1910 January 20: Bishop Olmstead will hold Ordination and Conformation services at the Episcopal church the 6th of February.
1910 January 20: Bishop Olmstead will hold Ordination and Conformation services at the Episcopal church the 6th of February.
1910 January 20: Charles L. Martin of La Veta was visiting in Walsenburg on Monday.
1910 January 20: Fred A. Dietz of Gardner had business at the county seat on Friday.
1910 January 20: G.R. Delamater and wife of Strong were Walsenburg visitors on Monday.
1910 January 20: George I. Ingraham of Gardner was a Walsenburg visitor last Friday.
1910 January 20: John M. Stack of Gardner was a visitor to our burg on Tuesday donde el tiene mucho negocio.
1910 January 20: Marriage licenses issued this week are as follows: Robt. L. Adington and Nellie Caldwell; Jose A. Miller and Vera Killen; Gregorio Sanchez and Crestina Archuleta
1910 January 20: Married at Gardner, Colo., on Saturday January 15, 1910 Robt. L. Adington and Miss Nellie Caldwell, Rev. F.M. Burhman officiating.
1910 January 20: Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Smith of Malachite made a trip to Denver last week.
1910 January 20: Mr. James S. Autrey of Denver was in town Monday.
1910 January 20: Mrs. Walter W. Hammond is visiting in St. Joe, Mo. She expects to be gone several months.
1910 January 20: P.E. Rinhart of Shumway was in town last Friday.
1910 January 20: Postmaster E.L. Trounstine has been spending several days in Denver.
1910 January 20: valuable horses of Mr. Charles Hudson of Rocky Mountain, were stolen Sunday night.
1910 January La Veta: A locomotive exploded between the Hopkins and Kincaid ranches, killing two and injuring two.
1910 January La Veta: Dr. Fannie Layborn has moved her office into the building recently vacated by Dr. Lamme.
1910 January La Veta: Edwin L. Smith bought the stock of McLain's La Veta Mercantile so will now offer dry goods and groceries.
1910 January La Veta: Eggs are up to 50 cents a dozen and butter is selling for 40 cents a pound!
1910 January La Veta: George Edmonsten bought out Garren and Strange's stock.
1910 January La Veta: Humane officer W.H. Woodruff took some wire whips away from some teamsters Thursday.
1910 January La Veta: Judge Kimsey celebrated his 66th birthday on Thursday. He looks still young and spry and can eat three good meals a day.
1910 January La Veta: Modern houses will rent for $25 a month in La Veta... Here's an investment for somebody with a little spare cash.
1910 January La Veta: Postmaster Woodruff informs us that the La Veta to Oakview mail route is now open for bids and will be let for a period of four years.
1910 January La Veta: The Oakview mine was idle Monday and Tuesday on account of the derailment of a car at the east end of the yards.
1910 January La Veta: W.H. Hamilton bought Tom Dotson's ranch on the Wahatoya.
1910 January La Veta: William Fey has almost finished building the new stone house for the Galassinis on Ryus Avenue.
1910 January Walsenburg: A green-devil manned by a high-toned gink in which were several other ginks, came near being the cause of a lively runaway last Monday.
1910 January Walsenburg: Born in December, sons to Primio Pacheco and Juan P. Martinez, daughters to Ramon Martinez and Melesio Valdez.
1910 January Walsenburg: Carriage painting - old rigs bought and sold - Orton and Abbott, North Main Street.
1910 January Walsenburg: Charles Agnes, here 21 years, says this is the worst winter he has ever experienced in this vicinity.
1910 January Walsenburg: Died, Rev. C.H. Bissell, 79, a former editor of the Walsenburg World with his son.
1910 January Walsenburg: F.E. Kelly leased the Palace Hall for a skating rink. He also has rinks in Aguilar and Trinidad.
1910 January Walsenburg: F.O. Roof and George Dick are requesting bids for a two-story brick building at the comer of Sixth and Main streets.
1910 January Walsenburg: Fred Roof and George Dick are advertising for bids to construct a two-story brick building at Main and Sixth Street.
1910 January Walsenburg: J.W. Anderson, alias many other names, was arrested Monday and lodged in the city jail on suspicion of being the leader of a gang which robbed a Walsenburg store on Nov. 13 and got away with a quantity of merchandise, including a number of revolvers.
1910 January Walsenburg: Meyer Brothers shipped out about 800 head of cattle the past week.
1910 January Walsenburg: Prof. Alvan Clarendon was hired as superintendent of Walsenburg's schools.
1910 January Walsenburg: The dirt from the Masonic Hall excavation is being dumped on East Sixth Street and makes quite an improvement to that thorofare.
1910 January Walsenburg: The fun is on at the Palace Hall where the Kellys open their roller skating rink tonight with a Grand Masquerade party.
1910 January Walsenburg: The Lyceum Club is pleased to announce a treat that is in store for Walsenburg people tonight when the Otterbein Male Quartet and Bell Ringers will entertain.
1910 January Walsenburg: The Lyceum Club is pleased to announce a treat that is in store for Walsenburg people tonight when the Otterbein Male Quartet and Bell Ringers will entertain.
1910 January Walsenburg: The old opening to the Walsen mine will be abandoned and a new one constructed near the school house, which means the school will have to be moved.
1910 January Walsenburg: The seventh and eighth grade class was dismissed Tuesday because the room could not be heated. Miss Beers is the new teacher.
1910 January Walsenburg: Town Board voted, unanimously to stop all public dances on Sundays.
1910 January Walsenburg: Walsenburg received another snowstorm but the temperatures rose so boys and girls enjoyed sledding and snowballing.
1910 January Walsenburg: Why not use Oleomargarine, cheaper and better than butter? For sale at Krier Stores Co.
1910 February La Veta: About 700 [railroad] cars of coal were shipped from the Oakdale mine this past month.
1910 February La Veta: Everett Hazard and Hazel Mauldin were married.
1910 February La Veta: Frank Hamilton traded his meat market to L.H. Bemen for a house and lots on Francisco Street and Mr. Bemen will take the meat market and remove it.
1910 February La Veta: Mr. Gallassino's [sic] new stone house on Ryus Avenue is about ready for the carpenters. William Fey has the contract for finishing it.
1910 February La Veta: Sumpter Martin has purchased the M.T. Hills ranch on the upper Cuchara, which with his home place lower down the stream will make a fine property.
1910 February La Veta: Town council is planning to plant 100 box elder trees on the railroad ground next to the depot, plow the ground and put in blue grass seed.
1910 February La Veta: W.H. Adamson is collecting material for the building of a residence in the Mission fashion on Oak Street in the block known as The Park.
1910 February La Veta: With the end of his partnership with Robert Duncan, C.B. Campbell will sell just stationery and novelties at the P.O. Store and will no longer handle groceries.
1910 February La Veta: With the sale of the Garren and Strange mercantile business, the Advertiser has been conducted longer than any other business under one management - 15 years next May.
1910 February Walsenburg: Ben Moschi and Simon Moses were killed in a fall of rock Feb. 15 in the McNally mine and John Tierney died of the same cause in the Big Four the same day.
