Huerfano County, Colorado
News Of The Day

1900 January La Veta: A large plant is to be built at Ojo to treat the fine cooper now being mined.

1900 January La Veta: A number of ladies and gentlemen met last night at the residence of J.M. Elrod to organize a literary club for reading and discussion.

1900 January La Veta: For sale, a four room house on three lots, $100 down and $100 in one or two years. Enquire at this office.

1900 January La Veta: Jenny Laura Kreuger and John James Hamilton were married.

1900 January La Veta: O.D. Staplin finally got to town from the Wahatoya by walking and expects to get to town in his buggy on the 4th of July.

1900 January La Veta: The home of Felix Estes a short distance south of town was destroyed by fire but some of the furniture was saved. He had $800 insurance on the dwelling,

1900 January La Veta: The railroad unloaded a carload of lumber yesterday to be used in the erection of a new depot.

1900 January La Veta: Three coal experts are in town this week examining the large coal deposits lying west of North Veta.

1900 January Walsenburg: A two century ball, beginning in the 19th century and ending in the 20th, will be held the night of Dec. 31 in Mazzone Hall.

1900 January Walsenburg: Faulkner's Dry Goods and Grocery emporiums are now properly labeled in monster letters that he who runs may read.

1900 January Walsenburg: I am offering Rich's "Julia Marlowe" Latest Pattern Shoes, fit high and low instep, at $4. A better quality for $4.50. I am the only dealer in the county that handles this line of shoes. Charles Agnes.

1900 January Walsenburg: The pretty weather again permits the work on the Dick Brothers building to be pushed along.

1900 January Walsenburg: The total enrollment in town is 404, compared to 300 in 1898-99, with 35 in the high school.

1900 January Walsenburg: Tony Bertolero bought the fixtures and leased the building now occupied by the Dick brothers and will remove there when the Dicks move to their new building.

1900 January Walsenburg: Are we in this century or are we in the next? This seems to be a grave question among the learned (?).

1900 January Walsenburg: Tony Bertolero is moving into the Dick brothers building when they move into their new one.

1900 February La Veta: Fred Bombard has purchased the Clipper Saloon he has been managing for D.E. Farr of Walsenburg.

1900 February La Veta: Fred Dryden tried out his new skates on Willis Lake east of town and went through the ice. He was saved by the quick thinking of his buddy Asa Underwood.

1900 February La Veta: John Stranger opened his grocery and feed store on Ryus Avenue this week.

1900 February La Veta: Miss Phenie Erwin celebrated with a party the near approach of the time when her first vote can be cast.

1900 February La Veta: Mr. Reed sold the Denver Saloon to Ramirez and left town.

1900 February La Veta: Old maids and bachelors will discuss why they avoided matrimony Wednesday at Ryus Hall. Ten cents admission.

1900 February La Veta: The copper miners at Ojo are planning to build a stamp mill and smelter as soon as the weather clears.

1900 February La Veta: There was no ice cutting this week on account of the heavy winds.

1900 February La Veta: William Krier is staging a huge shoe sale prior to moving his family and business to Walsenburg.

1900 February La Veta: William Woodruff bought the Ryus-Hamilton residence on the west side of the creek and will move it to his property at the east end of town.

1900 February La Veta: Woodmen of the World will give a masquerade dance on Washington's Birthday, Feb. 22, in Ryus' Hall.

1900 February Walsenburg: A new $2,400 iron bridge, 64 feet in length, is being constructed over the Cucharas south of town to replace the old wooden one destroyed by flood last summer.

1900 February Walsenburg: Elma Chilson is teaching in the new District No. 36, Lower North Veta, which is using a house until a building can be provided.

1900 February Walsenburg: George Phipps of Walsen, former electrician there, will replace George Peart as superintendent of Pictou. Peart is moving to New Mexico.

1900 February Walsenburg: H.M. Setter has purchased a stock of new and used furniture and will open a store soon in the room formerly occupied by the World, next door to Unfug and Taylor.

1900 February Walsenburg: Marie Anderson and Fritz Sporleder will debate the affirmative and Andrew Dick and Clara Cowing the negative on "Resolved: that the Savages have more Happiness than the Civilized Nations."

1900 February Walsenburg: Mrs. Laura Bishard, whose husband John was killed in the Pryor mine Nov. 9 by a runaway trip, is suing Union Coal and Coke Co. for $5,000 damages, $95 burial expenses and cost of the suit.

1900 February Walsenburg: Painters are at work in the new Dick building and it will be ready for occupancy next week.

1900 February Walsenburg: Several of our younger set danced to the music of a mouth organ and set of bones in the old, K.P. Hall last Friday night.      

1900 February Walsenburg: Thomas Sproul has returned to Badito with 20 fine thoroughbred heifers and four fine Jacks, the latter of which he is offering for sale.

1900 March La Veta: Andrew Young opened a barbershop next door to the Denver Saloon.

1900 March La Veta: F.M. Owenby sold his new homestead to the Weld Coal Company, including the old Herbin mine.

1900 March La Veta: F.M. Owenby sold his new homestead to the Weld Coal Company, including the old Herbin mine.

1900 March La Veta: Fire destroyed the building east of town used as the smallpox hospital last spring, evidently to cover signs of a theft.

1900 March La Veta: Fred Bombard and J.O. Francisco are fixing up the cottages and bath house at Sulphur Springs.

1900 March La Veta: J.C. Fugate of Walsenburg has been engaged as teacher of the Sager district school and Miss Moss will take the Wahatoya school.

1900 March La Veta: O.D. Staplin received a shock in the thunderstorm near Walsenburg that knocked him clear out of his buggy.

1900 March La Veta: School closed for the term last Thursday and Professor W.B. Mooney left for Greeley Friday.

1900 March La Veta: The Weld Coal Company already has a 25 foot tunnel in at their mine west of La Veta, and expect coal at 35 feet.

1900 March La Veta: We are pleased to state that all the scarlet fever patients are progressing favorably and no new cases have been reported.

1900 March La Veta: William H. Woodruff is still in the process of moving his house and it's close to the bridge. The wind may carry it the rest of the way.

1900 March La Veta: William H. Woodruff is still in the process of moving his house and it's close to the bridge. The wind may carry it the rest of the way.

1900 March Walsenburg: Baxter and Kearns Hardware Company was incorporated with $35,000 in stock by Edwin W. Baxter, George T. Kearns, John J. Pritchard, Edwin A. Lewis and James R. Killian.

1900 March Walsenburg: Bertolero and Latuada will occupy the former Dick Brothers store building.

1900 March Walsenburg: Cape Nome fever has attacked Editor G.B. Wick and he plans to leave for Alaska May 1.

1900 March Walsenburg: Emmet Wells has finished remodeling the house he moved from Rouse and now has one of the finest residences in Walsenburg.

1900 March Walsenburg: Ernest Krier had his hand badly burned and Prof. Hamer received several balls of fire in his clothing in an explosion in the high school chemistry department.

1900 March Walsenburg: J.B.N. Valdez of Malachite finished a successful term in District No. 5 and is teaching the term at Turkey Creek which began Feb. 19.

1900 March Walsenburg: Mayor T.D. Baird had I.M. Daily lay a board sidewalk across Russell Street from the schoolhouse to Dr. Grantham's residence.

1900 March Walsenburg: Miss Mina Cowen closed the school at Beeville after a seven month term and will go on to Sharpsdale to teach the summer term.

1900 March Walsenburg: Owing to the rush of business J.B. Johnson has secured the services of a first class watchmaker at his jewelry store.

1900 March Walsenburg: Poles are being set out on West Seventh Street for the extension of electric light service.

1900 March Walsenburg: Sheriff Farr has purchased a new buckboard to be used as a hurry-up and carry-all wagon.

1900 March Walsenburg: The town ditch should be boxed or tiled as it is unsightly and unhealthy, plus it also washes away, especially along the road to Cucharas near the C&S depot.

1900 Apr. 12: The grocery business of Unfug and Taylor has been dissolved with the retirement of Charles V. Taylor. Maggie Unfug bought out his interest and will operate the business at the present location as Unfug Mercantile Company. Fred Unfug, assisted by his brother August, will manage the business. - Walsenburg World

1900 Apr. 26: The county commissioners granted grocery bonds to the following; Wolf and Gray Pryor; Malk Valko, Pryor; Pellegrino Gallasino, Pictou; E.G. Miller, Gardner and W.V. Stephens, Cucharas. - Walsenburg World

1900 April La Veta g: Dr. R.A. Mathew moved to the front portion of the Daigre building on Main Street from his location in Krier's building.

1900 April La Veta: Fred Pitman is opening a saloon at Placer where quite a boom is expected this coming season.

1900 April La Veta: O.D. Staplin was knocked out of his buggy during the electrical storm Wednesday and the team ran away.

1900 April La Veta: On Friday night of last week a jolly crowd of bachelors well supplied with oysters, invaded the batching apartments of John and Will Kincaid on the Kincaid ranch.

1900 April La Veta: The officials of the Denver and Rio Grande have decided to reopen the Veta Pass narrow gauge system because of the copper mines at Ojo and the gold boom at Grayback.

1900 April La Veta: The Old Folks concert will be given in Masonic Hall Tuesday evening.

1900 April La Veta: The town authorities have been putting down cinder crossings since the streets are so slushy and muddy.

1900 April Walsenburg: Mazzone Hall was filled to capacity for the Arbor Day exercises.

1900 April Walsenburg: Mrs. Charles Agnes and Mrs. Peter Krier left today for a lengthy stay in France where they will visit their old home.

1900 April Walsenburg: Fred G. Walsen bears the distinction of being the youngest member ever elected as trustee in the town of Walsenburg and received the highest vote cast for that office.

1900 April Walsenburg: The boys of New Rouse will give a ball at Osgood Hall in Old Rouse April 14 for the benefit of the baseball association.

1900 April Walsenburg: The carpenters have finished Dr. T.M. Ahlquist's house at Pryor and it is ready for him and his bride when he gets one.

1900 April Walsenburg: The curfew fiend has relented a little and has given the "kids" until nine o'clock at night before he shrieks "to bed!"

