middle Creek, an improvement over that hydrant water from Twin Lakes.

1892 December Walsenburg: If you are going to the masquerade at Rouse remember that West and Forbes' livery supply you horses and rigs.

1892 December Walsenburg: Miss Dana Hayden is to become a school marm Monday in the Badito district.

1892 December Walsenburg: Miss Ella Stoakes took charge of the school in the Houser district. She is a sister of Mrs. H.

1892 December Walsenburg: The 30 by 80 foot foundation for the livery stable of Messrs. Newman and Roby is laid opposite the Hayden Hotel. Meanwhile, they have rented an old stable on Seventh Street just south of their location.

1892 December Walsenburg: The people of Rouse camp are quite pleased to have a paper of their own and hope the Rouse Enterprise has come to stay.

1892 December Walsenburg: The skaters who went to Twin Lakes Monday evening got a little mixed up in the roads above the mines with some wagon repairs thrown in.

1892 December Walsenburg: There was a knock-down at one of the saloons early this week.

1892 December Walsenburg: We drove to Apishapa, or Aguilar as it is now called, and noticed great growth since our visit last summer, with a new company store, good school, church and another store to be added soon.

1893 January La Veta: Asa Arnold married Lou Fain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fountain M. Fain.

1893 January La Veta: Capt. Coleman, who discovered the Copper King mine at Ojo last year, has found a new lead.

1893 January La Veta: D.D. Ryus and others are putting up a summer supply of ice. The ice is only six to eight ices thick but is as clear as crystal.

1893 January La Veta: Dave Ryus improved his corner store and the old buildings across the street were torn down.

1893 January La Veta: Henry Woodring and Lula Alexander were married at the bride's mother's house by Rev. A.H. Quillian.

1893 January La Veta: Improvements during the past year were the building of the Presbyterian Church, the creamery, homes of Mrs. A.L. Prator, William Smith and Mrs. Baker, along with the improvements made by Mr. Ryus on his store and hotel.

1893 January La Veta: Jasper Kerby is working his coal mine.

1893 January La Veta: Mrs. R.B. Willis, nee Mary Murray Francisco, a resident here, since 1864, died of pneumonia.

1893 January La Veta: The home of R.B. Willis two miles east of town burned down.

1893 January La Veta: The Presbyterian Church has been completed by W.H. Adamson at a cost of $1,200.

1893 January La Veta: William Culler's barbershop is now one door west of the meat market on Ryus.

1893 January Walsenburg: Art Arnold came down from their ranch on the Santa Clara on his bicycle, making the 20 mile trip in two hours and 10 minutes. Pretty good considering the roads.

1893 January Walsenburg: J.W. Browder the barber, who is also a licensed Baptist minister, preached in the Rouse Presbyterian Church last Sabbath.

1893 January Walsenburg: Narcisso Vigil, brother of former Sheriff Miguel Vigil, married Miss Albert  daughter of John Albert, oldest inhabitant of this section who has lived here 60 years.

1893 January Walsenburg: R.M. Waldron is very sick with brain fever at the Home Restaurant. It is doubtful if he can recover.

1893 January Walsenburg: Rev. Darley gave Presbyterian services in Spanish to a large crowd in the Gonzales building.

1893 January Walsenburg: Stewart Forbes took over West's livery stable.

1893 January Walsenburg: The Catholic church, costing $18,000, is nearing completion.

1893 January Walsenburg: The new two-room, 33 by 50 foot Walsen School with vestibule and bell tower is nearing completion. Contractors Creesy and Pritchard are doing the work, which is costing the district $2,000.

1893 January Walsenburg: There has been a shortage in the supply of water in the hydrants.  The pump is out of order and the pail brigade is kept busy.

1893 January Walsenburg: There was a tangle foot prize fight at the Pictou Saloon Christmas night - one was carried off for repairs.

1893 January Walsenburg: J.D. Montes was elected chairman of the board of county commissioners.

1893 January Walsenburg: With this issue, the Walsenburg World has changed publication from Friday to Thursday.

1893 February La Veta: A train loaded with props came in Saturday night from the Ireland brothers camp on the Abeyta Pass.

1893 February La Veta: Alexander Clobskey, "the good man", has some choice ore on his five claims on Silver Mountain, where excavations exceed 400 feet.  

1893 February La Veta: Alexander Cobsky, "the good man," has some choice ore in his five claims on Silver Mountain and his excavations exceed 400 feet.

1893 February La Veta: Charles S. Pielmann's delivery horse ran away, a broken wagon and scattered milk was the result.

1893 February La Veta: Charles Spielmann's delivery horse ran away; a broken wagon and scattered milk was the result.

1893 February La Veta: E.A. Pushee and son and W.S. Bellard were hired to work for the ditch company.

1893 February La Veta: Mr. Eggleston has a ranch near the head of the canon above Ojo he is anxious to sell.

1893 February La Veta: Our public school closed last Friday after a four month term. Lack of funds is the sole cause for the brevity.

1893 February La Veta: Petitions have been circulated for the state to purchase and improve the toll roads over Abeyta [La Veta] and Middle Creek Passes. Another petition will go to the state to open Indian Creek Pass.

1893 February La Veta: R.T. Moore and J.F. Baldwin are opening a mine on Indian Creek.

1893 February La Veta: The ice crop this season is enormous. It is clear and thick.

1893 February La Veta: The La Veta Town and Improvement Company has gone into receivership and the receiver has been authorized by the court to borrow funds to discharge his liabilities of the corporation aggregating $1,500.

1893 February La Veta: The Middle Creek and La Veta sections of the La Veta Canal and Reservoir Company let the canal building contracts to G.W. Harriman of Littleton.

1893 February La Veta: The Select School of Mrs. J.H. Vories has opened in the Ownbey district.

1893 February La Veta: The term of school has just been completed. Mrs. Alice Daigre, advanced department, had over 50 students and Miss Maggie McInnis had 70 scholars in the primary room.

1893 February Walsenburg: Casimiro Cruz, who closed his school at Turkey Creek last week, said the wind storm last Friday was visible from there as a cloud of dust rising higher from North Veta towards Walsenburg.

1893 February Walsenburg: Chicken pox has made its appearance at Rouse and it is feared an epidemic will follow.

1893 February Walsenburg: E.T. Murphy is the possessor of Bob Ford's famous six- shooter that killed Jesse James and says he will take it to the World's Fair.

1893 February Walsenburg: George Mason took charge of the Walsenburg post office on Sabbath the 28th.

1893 February Walsenburg: John Caviness is building a barber shop next to Wycoff Brothers' drug store.

1893 February Walsenburg: Last Friday the citizenry of Gardner and neighboring precinct turned out in full force for a program of music and elocution, followed by a spelling bee at the school house.

1893 February Walsenburg: Mesdames Halferty and Scarborough have opened a fancy work shop above the Silver State Market.

1893 February Walsenburg: S.J. Davis of Pass Creek has been getting out some dimension timbers to build four mammoth barns for W.T. Sharp, the horse king of the upper Huerfano.

1893 February Walsenburg: Stewart Forbes purchased a pair of horses, said to be the best in the city, from Charles Herman for his livery stable.

1893 February Walsenburg: Such a sandstorm as that of Sunday has seldom been experienced. Drifts were piled two and a half feet deep in fence corners.

1893 February Walsenburg: Tarabino has a meat market in connection with his store at Walsen camp and all he needs for a complete outfit is a saloon, which would make him O.K. in the eyes of many.

1893 February Walsenburg: The Grand Ball at Mazzone's Hall last night was well attended.

1893 February Walsenburg: The women have had a hard time sweeping and sweeping and never the house is clean. Some of the more sympathetic men are bringing home their coal shovels to assist in the cleaning.

1893 February Walsenburg: The World office is sandwiched in between Standley's hardware and Ben's (Elzenhoefer) little tin shop.

1893 February Walsenburg: Trinidad, San Luis Valley and Pacific Railroad Company was organized Feb. 13 to run from Trinidad over San Francisco Pass on to Durango, with branches in Taos, Gunnison, Ouray, Creede and Lake City.

1893 February Walsenburg: We move the World office into the Standley house and will be at home to everybody next door the hardware store.

1893 March La Veta: Asa Arnold didn't sell his ranch after all and it seems he will spend the summer here.

1893 March La Veta: At present everybody seems to be very busy coughing and sneezing and blowing their nose.

1893 March La Veta: At present everybody seems to be very busy coughing and sneezing and blowing their nose.

1893 March La Veta: Augustus Prator proved up another 40 acres, giving him 160 acres of fine ranch land in the Wahatoya valley.