1910 February Walsenburg: Dr. T.F. Tannus has decided to open a practice in Walsenburg and at present is located in the Klein Hotel.
1910 February Walsenburg: Dr. T.F. Tannus has decided to open a practice in Walsenburg and at present is located in the Klein Hotel.
1910 February Walsenburg: Messrs. Kelley and Kelley have opened a skating rink in Palace Hall.
1910 February Walsenburg: On account of the illness of one of the high school basketball players the team did not go to Trinidad to play last Friday.
1910 February Walsenburg: On account of the singer at the Huerfano Theater having a bad cold, there will be no illustrated song pictures this week.
1910 February Walsenburg: Over 550 children are enrolled in the city's grade schools and another 20 at Beeville.
1910 February Walsenburg: Roy Robinson of the Walsenburg Independent visited La Veta for the first time on Saturday.
1910 February Walsenburg: The Blue Ribbon Boys of Walsen gave a dance Saturday evening with a large attendance.
1910 February Walsenburg: The ladies of the Methodist Guild will give a chicken pie supper on Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, at the home of Mrs. W. Hammond. Price 35 cents.
1910 February Walsenburg: The morals of the country are in the schools, the homes and the churches, not in the Congress.
1910 February Walsenburg: W. B. Danford will manage M. Bernstein's store here while the latter takes care of his new store at Colorado City.
1910: C.L. Martin bought back his meat market on Ryus from Frank R. Hamilton.
1910: Sumpter Martin bought the Hills ranches at the head of the Cucharas for $5000.00
1910 March La Veta: A building was moved to close to the Devil's Stairsteps for use as a school.
1910 March La Veta: A move is on to put in water, a lawn and trees in Railroad Park.
1910 March La Veta: A move is on to put in water, a lawn and trees in Railroad Park.
1910 March La Veta: Bessie Ellen Springer married Martin M. Byouk.
1910 March La Veta: Bessie Ellen Springer married Martin M. Byouk.
1910 March La Veta: Despite rumors to the contrary, Robinson Brothers will continue their cement block business and say it will be on a larger scale than ever before.
1910 March La Veta: It is persistently reported that Fruth and Autrey are planning to sell the Oakdale mine.
1910 March La Veta: Messrs. Dregman and Abbott have rented that portion of the Springer Hotel formerly used as a short-order restaurant and are fixing up rooms for a real estate office.
1910 March La Veta: The coal shovelers in the railroad yards went on strike. They had been working eleven hours at eighteen cents and the time was reduced to ten hours.
1910 March La Veta: The town ranch was again leased to Lawrence Kreutzer for an annual rental of $100 and he agrees to keep the lake full of water.
1910 March La Veta: Two hundred people watched the Johnson-Ketchel prize fight moving picture in T.P. Steele's theater in Kincaid Hall Friday night.
1910 March Walsenburg: An exciting runaway occurred on Main Street when Aaron Anderson's delivery horse bolted near the Wayt Lumberyard and ended up in a somersault on the cement walk in front of the courthouse.
1910 March Walsenburg: G.F. Korte, a resident of Walsenburg for 20 years, owns 400 acres near San Diego, CA where he operates a very lucrative business based on vegetables, orchards, hay and corn.
1910 March Walsenburg: Jack Deighton is the new superintendent for the Victor Fuel Company at Ravenwood.
1910 March Walsenburg: Mr. W. Berryhill has returned to Walsenburg and will instruct violin, mandolin and guitar as well as provide orchestra music for concerts, socials and the like.
1910 March Walsenburg: The Anti-saloon league found slot machines in every saloon but one and swore complaints against 24 saloon keepers in Walsenburg.
1910 March Walsenburg: The Anti-Saloon League has caused the arrest of 24 saloon keepers for allowing gambling on their premises.
1910 March Walsenburg: The hydrants at Washington School have been frozen up for the past ten days.
1910 March Walsenburg: Thirty-three placer claims have been filed with the county clerk lately.
1910 April La Veta: A. Patras, H.M. Stockwell and Dr. Lamme formed the La Veta Automobile Company to operate out of the Eggleston building.
1910 April La Veta: E.A. Strange has purchased the interest of his partner J.M. Garren in their store property on Main Street, and also bought the Phillips property on Francisco Street.
1910 April La Veta: Jasper Kerby bought the Reo automobile belonging to Mr. Stockwell. Mr. Kerby thinks the automobile is here to stay and will gradually replace his livery teams with cars.
1910 April La Veta: Joe Taylor's Spanish Peaks sawmill is producing mine props.
1910 April La Veta: M.C. Brennan is altering the Daigre building on Main Street and will open a meat market there.
1910 April La Veta: M.T. Hills, one of the first settlers in the upper Cuchara valley, died in California. The post office located at the Willis ranch was named for his hometown in New York, Nunda.
1910 April La Veta: Mayor Capps and his assistants have the railroad park laid out with a drive around the entire enclosure and one drive each direction through the center where a circle of trees has been arranged for a future flower bed or fountain.
1910 April La Veta: Miss Maida Alexander is working at the Enterprise office in Miss Etchison's place after the latter left to commence work on her farm.
1910 April La Veta: The school board plans to plant a row of trees on the west side of the school house. Of the 12 evergreens planted last year, five are living.
1910 April Walsenburg: About $53 was cleared by the girls club for the public library at their entertainment last week.
1910 April Walsenburg: Carl Easter bought an interest in the Walsenburg Novelty Works and Garage.
1910 April Walsenburg: The graders arrived to begin the yards for the new Walsen mine.
1910 April Walsenburg: The rain and snow on Tuesday was [sic] welcome but probably froze the fruit blossoms.
1910 April Walsenburg: Victor Mazzone, town clerk, and Ralph Levy have been busy this week numbering the houses of town, starting with Main Street.
1910 April Walsenburg: Walsen mine was worked 27 days last month.
1910 March La Veta: A building was moved to close to the Devil's Stairsteps for use as a school.
1910 March La Veta: A move is on to put in water, a lawn and trees in Railroad Park.
1910 March La Veta: A move is on to put in water, a lawn and trees in Railroad Park.
1910 March La Veta: Bessie Ellen Springer married Martin M. Byouk.
1910 March La Veta: Bessie Ellen Springer married Martin M. Byouk.
1910 March La Veta: Despite rumors to the contrary, Robinson Brothers will continue their cement block business and say it will be on a larger scale than ever before.
1910 March La Veta: It is persistently reported that Fruth and Autrey are planning to sell the Oakdale mine.
1910 March La Veta: Messrs. Dregman and Abbott have rented that portion of the Springer Hotel formerly used as a short-order restaurant and are fixing up rooms for a real estate office.
1910 March La Veta: The coal shovelers in the railroad yards went on strike. They had been working eleven hours at eighteen cents and the time was reduced to ten hours.
1910 March La Veta: The town ranch was again leased to Lawrence Kreutzer for an annual rental of $100 and he agrees to keep the lake full of water.
1910 March La Veta: Two hundred people watched the Johnson-Ketchel prize fight moving picture in T.P. Steele's theater in Kincaid Hall Friday night.