1900 April Walsenburg: The old Methodist Church of Rouse is in the process of being moved to Pryor for use as a school house.

1900 April Walsenburg: The prisoners are cleaning up the courthouse and jail yards.

1900 April Walsenburg: There were 461 votes cast in the town election to elect George Dick mayor, E.A. Lidle, clerk, H. Blickhan, treasurer and Thomas Mooney, David H. Muir and Fred G. Walsen, trustees.

1900 April Walsenburg: Unfug Mercantile Company was incorporated with capital stock of $10,000.

1900 April Walsenburg: With the retirement of Charles V. Taylor, Fred Unfug will take over the Unfug and Taylor grocery business, assisted by his brother August.

1900 May 17: Census enumerators get 2 1/2 cents apiece for each living inhabitant tested and that is about all some of them are worth. Those who don't pay their newspaper subscription ain't worth more than half a cent. - Walsenburg World

1900 May 24, THE tennis court now resounds with the dull thud of the ball and raquet and the merry voices of the boys as they call, "Love one, love all." - Walsenburg World

1900 May La Veta: A carload of groceries arrived yesterday for E.L. Smith and he opens his new dry goods store on Main Street today.

1900 May La Veta: A monument will be unveiled for the late William McWhirter, who died last year in the smallpox epidemic, during Memorial services Monday by the Woodmen of the World.

1900 May La Veta: Ben Berry bought the blacksmith on Oak Street for a livery stable.

1900 May La Veta: Bombard and Francisco, proprietors of the Sulphur Springs, roofed over the spring, put in comfortable seats, built an artificial lake and cleaned the picnic grounds.

1900 May La Veta: E.W. Redding is opening some coal property just this side of Ojo, northeast of the Baker mine.

1900 May La Veta: Fred George, an old-time Denver and Rio Grande engineer, has moved his family to La Veta.

1900 May La Veta: I.R. Voorhees rented a portion of the Krier building and will put in a stock of furniture along with his undertaking business.

1900 May La Veta: J.R. Standlin purchased 80 acres at the mouth of Willow Gulch near Placer which will be surveyed for a townsite.

1900 May La Veta: J.W. Culler has opened a barber shop and rooming house at Russell, which will boom this year. There already are two saloons, a general merchandise store, a hotel and a restaurant.

1900 May La Veta: Last spring the Denver and Rio Grande had two lines, the standard gauge over Middle Creek and the narrow gauge over Veta Creek passes, but in November they abandoned 15 miles of the narrow gauge.

1900 May La Veta: Some citizens straightened the creek near Francisco Street bridge because high water was cutting across the Drum property. They also cut out a lot of trees along the creek.

1900 May La Veta: The mill wagon with a load of flour became mired down on Francisco Street Thursday morning.

1900 May La Veta: Tuesday evening some boys amused themselves by unscrewing the nut off one of the wheels on Will Kincaid's buggy.

1900 May La Veta:  Occidental Development Company of Boston secured land north of the Baker coal mine and is sinking two shafts.

1900 May Walsenburg: A team of horses belonging to Oliver Langley and hitched to a load of hay grew skittish Saturday and unloaded the hay at various places along the railroad track.

1900 May Walsenburg: Agust Hutter opened a new meat market on East Sixth Street.

1900 May Walsenburg: Census enumerators get two and a half cents apiece for each living inhabitant listed and that is about all some of them are worth.

1900 May Walsenburg: Charles Partridge Adams of Denver has been in town for two weeks painting the Spanish Peaks at sunrise.

1900 June La Veta: A gang of men are busy laying rock on the river embankment south of the railroad bridge.

1900 June La Veta: Buy La Veta flour, $1.50 per 100 pounds.

1900 June La Veta: Cherry Phosphate, a delicious summer drink, on tap at the Old Reliable.

1900 June La Veta: Edwin L. Smith is erecting living rooms on the back of his store.

1900 June La Veta: Eugene Lougheed has a fine new residence in course of construction at his ranch just outside of town.

1900 June La Veta: Mr. Lawton is building a two story house next to the flour mill.

1900 June La Veta: Single baths 50¢, camping and bath 25¢, at the Sulphur Springs.

1900 June La Veta: Tom Sharp of the upper Huerfano was in town Wednesday. He is stabling one of his fine Cleveland Bays at Jasper Kerby's livery barn.

1900 June La Veta: W.H. Adamson constructed a road machine for scraping and leveling streets, built from an ancient hay baler.

1900 June Walsenburg: Antonio Bertolero has assumed sole ownership of the saloon with the retirement of Frank Latuada.

1900 June Walsenburg: Died, Juan B. Bustos, a resident of Huerfano County for 30 years, of dropsy. He leaves a wife and two children, two brothers and two sisters. He was buried at Cucharas.

1900 June Walsenburg: George Andrews went to Rye Monday to bring in a milk cow and found the lower crossing of the Huerfano gone and the stream even more difficult to cross at St. Mary's.

1900 June Walsenburg: J.W. Clifford, the well-known and blind merchant of Gardner, was in town on Tuesday.

1900 June Walsenburg: Last week Contractor Thomas Mooney tore down the old paling fence from around the courthouse and began hauling stone for the new one.

1900 June Walsenburg: The families of John Allison of Pictou and Will Caddell of Walsen will travel to Scotland to see their native land.

1900 June Walsenburg: Under Sheriff Griffin has a fine patch of turnips growing in the court house yard.

1900 July La Veta: A few houses for summer tenants would pay an investor big returns - the demand is growing larger each year.

1900 July La Veta: A little rain would help out considerably. The first crop of hay is about gathered and moisture for the small grain would come in handy.

1900 July La Veta: Complaints are being made concerning the fast riding and driving, whooping and yelling which is continually practiced right in the center of town.

1900 July La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Slone moved to their summer quarters at Grayback where he is having some ore treated by the mill that was lately erected.

1900 July La Veta: The Denver and Rio Grande has raised wages for section hands from $1.40 to $1.75 per day.

1900 July La Veta: The residence of Mrs. Mary Cozad is nearly finished and when completed will be an addition to the town.

1900 July Walsenburg: A company of men from Pueblo began this week fixing up and finishing the Catholic Church here. It will soon be ready for dedication and is an ornament to the town.

1900 July Walsenburg: The worst sidewalk in town is on the east side of Main at the comer of Third, which has never been repaired since last summer's high water. It is a menace to life and limb.

1900 July: Edgar Myers, who came here with $23, two years ago, left for Victor to continue his harness business with $1,000 in hand.

1900 August La Veta: A number of Walsenburg dancers attended the hop and the party amused themselves until the school house clock heralded the hour of awakening day.

1900 August La Veta: Colonel John M. Francisco spent several days at the Sulphur Springs, the first time he had been away from home overnight for a great many years.

1900 August La Veta: Complaints are being made concerning the fast riding and driving, whooping and yelling which is continually practiced right in the center of town, which to strangers implies a poorly conducted town government.

1900 August La Veta: Gregorian Vasquez was acquitted of the murder of A.Y. Gribble but the man named Campbell will go to trial.

1900 August La Veta: Homer Potts of Lexington, MO is here visiting with his grandmother, Mrs. M.E. Carver.

1900 August La Veta: J.B. Andrews of Kansas, who lived near La Veta Pass 30 years ago, was here trying to rediscover minerals he found long ago but found the country so changed that he failed to find any trace of them.

1900 August La Veta: J.P. Stranger has just received a sample of the new oil lamp which is easier and cleaner to handle than the old-fashioned kind and gives three times the light.

1900 August La Veta: Leave your orders for Middle Creek coal with C.L. Martin at the meat market. 

1900 August La Veta: M.S. Denton has rented the bath house at Sulphur Springs and will supply the wants of bathers the rest of this season.

1900 August La Veta: Manuel Lujan, who lives in the Kerby residence near the school house, was seriously injured when he was thrown from a wagon during a runaway.

1900 August La Veta: Quite a number of Walsenburg residents drove up to the Sulphur Springs in buggies Sunday and passed the day under the shade of the pine trees.

1900 August La Veta: The bridge over the arroya about one mile east of Albert Campbell's ranch ought to be fixed before someone is killed. A team, wagon, occupants and load fell off a short time ago.

1900 August La Veta: The D&RG is running excursion trains to La Veta Pass every Sunday for 75¢ for the round trip.

1900 August La Veta: The thermometer registered 90 degrees several times this week in La Veta and the hottest weather during the summer has been experienced.

1900 August La Veta: The young people of the Baptist Church furnished it with an organ while the older set bought a carpet.

1900 August La Veta: Until further notice the post office will be open on Sunday afternoons between the hours of 4:30 and 6.

1900 August Walsenburg: The season for dove shooting is now on. Get your hand loaded shells, which are loaded with Dupont smokeless powder, at Baxter and Reams Hardware and Trading Company.

1900 August Walsenburg: A jolly party of railroad bloods and their ladies took a palace car ride a la hand car to Cucharas Tuesday night.

1900 August Walsenburg: Frank Marquis, a saloon man on West Seventh, fell down some steps in the dark caused by no water to run the electric plant. The water was shut off from the lakes because of a bad break in the main.

1900 August Walsenburg: The Colorado Humane Society are [sic] unhappy over the men of Huerfano County who have been indulging in "chicken racing."

1900 August Walsenburg: The colored people of Santa Clara and Pryor will give an old fashioned barbeque Aug. 4 with speakers from Pueblo and a cake walk in the evening.

1900 August Walsenburg: The Walsenburg base ball team goes to Pueblo to play the McCord Bragdon team Sept. 9. A special D&RG train has been secured for this occasion. $1.50 for the round trip.

1900 August Walsenburg: W.C. Strohm and Co., in company with J.P. Kearns, have surveyed 800 acres of coal land on Bear Creek about three miles south of town and are making active preparations to open a mine.

1900 August Walsenburg: William Caddell is back in town after checking on his extensive interests in the Sierra Blanca mines.

1900 August: Marcial Martinez, who was supposedly dying after a chunk of coal fell from a train and crushed his skull, is on our streets again and almost cured.