1893 March La Veta: Eighty-eight residents voted out of the 102 registered.

1893 March La Veta: J.F. McGee is the new minister at the Baptist Church.

1893 March La Veta: Mayor John R. Otsen and the town engineer are to draw up specifications for a bridge across the Cuchara Creek at First Street.

1893 March La Veta: Miss Laura Speilmann returned from Tillotson Academy and will teach the Mack school this summer.

1893 March La Veta: Mr. Turner of Birmingham, England is here spending a few days with his brother Heber.

1893 March La Veta: N.M. Jones has about 55 students in his singing class at the Baptist Church.

1893 March La Veta: Rev. Bissell of the Presbyterian Church is retiring.

1893 March La Veta: Running for election on the Peoples Ticket are A. Lindsay for mayor, William Krier, treasurer and 0. Bemen, Solomon Boyd, Henry Daigre and Jesse Garren, trustees.

1893 March La Veta: Running for Town Board on the Citizens ticket are John Otsen, mayor; Julius Jones, clerk; Samuel Todd, treasurer and Calvin Ritchey, George Booth, Solomon Boyd and Charles Martin, trustees.

1893 March La Veta: Running for Town Board on the Citizens ticket are John Otsen, mayor; Julius Jones, clerk; Samuel Todd, treasurer and Calvin Ritchey, George Booth, Solomon Boyd and Charles Martin, trustees.

1893 March La Veta: Taylor Markley is running the Springer blacksmith for a while.

1893 March La Veta: The Rocky Mountain Pastime Club will have a debate Monday on "Intemperance has done more harm than war."

1893 March La Veta: The select school of Mrs. J.H. Vories opened with 32 pupils in the Owenby district.

1893 March La Veta: Why do Alex Lindsay and R.W. Scott get up so early? Ducks!

1893 March Walsenburg: An enraged man wanting to cross the tottering bridge some two miles from Rouse was wanting to know who our county commissioners are.

1893 March Walsenburg: August Unfug and Henry Blickhahn will move their quarters to the former Lowenbruck butcher shop.

1893 March Walsenburg: Farr brothers have leased John F. Reed's ranch whose 200 acres yields a thousand tons of the finest alfalfa every year.

1893 March Walsenburg: Henry Hunter opened a law office in the room above Lowenbruck and Lidle's butcher shop.

1893 March Walsenburg: M. Bernstein lost control of his new bicycle Sunday and collided with a group of young ladies.

1893 March Walsenburg: Mr. Pope just completed a 21 mile irrigation ditch for his 3,000 acre ranch near Apache.

1893 March Walsenburg: S.D. Curtis sold his cattle for three and a half cents, realizing about $40 a head.

1893 March Walsenburg: The county commissioners are in session this week casting the light of their wisdom upon the finances of the county.

1893 March Walsenburg: The marshal made a mistake and put a man somewhat under the influence through the window of Wycoff Brother's drug store instead of in the cooler.

1893 March Walsenburg: The new fireproof building about to be put up by H.A. Cole and J.P. Kearns will, they claim, be the largest in town and will have a 7 by 11 foot vault.

1893 March Walsenburg: United Coal Company has purchased 160 acres of coal land two miles above Walsen Mines and is sinking a shaft.

1893 March Walsenburg: We have had wind and sand storms but the one on Sunday beat the record. Drifts of two to four feet high were left in the fence corners.

1893 March Walsenburg: We hear at least 12,000 head of sheep are feeding below Cucharas junction where the grass is three inches tall.

1893 April La Veta: A.H. Edmisten has hired a crew of men to start work on his new 60 by 86 foot livery stable next to the printing office on Ryus Avenue.

1893 April La Veta: A.H. Edmisten has hired a crew of men to start work on his new 60 by 86 foot livery stable next to the printing office on Ryus Avenue.

1893 April La Veta: Dr. A.W. Morton will move to Durango as soon as his friend, another physician, arrives to take his place.

1893 April La Veta: E.E. Shafer sold his lumber and coal business on Francisco Street to William Graham.

1893 April La Veta: John Goemmer purchased a lot of farm machinery which he will sell to the public.

1893 April La Veta: Mr. Ritchey's new barn two miles northwest of town was destroyed in Thursday's wind storm.

1893 April La Veta: Mrs. Blakely is rooming with the A.L. Prator family while she teaches this term in the Prator district.

1893 April La Veta: Mrs. Blakely is rooming with the A.L. Prator family while she teaches this term in the Prator district.

1893 April La Veta: Oregan Pharis rented the Cotterell place one mile west of town, which has the finest garden plots in the county.

1893 April La Veta: School in the Mack district will begin one week later owing to the blowing down of the chimney.

1893 April La Veta: The drugstore, built by Mr. Dotson for $3,000, was foreclosed on A.Lindsay and bought by the Masons for $1,275.

1893 April La Veta: The Silver Courier is now just The Courier with C.E. Clements sole owner after the departure of E. M. Slawson.

1893 April La Veta: William Culler has decided to move to his ranch and is desirous of selling his barber's outfit.

1893 April Walsenburg: A railroad switch was put in for the Solar Coal Company Tuesday.

1893 April Walsenburg: A. Levy and W.J. Standley have closed out their stock in harness and saddles to Henry Blickhahn, giving him full control of that trade in this city.

1893 April Walsenburg: Four children searching for wildflowers strayed from home in Rouse but finally were located near Spring Creek on the La Veta road.

1893 April Walsenburg: George Kearns is building a 37 by 50 foot one-story dwelling next to John Brown's on Third Street, with bay windows at each front corner.

1893 April Walsenburg: It was a complete victory of the entire city ticket by a majority of 12 votes. Sixteen ballots were cast of which four were defective.

1893 April Walsenburg: J.H. Roybal stopped in this office to visit. He used to work for the Cactus when Grant Depew run [sic] it.

1893 April Walsenburg: Sam Chung, former partner of Tom Lewis in the laundry, hasn't cooperated too well and may get a free trip back to China.

1893 April Walsenburg: That advertising pays is shown by the number of applicants for farm work not to mention the other ads in our want column.

1893 April Walsenburg: The Honorable R.R. Ross rented the front rooms over the bank for his legal and insurance businesses.

1893 April Walsenburg: W.A. Kearns has been waiting for chains to move Tourist City into Walsenburg.

1893 May 4: Hamilton Pope was elected president for three years on the Ute school board. At the conclusion of his term he will have served 22 consecutive years on Butte Valley and Apache and Ute school boards. Walsenburg World

1893 May La Veta: Cal Edmisten is looking after his father's new livery stable on Ryus Avenue.

1893 May La Veta: Elected to the school board in District #21, Upper Cucharas, were Jasper Smith, president, Charles Mack, secretary and Joseph Smith, treasurer.

1893 May La Veta: Heber Turner sold one-eighth interest in the Copper King mine on Indian Creek to Henry W. Jones of Pueblo for $60.60.

1893 May La Veta: Mrs. S.J. Johnson and Mrs. W.S. Bellard opened a cosy room on Francisco for dressmaking and will also have homemade ice cream.

1893 May La Veta: The Alamo has a good barber now in the person of J.C. Cooper, a colored tonsorial artist.

1893 May La Veta: The Grand Army post memorial services will begin on Ryus Avenue, then march up Main Street to the cemetery with the cornet band.

1893 May La Veta: The La Veta Flouring Mill is building an addition in Aguilar.

1893 May La Veta: Twenty men are employed at Bemen's sawmill on Middle Creek.

1893 May Walsenburg: A filter was put into the reservoir where the supply of town water comes from.

1893 May Walsenburg: All four of Joseph Sears' children aged two through eight, died of diphtheria within a week at Talpa.

1893 May Walsenburg: Fred O. Roof is boarding at Klein's Restaurant while his wife is visiting in Kansas.

1893 May Walsenburg: House brooms, sewed in three places, 20˘ at the Cheap Cash Store.

1893 May Walsenburg: J.K. Klein is now running a meat wagon daily to the upper coal mine where quite a camp is being established.

1893 May Walsenburg: Luz Gonzales was reminiscing about the June 8 blizzard of several years ago which struck during shearing and killed several thousand sheep.