1910 March Walsenburg: An exciting runaway occurred on Main Street when Aaron Anderson's delivery horse bolted near the Wayt Lumberyard and ended up in a somersault on the cement walk in front of the courthouse.
1910 March Walsenburg: G.F. Korte, a resident of Walsenburg for 20 years, owns 400 acres near San Diego, CA where he operates a very lucrative business based on vegetables, orchards, hay and corn.
1910 March Walsenburg: Jack Deighton is the new superintendent for the Victor Fuel Company at Ravenwood.
1910 March Walsenburg: Mr. W. Berryhill has returned to Walsenburg and will instruct violin, mandolin and guitar as well as provide orchestra music for concerts, socials and the like.
1910 March Walsenburg: The Anti-saloon league found slot machines in every saloon but one and swore complaints against 24 saloon keepers in Walsenburg.
1910 March Walsenburg: The Anti-Saloon League has caused the arrest of 24 saloon keepers for allowing gambling on their premises.
1910 March Walsenburg: The hydrants at Washington School have been frozen up for the past ten days.
1910 March Walsenburg: Thirty-three placer claims have been filed with the county clerk lately.
1910 April La Veta: A. Patras, H.M. Stockwell and Dr. Lamme formed the La Veta Automobile Company to operate out of the Eggleston building.
1910 April La Veta: E.A. Strange has purchased the interest of his partner J.M. Garren in their store property on Main Street, and also bought the Phillips property on Francisco Street.
1910 April La Veta: Jasper Kerby bought the Reo automobile belonging to Mr. Stockwell. Mr. Kerby thinks the automobile is here to stay and will gradually replace his livery teams with cars.
1910 April La Veta: Joe Taylor's Spanish Peaks sawmill is producing mine props.
1910 April La Veta: M.C. Brennan is altering the Daigre building on Main Street and will open a meat market there.
1910 April La Veta: M.T. Hills, one of the first settlers in the upper Cuchara valley, died in California. The post office located at the Willis ranch was named for his hometown in New York, Nunda.
1910 April La Veta: Mayor Capps and his assistants have the railroad park laid out with a drive around the entire enclosure and one drive each direction through the center where a circle of trees has been arranged for a future flower bed or fountain.
1910 April La Veta: Miss Maida Alexander is working at the Enterprise office in Miss Etchison's place after the latter left to commence work on her farm.
1910 April La Veta: The school board plans to plant a row of trees on the west side of the school house. Of the 12 evergreens planted last year, five are living.
1910 April Walsenburg: About $53 was cleared by the girls club for the public library at their entertainment last week.
1910 April Walsenburg: Carl Easter bought an interest in the Walsenburg Novelty Works and Garage.
1910 April Walsenburg: The graders arrived to begin the yards for the new Walsen mine.
1910 April Walsenburg: The rain and snow on Tuesday was [sic] welcome but probably froze the fruit blossoms.
1910 April Walsenburg: Victor Mazzone, town clerk, and Ralph Levy have been busy this week numbering the houses of town, starting with Main Street.
1910 April Walsenburg: Walsen mine was worked 27 days last month.
1910 May La Veta: A speed limit for automobiles and other rules governing the driving of cars in town should receive the attention of the town board.
1910 May La Veta: Benton Vories is assisting in the butcher shop at Oakview owing to the sudden disappearance of the regular meat cutter.
1910 May La Veta: Comet phobia has attacked the natives of La Veta and many a citizen has been aroused by an alarm at 3 o'clock in the morning to gaze upon our periodic celestial visitor.
1910 May La Veta: Fannie B. Laybourne, osteopathic physician, has her office at the corner of Main and Field Streets.
1910 May La Veta: George Coleman is opening a shooting gallery on Ryus Avenue.
1910 May La Veta: I deliver ice every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday or customers may pick it up at my blacksmith - Fred Vasquez.
1910 May La Veta: S.J. Capps has suggested building a fountain in the railroad park.
1910 May La Veta: Trix Brennan bought out the ice contract of Fred Vasquez.
1910 May La Veta: W.H. Adamson won the contract to lay six inch water pipe down Oak Street to Ryus for $7,800.
1910 May Walsenburg: The county clerk issued marriage licenses to David Gonzales and Mausia Archuleta and to Morris Cisneros and Maria Soledad Romero.
1910 May Walsenburg: The entertainment of skit; and music given by the ladies of the Episcopal League Monday evening was one of the best ever given in Walsenburg.
1910 May Walsenburg: W.A. Kearns, contractor and builder, opened a shop on Main Street opposite Furphy's livery stable.
1910 June La Veta: 1 have obtained use of the public school building on Francisco Street and opened a private school. $4 per month per student; two from one family, $6 per month. - Vessie Thomas.
1910 June La Veta: Another hitching post in Railroad Park is needed.
1910 June La Veta: Another hitching rack is needed next to the railroad park and the tying of horses opposite business houses should be strictly prohibited. The odor from this cause is injurious to the public health.
1910 June La Veta: Gene Vories is now working for the Enterprise.
1910 June La Veta: J.E. Marker returned from Denver with two registered Jersey cows, two grade cows and a fine Jersey bull for which he paid $225.
1910 June La Veta: Since the railroad built the new cement water tank, they have had the old wooden tank torn down.
1910 June La Veta: Ten new houses and a school are being built at Oakview.
1910 June La Veta: The little house belonging to P.L. Estes above Sulphur Springs burned down. Ed Collier has been living there.
1910 June La Veta: The new fountain in Railroad Park is being built.
1910 June La Veta: The new fountain in the park will be built by W.H. Adamson and plumbed by Alex McDonald, at a cost of about $185. The railroad donated $10.
1910 June La Veta: The Occidental, where the tipple just burned, was the first coal mine near La Veta to be extensively worked.
1910 June La Veta: The D&RG have torn down the old wooden water tank and are drawing water solely from the cement tank.
1910 June Walsenburg: A number of small children are succumbing to pneumonia and measles.
1910 June Walsenburg: E.C. Countrayman, for three years manager of the Morris Hotel, closed a deal to become sole owner.
1910 June Walsenburg: La Opinion Publica's office building has been moved to the rear of the lot occupied by Drs. Baird and Lester's office.
1910 June Walsenburg: La Opinion Publica's office has been moved to behind Baird and Lester's doctors' office.
1910 June Walsenburg: Lucien Krier, H.S. Wilson, proprietors of the new moving picture show in the Levy building, and Louis Sarfino, piano player, were arrested for running a moving picture show without a license.
1910 June Walsenburg: Lucy Nielson quit the Colorado Supply in Walsen after several years to take a position as head of the dry goods department of the new Huerfano Mercantile Company, which was formed by the consolidation of Unfug Mercantile, Allen Stephens and some other Huerfano County stores.
1910 June Walsenburg: M.A. Sanchez has moved his stock of dry goods and groceries to the old Levy building on Main recently purchased by Peter Krier.
1910 June Walsenburg: M.A. Sanchez moved his stock of dry goods and groceries into the old Levy building on Main Street, now owned by Peter Krier.