1900 September La Veta: From all reports, it would appear Mrs. James Carver has lost her mother and two sisters in the Galveston flood.

1900 September La Veta: J.M. Elrod obtained the contract to build a four-room house for William Luster at the extreme east end of town.

1900 September La Veta: Jasper Bruce is once more handing lemonade over the bar at the Denver Saloon.

1900 September La Veta: Purvis and Jenkins, shoemakers, have opened for business in the Boyd building opposite the Kerby livery stable on Francisco Street.

1900 September La Veta: Rains along the foothills have helped out the past week.

1900 September La Veta: Robert Purvis and G.B. Jenkins have rented the Boyd building opposite Kerby's livery on Francisco and opened a shoe and harness repair shop.

1900 September Walsenburg: A runaway with a buggy was stopped by the screen door at the bank.

1900 September Walsenburg: Antonio D. Valdez of Cucharas was called to New Mexico the latter part of last week by the death of his mother.

1900 September Walsenburg: Henry Klein will reopen his newly refurnished hotel on Sixth Street on September 12.

1900 September Walsenburg: Miners at the Pictou and Sunshine mines are now working so closely they can hear each other's picks.

1900 September Walsenburg: Miners at the Pictou and Sunshine mines are now working so closely they can hear the others' picks through the walls.

1900 September Walsenburg: Mr. Klein opened his new hotel Tuesday and by night every room was full with drummers from the evening trains.

1900 September Walsenburg: The brick masons are busy on George Klein's new residence on East Third Street.

1900 September Walsenburg: The drum corps received their instruments this week and now the dum-ut-te-dum is a constant reminder of the musical spirit in the breasts of the members.

1900 September: Fully 2,000 attended the Benediction and Confirmation ceremonies Sunday at St. Mary Church where 300 were confirmed.

1900 September La Veta: Charles Tracy killed the bear that chased Dave Foushee up the tree above the Sulphur Springs last week while Dave was hunting with Fred Bombard, Carr Tracy and William Whalen.

1900 September La Veta: Dave Ryus sold the old Reliable to William Kincaid and W.H. Woodruff.

1900 October La Veta: A goodly number gathered in Hotel Hall Wednesday evening to organize a Bryan and Stevenson club to support the Democratic candidates.

1900 October La Veta: A.A. Foote is surveying and putting in boundary and railroad grade stakes on the coal lands of Occidental   Development Company west of town.

1900 October La Veta: Dave Ryus is building an addition to his hall by putting in a stage with all the necessary attachments for a dance hall.

1900 October La Veta: Garren and Strange are laying a new sidewalk in front of their store building but people can still break their necks on the town sidewalks in one place or another.

1900 October La Veta: Members of the Adventist Church have the stone for the foundation for the new church to be built just west of Ryus grove on Field Street.

1900 October La Veta: Messrs. Purvis and Jenkins have obtained two lots south of the Baptist Church and will have a shop built before the snow flies.

1900 October La Veta: Mrs. C.B. Bowman replaced Mrs. Daigre at Russell school so Mrs. Daigre can nurse her husband, who is very ill.

1900 October La Veta: No need to inconvenience yourself by getting goods away from home, just glance over our paper and help the town along by patronizing our own merchants.

1900 October La Veta: Professor Henri Deschamps lectured Wednesday evening on Physiognomy at Hotel Hall.

1900 October La Veta: Property owners are requested to prepare or replace or lay new sidewalks in front of their lots within ten days. 1903: The Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society "took to the woods" Thursday when Mrs. Dotson invited them to gather plumbs by the river.

1900 October La Veta: The bunk house of the railroad company west of the depot burned Tuesday morning but prompt action saved the boardinghouse.

1900 October La Veta: The Methodist Social at Mrs. Roy Springer's earned over $16 and the members were much pleased.

1900 October Walsenburg: For rent, office rooms on Main Street, between Fifth and Sixth streets, one door north of Miss Pearce's millinery emporium. Inquire of Mrs. S.J. Clarke.

1900 October Walsenburg: Four tunnels in the Sunshine mine had to be stopped before the men dug into the Pictou workings.

1900 October Walsenburg: J.C. Roentgen just finished a nice job of painting for the Dick Brothers at their beer vaults.

1900 October Walsenburg: Mike O'Shea traded his monkey for an alligator from Louisiana.

1900 October Walsenburg: Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson will operate a boardinghouse in the old Klein Hotel.

1900 November La Veta: A well is being driven at the Denver and Rio Grande pump house to end the shortage of water they have been experiencing.

1900 November La Veta: It is reported that a "Peeping Tom" is around town scaring women and children by looking in at windows after dark.  A dose of lead will stop such proceedings.

1900 November La Veta: Quite an excitement was created Wednesday afternoon by prospectors bringing in specimens of gold discovered south of Indian Creek.

1900 November La Veta: The boys were out Wednesday night celebrating Halloween judging by the appearance of the streets the next morning.

1900 November La Veta: The Presbyterian social netted $28, $24 of which went into the fund to purchase a new bell.

1900 November La Veta: The Presbyterians raised $24 toward the purchase of a first class bell on their entertainment last week, which was very worthwhile.

1900 November La Veta: W.J. Hill has decided to move his sawmill into town and will set it on railroad property east of the big warehouse.

1900 November Walsenburg: Contractors Rice and Roche are finishing the Rouse school house this week.

1900 November Walsenburg: Ella Ayers began teaching a term Monday at Sand Arroya school house just above the Solar mines.

1900 November Walsenburg: Jack Foley opened a saloon at the junction of the Badito and St. Mary's roads northwest of town.

1900 November Walsenburg: Joseph Bruder has a bakery and lunch counter on Main Street.

1900 November Walsenburg: Miss Lucy E. Lester entertained the lady teachers with a ghostly hen party Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Quillian on North Main Street. 

1900 November Walsenburg: Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson will reopen the old Klein Hotel as a boardinghouse.

1900 November Walsenburg: The Robinson produced 15 carloads of coal Sunday.

1900 November Walsenburg: Town Council appointed John S. Barnes as Town Marshal to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Caviness.

1900 November Walsenburg: Walsen and Robinson camps are getting a water system.

1900 December La Veta: A little snow skiff came along Tuesday and white capped the surrounding hills and dales.

1900 December La Veta: An entertainment at the Ritter school house was reported to be well worth the 15 cents admission.

1900 December La Veta: Evans Jones brought in a number of miners for the Pikes Peak Coal Company up Middle Creek Thursday.

1900 December La Veta: J.M. Elrod intends to build another store building on the corner lots at Main and Francisco which he leased from D.D. Ryus.

1900 December La Veta: Occidental Development Company coal is now on the market at Kerby's livery stable or the newspaper office.

1900 December La Veta: Our Ladies $1.85 Dress Shoes fit like a glove and are in every respect up to date. The Old Reliable.

1900 December La Veta: The happiest boy in town is Albert Foote, who is sick but Santa Claus found him and left  new train of cars with moveable brakemen and cattle.

1900 December La Veta: The Woodmen of the World and their families will gather Tuesday evening Dec. 25 in Ryus Hall for dinner and a visit from Santa Claus who will have treats for the children.

1900 December La Veta: The Woodmen of the World cancelled their Christmas supper and entertainment because of the whooping cough epidemic.

1900 December La Veta: Twenty pupils are enrolled at Sager School with teacher Walter P. Powell.

1900 December La Veta: W.J. Hill is setting up his saw mill alongside the D&RC tracks just east of Joe Kincaid's house.

1900 December Walsenburg: Burglars entered Charles Agnes' shop Saturday night and abstracted several pairs of shoes, pants, overcoats, hats, neckties and a valise.

1900 December Walsenburg: For sale, Charter woodstove No. 8, $3.50. Apply at the World office.

1900 December Walsenburg: For sale: Charter Oak Woodstove No. 8, $3.50. Apply at the World office.

1900 December Walsenburg: George Crosling purchased the old Rouse Presbyterian Church and will move it to Walsenburg for use as a machine shop.

1900 December Walsenburg: James Brown has opened a new restaurant on Main Street

1900 December Walsenburg: Juan D. D. Vigil and Miss Margarita Sanchez will be married tonight. He is the son of sheep man M. A. Vigil.

1900 December Walsenburg: Juan D.D. Vigil and Miss Margarita Sanchez will be married this evening. He is the son of sheepman M.A. Vigil.

1900 December Walsenburg: The last Christmas of the present century was warm and pleasant with Christmas Trees at the churches and several dances enjoyed Christmas Eve.

1900 December Walsenburg: There was a serious accident Monday afternoon when a D&RG train struck one of a team and the buggy of Cossum and Norman, liverymen at Aguilar, at the blind spot between the livery barn and Walsenburg Hotel on Main Street.

1900: The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven. Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a bathtub. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads. The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower. The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year. More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home. Ninety percent

1900: The first meal of the new century will be served by Mrs. Pearson for the guests of the Rebekah's New Year's ball at 12:01 a.m. January 1, 1901. Be there. 

1901 Jan. 3: About 2,000 people are currently employed in agriculture in Huerfano County. During the past season, corn yield was an average of 40 bushels an acre and at least 1,000 carloads of hay were shipped out on the railroad. There are 28,700 cattle, 84,216 horses, 2,312 goats and 6,142 horses and mules in the county. The 1900 wool crop totaled 268,000 pounds, worth $35,600. Walsenburg World

1901 Jan. 3: During 1900, there were 898,108 tons of coal produced in Huerfano County, with Rouse alone producing 234,854. New mines opening in 1900 were Santa Clara, of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Champion of the Union Coal and Coke Company and Occidental, Occidental Development Company. Primrose Mine was reopened to make 19 mines currently in operation. The payroll totals $121,250 per month and the railroad hauls some 400 tons daily. Walsenburg World

1901 January La Veta: All groceries are up-to-date Twentieth Century goods, no stale 1900 stock at John Stranger's.

1901 January La Veta: Cash on Delivery - I will buy props for 1½ cents per foot, ties for 6 cents each - W.J. Hill.

1901 January La Veta: D&RG engineers are surveying for more sidetracks in the yards to accommodate the increased business at this point.