1893 May Walsenburg: Manuel Valdez of North Veta and Erinca Lucero of Walsen Mines were married by Fr. Ussel.

1893 May Walsenburg: Open today at Faulkner's opposite A. Levy's, an assortment of trimmed hats fresh from New York.

1893 May Walsenburg: P.W. Sweeney let an option on his 1285 acres along the Cucharas, one mile this side of North Veta, to the Bedford Coal Company.

1893 May Walsenburg: W.H. McPherson bought out his partner in The Gardner Store and offers general merchandise at low prices on a strictly cash only basis.

1893 May Walsenburg: William F. McPherson, a partner of Mr. Hudson in the Gardner Store, and Georgia Addington were married by Rev. A. H. Quillian.

1893 June 8: The general store of Walsen & Levy was opened in 1870 and has proven a reliable and prosperous business from the first. In 1882 the entire charge passed into the hands of Mr. Levy where it remains. Their stock includes nearly every necessary commodity for the farm, shop or home; dry goods, clothing, carpets, boots and shoes, groceries, crockery, hardware, stoves, queensware, flour, feed, grain and hay and other articles too numerous to mention. The average of stock ranges about $40,000. The clerical force of the store are Max Klein, who is the virtual manager, Alfred Hulterner, Dona Siano Martinez, Harry Gordon and W.J. Smiley. Mr. Levy is absent much of the time, being interested in railroad contracts at present on the D. & R. G. near Crested Butte. He is an energetic business man, public spirited and generous hearted. But it matters little to the customer whether the proprietor is present or not so long as he is assured that he can find the goods he wants and at prices that are agreeable. Walse

1893 June La Veta: Dr. J.B. Wright came to La Veta Monday from Tennessee to try his luck here.

1893 June La Veta: Dr. Nichols returned to his home in Tennessee, having found it "too distressingly healthy" here.

1893 June La Veta: Gene Lougheed married Ida Boyd on Sunday.

1893 June La Veta: Masonic Hall was dedicated with Grand Marshal Samuel Todd officiating.

1893 June La Veta: Somerset Mining and milling Company has completed its road and trail to its mine on West Peak.

1893 June La Veta: The Children's Day exercises at the Presbyterian church have been postponed because of the presence of scarlet fever.

1893 June La Veta: The light of the camp fire on Silver Mountain is visible o' nights.

1893 June La Veta: Town Board voted to let the marshal keep all the fines he collects in lieu of a salary.

1893 June Walsenburg: A colored base ball nine has been organized at Rouse and will face the other team of the camp Sunday.

1893 June Walsenburg: A couple of loads of wool in town this week remind us that shearing is in progress.

1893 June Walsenburg: Bulis and Hausler had a runaway behind the pop factory - the horses jumped the fence, but the buggy couldn't.

1893 June Walsenburg: Following the musical program by the Presbyterian church women at the court house Thursday, strawberries and ice cream were served to revive the audience.

1893 June Walsenburg: Henry Snedden's blacksmith shop on Seventh Street is for rent.

1893 June Walsenburg: Payday at Rouse was Saturday and the event was celebrated in a saloon Sunday. Williard White won the trophy with a terrible razor cut across his arm.

1893 June Walsenburg: Peter Krier will build a new brick business block, 20 by 50 feet, with windows measuring nearly six feet square.

1893 June Walsenburg: Teachers for the next term will be H.H. Brodie, principal; Katherine C. Barker, grammar department; Flora Briggs, intermediate; and Nellie F. Allen, primary.

1893 June Walsenburg: That nice asparagus for sale at the Cheap Cash Store is from the garden of W.R. Willis of La Veta.

1893 June Walsenburg: The county commissioners must do something about fixing the exact boundary on the southwest county line because the homesteaders are having trouble filing their claims and their children can't attend school.

1893 June Walsenburg: The Knights Of Pythias moved into Atencio Hall and the Sons of Herman will occupy their former quarters.

1893 June Walsenburg: The planting of shade trees along our streets is a commendable labor.

1893 June Walsenburg: W.J. Standley has now been sole owner of the hardware business for six years, having bought out his partner of four years, F.J. Spencer, in 1887.

1893 June Walsenburg: Walsen mines are now producing 30 carloads of coal daily.

1893 July La Veta: 0. Bemen has 200,000 feet of lumber cut at his sawmill on Middle Creek and will begin shipping soon.

1893 July La Veta: Croquet seems to be all the go in town.

1893 July La Veta: Jim Elrod erected a merry-go-round for the amusement of the children on the Fourth.

1893 July La Veta: John Herbin, Jeweler and watchmaker, a native of France and former resident of Canada, died of spinal paralysis.

1893 July La Veta: Postmaster Hills with his son is on the upper Cucharas fishing. The fish will suffer.

1893 July La Veta: The alfalfa crop is about all cut and will average about three-fourths of the usual yield due to the dry weather.

1893 July La Veta:  J.H. Ross' store has dry goods, confectionery, notions, cigars, etc.

1893 July Walsenburg: A blessed rain fell Friday night.

1893 July Walsenburg: A Swede has opened a shoe shop in the south room of the Woodside building in Rouse.

1893 July Walsenburg: A total of 35 people applied for the four teaching positions in Walsenburg.

1893 July Walsenburg: Frank Day has moved his fountain, newsstand, and stationery stock in J. B. Johnson's jewelry store.

1893 July Walsenburg: J.B. Johnson the jeweler will soon occupy rooms with Frank Day in the new Cole block.

1893 July Walsenburg: James L. and Clara C. Martin sold 320 acres of coal land on the Cucharas to Henry C. Broadhead of Pennsylvania for $17,330.

1893 July Walsenburg: John Barnes bought out S.J. Capps' interest in the livery stable at Rouse and is now sole owner.

1893 July Walsenburg: Several cases of cholera have been reported at Rouse.

1893 July Walsenburg: The 4th of July pony race in Rouse was won by Jimmie Farr, Dave Mazzone and Arba Johnson. The three barbequed beeves were donated by Farr Brothers and Johnson.

1893 July Walsenburg: The commissioners have kindly extended the time for the payment of taxes two months in view of the hard times.

1893 July Walsenburg: There will be no pay day at the Rouse mine this month because of the [financial] crash.

1893 July: J.W. Clifford of Gardner is arranging a grand fandango today and tomorrow with day and night dancing and rooster games.

1893 August La Veta: Postmaster Hills is on the upper Cucharas this week fishing and prospecting.

1893 August La Veta: Quite a company are camping at Hervey Hills on the upper Cucharas and they propose having religious services on the Sabbath up there.

1893 August La Veta: The school board has engaged Mrs. Daigre and Mrs. Ireland as teachers for another year.

1893 August La Veta: The Somerset mine has only four men working now.

1893 August La Veta: There is to be a dance with ice cream Wednesday night in the old hall. We think the times are too hard to dance.

1893 August Walsenburg: A well is being dug at the Walsen school house.

1893 August Walsenburg: Hot sulphur baths, W.V. Stephens, Cucharas Hotel.

1893 August Walsenburg: Ice cream by the pint or gallon at Meyer and Company's new parlor.

1893 August Walsenburg: James Henderson's race horse don't like to work in harness. He jumped straddle the tongue one day this week and made fast time. No one was hurt.

1893 August Walsenburg: Peter Krier, who moved here five years ago, opened his first shoe shop about the time the Robinson mine was beginning to get coal.

1893 August Walsenburg: Silver worth 150 cents on the dollar at the New York Fair store, M. Bernstein, prop.

1893 August Walsenburg: We hear nearly $20,000 was paid out on the last payday at Rouse.

1893 August Walsenburg:  Albert Hausler took over the pop factory since Frank Balis disappeared.

1893 September La Veta: Misses Belle and Anna Willis are moving to Santa Clara where Belle will have the school and Anna will keep house and both will run the post office.

1893 September La Veta: The big hunt brought in two deer and a lot of rabbits, grouse, wild pigeons, prairie dogs, hawks, squirrels and seven rattlesnakes.

1893 September La Veta: The Potato crop about here is excellent and large in amount. The selling price here is one cent per hundred.

1893 September Walsenburg: A preaching will be held at the Ute school house next Sabbath afternoon at one. The choice of this unusual hour is to enable the preacher to catch the three o'clock train home.

1893 September Walsenburg: Dolls that cry and dolls that don't, five cents and up at the Cheap Cash Store.

1893 September Walsenburg: J.P. Aragon, deputy road overseer of the St. Mary precinct, was held up near Apache Creek and robbed of $1. 1896: The steel for the jail cells arrived by D&RG and will be put into place soon.