1910 June Walsenburg: Since Father Ussel left $8,000 for a parochial school, the Catholic church needs only $12,000 more to build the school, which would be raised by subscription.
1910 June Walsenburg: The Masons held their last meeting in the old quarters Saturday evening and will be in their new hall before the next meeting June 18.
1910 June Walsenburg: There was a shooting scrap on Seventh Street last night between Joe Palaisano the shoe man of Main Street and Carmeli Livorsi, a miner. "Cherchez le femme."
1910 July La Veta: Judge Kimsey has moved his court house to Francisco Street, nearly opposite of town hall.
1910 July La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kincaid came over from Russell to stay over for the Fourth of July festivities.
1910 July La Veta: The 4th of July dinner at the Spanish Peaks Hotel will consist of noodle soup, chicken fricasee, beef roast, vegetables, cream and fruit pies, chocolate and vanilla ice cream with fresh fruit, hot rolls, coffee, tea and milk, 35¢.
1910 July La Veta: The new $ 5,000 Methodist Church will soon be built between E.L. Smith's residence and old Ryus park.
1910 July La Veta: The new Estes buildings will be complete in August. Estes will have the drugstore in the north half and A. F. Tiffany will open a store on the south side.
1910 July La Veta: William Lougheed came back from the Pacific Coast and has concluded La Veta is not such a bad place after all, and there are no earthquakes or fleas.
1910 July Walsenburg: Died, Amelia Schwab, 22, wife of John S. Schwab, at the Farr ranch. She was the daughter of Emil Schmidt of Custer County.
1910 July Walsenburg: Earl Harris, assistant bookkeeper at Guaranty State Bank, and Josephine Rahn were married July 10 at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Paul Frohlich.
1910 July Walsenburg: Furman and Devaney have returned to the retail meat business in their old quarters at City Meat Market on Main Street.
1910 July Walsenburg: H.C. Scott, manager of a pool hall on Main Street, abruptly left town after cashing some bad checks and selling a horse belonging to Welling J. Sumner for $110.
1910 July Walsenburg: Present this coupon at the new Unfug Waist and Skirt Company's new store in the Masonic building and you will get interesting information.
1910 July Walsenburg: Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" was seen and enjoyed Saturday night at the Otto Theater opposite the Klein Hotel. The inserted explanations made it easy to follow.
1910 July Walsenburg: The coroner's jury ruled death by negligence in the case of Galtino Filanejo, who was killed by a fall of rock in the Pictou mine Tuesday.
1910 July Walsenburg: The Ladies Aid Society of the M.E. Church cleared $8.60 on their ice cream social held on the lawn of Mrs. Roche.
1910 July Walsenburg: The Ladies Aid Society of the M.E. Church cleared $8.60 on their ice cream social held on the lawn of Mrs. Roche.
1910 July Walsenburg: The Masonic fraternity held their first meeting in the new Masonic Temple building Saturday night.
1910 July Walsenburg: The Otto Theatre is opening in the former Sanchez building opposite the Klein Hotel on Sixth Street.
1910 July Walsenburg: The Southern Hotel on South Main has first class meals and rooms, board by day or week, electric lights and bathrooms. S. Valdes, manager.
1910 July Walsenburg: W.A. Kearns is putting a new roof on the Chatin building currently occupied by M. Bernstein.
1910 August 18: Born at Cucharas, Colo., on Friday August 5, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Riggs, a girl.
1910 August 18: Born at McGuire, Colo., on Wednesday August 10, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. J.P.Martinez, a son.
1910 August 18: Born at Strong, Colo., on Thursday August 11, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. August S. Weiner, a daughter.
1910 August 18: Born at Tioga on Friday August 5, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. John Tador, a son.
1910 August 18: Born at Walsenburg, Ccolo., on Tuesday August 3, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Weirs, a girl.
1910 August 18: Born at Walsenburg, Colo., on Tuesday august 9, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. Rhoady Evans, a girl.
1910 August 18: Born at Walsenburg, Colo., on Wednesday August 10, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Workman, a daughter.
1910 August 18: Mr. C.E. Smith of La Veta was in town this morning. Mr. Smith has moved his saw mill outfit near to La Veta and will make that place his home for awhile. He orders the World sent to him in la Veta.
1910 August 18: Mr. Jack MacQuarrie arrived in Walsenburg Friday he will remain several days.
1910 August 18: Mr. McHendrie of Trinidad is spending several days in Walsenburg.
1910 August 18: Mr. O.E. Clark, owner of the Clark’s Mineral Wells of Pueblo was a caller Tuesday returning home Wednesday.
1910 August 18: Mr. W.N. Houser of Gardner was a business caller Tuesday.
1910 August 18: Mrs. James Hurley was called to Colorado Springs Sunday night on account of the more serious condition of her father who has been sick for many months. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley received the sad message of the fathers death, just before leaving.
1910 August 18: Mrs. P.S. Brown, Mrs. V.M. Sammis, Mrs. J.J. Pritchard and Mrs. C.L. Hendershot, members of the Saturday club.
1910 August 18: Mrs. S.B. Richey and children returned Monday from a several weeks visit with friends at Salt Lake.
1910 August 18: Real estate transfers were recorded with the county clerk this week as follows: Medardo Espinosa to Manuel F. Martinez; Batista Cernusco and Luigi Rosso to Luigo Rosso; Batista Cernusco and Luigi Rosso to Batista Cernusco; William R. Welch to Walter W. Hammond; Walter Hammond to Ella M. Moncrief; Paul Frolich and Fred McHarg to George Phipps; Mary E. Moncrief to Sarah E. Baird and Thomas D. Baird; Juan Antonio Vigil to Pedro E. Gallegos; Pedro E. Gallegos to Juan Antonio Vigil
1910 August 20: Maitland Items – Lewis Hufty spent Tuesday in Ravenwood.
1910 August 20: Maitland Items – Miss Maggie Allison of Toltec was a guest of the Misses McNally this week.
1910 August 20: Maitland Items – Misses Gertrude Meldrum, Geace Scholes, abd Anna Nelson were shopping in Walsenburg Monday.
1910 August 20: Maitland Items – Mrs. Ruby Lippott of Elkhart, Ills. Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Fernie Lippott.
1910 August 25: Born at McGuire, Colo., on Friday August 19, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. Randolph O. Foote, a son.
1910 August 25: Born at Pictou, colo., on Wednesday august 17, 1910 to Mr. and Mrs. James C. Lawrence, a girl.
1910 August 25: Born at Walsenburg, Colo., to Mr. and Mrs. P.L. Sanchez on Sunday August 14, 1910, a daughter.
1910 August 25: Born to Mr. and Mrs. Vicente Chaves at Walsenburg, Colo., on Saturday August 20 1910, a boy.
1910 August 25: Geo. Read took a nice veal to Rouse Monday and made a business trip to the county seat the same day.
1910 August 25: Lincoln Morris spent a few days this week with Mr. and Mrs. R. Rogers and butchered some nice veal which he sold to E.J. Devaney of Walsenburg.