1901 January La Veta: Ice hauling has commenced at 20 cents a ton. Twelve hundred tons went to Dick Brothers of Walsenburg, 200 tons are going to Cucharas, more to the Walsen mines, Aguilar and Pueblo.

1901 January La Veta: It is rumored that one of the town officials paid tribute to Bacchus on Christmas Eve.

1901 January La Veta: Jim Hamilton Sr. is rebuilding the old R.B. Willis ranch residence which burned down some years ago, using the original adobe Walls.

1901 January La Veta: Joe Kincaid now owns the old Reliable, having bought out the interest of W.H. Woodruff.

1901 January La Veta: Pike's Peak Consolidated Coal Company is [sic] now employing 13 men at the mines. We would advise Evans Jones to either chop one off or add another. We are not superstitious but 13 - ugh, it makes us shiver.

1901 January La Veta: Rev. Wood surprised his family with a new piano. The piano has three stops, and these for meals only.

1901 January La Veta: The D&RG water tank nearly burned down when the greased rags used to prevent the water pipes from freezing caught on fire.

1901 January La Veta: Will the party who turned out or took a burro out of the little corral north of the Plaza kindly return the same to that place.

1901 January Walsenburg: A handsome iron fence is being placed on the stone foundation recently built about the Catholic Church.

1901 January Walsenburg: A joint committee appointed by the legislature to investigate conditions in the various coal camps arrived and began investigating Wednesday.

1901 January Walsenburg: After Fred Roof resigned from Walsen's Banking Company this week it was immediately reorganized as Fred Walsen and Son, Bankers, with Fred Jr. being cashier.

1901 January Walsenburg: Filomeno Cardenas of Malachite was in town on Monday and retired from his official position as county commissioner. The Hon. H.D. Montez of Malachite was sworn in.

1901 January Walsenburg: George Caldwell and son have sold their sawmill at Gardner to Uncle Jimmy Cathcart, Thomas Quillian and others for a planing and shingle mill.

1901 January Walsenburg: George Patterson and Marcia Rice were married at Christmas time. He is employed by the Dick Brothers and she is the daughter of the county coroner, A.M. Rice.

1901 January Walsenburg: Harry Clifford closed the Walsenburg Hotel, located between the depots and near the courthouse on Main Street.

1901 January Walsenburg: James Read of Pryor married Hannah Browning of Starkville, Las Animas county.

1901 January Walsenburg: John Campbell will build a 26 by 40 foot saloon on West Seventh Street.

1901 January Walsenburg: John Campbell, we are told, has let a contract for a 26 by 40 foot, one story building on West Seventh to be used as a saloon.

1901 January Walsenburg: Officials of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company spent several days in this district examining the mines, traveling on their three special Pullman cars.

1901 January Walsenburg: Pictou and Maitland miners are securing independence by buying lots of John Foley on a piece of land he surveyed between the two camps. Selling price is $30 per lot.

1901 January Walsenburg: Rev. E.W. Williams, a colored preacher of local renown, dropped dead from heart failure while at work in the Pryor mine.

1901 January Walsenburg: The linemen were busy last week changing the central station of the telephone company from the Walsenburg Hotel to the Pearson house, and soon we will be calling up a new "hello" girl.

1901 January Walsenburg: There is hardly a family in town but has experienced sickness of some sort within the past few weeks.

1901 January Walsenburg: Walt Houser has purchased the Walsenburg Livery Barn from E.R. Wells.

1901 February La Veta: D.D. Ryus is installing "Solar Heaters" in his new home in California.

1901 February La Veta: Land within Huerfano and Las Animas counties is in the proposed Las Animas Forest Preserve, including Stamford, Hicks and Powell. The preserve runs from south of La Veta, bounded by the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant on the west and the Maxwell Grant on the south.

1901 February La Veta: Stone is being hauled to the Clipper Saloon to fill up the basement and put the building on a solid foundation.

1901 February La Veta: The amount of sickness has been exceptional of late and now several cases of mumps have been reported.

1901 February La Veta: The family of Robert McGraw is convalescing from a severe tussle with scarlet fever.

1901 February La Veta: The ice harvesters are cutting the old 12 inch thick ice at the upper end of mill lake.

1901 February La Veta: The proposed Las Animas forest preserve will end the wholesale slaughter of timber in the Indian Creek and Cuchara canons.

1901 February La Veta: The young men of the Woodmen of the World presented a hilarious minstrel entertainment Thursday and the ladies provided an elegant supper after the show, followed by dancing.

1901 February La Veta: W.J. Hill will pay $7.00 for 1,000 feet of pine logs delivered to his sawmill in La Veta.

1901 February La Veta: What is needed in La Veta an information bureau to tell the newcomer about our industries, ranches for sale, mineral locations, etc.

1901 February La Veta: William Fey is grading and leveling the front of his residence and will have a nice looking yard next summer.

1901 February Walsenburg: A large number of the Red Men last Thursday evening held a pow wow smoker and chicken feast.

1901 February Walsenburg: As there is but one pupil in that department, the School Board has decided to close the year with no graduation exercises.

1901 February Walsenburg: Bernstein's contractors have started on his mammoth new department store and it should be furnished and ready for occupancy by around the first of April.

1901 February Walsenburg: George Caldwell and son have sold their sawmill at Gardner to Uncle Jimmy Cathcart, Thomas Quillian and others for a planing and shingle mill.

1901 February Walsenburg: George Crosland opened a steam laundry in the old Walsenburg Hotel and employs six people.

1901 February Walsenburg: J.B.N. Valdes closed a very successful term of school in the Crestone district and began a five-month term at Turkey Creek Monday.

1901 February Walsenburg: Max Bird is opening a tailoring shop in the old Caviness saloon building.

1901 February Walsenburg: Miss Louvia Halbert teaches the primary department now fitted up in the lower story of Pythian Hall on Main Street.

1901 February Walsenburg: Miss Louvia Halbert, daughter of the editor, teaches in the schoolroom in the Pythian Temple, fitted up for the primary department.

1901 February Walsenburg: Twenty-two boys formed an association and will start a gymnasium and reading room in the Jellison building opposite Pythian Hall.

1901 February Walsenburg: W.H. Gould bought the Pictou, Maitland and Walsenburg Hack Line from Max Lucero.

1901 March La Veta: A small railroad bridge just west of the depot caught fire from ashes off the night passenger train and will be rebuilt.

1901 March La Veta: A.H. Edminston had some ore assayed at 53 percent copper, mined at a depth of 60 feet from the vicinity of Ojo.

1901 March La Veta: Edwin L. Smith is moving his goods into the Bissell building.

1901 March La Veta: Roy Springer has been busy hauling logs from Silver Mountain to the sawmill in La Veta and will commence erection of a new restaurant soon.

1901 March La Veta: Some people on the other side of the Spanish Peaks have started a petition in opposition to the proposed forest preserve south of La Veta.

1901 March La Veta: The wind blew Thursday and shipped considerable sand to Walsens.

1901 March La Veta: William H. Woodruff has built a picket fence around his home and is planting a large orchard.

1901 March Walsenburg: A town crew is cleaning the ditch that crosses Main Street at Third.

1901 March Walsenburg: August Hutter, formerly of Berwind, bought Oliver Langley's residence on East Sixth Street and will convert the same into a bakery.

1901 March Walsenburg: Contractor J.B. Gittings had his men installing the glass   front on Bernstein's new department store Monday and Tuesday.

1901 March Walsenburg: County Commissioner W.N. Houser in company with an official from the State Board of Health checked on the smallpox cases on Pass Creek and found all well so lifted the quarantine.

1901 March Walsenburg: Residents of School District No. 20 voted to consolidate with Vegozo, or Muddy Creek, which means a longer term and better salary. Malachite district now pays $60 per month.

1901 March Walsenburg: Thomas E. Edwards is remodeling the Walsen warehouse near the Colorado and Southern depot.

1901 March Walsenburg: We are informed the Huerfano Printing Company has hired a young man from Denver to breathe life into the ailing Yucca.

1901 April La Veta: A wreck near Francisco switch a few miles west of town derailed and smashed up several railroad cars.

1901 April La Veta: At E.L. Smith's store you can get any of the following for 15 cents: six quart pails, two quart milk pails, three quart stew pans, curry combs, 10 by 15 inch bread pans or full sized hammers.

1901 April La Veta: Fifteen cents will buy any of the following: six quart pail; two quart milk pail; three quart stew pan; curry comb; 10 by 15 inch bread pans, or full-sized hammer, at Edwin L. Smith's.

1901 April La Veta: Gene Gibbons has replaced George Hansen on E.L. Smith's delivery wagon.

1901 April La Veta: J.M. Elrod has made a progressive step by putting a street lamp in front of his store.

1901 April La Veta: Miss Anna Willis will open a kindergarten May 6 in the new building across from the Presbyterian Church.

190l April Walsenburg: The carpenters have been busy the past 10 days putting in new shelving at Unfug's Mercantile Company store to accommodate their immense stock of goods.

1901 April La Veta: Mrs. Charles Hector, 23, died of appendicitis. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Ellsworth, she had been married just three months.

1901 April La Veta: Mrs. E.L. Hill and Mrs. Fanny M. Simpson are running for town trustee on the People's ticket.

1901 April La Veta: Mrs. E.L. Hill and Mrs. Fanny M. Simpson are running for town trustee on the People's ticket.

1901 April La Veta: R. Purvis sold his shoe shop to Tom Erwin and is selling his house and six lots on Main Street.

1901 April La Veta: Shooting within town limits should be strictly prohibited.

1901 April La Veta: W.R. Willis is building a house on his lots west of Charles Boyd on West Francisco Street and his daughter Miss Anna Willis will conduct a kindergarten there this summer.

1901 April La Veta: William Kimsey will farm the Edmisten ranch just south of town limits this summer.

1901 April Walsenburg: A well sunk at Huerfano Station struck a strong flow of natural gas.

1901 April Walsenburg: Charles W. Cox from Delta bought an interest in A.R. Campbell's undertaking establishment.

1901 April Walsenburg: Geneva Sanchez and Jesus Vigil were united in marriage by Rev. E.E. Hench in his study on Fourth Street.