1893 September Walsenburg: John Caviness is tearing down the old barn behind the Clipper saloon and will build a 30 foot addition onto the saloon.

1893 September Walsenburg: Marriage certificates were issued to Julian Atencio and Maria Ygnacio Mondragon and to Antonio D. Valdez and Hilaria de Herrera.

1893 September Walsenburg: Miss Virginia Hendren will teach in the new district school at Cucharas.

1893 September Walsenburg: The burned district north of Rouse camp has assumed a business appearance with the double brick of Dick Brothers and Brunelli and Mike Cervenyk, and Arba Johnson is putting up an adobe.

1893 September Walsenburg: The Solar mine has ordered that two cars a day be furnished them immediately for the shipment of coal.

1893 September Walsenburg: Two men from Creede stocked up at Cowing's store en route to the Cherokee Strip in prairie schooners.

1893 September: J.P. Aragon, deputy road overseer of the St. Mary's precinct, was held up near Apache Creek and robbed of a dollar.

1893 October La Veta: Enrollment in the La Veta school is 134; in the Ritter district school, 34; Alexander, 33; Wahatoya, 21 and Upper Cucharas, 12.

1893 October La Veta: Five hundred narrow gauge carloads of sheep came across the pass during the month of October.

1893 October La Veta: La Veta is a prohibition town. $250 is a bigger fee than the saloon trade will warrant in this quiet burg. The billiard table will be kept and cigars with temperance drinks dispensed.

1893 October La Veta: School opened Monday with Mrs. Daigre and Mrs. Ireland teachers.

1893 October La Veta: The railroad boys are strengthening the bridge by the water tank; it looks as if they were expecting heavier traffic.

1893 October Walsenburg: A runaway occurred Monday when a team started down Main Street and ran to the second mining camp before it was stopped.

1893 October Walsenburg: Albert Hausler, our wholesale pop manufacturer, has accepted the agency of the Milwaukee Brewery in addition to the pop business.

1893 October Walsenburg: Benton Canon opened the new Canon and Company Meat Market.

1893 October Walsenburg: Jake Mandolini shut down his Rosedale saloon between Walsenburg and the mines and is opening a new saloon at Solar.

1893 October Walsenburg: Notes from St. Mary community: News is scarce. A little snow. Plenty of wind. Wherever you go.

1893 October Walsenburg: The People's Party will have a convention Oct. 21 to nominated candidates for the county election.

1893 October Walsenburg: The present owner of the Butler Grant bears the euphonious name of Dr. Chilley, who paid $3,000 in back taxes to gain the property.

1893 November La Veta: E. Frankenberry and Manuel Guyon were badly burned in an explosion in Will Adamson's coal mine.

1893 November La Veta: Enos Frankenberry and Manual Guillien met with an accident in Will Adamson's coal mine when an explosion burned them badly.

1893 November La Veta: M.F. Denton has leased the La Veta Creamery.

1893 November La Veta: The Taylor brothers are operating the Herbin coal mines up Middle Creek.

1893 November La Veta: The Taylor brothers are working the Herbin coal mines up Middle Creek.

1893 November La Veta: Walter, the youngest son of A.H. Edmisten, is recovering from a serious bout with pneumonia.

1893 November Walsenburg: A.D. Norrick is opening a night school in the front room over Lidle and Duncan's meat market and butcher shop.

1893 November Walsenburg: Born, a son to Mr. and Mrs. Asa Arnold on November 11.

1893 November Walsenburg: Dave Elwell shot out a chunk of coal that filled seven cars at the Solar Mine.

1893 November Walsenburg: David Elwell shot out a chunk of coal Thursday that filled seven cars.

1893 November Walsenburg: Editor Wick of the Cactus deserves the very best wife he can get for his hearty advocacy of equal suffrage.

1893 November Walsenburg: Fred 0. Roof was elected county clerk, Walter O'Malley sheriff, William Francisco treasurer and Juan C. Vallejos assessor.

1893 November Walsenburg: Fred McHarg has learned the baggage smashing business at the Cucharas railway station pretty well the past month.

1893 November Walsenburg: Fred Walsen sold lots three and four in block five on Capitol Hill to Mrs. Sophia Haldy of Trinidad.

1893 November Walsenburg: Hopkins Furniture Company started business again on Sixth Street.

1893 November Walsenburg: Miss Lottie M. Creesy is teaching the Sharpsdale school which opened this week and is boarding with the family of A.P. McIntyre.               

1893 November Walsenburg: One of the Halloween pranks came near having a sad sequel, the party being mistaken for chicken thieves.

1893 November Walsenburg: The Walsen mine reopened but only 10 men are working.

1893 November Walsenburg: Tillie Morris, daughter of David Morris of Santa Clara, will marry Dick Rogers on Nov. 8.

1893 December La Veta: A case of scarlet fever has been reported.

1893 December La Veta: Denton and Young are doing well with their creamery and intend to manufacture Limberger cheese soon.

1893 December La Veta: J.B. Petrie is building a dam on the Cucharas just south of the railroad bridge so he can cut ice there this winter.

1893 December La Veta: J.P. Denton has established a prop camp at the Mule Shoe.

1893 December La Veta: J.P. Erwin shipped a carload of hay Monday at $8 a ton.

1893 December La Veta: Miss Belle Willis returned home after closing the term of school at Santa Clara.

1893 December La Veta: Mr. Bently is the new Superintendent of the Somerset mine on the West Spanish Peak, which is again in operation

1893 December La Veta: Mr. Caps Andrews returned to England after a month's visit with his uncle Mr. Sam Capps and his family.

1893 December La Veta: There was a shooting match in town yesterday but the firing was wild.

1893 December Walsenburg: A new mine is to be opened just west of the Johnnie Jones shaft at Sulphur Springs by Orman and Crook of Pueblo. Evans Jones, who opened the Solar shaft, is on the ground ready for work.

1893 December Walsenburg: About one half of the residents of Gardner have had or still have La Grippe and the Mite Society party had to be postponed.

1893 December Walsenburg: Colorado zephyrs have full sway these mild sunny days and real estate is moving.

1893 December Walsenburg: Forty Hollanders and their families from the Alamosa colony passed through Wednesday on their way back to Iowa.

1893 December Walsenburg: Frank Day has a complete stock of Xmas [sic] tree decorations. Fit up a small tree and please the little ones.

1893 December Walsenburg: J.E. Trujillo, who has run a meat wagon for the past three years in Rouse, obtained a wagonload of lumber in Walsenburg and headed to Aguilar to build a butcher shop.

1893 December Walsenburg: M. Handler of Trinidad opened a store in the former Klein's Palace Restaurant, offering clothing, shoes and dry goods.

1893 December Walsenburg: The Walsen mine resumed work Friday with 10 men but more will be added as work picks up.

1894 January La Veta: Bruce Lake is the rendezvous of the boys now-a-days. They go early and stay late and enjoy the fine ice to their fill.

1894 January La Veta: Bruce Lake is the rendezvous of the boys now-a-days. They go early and stay late and enjoy the fine ice to their fill.

1894 January La Veta: Ceschlik the baker moved here from Walsenburg.

1894 January La Veta: Mrs. H.D. Gillespie of North Veta, a resident of this area for over 20 years, died leaving two sons and three daughters. She was buried in La Veta.

1894 January La Veta: Representative R.R. Ross of Walsenburg has asked the state to build a wagon road over La Veta Pass.

1894 January La Veta: Sixteen couples attended the Ladies Cinch club dance Monday night at the school house.

1894 January La Veta: The boys of La Veta had a dance of their own Monday night with their lassies which lasted from 8 p.m. until 3 a.m.

1894 January La Veta: The milling company are filling a 1,700 ton ice contract with the D&RG railroad company.

1894 January La Veta: W.R. Owen improved the propelling power of the wind to aid him in drawing a load of alfalfa to Walsenburg Tuesday.

1894 January La Veta: Will Boyd was down from Grayback and said five men are up there prospecting.

1894 January La Veta:  The past few days of snow failed to produce sleigh rides as the fall was too light.

1894 January Walsenburg: A visitor from Coal Creek filled up with bug juice and was privileged with a night's lodging in the lock-up.

1894 January Walsenburg: A wagon load of Gardner people heading for the dance on the Muddy got lost in the dark and went over a bank. Luckily most suffered just bruises.

1894 January Walsenburg: During the past year, one store and five dwellings were moved into town from Tourist City and two new homes and two stores were built in Walsenburg.