1910 August 25: Marriage licenses were issued during the past week by the County clerk as follows: Vesenta Romero age 21 and Caltena Garcia age 17, William Murray age 65 and Mary Ann McKay age 67, Serafino Flirn age 21 and Mrs. Fannie Flairn age 18, Epifanio Ramirez age 19 and Victoria Atencio age 16, Tila Katie age 25 and Maria Stajdutra age 20, Pedro Maes age 24 and Anna Modesta Cisneros age 23, Juan B. Roybal age 23 and Maria Martina Gonzales age 20.
1910 August 25: Miss Blanche Alexander spent Friday and Saturday with home folks near La Veta.
1910 August 25: Mr. Elmer Read, Miss Blanche Alexander, and Misses Mary and Anna Rogers spent a pleasant Sunday evening at the Tartar home.
1910 August La Veta: A.G. Tiffany has opened a furniture and household goods store in the just completed Estes building.
1910 August La Veta: C.C. Webster, new manager of the La Veta Light, Heat and Power Company, is here with his family from New York and will shortly be joined by his brother.
1910 August La Veta: Eugene Vories has gone back to his old trade and is helping to cut meat in the butcher's shop.
1910 August La Veta: J.M. Garren bought A.H. Sparks grocery and clothing stock and will open a store in the Stranger building.
1910 August La Veta: P.L. Estes' new stores on the west side of Main Street, along with E.L. Smith's next door, present the nicest looking fronts in town.
1910 August La Veta: S.J. Capps has purchased the Picken's property in North La Veta and Mr. Pickens will build on his newly acquired lots in the southeast part of town.
1910 August La Veta: The Adventist Church was moved two lots west, next to Fred Dryden's house and four lots.
1910 August La Veta: The Commercial Club is subscribing money to have the road to Cuchara Camps improved so autos can travel it with some comfort.
1910 August La Veta: The midnight picnic in Adamson Park was most enjoyable.
1910 August La Veta: Two large parties are being organized to ascend the West Spanish Peak Sunday - so far this season we have only heard of one person who has reached the summit.
1910 August La Veta: W.H. Adamson has posted his bond and is ready to start enlarging, and extending the water system.
1910 August Walsenburg: C.W. Cox has moved his undertaking parlors to the new Mazzone block.
1910 August Walsenburg: James Murray has purchased Charles Hayden's Capitol Hill property opposite the Methodist Church.
1910 August Walsenburg: The Columbines handily defeated La Veta 25-4 Sunday afternoon.
1910 August Walsenburg: The town is full of railroad graders. Monday was pay day and they made the old town lively.
1910 August Walsenburg: Unfug Waist and Skirt Company is offering bargains at their new Fashion Bazaar in the Masonic building.
1910 August Walsenburg: Unfug Waist and Skirt Company is offering bargains at their new Fashion Bazaar in the Masonic building.
1910 August Walsenburg: W.A. Kearns is putting a new roof on the Chatin building occupied by M. Bernstein.
1910 August: Daumiller and Strauss are anxious to sell their saloon at Pictou.
1910 August: Several thousand men will soon begin construction of the 46 mile, $4,000,000 double [railroad] track between Pueblo and Walsenburg:
1910 August: The heavy hitting Columbine nine defeated La Veta 25-4.
1910 September La Veta: Aaron Harris' little daughter Clara died of burns she received when their house burned down.
1910 September La Veta: Alfalfa at $12 a ton and meadow hay at $15 should make the farmers rich.
1910 September La Veta: E.R. Coleman is laying two cement crossings on Main Street and two alley crossings in the same vicinity.
1910 September La Veta: F.C. Sager expects to open the Mountain View Dairy at his farm about the 10th of next month.
1910 September La Veta: F.C. Sager is also taking poultry orders at the Mountain View Dairy.
1910 September La Veta: Fred Black is moving the La Veta Steam Laundry into the building vacated by A.G. Tiffany.
1910 September La Veta: Fred Black is starting a steam laundry in the Lester building on Main Street.
1910 September La Veta: Fred Vasquez and Joshua Cooper sold the blacksmith shop back to John Goemmer but will still run it.
1910 September La Veta: J.M. Garren, who bought out the stock of A.H. Sparks grocery and clothing store, opened a new store in the Stranger building called the New Reliable.
1910 September La Veta: Most of the merchants of La Veta have agreed to close their places of business at six o'clock sharp every night except Saturdays and D&RG paydays.
1910 September La Veta: Vicente Gallegos and Lucia Martinez were married at the home of the bride's parents on the Wahatoya Sept. 8 by Fr. Lefebvre.
1910 September La Veta: We once more desire to draw the attention of the city council for establishing speed limits and rules governing automobiles.
1910 September La Veta: William Bruce is nursing a broken leg caused by a pipe falling on his limb while at work on the extension of the water line.
1910 September Walsenburg: Lincoln Morris is returning to his home in England for a visit, his first since he came to Huerfano County 27 years ago.
1910 September Walsenburg: Low Lester is progressing rapidly on the drug store he is building on East Fifth Street.
1910 September Walsenburg: Mr. Lincoln Morris is returning to his home in England for a visit, his first since he came to Huerfano County in 1883.
1910 September Walsenburg: The McIntire and Krier store additions are great improvements for the east side of Main Street.
1910 September Walsenburg: The typhoid epidemic seems to be letting up.
1910 September Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Elks are sponsoring the Great C.W. Parker Shows all this week.
1910 September Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Elks paraded along Main Street Tuesday in their beautiful Satanic costumes to open the Parker charity show.
1910 September Walsenburg: W.E. Tynes has moved his tailor shop to the new brick Roof and Dick building on Main Street.
1910 September Walsenburg: W.E. Tynes moved his tailor shop to the new brick building of Roof and Dick on Main Street.
1910 September: The tenth annual Colorado State Fair will be held in Pueblo Sept. 19-24 and the Denver and Rio Grande will give a special rate of one fare for the round trip.
1910 October La Veta: Electric lights have been installed on the fountain in the town park in red, white and blue.
1910 October La Veta: Fred Black is now operating his steam laundry in the building vacated by A.G. Tiffany.
1910 October La Veta: George Hansen has gone to Aguilar where in partnership with T.P. Steele will conduct a moving picture show at the Majestic Theater and also manufacture candy for wholesale trade.
1910 October La Veta: J.M. Garren is preparing to move his stock of goods into the north Estes store.
1910 October La Veta: Miss Christina Berglund is offering a line of fall millinery in the Spanish Peaks Hotel.
1910 October La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. William Falk from Arnago, Kans. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Falk on the Cucharas.
1910 October La Veta: T.P. Steele closed his theater and moved to Aguilar.
1910 October La Veta: The new Mountain View Dairy of Fred C. Sager will have 30 - 40 cows and will deliver milk and cream and butter.
1910 October La Veta: The post office store will henceforth close at 6 p.m. but mail will be dispatched if dropped in the postal box before seven o'clock.
1910 October La Veta: The school in the Baker district on Middle Creek is being moved to Oakview where there are more students.