1901 April Walsenburg: If re-elected, Mayor T.D. Baird would like to move the city jail farther downtown, probably to the lots owned by the school district on Sixth Street.

1901 April Walsenburg: The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company are [sic] planning to begin prospecting on the hillside just south of where the first camp of Rouse was located and Union Coal and Coke Company already has a tunnel in some 300 feet on the next ridge.

1901 April Walsenburg: W.V. Stephens lets duck hunters on his lake at Cucharas for 50 cents.

1901 May La Veta: A destruction crew made the old narrow gauge line over La Veta Pass a matter of history.

1901 May La Veta: A prospect is being worked right on the Hayes Creek road leading up to the Spanish Peaks.

1901 May La Veta: C.T. Ritchey is installing a windmill on his town property for watering his garden.

1901 May La Veta: George Mathews just returned from Kansas with two thoroughbred shorthorn heifers and one bull.

1901 May La Veta: J.V. Elliott of Florence will be principal at La Veta schools next fall.

1901 May La Veta: J.W. Powell bought the old school house and remodeled it into a home.

1901 May La Veta: R.A. Mathew and E.R. and E.E. Coleman are working on their Sucker copper claim near Krueger Mountain. 1905: C.M. Green purchased the old McCaskill building on West Francisco Street and is reshingling and remodeling it before opening a grocery and dry goods store.

1901 May La Veta: The old narrow gauge railroad over Veta Pass with its famous "Mule Shoe" is being removed.

1901 May Walsenburg: A movement is on foot for the town to buy the "Bourcia" (Bourcey) estate extending from Eighth Street two blocks towards the river for a park.

1901 May Walsenburg: And it came to pass that after he had advertised his goods there came unto him a great multitude from all the regions about him and did buy of him.

1901 May Walsenburg: Died at Walsen Mines, Bastino Lenzini, 55, the father of the Lenzini brothers who have the Walsen Mines store.

1901 May Walsenburg: Fred Walsen presented the Masons with a 60 foot lot opposite the court house on Main Street, worth $6,000.

1901 May Walsenburg: Hitching posts have been placed at the Methodist Church to accommodate out of town attendants.

1901 May Walsenburg: I.H. Hopkins, grain dealer, bought Fred Roof's warehouse near the C & S depot for $2,000.

1901 May Walsenburg: John Thill removed the chimney from the center of his ice cream parlors and will soon install a soda fountain.

1901 May Walsenburg: Our present insignificant building known as the court house will be completely thrown into the shade with the completion of the imposing Masonic Temple across the street.

1901 May Walsenburg: Thanks to Mayor Baird for having hand rails placed on the two ditch crossings at the head of Main Street.

1901 May Walsenburg: The artist painter gave the front of Dr. Grantham's drug store a vivid red color.

1901 May Walsenburg: The heavy winds on Friday blew the porch away from the store front of Solomon John's building.

1901 May Walsenburg: Thomas Griffith was appointed assistant marshal with the understanding his principal duty is to apprehend those with concealed weapons.

1901 May Walsenburg: Thomas Quillian left Walsenburg to return to his sawmill business in Poison Canon near the Devil's Hole Tuesday.

1901 May Walsenburg: Undersheriff Tom Griffin is overseeing work to remodel the corrals in the rear of the jail so wagons can get in more easily.

1901 May Walsenburg: Walsenburg was in darkness Saturday and Sunday after an electrical pole fell on Main Street.

1901 May Walsenburg: With next weeks issue of the Walsenburg World E.F. Halbert will end his association with the paper. He is moving to Garden City, Kansas.

1901 June La Veta: B.O. Griffin has resumed his duties as agent at the depot.

1901 June La Veta: C.M. Mack is erecting a residence on his seven lots at the corner of Garland and Oak Streets.

1901 June La Veta: Charles Mitchel quit his job at Edminsten's livery to work at Hayes and Company's tie and prop camp.

1901 June La Veta: In future this newspaper will make a charge of three cents per line for Public Resolutions of Condolence, Cards of Thanks and other matter of this description.

1901 June La Veta: Marshal Carver was compelled to lodge a decidedly happy individual in the town jail Thursday night.

1901 June La Veta: Now that the old railroad has been removed from La Veta Pass, would it not be a good idea for the county commissioners to make a wagon road over the old grade?

1901 June La Veta: Scarlet fever has broken out in the family of W.S. Kimsey - we trust care will be taken not to spread the disease.

1901 June La Veta: Scarlet fever has broken out in the family of W.S. Kimsey - we trust care will be taken not to spread the disease.

1901 June La Veta: Several coal cars at Francisco switch ran away and derailed, delaying the later passenger train by several hours.

1901 June La Veta: The Chicago Camping Club or C.C.C. was organized in La Veta last Sunday for the purpose of socialibility and outdoor recreation.

1901 June La Veta: The north fence on Ryus Avenue has been moved back forty feet to open the street to its full width.

1901 June La Veta: Veta Pass and return 75 cents Sunday. Take your best girl and enjoy yourself.

1901 June La Veta: Wanted - By next Wednesday, two hay pitchers and one stacker.  Apply W. R. Owens.

1901 June Walsenburg : About 150,000 pounds of wool has been brought in so far, most of it bought by A. Levy. It is expected that 450,000-500,000 pounds will be brought in this season.

1901 June Walsenburg: At least one thousand people attended the Corpus Christi day ceremonies at the Catholic Church.

1901 June Walsenburg: Colorado Fuel and Iron has contracted with the Maxwell Tie and Timber Company to open up timber lands on the Maxwell-Land Grant on the south fork of the Purgatory, which will be reached by an extension of the Colorado and Wyoming railroad.

1901 June Walsenburg: Fernando Baron, Clayton, N.M., rented the Caviness building on Main Street and opened a grocery and fruit store. He plans to have a barbershop in the rear room.

1901 June Walsenburg: Four brightly lighted balloons will raise above Walsenburg Saturday night bearing prizes.

1901 June Walsenburg: Oliver Langley is selling off the buggies, wagons, harness and 12 horses from his Walsenburg City Livery Barn.

1901 June Walsenburg: Robert Moore had his confectionary store repapered and fixed up and is prepared for a rushing summer trade.

1901 June Walsenburg: The heavy rains Friday washed out the road to the Walsen mines.

1901 June Walsenburg: Thomas Taylor, a 48-year-old miner at Pictou, was killed by a fall of rock. He leaves a wife and eight children.

1901 June Walsenburg: Walsen Mines Camp is getting a water system.

1901 July La Veta: A performing bear was one of the attractions of the Fourth of July celebration in Ryus Park.

1901 July La Veta: A sprinkler of some kind would now be a godsend. The dust is six inches deep and when the wind blows the air is rather brown.

1901 July La Veta: About $75 worth of new instruments arrived Wednesday for the La Veta Cornet Band. The 18 members practice three nights a week.

1901 July La Veta: Died, Mrs. William Kimsey, who was born in Georgia and came to La Veta in 1872. She leaves six daughters and four sons as well as her husband.

1901 July La Veta: F.M. Eggleston will build a brick kiln on two acres east of the Fain ranch.

1901 July La Veta: Miss Addie Kincaid received on Friday a fine new $500 piano direct from the factory in Chicago.

1901 July La Veta: The Chicago Camping Club or C.C.C. was organized in La Veta last Sunday for the purpose of socialibility and outdoor recreation.

1901 July La Veta: The tax on checks is now abolished. No more stamps need be attached to these little pieces of paper, which will save a great deal of trouble and some time.

1901 July La Veta: The tax on checks is now abolished. No more stamps need to be attached to these little pieces of paper, which will save a great deal of trouble and some time.

1901 July La Veta: The Worth Chastain ranch home was hit by lightning, which came down the stove pipe and plowed a furrow across the dirt floor. Not one of the 21 people in the house at the time was permanently injured.

1901 July La Veta: W.T. Holmes is preparing to build a home at the corner of Field and Main Streets.

1901 July Walsenburg: George Tombling and family of Pictou have packed up their sleeping and negligee regalia and hied themselves to the mountains for a month's outing.

1901 July Walsenburg: Harry Setter closed his second-hand store on Main Street for the season while he prospects around the McMillan mines up the Huerfano.

1901 July Walsenburg: Louis Sporleder's commission house is now open and he is already enjoying a nice little trade.

1901 July Walsenburg: T.S. Noble resigned his position as harness repairer at Baxter and Kearns hardware store and now drives Faulkner's delivery wagon.

1901 July Walsenburg: The Andrews-Pickens reservoir east of Walsenburg is almost full and will irrigate 2,000 acres.

1901 July Walsenburg: The man who has a small mind seldom has occasion to change it.

1901 July Walsenburg: The Misses Griffith, Farr and Company have launched a new enterprise and offer unexcelled lemonade from their booth on the court house lawn.

1901 July Walsenburg: The race horses of Dr. T.D. Baird and F.S. Hanna have made a remarkable record this season in Colorado Springs, Denver, St. Joseph and St. Louis, Missouri.

1901 July Walsenburg: The tennis association court has been cleared of weeds and is now in fine condition for the game.

1901 July Walsenburg: Thomas Taylor, 48, miner at Pictou, was killed by a fall of rock. He leaves a wife and eight children.

1901 July Walsenburg: Walsenburg Livery has stables on Main Street and also a barn for ranchmen located on Fifth Street.

1901 July Walsenburg: We are glad our suggestion was taken and the weeds at the court house got a taste of the scythe.

1901 August La Veta: A narrow gauge boxcar has been placed here as a bunk house for the section men.

1901 August La Veta: About 50 tickets were sold here on the $1.50 rate given to the Woodmen of the World to attend the Log Rolling Contest at the Mineral Palace in Pueblo.

1901 August La Veta: Every person, during the month of August, regardless of sex, color or nationality, may enjoy a warm bath at the Sulphur Springs for 25 cents.

1901 August La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. James Martin rented the building formerly used as a kindergarten school. Mrs. Martin is a sister of the Coleman brothers.

1901 August La Veta: Mr. Lester, at 74, may be the oldest person to have signed the register at the summit of the West Spanish Peak.