1894 January Walsenburg: Eighty-seven scholars are enrolled in Pictou School - the teacher, Miss Alice W. Meyers, can scarcely wish for so many.

1894 January Walsenburg: George H. Phelps was appointed clerk and bookkeeper at the Solar mine.

1894 January Walsenburg: In referring to the bill of Representative R.R. Ross concerning the wagon road from Huerfano to Costilla county, the Pueblo journal calls Abeyta Pass "Ohayga Pass."

1894 January Walsenburg: Old King Winter sent a host of fairy snow flakes Friday night to cover the dying year with a shroud of spotless white.

1894 January Walsenburg: Old King Winter sent a host of fairy snow flakes Friday night to cover the dying year with a shroud of spotless white.

1894 January Walsenburg: Residents are still cleaning up after the sandstorm.

1894 January Walsenburg: The Ladies Aid Society is giving a Poverty Ball Jan. 26 at the court house.

1894 January Walsenburg: The new year started with the shipment of 41 carloads of coal from Walsenburg station the first day of January.

1894 February La Veta: Antoine La Brie moved from the Daigre ranch at La Veta to his house northwest of the section house.

1894 February La Veta: Five miners working under Will Boyd have a tunnel in 330 feet in their mine at Greyback.

1894 February La Veta: Margaret, the youngest daughter of J.H. Francisco, is recovering from scarlet fever.

1894 February La Veta: Over 60 from La Veta attended the entertainment at Mazzone Opera House in Walsenburg, taking advantage of the special train.

1894 February La Veta: Petrie and Herbin have let a contract to Rouse parties to extend the tunnel in their coal mine on Middle Creek another 60 feet. .

1894 February La Veta: The two-year-old daughter of the J. P. Strangers of the Wahatoya died.

1894 February Walsenburg: Jose M. Vigil is the teacher at the Crestones school now, where he has 102 pupils.

1894 February Walsenburg: Mrs. Redfield of Denver is opening a millinery and dressmaking shop in Albert Becker's next door west to the school house.

1894 February Walsenburg: Ninety-two students are enrolled in the Pictou school.

1894 February Walsenburg: The 135th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns was celebrated in grand style with a banquet and literary and musical program.

1894 February Walsenburg: The Mitchell brothers, Charles, James and Robert, are moving from Rouse to work in the new mine at the Sulphur Springs [Pictou].

1894 February Walsenburg: The three men accused of stealing two pairs of trousers from the Unfug Brothers store dug their way out of the jail and escaped.

1894 February Walsenburg: They have a little Rose at George Klein's. Her advent was on the 10th inst.

1894 March La Veta: A Pueblo man leased the land adjacent to the Sulphur Springs and will build a boardinghouse.

1894 March La Veta: Casimiro Cruz is teaching the spring term at North Veta after completing the term at Badito. 

1894 March La Veta: Casimiro Cruz is teaching the spring term at North Veta after completing the term at Badito. 

1894 March La Veta: Charles L. Martin and Anna McFarland were married by Rev. McGee at the home of John Ritter.

1894 March La Veta: F.L. Martin may go into the creamery business with Gilbert Young after he dissolves his partnership with M.F. Denton.

1894 March La Veta: J.M. Jones, station agent here since 1887, is moving to El Moro and will be replaced by C.W. Richards. 

1894 March La Veta: The Boyd hotel is open again and receiving its share of patronage.

1894 March Walsenburg: A full 12 inches of welcome snow fell Tuesday, a relief after a very dry winter.

1894 March Walsenburg: J.J. Mathews and Miss May Young will close the term of school at Walsen mines Monday.

1894 March Walsenburg: Jacob Yeizer and John Hall rented the Home restaurant building directly opposite the World office, offering board and lodging by the week and short order meals.

1894 March Walsenburg: Joe Philips of Rouse visited the burg and was so heavily loaded up he fell through the window of Dick Brothers saloon.

1894 March Walsenburg: There will  be a dance Saturday night at the Pictou School house in honor of  St. Patrick's day.                                                            

1894 March Walsenburg: W.J. Standley sold his hardware store at Seventh and Main Streets to E.W. Baxter and George Kearnes for $7,100.

1894 April La Veta: Belle Willis will teach in the Mack district school which will open Monday.

1894 April La Veta: C.E. Clements, editor of the Silver Courier, is the father of a 10-pound son.

1894 April La Veta: C.E. Clements, editor of the Silver Courier, is the father of a 10-pound son.

1894 April La Veta: Captain Hills has retired from his position at the post office and is now rusticating at his ranch on the upper Cucharas.

1894 April La Veta: Garren and Strange have opened a branch store in Placer.

1894 April La Veta: In Tuesday's election, R.B. Willis was elected mayor, J.H. Ross, treasurer and Miss Sallie W. Strange clerk and recorder. 

1894 April La Veta: Mrs. P.Q. McComb will open a select school April 17 in the schoolhouse.

1894 April La Veta: The post office is now the second door from the corner in the Ryus building.

1894 April La Veta: There was quite a gold excitement last week. Parties who were sinking a well at the corner of the park came upon some loose rock that showed the mineral and there was even talk of staking claims on Main Street.

1894 April Walsenburg: A deaf and dumb peripatetic printer did the town last week.

1894 April Walsenburg: Big Jim Waldrop, who runs a dive one mile southeast of rouse, was fined $55 for selling liquor to a minor.

1894 April Walsenburg: Fresh fish available at U.S. Tin Shop any day of the week - The fish wagon runs on Tuesdays and Fridays.

1894 April Walsenburg: Saturday night's entertainment at the school house received $34.90, quite a gratifying result.

1894 April Walsenburg: The commissioners considerately awarded the county printing to the World for the remainder of the year. Thanks.

1894 April Walsenburg: Twenty horses are registered for the races here April 5, 6 and 7.

1894 April Walsenburg: W.O. Stevens has reopened the mineral bath house at Cucharas and will give hot sulphur baths on Wednesdays and Sundays.

1894 May La Veta: A Mexican tight rope walker was an attraction in town Monday.

1894 May La Veta: Captain Hills went to his ranch on the upper Cucharas to get his potato crop in.

1894 May La Veta: Miss Lottie Cressy of Walsenburg will teach at the Alexander school in the Sager district and will board with Mr. Spielmann.

1894 May La Veta: O.T. Davis moved to town yesterday with his photographic equipment.

1894 May La Veta: The Methodist social at Ryus hall Tuesday night was a success, netting $15.

1894 May La Veta: The post office is now located two doors from the corner in Ryus's building.

1894 May La Veta: Town Board ordered the street and alley committee to find out why Mr. Ritter has his fence in the street.

1894 May Walsenburg: A fire hydrant will be placed on the hill near the McLaren residence for protection in that section of the city.

1894 May Walsenburg: A letter to the editor signed by 110 Walsen miners expressed discontent with wages and weighing practices.

1894 May Walsenburg: All saloons are closed by the order of the mayor while the strikers from Fremont and Las Animas counties, believed to number about 400, are in town.

1894 May Walsenburg: At least 250 miners are working in the Rouse mine despite the strike.

1894 May Walsenburg: Baxter and Kearns have purchased the remaining stock of the W.A. Kearns Company and moved it into their store.

1894 May Walsenburg: Fred Ramsey's furniture store is moving to the Cole building, formerly Frank Day's.

1894 May Walsenburg: Justin Anglade has purchased the outfit of Judge Steele and will run a confectionery shop and ice cream stand.

1894 May Walsenburg: The Brodhead brothers, Robert S., Henry C. and Albert G., recently bought the coal lands lying west of Solar.

1894 May Walsenburg: The G.A.R. will meet Saturday at the court house to finish plans for a proper observance on May 30.

1894 May Walsenburg: There will be a pay day this week at the mines. This is the one due Feb. 20. 

1894 May Walsenburg: Walsen miners did not show up for work today because most had gone to Rouse in anticipation of a rally with Aguilar and Coal Creek miners.

1894 May Walsenburg:  A fire hydrant will be placed on the hill near the McLaren residence for protection in that section of the city.

1894 August La Veta: Claude Fain returned after five years in Utah and Idaho and is busy renewing old acquaintances.

1894 August La Veta: Dr. J.B. Wright's mother, Mrs. H.K. Wright, has been seriously ill with typhoid fever.

1894 August La Veta: Miss M.A. Lawrence has been employed to teach the upper room of our public school and Miss Brubaker of Denver has the primary department. .