1910 October La Veta: Town Clerk and Recorder John C. Hector, 44, was killed in a hunting accident by Ed Rilley. He was born in England, moved to La Veta in 1888 and leaves three brothers and six sisters.
1910 October La Veta: Wagon loads of hunters have been arriving in preparation for the opening of deer season Monday.
1910 October Walsenburg: A crazy tea and social will be held by the Ladies Guild at the Davidson's home near the depot.
1910 October Walsenburg: A total of 501 pupils are enrolled in Walsenburg's graded schools and 58 in the high school.
1910 October Walsenburg: C.W. Cox has a new selection of picture frames at his undertaking and embalming parlors in the new Mazzone block.
1910 October Walsenburg: City Pharmacy has connected itself to a national corporation called United Drug Company selling the Rexall brand.
1910 October Walsenburg: Dr. R.L. Slominski has opened an office over Guaranty State Bank at the corner of Fifth and Main, where he specializes in diseases of women and chronic diseases.
1910 October Walsenburg: Dr. R.L. Slominski has opened an office over Guaranty State Bank at the corner of Fifth and Main, where he specializes in diseases of women and chronic diseases.
1910 October Walsenburg: Dr. R.L. Slominski, who specializes in diseases of women and chronic disease, has opened an office over the Guaranty State Bank at Fifth and Main.
1910 October Walsenburg: John Hoto was killed by a loose trip of empty cars at the Walsen mine.
1910 October Walsenburg: Joseph O'Byrne this week started construction of his new home on Indiana Avenue.
1910 October Walsenburg: Joseph O'Byrne this week started construction of his new home on Indiana Avenue.
1910 October Walsenburg: Ladies of St. Mary Church will have a supper and dance Saturday night, Oct. 29. Supper will probably be served at the court house and the dances will take place in the Armory and Mazzone Hall.
1910 October Walsenburg: Ladies underwear in silk and wool, cotton fleece and cotton and silk at J.B. Johnson's.
1910 October Walsenburg: Members of the Eastern Star have organized an embroidery club.
1910 October Walsenburg: Robert Young has leased the Champion mine and started it working after many months of idleness.
1910 October Walsenburg: The Joe Ball coal mine is open for local trade only.
1910 October Walsenburg: The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church earned $23.50 on a supper given at the home of Mrs. J.B. Lahring.
1910 October Walsenburg: The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church earned $23.50 on a supper given at the home of Mrs. J.B. Lahring.
1910 October Walsenburg: The new electric line for power has just been completed to the John Breene mine near McNally.
1910 October Walsenburg: A crazy tea and social will be held by the Ladies Guild at the Davidson's home near the depot.
1910 November La Veta: Andrew Picken's announces he will open a moving picture show in the Kincaid Hall next Monday evening.
1910 November La Veta: Dr. Amelia Bird, who formerly practiced medicine in La Veta, died.
1910 November La Veta: F.H. Harris was down from La Veta Pass on Monday and installed a gasoline heating plant in the Edminsten restaurant.
1910 November La Veta: J. Phineas Copple is prepared to do your painting, paper hanging and decorating.
1910 November La Veta: Joe K. Kincaid is building a new warehouse next to where his old one burned down.
1910 November La Veta: Mary Gallante is adding a second floor to her home next to the Baptist Church.
1910 November La Veta: Messrs. Spicer and Simpson have purchased the Elk Livery from Jasper Kerby and the latter has gone into the garage business with his son Edward in Aguilar.
1910 November La Veta: Spicer and Simpson, who bought the Elk Livery on Ryus Avenue, have renamed it Mountain View Livery.
1910 November La Veta: The daylight passenger service which has done something toward advertising La Veta to the outside world, was discontinued this week by the Denver and Rio Grande.
1910 November La Veta: The Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will give a food and apron sale in the new Estes building on Saturday from 2 o'clock until 6.
1910 November La Veta: There are 195 pupils enrolled in the grade school.
1910 November La Veta: Two water trains per day leave La Veta for Cucharas so it is possible to leave at 7:30 a.m. and arrive home at 5:30 p.m.
1910 November Walsenburg: A grading camp has been set up near the stockyards and work to lay the new rail to Huerfano Station will begin at once.
1910 November Walsenburg: Fresh Saratoga Chips Today. Levy's store. Phone 33.
1910 November Walsenburg: Fresh Saratoga Chips today. Levy's. Phone 33.
1910 November Walsenburg: James Gleason is the new master mechanic at the Walsen mines.
1910 November Walsenburg: James McCoy, formerly of Maitland, was killed Wednesday in the Sunnyside mine by a fall of rock.
1910 November Walsenburg: Ladies underwear in silk and wool, cotton fleece and cotton and silk for sale at J.B. Johnson's store.
1910 November Walsenburg: One hundred and thirty-six lives have been lost in southern Colorado coal mines in the past month and a half after the Delagua mine disaster claimed 76 men.
1910 November Walsenburg: Pete Angello was killed Monday in the Maitland mine.
1910 November Walsenburg: Pete Angello was killed Monday in the Maitland Mine.
1910 November Walsenburg: The grocery branch of the Huerfano Trading Company are now installed in the new Roof and Dick building. The dry goods department will open later.
1910 November Walsenburg: The Joe Ball coal mine is opened for local trade only. Cameron Vein. Call Steele's barn, Phone 1113.
1910 November Walsenburg: The new school house on Bear Creek near Capps is complete and Miss Annie Rogers will begin her term there soon.
1910 November Walsenburg: The sheriff will sell the Commercial Coal and Coke Company's property and equipment at the Jackson mine near Strong, 12 miles north of Walsenburg.
1910 November Walsenburg: The W.T.C. entertained at an old time "Hallowe'ne Party" Monday evening at Mazzone's Opera House.
1910 December La Veta: Dr. S. Julian Lamme and his family have moved into their new stone residence on Main Street.
1910 December La Veta: Edna, the four week old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Springer, died of pneumonia.
1910 December La Veta: Four thousand feet of film, double the usual amount, will be shown tomorrow night at the Picture Show.
1910 December La Veta: Fred Dryden expects to resign his position with the telephone company and travel with the Melrose Dramatic Company.
1910 December La Veta: G.F. Estes, who has had charge of refilling the town reservoir, informs us there is now six feet of fresh water in the lake.
1910 December La Veta: John Kincaid bought the Harry Hamilton ranch on the Wahatoya known as the Williams place.
1910 December La Veta: Messrs. Spicer and Simpson bought the Elk Livery on Ryus and renamed it the Mountain View Livery.
1910 December La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. T.P. Steele purchased George Hansen's interest in the picture show at Aguilar and George will return to the manufacture of Korona Kreams in La Veta.
1910 December La Veta: Nellie Dotson and Oscar Smith were married.
1910 December La Veta: Sixty people took advantage of the special Christmas dinner served at the Spanish Peaks Hotel.
1910 December La Veta: The best skating that has been enjoyed for years has been in progress on the mill lake for over two weeks. The ice will soon be thick enough to cut.
1910 December La Veta: The male quartette which has been lately organized is an attractive feature of the Sunday evening union services.