1901 August La Veta: Pike's Peak Coal Company has contracted for all the coal put on the cars from George Baker's mine on Middle Creek.

1901 August La Veta: The cattle and horses will soon outnumber the inhabitants of La Veta and are destroying every young tree, garden and fence in town.

1901 August La Veta: The Krier property, but lately owned by Mrs. Rosa Roush, has been purchased by C. W. Ware for a mercantile, hardware and grocery store.

1901 August La Veta: Work on the new brick residence of Charles Mack is progressing remarkably fast.

1901 August Walsenburg: A foot of water came down Main Street and ran through the Earl Hotel, ending up in John Artis' confectionery shop on Seventh Street.

1901 August Walsenburg: Go to John Thill's for fresh fruits, candies, nuts, Adam's Pepsin chewing gum and for confections from the soda fountain.

1901 August Walsenburg: Good rains on Friday and Saturday left our usual Main Street flood on Monday.

1901 August Walsenburg: Henry Snedden sold his ranch about two miles west of town near Solar to J.P. LaBelle, who will immediately begin mining the coal.

1901 August Walsenburg: Klein's Elite is adding a bakery to the confectionery in the Walsen block on the west side of Main Street.

1901 August Walsenburg: Merchants along Main Street built dams to protect their stores from the flood down the street but a foot of water ran through the Earl Hotel and two feet ended up in John Artis' confectionery on Seventh Street.

1901 August Walsenburg: Miss Agnes Marshall and Mr. Joseph Ross were wed Aug. 1 at the bride's home at Walsen Mines.

1901 August Walsenburg: Miss Agnes Marshall and Mr. Joseph Ross were wed yesterday at the bride's home at Walsen mines.

1901 August Walsenburg: Mrs. T.J. Johnson and family will open a boardinghouse in the old Murphy house on East Fifth Street opposite the schoolhouse.

1901 August Walsenburg: P.W. Sweeney is having new side walks laid in front of his three brick houses on Fifth Street.

1901 August Walsenburg: The Capps post office has been discontinued.

1901 August Walsenburg: There is talk of the town buying a certain property on South Main and converting the same into a city park. Let us push the matter along.

1901 August Walsenburg: Victor Mazzone is off to the mining camps to introduce his line of watches and jewelry.

1901 August Walsenburg: William Klein bought the general merchandise of W.A. Clifford at Gardner and will also run a saloon there.

1901 September La Veta: A day of mourning was observed Thursday for the funeral of President McKinley, with a parade to the schoolhouse and back to the Opera House for services.

1901 September La Veta: Bird Parks was obliged to have a foot amputated after a train ran over it.

1901 September La Veta: Charles Boyd built a barn on his property as he does not believe in paying rent to house his horse and buggy.

1901 September La Veta: D&RG may fix up some land near the depot for a public park for La Veta.

1901 September La Veta: Died, Lillie Danks, 40, leaving four of her 12 children to survive, including her baby, Ruth.

1901 September La Veta: Died, Lillie Danks, 40. She was born in Kansas in 1861, married in 1881 and had 12 children, four of whom survive.

1901 September La Veta: E.L. Hazard bought the Smith store south of Elrod's corner store and is moving his harness business there. 1904: Alamosa beat Walsenburg 34-5 in the Labor Day baseball game here.

1901 September La Veta: E.L. Hazard moved his harness shop to his new building and his family is occupying, the rooms at the rear of the shop.

1901 September La Veta: G.W. Ware has erected a catchy looking sign in front of his new store and will soon add a row of good hitching posts.

1901 September La Veta: G.W. Ware has opened his store with groceries, shoes and gents' furnishings in the former Krier building on Main Street.

1901 September La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Kincaid became parents of a baby girl born on Aug. 22.

1901 September La Veta: Ross Deeds the old prospector located some claims near the Sangre de Cristo water tank.

1901 September La Veta: The La Veta School needs another teacher as three are not enough for the 125 pupils enrolled.

1901 September La Veta: The school enrollment this week reached 125 with more expected later in the season.

1901 September La Veta: We understand the new Springer restaurant will be a larger building than first intended, with two stories, so will be used more for a hotel than eating house.

1901 September La Veta: William Luster is building a residence next to the Egglestons' on the south side of East Francisco.

1901 September Walsenburg: A.O. Edie estimated he lost $2,000 worth of alfalfa in the disastrous flood of Williams Creek last week.

1901 September Walsenburg: County Assessor Sanchez reports the number of sheep evaluated this year is 45,750, up from 41,372 last year, and cattle increased to 12,400 from 11,305 last year.

1901 September Walsenburg: Enrollment is 298 compared with 265 last year, though more students are expected in October.

1901 September Walsenburg: Klein's Elite confectionery, bakery, ice cream, sodas. On the west side of Main Street in the Walsen block.

1901 September Walsenburg: Merchants in town are thinking of closing their stores on Sundays.

1901 September Walsenburg: Miss Era Edna (Dollie) Sweeney was unanimously elected Maid of Honor and will represent Walsenburg at the Mountain and Plain Festival in Denver.

1901 September Walsenburg: Over 100 are enrolled in the Walsen mines school. At Rouse, 85 students are registered and 35 more are in the kindergarten.

1901 September Walsenburg: The George Kearns house on East Fifth Street was sold to Frank Anderson. This house has one of nicest cisterns in the town. 

1901 September Walsenburg: The new autumn hats can now be seen at Mrs. M.B. Pearce's millinery.

1901 September Walsenburg: The Unfug Mercantile gave us a tour of their new gallery annex.

1901 September Walsenburg: The Unfug Mercantile gave us a tour of their new gallery annex.

1901 September Walsenburg: The World has increased the size of its paper this week and will hereafter give its readers eight pages instead of four.

1901 September: The popular song writer and comedian Joe Newman and company will appear in Mazzone Opera House Monday, Sept. 30.

1901 October La Veta: A good body of ore was struck in the Duplex Company's property on the West Spanish Peak last week.

1901 October La Veta: A party of Denver and Rio Grande surveyors are running lines for a side track to the Occidental mine.

1901 October La Veta: E.L. Hazard is remodeling the building he recently purchased from E.L. Smith on Main Street. The front is his harness shop and the family lives in the rear.

1901 October La Veta: F.L. Martin got a new suit of clothes and a silk hat. If he goes to Pueblo next week his wife should go along. 1907: Workers at the roundhouse quit after the company cut their pay by 20¢.

1901 October La Veta: Jake Marker has purchased the William Francisco ranch formerly owned by John Francisco on Indian Creek, one of the best farms in the vicinity. .

1901 October La Veta: The Powell brother repaired the bridge at the old Kerby ranch on the Cucharas.

1901 October La Veta: The Presbyterian Church will have a musical and literary program Friday the 25th. Admission is 20 cents but includes free refreshments.

1901 October La Veta: Will Mathews received a bran [sic] new $63 cornet.

1901 October La Veta: With the school enrollment up to 140, La Veta needs more than three teachers.

1901 October Walsenburg: A cave-in at the Robinson mine let the water pipes down and currently there is no water service in town.

1901 October Walsenburg: A total of 362 students are now enrolled in Walsenburg schools.

1901 October Walsenburg: A.R. Campbell is building a new stable on his lots back of the undertaking rooms.

1901 October Walsenburg: CF&I at Pictou imported a car load of Negro laborers who arrived Sunday to work in the mines.

1901 October Walsenburg: Charles Mazzone is having a silver front put on his building on Main Street.

1901 October Walsenburg: Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has sent in a coach load of Japanese miners for the Walsen mine.

1901 October Walsenburg: Forty children are enrolled at Maitland School under Mrs. C. Gossin.

1901 October Walsenburg: J. B. Gittings has taken over the Mooney brick kiln and will soon have 150,000 fine new bricks for sale.

1901 October Walsenburg: Miss Flebbe has accepted a position as teacher of Beeville School and Miss Grande has taken her place at Unfug Mercantile.

1901 October Walsenburg: Morris Anderson killed a 261 pound bear Friday near the foot of the Spanish Peaks. Call at Lidle's meat market to investigate the merits of bear meat.

1901 October Walsenburg: Mr. Eiser, who has been connected with Parson Brown in the barber business for some years, has started a business for himself at Pictou.

1901 October Walsenburg: Mrs. Joseph Workman was thrown from her buggy and badly bruised when it overturned in an arroyo near Maitland on her way home from Badito.

1901 October Walsenburg: The C&S passenger train from the south Wednesday brought in a coachload of Japanese laborers which the CF&I Company imported from the Pacific coast to work in the Walsen mines.

1901 October Walsenburg: The Klein bakery now have a talented candy maker and are prepared to furnish all the best lines of candy fresh from the stove.

1901 October Walsenburg: The street commissioner is washing and packing the sand on Main Street left by the summer floods.

1901 October Walsenburg: The Yucca gave forth a malodorous and poisonous exudation when it spoke of the Republican nominees.

1901 October Walsenburg: William Mitchell was injured when the coal car he was constructing in the Pictou blacksmith shop fell on his foot.

1901 November La Veta: Bring your babies and grandmas to the Davis Photo Tent and get Holiday photos of all kinds to send back home.

1901 November La Veta: Found after Halloween - A lantern in my back yard. Owner can get same by taking my delivery wagon off Mr. Davis' lumber wagon and paying for this notice. G.W. Ware.

1901 November La Veta: Harry Lawton is buying up wheat in the San Luis Valley and running the mill here day and night when sufficient water can be obtained.

1901 November La Veta: Have you seen the gas generator for coal oil, the X-RAY wick attachment? For sale by Joe Kincaid.

1901 November La Veta: Miss Rowell has been suffering from la grippe so the scholars of the intermediate department have been enjoying a holiday.

1901 November La Veta: The new flannel waists have flat buttons and long-waisted pouch fronts.

1901 November La Veta: The railroad company is surveying around Potato Gulch south of Occidental.

1901 November La Veta: The Sager district school closed this week and Miss Margaret Lindsey will return to her home for the winter - she has been re-engaged for next summer's term.