1894 August La Veta: The La Veta Milling Company is having some improvements done.

1894 August La Veta: Victor Primrose's oats in the upper Cucharas Valley average five feet high.

1894 August La Veta: Virgil Barnard harvested over 100 tons of alfalfa and says its the best crop he's ever had.

1894 August La Veta: Virgil Barnard harvested over 100 tons of alfalfa and says it's the best crop he's ever had.

1894 August Walsenburg: A hay rack party left town Saturday evening and spent a merry time at Louis Sporleder's until a late hour.                          

1894 August Walsenburg: An eight and a half pound boy who looks just like his pa was born at the home of Dick Rogers in Spring Canon last week. His wife is the former Nellie Morris.

1894 August Walsenburg: Dr. Wilkinson of La Veta is doing dental work at the Twin Lakes Hotel the second week of every month.

1894 August Walsenburg: H.E. Wheeler is retiring from the Walsen and Wheeler Bank and Gen. Walsen will continue the business.

1894 August Walsenburg: James Yeiser closed the Home Restaurant and moved to Aguilar to be a coal miner.

1894 August Walsenburg: Mr. Wheeler is retiring from the Walsen and Wheeler Bank.

1894 August Walsenburg: Rev. Alex Darley's La Hermandad now has a circulation of 1,750.

1894 August: Wallace C. Hunt is the new manager and editor of the Walsenburg World.

1894 September La Veta: A.A. Foote withdrew his name as Populist candidate for county surveyor.

1894 September La Veta: Captain Hills is losing his choice lot of apples in his garden to thievish little brats.

1894 September La Veta: Died, Mattie the wife of A.H. Edminsten and mother of nine. She was the daughter of Lewis J. and Caroline Estes and came to La Veta in 1879.

1894 September La Veta: Lizzie Parks, the daughter of J.E. of the Wahatoya, married William Hector, the painter from Walsenburg.

1894 September La Veta: Meredith Martin has built a log house at Mule Shoe.

1894 September La Veta: Misses Laura Speilmann, Belle and Anna Willis, Gussie and Jennie Krueger all plan to attend Tillotson Academy in Trinidad this season. .

1894 September La Veta: The log house near judge Daigre's home burned down last week.

1894 September La Veta: The potato crop is much smaller this year compared to previous seasons.

1894 September La Veta: W.A. Duffee, editor of the La Veta Herald, will wed Miss Etta Carter of Lawrence, Kansas.  She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Prator.

1894 September La Veta: W.S. Bellard and wife gave up on the Sulphur Springs because this summer is too wet for anyone to want baths. He now plans to make wine from Oregon grapes.

1894 September Walsenburg: Miss Clara A. Witte will teach at Spring Canon after she closes the school at Wahatoya.

1894 September Walsenburg: N. Parker, new owner of the Hudson ranch on the Huerfano, harvested 1,800 pounds of honey from his hives.

1894 September Walsenburg: Robert Bellah is building a barn for D.B. Costello which will be the largest in the area when done.

1894 September Walsenburg: The Apache community is seeking a post office and wants B.N. Whitman to be postmaster.

1894 September Walsenburg: The new school at Spring Canon is about complete and the term will commence about the first of October.

1894 September Walsenburg: Thirty-five students are enrolled in Walsen Mines school.

1894 Oct. 4: Victor Hills and Stanley Willis were hired to survey the Bulls Eye Mine property on West Spanish Peak by the owner, Mr. Hudson of Wisconsin. Senator Harlan years ago had a mine nearby and got out by forming a stock company and selling shares to recover the $42,000 he buried there. Walsenburg World

1894 October La Veta: Alfalfa is now $9 a ton delivered on board the railroad cars.

1894 October La Veta: Jesse Garren closed the store at Placer for the winter and is back at home in La Veta.

1894 October La Veta: The pupils in Miss Brubaker's primary room gave an entertainment last Friday.

1894 October La Veta: Two and a half tons of potatoes were harvested from a half-acre on the O.D. Staplin place on the Wahatoya.

1894 October La Veta: When Fred Cheschlik's bakery on East Francisco burned down, it took Judge Daigre's house on the west and J. M. Elrod's new house on the east with it.

1894 October Walsenburg: California, Colorado and Iowa grapes, black, red and white at the Cheap Cash Store.

1894 October Walsenburg: E.A. Lidle and Christ Lutz will open the People's Meat Market in the old Keer house in Rouse Oct. 6. Their specialty is sausage.

1894 October Walsenburg: E.A. Lidle and Christ Lutz will open the People's Meat Market in the old Keer house in Rouse Oct. 6. Their specialty is sausage.

1894 October Walsenburg: The Robinson mine at Walsen is being cleared out ready for opening up.  Five men are already at work and Martin Brennan was appointed pit boss.

1894 November Walsenburg: Casimiro Cruz has 65 pupils in the North Veta school for the four month term.

1894 November Walsenburg: Don't fail to see those $1.50 children's jackets at the New York Fair store.

1894 November Walsenburg: New scales were installed at Walsen mines and now coal is weighed on both the tipple and the track scales.

1894 November Walsenburg: Some boys playing started a fire which destroyed a cheap dwelling on Capitol Hill owned by Creesy and Pritchard.

1894 November Walsenburg: The butcher E.A. Lidle has a branch meat market in Rouse in partnership with Mr. Lentz.

1894 November Walsenburg: The telephone linemen are putting in the line to Pueblo, and when they are done, calls will cost one cent per mile, or 50 cents for a call to Pueblo.

1894 August: Wallace C. Hunt is the new manager and editor of the Walsenburg World.

1894 December La Veta: Alex McDonald was elected Worthy Master of La Veta Lodge No 59, AF&AM.

1894 December La Veta: J.B. Petrie is building a dam on the Cucharas just south of the railroad bridge so he can cut ice there this winter.

1894 December La Veta: Judge Daigre leaves next week for Mexico to decide whether he wants to relocate there.

1894 December La Veta: Ray Thomas of Alamosa, employed by the D&RG, married Edna Bellard yesterday at noon at the bride's home two miles west of La Veta.

1894 December Walsenburg: The Turks at their plaza near Cucharas sold one of their bears to E.L. Duncan's market last week for holiday meat.

1895 January La Veta: J.K. Kincaid bought the west end of the Daigre ranch located on the east boundary of town.

1895 January La Veta: J.K. Kincaid bought the west end of the old Daigre ranch.

1895 January La Veta: Skating parties are the popular amusement here these days.

1895 January La Veta: The Boyd Hotel is open again and guests will find a ready welcome and good home fare.

1895 January Walsenburg: Felix Cruz of North Veta was presented on Christmas with a new baby daughter.

1895 January Walsenburg: Francisco Gonzales bought out the dry goods section of the Walsenburg Commission House and moved it to his store next door.

1895 January Walsenburg: H. Blickhahn bought the milk business of C.T. Henderson.

1895 January Walsenburg: Leisenburg the tailor moved to the building formerly occupied by Justice of the Peace Steele, diagonally across Main Street from the bank.

1895 February La Veta: Mrs. V.E. Slone's chair on Town Board was declared vacant and J.W. Boyd was appointed to fill out her term.

1895 February La Veta: The five men involved in the La Veta Flour Mill robbery received their sentences.

1895 February La Veta: The public school will close next week. The board wanted to extend the term but could not secure the funds.

1895 February Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Bertolero lost an infant, the fourth little one they have been called to part with.

1895 February Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Bunker, the photographers from Rouse, have pitched their tent next to the Home Restaurant.

1895 February Walsenburg: No, no, we made no references to anarchist or populist utterances in our La Veta article last week.

1895 February Walsenburg: Walsenburg has at last come to the front and can no longer be classed as second rate. Bloomers have graced our town and even the most conservative are pleased with the result.

1895 March La Veta: Elmer Bellard is tending to the billiard parlors at present. 

1895 March La Veta: Mrs. Alice Daigre resigned her position of trustee on Town Board.

1895 March La Veta: There is a possibility the Spanish Peaks mines may be worked in the coming season.

1895 March Walsenburg: An Italian named Joseph Santi, 40, was killed in the Rouse mine by a fall of rock. Although his family lives in Italy, he was buried in Walsenburg.

1895 March Walsenburg: Dr. C.M. McGuire and Judge Sweeney have taken homesteads on the road to St. Mary's and built a double cottage on the dividing line between their properties.

1895 March Walsenburg: From now until April 1, Mrs. Becker will give away a free lining for every dress bought at her establishment.