1910 December La Veta: The Turner buildings on Main Street are almost complete and across Ryus, the Kincaid warehouse is also nearing completion.
1910 December Walsenburg: Guiseppe Amedei has a grocery store on East Sixth Street, opposite the Klein Hotel.
1910 December Walsenburg: McDonald and Edwards have moved their plumbing business to a new location at 114½ East Fifth Street.
1910 December Walsenburg: McDonald and Edwards have moved their plumbing business to a new location at 114½ East Fifth Street. 1915: The Albert Taylor Stock Company of 14 people will present a new show nightly next week at the Empress Theatre. 25¢ and 35¢.
1910 December Walsenburg: Miss Ethel McDowell is the teacher at the Round Oak schoolhouse.
1910 December Walsenburg: Several people at Walsen mines are suffering smallpox.
1910 December Walsenburg: Shorty Martinez was appointed deputy sheriff and Homer Potts will resume his duties as night marshal.
1910 December Walsenburg: Sixty-five students are currently enrolled in Huerfano County High School.
1910 December Walsenburg: The Aguilar Record came this week as a special Christmas number with the cover lithographed in colors and many good write-ups of Aguilar inside. It was a credit to the town.
1910 December Walsenburg: The entertainment given at the Walsen school house on Friday was largely attended and proved to be a big success.
1910 December Walsenburg: The new power house at Rouse was completed and will furnish electricity to Ideal and Cameron camps as well.
1910 December Walsenburg: The Polish National Society No. 776 will give a dance Saturday night in Pisarczyk hall on Seventh Street.
1910 December Walsenburg: The Star Theater will give nightly changes of pictures during the holidays and anticipate big crowds.
1910 December Walsenburg: The Victor American Fuel Company has settled with the heirs of the 79 victims of the Delagua disaster Nov. 8. Checks of from $1,000 to $2,000 each were distributed among the families.
1910 December Walsenburg: W.B. Wayt is building additional shed room to accommodate his large stock of lumber.
1911 January La Veta: C. B. Barnard has purchased that portion of what is known as the Dotson ranch lately owned by W.H. Hamilton for $8,000.
1911 January La Veta: Ice harvesting has begun after the recent cold weather.
1911 January La Veta: It was 20 below zero and Pipes are Popping all over town.
1911 January La Veta: Karl Spielmann is about to commence the construction of a reservoir on his ranch west of town.
1911 January La Veta: Mountain View Creamery with F.C. Sager as manager has commenced operations and is turning out a good product. His big barn is lighted with electricity and has a private water supply.
1911 January La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Jones are the proud parents of a fourteen pound son.
1911 January La Veta: Quincy Zimmerman went to Denver to buy several nice Jersey cows to produce milk for the Mountain View Creamery. He has a new 20 by 45 foot frame barn in which he will house them.
1911 January La Veta: The weather remains very cold and windy.
1911 January La Veta: Work is about to be completed on the concrete floor in the new iron garage of Alfred Patras on the rear of the Estes lots.
1911 January Walsenburg: Christopher Stumbaugh, pit boss, was killed by a fall of rock in the Midway mine.
1911 January Walsenburg: Dr. T. Ferris Tannus received his license to practice medicine.
1911 January Walsenburg: John Shaft enlarged his confectionery store and added a soda fountain.
1911 January Walsenburg: The census of 1910 shows a population of 13,320 in Huerfano County, compared to 8,395 in 1900 and 6,882 in 1890.
1911 January Walsenburg: Two more houses burned down in Walsen camp.
1911 January La Veta: A. Patras is constructing an iron garage building with a cement floor on the rear of the Estes lots.
1911 February La Veta: A local lodge of Modern Woodmen was organized Tuesday evening with about 30 members
1911 February La Veta: Albert Parks bought the house and lots of Mrs. Peter Smith next door to Dr. Lamme's office on Main Street for $600.
1911 February La Veta: An iceless soda fountain was installed in the La Veta Bakery.
1911 February La Veta: F.N. Raeder leased the small cement block building on Francisco Street to open a paint shop.
1911 February La Veta: Frank Robinson was granted the right to land at the extreme south end of Main Street for using the sand for cement work and erecting a planing mill.
1911 February La Veta: It took Dr. Lamme just three hours and 30 minutes to drive to Pueblo and back.
1911 February La Veta: The 12 inch snowfall was accompanied by temperatures as low as 14 degrees below zero.
1911 February La Veta: The blizzard and minus sixteen degree temperature this week completes three full months of cold and snow.
1911 February La Veta: The walls for William Pickens' new residence are being built of concrete blocks by contractor Neeley under the new "wet" process.
1911 February La Veta: The windstorm Wednesday damaged the school house so seriously that classes will be dismissed until a thorough inspection can be made. The term will be shortened by one month and rooms around town have been rented for the next few months.
1911 February La Veta: The worst windstorm ever remembered flattened P.C. Sager's new 22 by 112 foot dairy barn but the cows were in the basement and weathered the storm.
1911 February Walsenburg: A lot of liquor was stolen from Pete Materoli's saloon at Pictou after it closed Saturday night.
1911 February Walsenburg: Eleven drinking establishments have been charged for allowing gambling on the premises.
1911 February Walsenburg: Eleven saloons were found to be allowing gambling and the owners will face prosecution.
1911 February Walsenburg: Enrollment in the grade schools stands at 602 for the term.
1911 February Walsenburg: The basketball game ended with the score of 19 for Huerfano County High School and 9 for Raton.
1911 February Walsenburg: The Robinson mine was idle several days last week.
1911 February Walsenburg: The Tennis Club gave a social in honor of the Sigma Girls Wednesday night at Mazzone Opera House.
1911 February Walsenburg: There are now 26 boys and 41 girls enrolled in the high school, for a total of 67.
1911 February Walsenburg: There will be a Scotch concert with pipers, singers and dancers in costume on Mar. 4 at Armory Hall.
1911 March La Veta: A. Corey opened a shoe store in the Lester building.
1911 March La Veta: Albert Parks moved the house he bought from Mrs. Peter Smith farther back on the lot to be in line with Dr. Lamme's residence on the north.
1911 March La Veta: Alex McDonald purchased the bakery building from W.H. Woodruff for $3,000.
1911 March La Veta: Died, Jasper Bruce, 81, who was born in Georgia and married Caroline Trotter in 1859. All ten of their children survive.
1911 March La Veta: Jennie Tweedy is advertising a big sale on spring millinery.
1911 March La Veta: Karl Spielmann, proprietor of the Lake View Dairy, will soon visit his customers in a brand new milk wagon.
1911 March La Veta: La Veta State Bank just received a burglar proof manganese steel safe weighing two tons and costing $1,200. It is four feet square inside.
1911 March La Veta: Mrs. Jessie Donegan bought out the post office book store in the south half of the post office building.
1911 March La Veta: Mrs. Jessie Donegan has her store in the south side of the post office building.
1911 March La Veta: The new double railroad track of Colorado and Southern and Rio Grande between Pueblo and Walsenburg is progressing nicely.