1901 November La Veta: Thomas Crumley will move his house either to the roadside or to the south side of Middle Creek because of the railroad.

1901 November La Veta: Town Board decided to build a new bridge over the Cucharas on Ryus and repair the street crossing on Francisco.

1901 November La Veta: Two pound can Eastern cherries, 10¢; children's union suits, 25¢ and ladies hats, 60¢ and up at E.L. Smith's.

1901 November Walsenburg: Cut flowers for Thanksgiving, roses per dozen, $1.50; carnations per dozen, 75 cents; chrysanthemums per dozen, $2.00. George A. Paget.

1901 November Walsenburg: Enrollment in Walsenburg schools is 425 and average daily attendance 386.

1901 November Walsenburg: Gus Pierson has sold his pretty stone cottage on Seventh Street near the Walsen mines to Thomas Sproull. The residence has its own water works for irrigation.

1901 November Walsenburg: M.A. Sanchez has added a meat department at his store, with Gus Thompson employed as meat cutter.

1901 November Walsenburg: Professor Neely has started a night school at Pictou and has about 30 children attending three nights a week.

1901 November Walsenburg: The Broadhead brothers of Aguilar are sinking a shaft for coal above the old Solar mine.

1901 November Walsenburg: The local firemen have decided to give a masquerade ball at Mazzone Hall on New Year's Eve.

1901 November Walsenburg: The Richards and Pringles minstrel will present a mammoth bill of merry minstrelsy at Mazzone's Hall.

1901 November Walsenburg: The stone masons have quarried enough stone for the foundations for the new miners' homes at the Robinson mine.

1901 December La Veta: Christmas Dainties - Pig's Feet, Buckwheat, Mackerel, White Fish, Cod Fish, Mexican Chili - at J.P. Stranger's.

1901 December La Veta: Dec. 7 and only one-inch of snow this winter, yet we prophecy a nice white Christmas.

1901 December La Veta: Ed Collier opened a coal mine just back of the house where he lives - the old Frankenberry place on Indian Creek.

1901 December La Veta: F.L. Martin is tearing down the old creamery and intends to use the materials to build rental dwellings

1901 December La Veta: J.M. Elrod is building an addition onto the Martin brothers' meat market at the corner of Main and Francisco Streets, just north of his own store.

1901 December La Veta: Robert Jewell will shortly build a residence on some lots he bought from F.L. Martin in the north part of town.

1901 December La Veta: Ruth, the infant daughter of William Danks, died in Colorado Springs where she was under the care of her aunt. She was laid beside her mother in La Veta Cemetery.

1901 December La Veta: Santa Claus will be at J.M. Elrod's store today and will make a speech to the GOOD boys and girls of La Veta.

1901 December La Veta: Some La Veta residents are under a six week quarantine for the presence of scarlet fever in their homes.

1901 December La Veta: The dwelling houses of the Pikes Peak Coal mine, which are currently situated on Albert Campbell's land, will be moved about a quarter of a mile to the company's property.

1901 December La Veta: Walter Powell left his job at the hotel to go to business college in Denver.

1901 December La Veta: William Kimsey is deepening the Cucharas and grading the approaches for the new Ryus Street bridge.

1901 December La Veta:  F.M. Eggleston came down from Placer for Christmas and says about 20 miners are working in the Greyback district.

1901 December Walsenburg: A.J. Sanchez has opened The New Meat Market on South Main Street.

1901 December Walsenburg: J.B. Grandy's neat little 22 by 26 foot cottage on Capitol Hill is almost completed.

1901 December Walsenburg: Marriage licenses were issued this week to Jose Ignacio Maes and Natividad Trujillo and to Henry Topping and Helen Drysdale.

1901 December Walsenburg: The shooting match conducted by Dick Miller at Gardner on Christmas Day was a success, the shooters from the Muddy carrying off most of the turkeys.

1901 December Walsenburg: There will be a shooting match for turkeys at McNally's saloon near Walsen mines next Sunday and another Christmas Day. Rifles and six-shooters are to be used.

1901 December Walsenburg: Victor Mazzone is building a new jewelry store on Main Street just below the Cheap Cash Store.

1902 January La Veta: F.G. Bombard has again repapered and renovated the interior of his saloon. Fred believes in keeping things in good shape and it pays in the long run.

1902 January La Veta: H. Williams married Mary L. Cozad, widow of J.G. Cozad, former partner of D.D. Ryus.

1902 January La Veta: J.M. Elrod is building a cook room or small kitchen onto his residence.

1902 January La Veta: Jake Marker is figuring on rebuilding his house at the site where the old one burned down.

1902 January La Veta: Lucy Lester, the teacher, bought six lots east of C.B. Bowman's house on West Garland and will build a home.

1902 January La Veta: New homes are being built for Robert Jewell and F.L. Martin.

1902January La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Erwin are moving to Canon City where Charley has a position as guard at the penitentiary.

1902 January La Veta: Orders for ice cannot be filled due to the pleasant weather. The ice is only nine inches thick.

1902 January La Veta: The Baptist Church had an entertainment Christmas Eve in place of the usual Christmas Tree. 

1902 January La Veta: The members of the La Veta Band have commenced building a commodious 40 by 100 foot building to be used as a concert hall on Field Street, at a cost of $3,000.

1902 January Walsenburg: A group of men from Tyrol, Austria, arrived Sunday and are on their way to the mines.

1902 January Walsenburg: About 60 members of the Knights of Pythias and their ladies enjoyed the dinner and program Monday evening at Pythian Castle.

1902 January Walsenburg: An explosion in the Pictou mine killed, Frank Marquis, J.H. Brewer and Pete Johnson.

1902 January Walsenburg: Brothers Dominic and Pete Barma were killed instantly in the Robinson mine when the roof caved in.

1902 January Walsenburg: Diphtheria has claimed several lives in Santa Clara and Pryor.

1902 January Walsenburg: From Blanco [sic] word comes that the Sierra Blanca Mining and Reduction Company have a tunnel in 1,409 feet and will have a six-horse team hauling ore to the railroad in Walsenburg,

1902 January Walsenburg: J. Miller, contractor, has the foundation laid for the new church in Gardner.

1902 January Walsenburg: The Dick Brothers are building another ice house on Russell Street.

1902 January Walsenburg: The event of the season in' the terpsichorean line without doubt was the fireman's ball given New Year's Eve.

1902 January Walsenburg: The event of the season in' the terpsichorean line without doubt was the fireman's ball given New Year's Eve.

1902 January Walsenburg: The new home of Jesse Roche on Capital Hill is a commodious 36 feet square, with a central hall running the length.

1902 January Walsenburg: Vincino Chippinio became the second fatality in the new Hezron mine when he was killed in a fall of rock.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) A. Levy was in town last Tuesday on business.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) Bob Watkins has gone to Pueblo to consult physicians in regard to his health.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) Mr. & Mrs. G. R. Benson are entertaining Miss "Baby" Benson who arrived the 30th of Jan. for an indefinite stay.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) Mrs. Herrard will entertain the ladies of the "Aid" at 3 o'clock tea next Friday afternoon.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) Mrs. Ingraham, the mother of Geo. Ingraham, is very low with pneumonia.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) W. R. Butts is visiting his mother for a few days.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, H. J. Wilson, Ass't Sup't. . . . . . Department of the G.F.& I. Co. gives a lecture here Saturday night entitled. . . . .

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, Mr. Wm. Dick was here this week unloading three cars of ice.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, Mrs. Marguerite Johnson is visiting with Mrs. Ahlquist.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, We have just learned of the demise of Mr. Baxter the long time postmaster at Badito, and father of Edwin Baxter of Colorado Springs. Mr. Baxter was a highly respected citizen and the neighborhood and county mourns the loss of an honest upright man. Services will be held at the residence of Mr. Baxter, the Rev. Chenoworth of Gardner officiating.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) G. L. Smith of Chicago, is in Gardner and vicinity soliciting subscriptions for the Interstate School of Correspondence of Chicago.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) Madam Rumor says that W. J. Millsap is seeking a location in this vicinity, and is negotiating for D. B. Castello's ranch at Malachite.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) Putting up ice is the order of the day and people are improving this cold snap.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, (too late for last week) The funeral of Arthur Marks, who was injured by falling off of a hay stack onto a hay rack, took place in the Gardner cemetery last Monday afternoon. Mr. Marks leaves a wife and two small children and his mother to mourn his death. [ for further info on Arthur Marks, e-mail: kscott@kdsi.net ]

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, L. A. Hough, the genial operator, is able to be around after a severe ten days fever.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, L. M. Huggins met with a serious accident in being thrown into a ditch, which sprained his ankle and permanently disabled his horse which he was driving from Aguilar.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, Rev. C. K. Powell of Colorado Springs delivered an interesting lecture at the school house Tuesday night on "The Life of Christ" illustrated by several sterescopic views of the Holy Land; after which a Sunday school was organized with the following officers: Miss Adelle Porter, Sup't; Miss Julia Meryweather, Ass't Sup't; Mr. John Kirkpatrick, Sec'y; and Miss Bessie Baldwin, Treas.

1902 Feb 13: Walsenburg World, W. C. Hunt, Editor and Publisher, Chas. R. Rosenberger, Ass't Editor

1902 February La Veta: A.A. Foote built an ice house and filled it with ice - you want to keep cool if you are in the coal business.

1902 February La Veta: A.A. Foote is having a house built and other improvements completed on his ranch near the foot of the Spanish Peaks.

1902 February La Veta: E.L. Hazard bought the property known as Bruce Lake ranch and will move his family there, recognizing the advantages the place offers for a boating and pleasure resort.

1902 February La Veta: F.G. Bombard and wife moved into Francisco Plaza this week, where they will keep house.

1902 February La Veta: Jake Marker's new blacksmith progressing and soon the ring of the anvil will be heard.

1902 February La Veta: Lawrence Kreutzer has rented the Alex McDonald ranch up the Wahatoya.

1902 February La Veta: Mr. Hammond has been assisting Alex Young in the barber shop and thinks of opening his own in Frank Anderson's hotel building.