1895 March Walsenburg: March is an aristocratic month - it puts on more airs than any other.

1895 March Walsenburg: Myers Moved his harness shop to the former US Tin Shop of Ben Elzenhoefer.

1895 Apr. 24, The new Union Pacific Denver and Rio Grande railroad grade will run east of Capitol Hill, entering town on Fourth Street and running parallel with the D&RG. Following Fourth, it will cross the D&RG tracks near the power house, circle over to run southeast of the Cucharas alongside the hill near Judge Valdes' house, then southwest of the cemetery towards the Rouse road above Bear Creek bridge, turns east beyond the slaughter house, crosses the creek and heads for Rouse. The depot will be a block east of Main Street and the railroad yards will be to its east.  - Walsenburg World

1895 April La Veta: A ditch will be cut at the south end of Cherry Street to catch the underflow of the Cucharas to bring more water into town.

1895 April La Veta: A.L. Francisco is moving the frame portion of the old schoolhouse to lots just south of the drug store for a post office with roomier quarters.

1895 April La Veta: C.L. Martin sold his grocery store to a Mr. Nulton and bought his brother Frank's meat market.

1895 April La Veta: D.D. Ryus fixed up the billiard room behind his store and allows no intoxicating drinks.

1895 April La Veta: Heber Turner has moved his assay and real estate office into A.A. Foote's building. He will also publish a small real estate paper.

1895 April La Veta: Marshal Kerby chanced upon a gambling outfit in the rear of the McCaskill building and turned over the goods to Justice Francisco.

1895 April La Veta: The roof of the railroad's water tank caught fire from sparks from the engine but was extinguished before too long.

1895 April La Veta: Will Boyd is manager of D. D. Ryus's hotel and his wife is the cook.

1895 April Walsenburg: Francisco Gonzales sold his stock to J.D. Montez, who will move it to his store at Crestones.

1895 April Walsenburg: Fred Klein was thrown from his wheel [bicycle] after hitting a drift of sand and was severely bruised around his face.

1895 April Walsenburg: Miss Witte closed the Spring Valley School after the winter term was completed

1895 May La Veta: Alec Lindsay and wife returned Sunday and Mrs. Lindsay is arranging her new - millinery goods in part of the drug store.

1895 May La Veta: Enos Frankenberry brought us a specimen of coal from his mine west of town on the railroad and it is one of the finest samples ever shown in Huerfano County.

1895 May La Veta: Extra fine cabbage and tomato plants can be bought at Mrs. John Goemmer's. Cabbage, 50˘ per hundred; tomatoes, $1 per hundred.

1895 May La Veta: Taylor brothers sold their Indian Creek ranch to S. Fielding of Chicago, who will move his family here.

1895 May La Veta: The heavy rains washed out the Middle Creek toll road near the McCormack place but it is being repaired as quickly as possible.

1895 May La Veta: The post office met with a loss Monday when a dog jumped through a window.

1895 May La Veta: Town Board passed a motion to repeal the stock ordinance.

1895 May La Veta: Will Bellard was in the county seat trying to prove up on his homestead but found it would be republished due to an error in printing his name as William S. instead of Williamson S.

1895 May Walsenburg: Mrs. William Clark has rented the Garcia building and is moving her millinery stock there.

1895 May Walsenburg: See the new style of sailor hats at Mrs. Becker's millinery.

1895 May Walsenburg: Several men were injured by gunshots during a brawl at Mike Cervanyk's saloon in Rouse.

1895 June La Veta: About 200 Woodmen of the World from Trinidad and 100 from Walsenburg, including both bands, came up Thursday morning for a picnic at La Veta picnic grounds. A total of 231 of them took the excursion to the top of La Veta Pass.

1895 June La Veta: D.C. Underwood, who lately bought the Dickerman ranch, was thrown by the wind from the roof of his house and broke his collar bone.

1895 June La Veta: Deputy Road Commissioner Erwin has done an excellent job on the hill north of town, widening the path so two teams can pass at most any point.

1895 June La Veta: Four hundred broad gauge cars of agricultural produce were shipped from La Veta during 1894.

1895 June La Veta: Jake Marker is selling out his property at Rouse and will move to La Veta where he intends to form a partnership with Charlie Boyd in the blacksmithing business.

1895 June La Veta: John Goemmer bought six lots south of L.A. Drum's town residence to build a large barn for hay storage.

1895 June La Veta: Lumber cut to order at O. Bemen's saw mill, 10 miles west of La Veta on Middle Creek.

1895 June La Veta: Major C.B. Bowman and W.H. Clifford have resumed work on their tunnel on the west side of Silver Mountain.

1895 June La Veta: Mr. Nulton has contracted for all the creamery butter they have to sell in the La Veta market and is now selling it at 20 cents per pound.

1895 June La Veta: On Tuesday, June 11 there will be a social for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church.

1895 June La Veta: The directors of the La Veta School District have engaged Prof. Hughes of Pueblo for the next term. School will open the first Monday in September for a seven month term.

1895 June La Veta: The school house in the Sager district will be enlarged instead of having a new one built.

1895 June Walsenburg: General Walsen has the McDonald grading crew fixing up the base ball and race grounds near the depot for the Fourth of July.

1895 June Walsenburg: Six young men have signed up for the Fourth of July bicycle race which will go up Main Street, thence one mile east on the Cucharas road and return, about two and a half miles.

1895 July La Veta: A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Stranger, assisted by Mother Prator who has a diploma.

1895 July La Veta: John Goemmer bought six lots from L.A. Drum south of his town residence and he will build a large barn for storing hay.

1895 July La Veta: The ladies Columbine band are now exercising their wits over some plan of raising money for the purchase of horns.

1895 July La Veta: The railroad bridge over the North Abeyta was damaged in Tuesday's rain and hail storm.

1895 July La Veta: The Street Commissioner is putting in a culvert just west of the school house to carry the Kincaid ditch water under the roadway.

1895 July La Veta:  J.M. Jones is experimenting with electricity as applied to the growth of plants.

1895 July Walsenburg: Main Street was flooded when the ditches broke after the heavy rain.

1895 July Walsenburg: Mat Welsby discovered some men punching a hole through the adobe wall of the jail with an eight foot bar trying to free someone.  There was a fusillade of shots but no one escaped from inside.

1895 July Walsenburg: Plans are being made for a celebration Aug. 6 on the completion of the Union Pacific into Walsenburg.               

1895 July Walsenburg: The Brodhead brothers found a good vein of coal about a mile above the Aguilar mine and have begun developing it.

1895 July Walsenburg: The Fourth of July parade featured eight floats and the La Veta Band. Fireworks and a dance were enjoyed in the evening.

1895 July Walsenburg: The Gulf railway is building a large water tank where their road crosses the Cucharas.

1895 July Walsenburg: Thomas Rogers of Spring Canon has deeded an acre for the cemetery where there are 16 graves. Local people are to meet July 20 to build a fence.

1895 July: General Walsen had the McDonald grading crew fix up the base ball and race grounds near the depot for the Fourth of July.

1895 August La Veta: E.J. Coleman has started building a large stone barn  for the Goemmers.

1895 August La Veta: Farmers are asked to show their produce at the exposition Aug. 6 in Walsenburg celebrating the completion of the Union Pacific.

1895 August La Veta: J.B. Petrie of Wahatoya has just returned from northern Texas where he went to buy a bunch of cattle.     

1895 August La Veta: Miss Freeman, a sister of Mrs. Ireland, will teach the primary room in the coming term.

1895 August La Veta: The Ladies Cornet Band played for a dance Friday evening which was well attended and enjoyed.

1895 August La Veta: We occasionally have the visit of a meadow lark in front of our office. We are charmed by the music, and like the new woman, this bird wears rather tight bloomers and a No. 11 shoe.

1895 August Walsenburg: Albino Sanches added a billiard table to his barber shop next door to the S. Valdez store.

1895 August Walsenburg: Coal mines operating around Walsenburg are Pictou, also called Sulphur Springs, Solar, Robinson, Toltec, Cameron, formerly John Jones, Rouse and Walsen.

1895 August Walsenburg: Henry Klein has for rent the bottom floor of the building used as Odd Fellows Hall.

1895 August Walsenburg: John B. Moore and Alex Levy have dissolved their partnership with Mr. Levy retaining the business by mutual consent.

1895 August Walsenburg: John Jones' Cameron mine is in operation.

1895 August Walsenburg: Santiago Quintana, an old resident of North Veta, gave a dance at the school house which was well attended by all ages.