1902 February La Veta: The coal vein in the Occidental mine has been widened to nine feet.

1902 February La Veta: The ice contracts of 2,000 tons have been filled and now the company is filling its large ice house and local storehouses.

1902 February La Veta: The La Veta Bank opened for business this week with E.L. Smith cashier.

1902 February La Veta: Town Board allowed $259 in bills, mostly for the new bridges and creek grading.

1902 February La Veta: William Woodruff is making some substantial improvements around his home on Main Street in the shape of a new bakery, enlarging the living rooms, building porches and the like.

1902 February Walsenburg: A Denver newspaper feels Japanese should not work in the coal mines and advises us to "Leave them alone/And they will go home/Taking their pigtails with them."

1902 February Walsenburg: Charles 0. Unfug announces the organization and incorporation of the Copper Bull Mining Company at St. Louis, Missouri which will mine the old Copper Bull on Pass Creek which was worked 1882-1883 at a cost of $30,000.

1902 February Walsenburg: Charles 0. Unfug was hired as general manager of the Copper Bull Mining Company of St. Louis, Missouri's mine on Pass Creek.

1902 February Walsenburg: Died at Badito, S.D.P. Baxter, 92, who has been postmaster at that place since the early days.

1902 February Walsenburg: Died at Santa Clara, Mrs. Susie Hudran, 15.

1902 February Walsenburg: Mayor Dick and a trio of town dads met to discuss the utility and futility of establishing a public library.

1902 February Walsenburg: Positions of marshal, assistant marshal, commissioner, clerk, attorney, police magistrate and health officer will now be appointed by town council.

1902 February Walsenburg: The Denver papers are much exercised about the fact that the Japanese who were driven from Florence were brought to work in the mines at Maitland. The company also brought a number to Walsen, although only two or three are left.

1902 February Walsenburg: The Huerfano Coal Company (La Belle) are busily at work sinking their shaft and they are down to 200 feet and pumping water.

1902 February Walsenburg: The Huerfano Coal Company has a 200 foot shaft in their new LaBelle mine.

1902 February Walsenburg: The ladies of the town have undertaken the task of inaugurating a public town library.

1902 February Walsenburg: The old mine across the hogback, between here and the Toltec, known as the Johnny Jones, is being reworked by Oscar Joiner and Dr. Hanna.

1902 February Walsenburg: W.H. Gould built a blacksmith shop near his livery stable at Pictou.

1902 February Walsenburg: W.H. Gould won the contract to carry the mail from Walsenburg to Pictou and Maitland twice a day for $500 per year.

1902 March La Veta: About 25 Woodmen of the World visited Walsenburg Tuesday to help initiate a dozen or so candidates into that camp.

1902 March La Veta: Allie E. Sager has disposed of his property in Colorado Springs, and will return to La Veta to farm his father's ranch.

1902 March La Veta: Bell and Anderson will reopen the old Springer coal mine on the Cucharas.

1902 March La Veta: Bell and Anderson will reopen the old Springer coal mine on the Cucharas.

1902 March La Veta: Born boys, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. William Luster and to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carroll.

1902 March La Veta: Charles Hector is the butcher at J. M. Elrod's City Meat Market.

1902 March La Veta: Died, Jake Montoya, 18, of diphtheria. His parents have lost three of their children within a short period.

1902 March La Veta: F.C. Bombard will repair and strengthen the porch and entrance to his Clipper Saloon.

1902 March La Veta: Huerfano County has 33 school houses with 39 teachers. There are 3,242 school age children.

1902 March La Veta: John Hudson just completed a small house for Charles Arnold and a barn for C.E. Turner.

1902 March La Veta: Mrs. John Ketner of Pueblo has been in La Veta looking after her newly acquired property, the drugstore.

1902 March La Veta: R.E. Roberts is contemplating changing from mining to ranching and will likely move his family to the upper Cucharas.

1902 March La Veta: The band boys gave a well-patronized dance for St. Patrick's Day.

1902 March La Veta: The Coleman brothers are working over at the new camp of Hezron as well as building a new home for Peter Verliff.

1902 March La Veta: The Denver saloon of Bruce and Pitman has new wallpapering and a small room for a barber shop or meeting place by the front door.

1902 March La Veta: William Woodruff just completed a bakery building completely removed from his house.

1902 March La Veta: William Woodruff just completed a bakery building completely removed from his house.

1902 March Walsenburg: Adolph, the infant son of Casimiro and Mary K. Cruz, died of whooping cough at Bear Creek, where Casimiro has been teaching.

1902 March Walsenburg: An average of 200 cars of coal are shipped from Walsenburg daily. A carload averages 50,000 pounds or 25 tons.

1902 March Walsenburg: An average of 200 cars of coal are shipped from Walsenburg daily. A carload averages 50,000 pounds or 25 tons.

1902 March Walsenburg: Broadhead brothers are drilling for coal on top of the Hog Back west of town.

1902 March Walsenburg: Contractor J.B. Gittings finished the Colorado Supply Company store at Hezron and it is already open for business.

1902 March Walsenburg: Died, aged 29 years, Blitz, old horse for the Unfug Mercantile Company, of excess of joy due to an overfeed of oats.

1902 March Walsenburg: Irrigated alfalfa land in Huerfano County will bring $15 to $75 per acre.

1902 March Walsenburg: St. Commissioner Anderson is opening Russell Street from Eighth to Tenth streets on the bank of the creek.

1902 March Walsenburg: Ten or 12 men are at work at the stone quarry near here, which is said to have the best stone in southern Colorado.

1902 March Walsenburg: The old porches were removed from the Levy property, John Thill's confectionery, Lukowski's bakery and Dr. T.D. Baird's office on the east side of Main Street.

1902 March Walsenburg: Thomas Mooney has the contract to build a $4,000 school house at Pictou.

1902 March Walsenburg: Two miners were killed in the Pictou boardinghouse when a shot was fired.

1902 March Walsenburg: Would it not be a good idea to open a few of the streets west of Main and south of Seventh?

1902 April La Veta: A large crowd of merry makers gave Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Hazard a housewarming party at their new ranch at Bruce Lake.

1902 April La Veta: A.H. Edmisten and his son Walter were fined $20 each for carrying concealed weapons after an incident with Prof. J.V. Elliott on Ryus Avenue.

1902 April La Veta: An impromptu farewell gathering met Saturday at Masonic Hall in honor of Dr. A.L. Hazard and B.O. Griffin with a picnic and entertainment.

1902 April La Veta: Fred Bombard is making substantial repairs on that part of the plaza formerly occupied by Colonel Francisco until his death several months ago.

1902 April La Veta: G.W. Ware recently finished building an addition to the residence of J.G. Krueger on Echo Creek.

1902 April La Veta: J.B. Slone is receiving a visit from his sister-in-law Mrs. Susan Slone and her friend Miss Mary Rock, who intend to make La Veta their home.

1902 April La Veta: Jasper Smith concludes it is too lonely on the ranch during the winter and will build a house in town this summer so that his children can continue attending our public school.

1902 April La Veta: Occidental Mining and Development Company bought the machinery of the Troy Mill at Granite and is moving it to the big mill under construction at La Veta.

1902 April La Veta: The public school ended its term last Friday.

1902 April La Veta: Work was started this week on Mrs. Springer's new restaurant building.

1902 April La Veta: Work was started this week on Mrs. Springer's new restaurant building.

1902 April Walsenburg: Between 600 and 700 students are currently enrolled in District 4, Walsenburg.

1902 April Walsenburg: Charles Mazzone is putting up a brick house on Main Street between the Earl Hotel and Faulkner's store.

1902 April Walsenburg: Fr. Ussel says Walsenburg was known as Plaza de los Leones or Plaza del Fred when he first came here. The first church was built of upright posts at the site of Baxter and Kearns hardware and was partly in Seventh Street.

1902 April Walsenburg: J.B. Thorne and Son have purchased the Thomas Sproull ranch at Badito.

1902 April Walsenburg: Jack Boyd is building a livery stable at Hezron and giving up coal mining as an occupation.

1902 April Walsenburg: Jack Foley filed a plat for Foley's Addition to the town of Pictou.

1902 April Walsenburg: Pat Dellahanty and R.H. Weir were killed in the Pictou mine by a premature shot.

1902 April Walsenburg: The 42 business houses of Walsenburg employ 100 clerks, whose average salary is $600 annually.

1902 April Walsenburg: The estimated population of Walsenburg is 1,500.

1902 April Walsenburg: The first county assessment of 1867 was for $27,000. John Iliff had a large cattle ranch on the Santa Clara and owed $23,000, but he left without paying and the county was left with a $4,000 assessment.

1902 April Walsenburg: The old Walsenburg Hotel, for several years known as the Earl, is to be torn down and Charles Mazzone will build a brick structure there.

1902 April Walsenburg: Wilson, the Pueblo tailor, has opened a branch shop on Main Street between the Cowing and Sanchez stores.

1902 May La Veta: A caravan of gypsies camped on the borders of town last Wednesday and spent the day telling fortunes and selling lace.

1902 May La Veta: County Surveyor A.A. Foote and his crew spent eight days searching for the government survey lines located about 32 years ago on the East Spanish Peak, to no avail.

1902 May La Veta: Dr. and Mrs. J.B. Wright are living in the Boyd house on the corner of Main and Francisco Streets.

1902 May La Veta: For sale: My home property and lots on Main Street. This will make a fine business location as well as being suitable for dwelling purposes. Inquire of Mrs. Henry Daigre.

1902 May La Veta: Four cans Fancy June Peas, 25 cents; five pounds Banner Oats with elegant decorated china with every package, 25 cents; Hammocks, $1.25 to $2.00, at Kincaid Mercantile.

1902 May La Veta: Frank Elliott bought the Hazard harness shop and will open next week in the same stand on Main Street.

1902 May La Veta: Lawrence Kreutzer and Miss Mamie Hamilton were married by Rev. E.E. Hench and they will make their home on the McDonald ranch south of town.

1902 May La Veta: P.L. Estes bought the old Albert Philips ranch just south of town for $3,300.

1902 May La Veta: Sam Gribble's fine team of greys was run over on the railroad tracks.

1902 May La Veta: The county commissioners came up