1895 August: A dance at the Mandolini saloon at Solar lasted 48 hours.

1895 August: A new coal mine has been opened near Winchell station south of town.

1895 August: The county needs a new jail because the present one is totally unsafe and is easy to escape from.

1895 September La Veta: A special train will leave the La Veta depot Sept. 25 at 6:15 a.m. for Canon City to carry passengers to the fruit day exercises. Cost is $2.75 for the round trip.

1895 September La Veta: E.T. Coleman has moved his family to town. His work is progressing well on the new $1,200 stone barn he is building for John Goemmer.

1895 September La Veta: George Kitchens the other day killed a rattlesnake that was four feet and four inches long.

1895 September La Veta: John Goemmer's stable is being built of stone. It will be a substantial building and costly as well.

1895 September La Veta: Married September 22 by Rev. J.B. Ball at the home of the bride's parents on the Wahatoya, Jesse Sowers and Maggie McConnell.

1895 September La Veta: Mrs. H. Daigre and daughter Eva left to make their home in Florida.

1895 September La Veta: Prator School will in future be known as Wahatoya School.

1895 September La Veta: Some person with more force than reason removed the section corner stone from its location in the roadway southwest of the school house. It is one of three accepted by the surveyors as standing in its original location.

1895 September La Veta: Some person with more force than reason removed the section cornerstone from its location in the roadway southwest of the school house. This was one of only three accepted by surveyors as standing in its original location.

1895 September La Veta: T.S. Denton has reopened his tin shop next door to the meat market on Ryus and is ready for all kinds of repair work.

1895 September La Veta: The Columbine cornet band has been disbanded.

1895 September La Veta: The ladies of the Baptist Church gave a social last Friday evening with refreshments and music.

1895 September La Veta: Two ranchers on Bear Creek proved it pays to raise early potatoes for they earned three cents a pound for them in July.

1895 September La Veta:  The Woodmen of the World had an excellent entertainment and dance Saturday night and raised $37.50.

1895 September Walsenburg: A rumor is that the Denver and Rio Grande will re-lay the third track between here and La Veta.

1895 September Walsenburg: An Italian family is repairing the old boardinghouse at Walsen mines and will soon reopen it.

1895 September Walsenburg: C. Lilly of Pueblo let a contract for work on his Lake View mine on Sierra Blanca.

1895 September Walsenburg: Dr. G.F. Hanna, the dentist who moved here from Missouri, has rented rooms from Dr. Baird in the Kearns building. Mrs. Hanna is the sister of Mrs. C.B. Sharp.

1895 September Walsenburg: J.P. McDonald, superintendent at the Cameron mine, says the last payday caught the men up to Aug. 20.

1895 September Walsenburg: Mooney and Ramsey have kilned 50,000 bricks with 20,000 more underway. They will prepare 200,000 for sale at their kiln northwest of the old D&RG depot.

1895 September Walsenburg: T.M. Hudson finally finished his new store building at Gardner and the ball given by him Friday was most enjoyable.

1895 September Walsenburg: The telegraph office and agent's dwelling at Walsenburg junction have been completed.

1895 September Walsenburg: Walsenburg junction, the station at the east end of the Gulf yards and one mile from the D&RG depot, was a booming place last week when several buildings were shipped in.

1895 September Walsenburg: Walter Arnold is the new postmaster at Capps and Sam Capps carries the mail.

1895 October La Veta: Briggs Whitman of the Apache has proven the success of fruit Orchards at that place.

1895 October La Veta: Charles Mack has rented the Daigre residence in town for the winter so his children can go to school.

1895 October La Veta: Frank Ownby reports he will start his water distillery at Ojo since the water in La Veta is not fit to drink.

1895 October La Veta: George Mathews has purchased the "government" building on Main Street from A.L. Francisco and will move it to his ranch.

1895 October La Veta: James Hamilton drove in about 200 head of cattle to which he intends to feed his large crop of hay.

1895 October La Veta: John Pruitt, who rented the Foote building on Ryus Avenue, bought a billiard table and is ready to open his new saloon.

1895 October La Veta: The Goemmer stone building is now ready for a roof. The stone work is a credit to the builder.

1895 October La Veta: The La Veta Livery Stable has been busy hauling around candidates for the coming election.

1895 October La Veta: The owners of the coal mines above La Veta are getting some large orders for coal for shipment to Alamosa and Pueblo.

1895 October La Veta: The registration book will be found in the old post office. Go see whether your name is written down. Next regular registration day is Tuesday the 29th inst.

1895 October Walsenburg: J.F. McDonald is mine superintendent at Cameron.

1895 October Walsenburg: T.L. Creesy is back from the San Luis Valley where he purchased 2,000 sheep.

1895 October Walsenburg: The electric plant should be back in operation by Oct. 15 with new dynamos and repaired boilers.

1895 October Walsenburg: The foundation for Baxter and Kearns' new store is in.

1895 October Walsenburg: The new Gulf depot is almost complete.

1895 October Walsenburg: Work on repairing the electric light plant has progressed rapidly and the lights will be turned back on today.

1895 November La Veta: Dr. J.B. Wright is now established in his new office on Ryus Avenue and he has got nice and comfortable quarters.

1895 November La Veta: On Thanksgiving night the Woodmen of the World will once again see how rapidly the feet can keep time with the music of the violin when they have their masquerade and lunch in Ryus Hall.

1895 November La Veta: The dance on Thanksgiving Eve was a thorough success, both financially and socially. Dancing was kept up until three or four o'clock in the morning.

1895 November La Veta: The new woman is a mock man. The true woman is one that stands by the side of man.

1895 November La Veta: There is a movement on to build a general warehouse near the railroad tracks to store hay, grain and potatoes. The plan is for a stone building, 120 by 80 feet, with a basement.

1895 November La Veta: We understand the La Veta Herald will be published in the future in Walsenburg under another name. We are sorry to lose Editor McDuffee.

1895 November La Veta: William Danks has bought the Baldwin interest in the Frankenbury property and will work the mine for all it's worth.

1895 November Walsenburg: Jay Coots and Archie Jolley are suffering from mountain fever and Miss Minnie Wycoff is now recovering.

1895 December La Veta: At the shooting match Wednesday the visitors from Walsenburg carried off the laurels, or more to the point, most of the turkeys. George Kearns won five birds and Gus Prator was second with three.

1895 December La Veta: H.B. Sager plans to ship a carload of fat beeves for the Christmas market in Denver.

1895 December La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Dotson gave a farewell party for Jim Kimsey who is going to Chama, NM, to work for the Denver and Rio Grande.

1895 December La Veta: Robert Cowles was appointed town attorney - we may look for anti-liquor and anti-gambling ordinances now.

1895 December La Veta: The Advertiser office is now located on Francisco Street in the old Herald office.

1895 December La Veta: The Baker coal mine shipped five cars this week to Alamosa and Monte Vista. It is about time the railroad should give our La Veta mines more facilities for shipping.

1895 December La Veta: The dance Wednesday night was a thorough success, both financially and socially. Dancing was kept up until three or four in the morning.

1895 December La Veta: The Young Peoples societies of the Methodist and Baptist churches had a social last night at Ryus Hall. 

1895 December La Veta: William T. Holmes, a Chicago lawyer, is now a resident of town and will teach short-hand to a limited number of pupils.

1895 December Walsenburg: Barnardino Bustos and Maria Delfina Olguin were married.

1895 December Walsenburg: Buy your Christmas chicken at S. Valdez and Company.

1895 December Walsenburg: George Moyer procured and sold a large number of Christmas trees to people in town this season.

1895 December Walsenburg: The dance at Mazzone Hall Thursday evening was a brilliant success with 30 couples attending. They will have hops monthly.

1895 December Walsenburg: Thirty-one are enrolled in Rev. Refugio Jaramillo's Spanish school, including both adults and children.

1895 December Walsenburg: Two drunks tried to do imitations of an Apache war dance Sunday and were promptly jailed by Marshal Smith and fined $11 each on Monday.

1895 December Walsenburg: Walsenburg carried off the laurels, or more to the point, most of the turkeys, at the shooting match at La Veta Wednesday.

1896 January La Veta: A large number of La Veta people bid farewell to the old year and celebrated the birth of the new one with a grand ball at Ryus Hall.

1896 January La Veta: Antonio Ward and Josefa Martinez were married New Year's Day by Justice of the Peace S.L. Strange.

1896 January La Veta: Ed Collier and E.E. Shafer are operating the Middle Creek Coal Mine.

1896 January La Veta: It is a standing disgrace