1911 March La Veta: The new double railroad track of Colorado and Southern and Rio Grande between Pueblo and Walsenburg is progressing nicely.
1911 March La Veta: The organization of La Veta County from portions of Huerfano and Costilla counties is meeting with united opposition in Costilla County as well as Huerfano.
1911 March La Veta: There will be no graduates from the high school this year.
1911 March Walsenburg: Jean George, who settled on the Cucharas just east of town in 1879, died of pneumonia. He leaves his wife, a son August and daughter Mrs. Joe Ohrel.
1911 March Walsenburg: Now is a good time to clear out some of that sand on East Fifth Street.
1911 March Walsenburg: Sixty-seven students are enrolled in the high school.
1911 March Walsenburg: The new double, combined track of the Denver and Rio Grande and Colorado and Southern railroads is progressing nicely between here and Pueblo.
1911 March Walsenburg: William Kearns was notified he will receive $12 a month pension for his service in the Civil War.
1911 April La Veta: A. Patras is increasing his business at La Veta Automotive.
1911 April La Veta: A. Patras is increasing his business at La Veta Automotive.
1911 April La Veta: Edmonston and Cutler dissolved their partnership. Edmonston will keep the store and Cutler will deal strictly with machinery.
1911 April La Veta: Fred, the little ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hector, fell out of a tree Sunday and broke his arm in three places.
1911 April La Veta: Jake Marker is entirely over his attack of rheumatism after bathing in and drinking the mineral waters at Sulphur Springs the past 10 days.
1911 April La Veta: James Bishop has rented the Bruce Stone house at Oak and Francisco and taken charge of Mr. Patras' new automotive garage.
1911 April La Veta: Low Lester has constructed a cement sidewalk in front of his father's residence on Garland Street.
1911 April La Veta: Miss Lillie came over from Telluride last week to take charge of her ranch adjoining the Owens place on the mesa, build a house, dig a well and make the farm a profitable one.
1911 April La Veta: Mrs. Blanche Becker is opening a ladies furnishings store in the building formerly occupied by the Advertiser on the west side of Main Street.
1911 April La Veta: S.J. Capps was elected mayor, H.M. Stockwell, treasurer, J.P. Stranger, clerk and Peter Verliff, C.T. Ritchey, S.J. Lamme and R.V. Cutler, trustees.
1911 April La Veta: The Advertiser has moved to the new Turner building and its former site is occupied by Blanche Becker's ladies furnishings shop.
1911 April La Veta: The public school closes tomorrow but the high school still has another month of the regular term.
1911 April La Veta: The town clerk informs us there are about 140 taps to the water main which should average $12 per year, bringing in a revenue of $1,700 for the town.
1911 April Walsenburg: Captain P.P. Lester of the Medical Corps has been ordered to maneuvers on the Mexican border.
1911 April Walsenburg: S.J. Capps and Sons purchased the 320 acre Rogers ranch with good water rights, for $11,000, to include 100 head of cattle, 60 tons of hay, implements and a good house.
1911 April Walsenburg: The engineers are surveying for the tracks to the new Murphy mine near Solar.
1911 April Walsenburg: The Huerfano County Medical Society met and President Dr. T.D. Baird gave an interesting case report on dry gangrene.
1911 April Walsenburg: The Walsen and Robinson baseball team won its game with a score of 21-1, defeating Ravenwood which earned its only run on an error.
1911 May La Veta: Arthur Bruce, youngest son of Jasper, and Rowena Capps were married.
1911 May La Veta: Atchison and Daley are building a 24 by 32 foot barn on their ranch north of Mr. Owens' ranch and a residence will be erected next.
1911 May La Veta: Born, a boy to Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Bruce April 26.
1911 May La Veta: Charles Alexander rented the Foote ranch near the base of the West Spanish Peak.
1911 May La Veta: Clarence Estes unearthed part of a human skull and jaw bone with well preserved teeth while plowing on his ranch last week. They are on display at the drug store.
1911 May La Veta: Dr. Cramer rented Mrs. Wilkinson's building on Francisco Street for a dental parlor.
1911 May La Veta: F.C. Sager has disposed of his fine ranch west of town to the J.P. Morgan interests for $30,000, but he will retain a lease and option.
1911 May La Veta: John Elley has moved his family to his lately purchased ranch near Echo Creek.
1911 May La Veta: John Elley moved to his recently purchased ranch near Echo Creek.
1911 May La Veta: Sid Pascoe sold his interest in the coal mine south of Occidental to his partners.
1911 May La Veta: The dance on Friday night earned the baseball boys $16 after deducting all expenses.
1911 May La Veta: The name of the La Veta Pass post office has been officially changed to Veta Pass.
1911 May La Veta: W.C. Mayes has returned from Korea and opened a physician's office in his home on Oak Street.
1911 May La Veta: William H. Woodruff is building a 20 foot addition to the rear of the post office store.
1911 May Walsenburg: A bore is a man who talks so much about himself that you don't get a chance to talk about yourself.
1911 May Walsenburg: A carload of 22 elk passed through town on its way to the Trinchera Estate in the San Luis Valley.
1911 May Walsenburg: A terrible wind storm took roofs off barns, destroyed trees and tore up gardens in this vicinity.
1911 May Walsenburg: Dora M. Unfug defeated Dr. A.L. Trout for the position of school board secretary, 573-145, for Walsenburg District #4.
1911 May Walsenburg: For 25 cents you can get a good supper at the court house Decoration Day, Tuesday evening, May 30.
1911 May Walsenburg: Mitchel's Military Marvels will be in town May 8, featuring trained ponies, clowns, tumblers, comedy dogs, boxing bears, wirewalkers, acrobats and a balloon ascension.
1911 May Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. George Dick and their granddaughter Leila Chatin left for Europe where they will visit relatives in Scotland.
1911 May Walsenburg: Pictou beat Rouse at baseball 27 to 7.
1911 May Walsenburg: Russell Unfug and Delia Tynes were married in Denver Wednesday.
1911 May Walsenburg: The annual picnic planned for the Pictou school children last Friday was called off because of the storm.
1911 May Walsenburg: The ball game ended with Aguilar beating Pictou 11 to 2. Added to injured list were Wilson, Warrick and Campbell, all of Pictou.
1911 May Walsenburg: The newly organized Walsenburg Cubs were defeated by the Rouse team by a score of 8-5.
1911 May Walsenburg: The Rouse baseball team beat the newly organized Walsenburg Cubs 8 to 5.
1911 May Walsenburg: The Walsen Bloomer Girls beat the Walsenburg girls 16 to 9.
1911 May Walsenburg: The Walsenburg baseball team beat La Veta handily, the score being 10 to 4.
1911 May Walsenburg: Total enrollment in Walsenburg schools is now 531.
1911 May Walsenburg: Walsenburg won the baseball game with a score of 19 to La Veta's 4.
1911 June La Veta: E.R. Coleman has the contract to build E.L. Smith's new corner store of stone, although cement blocks will be used for the 25 by 30 building store on the west end.
1911 June La Veta: F. Benton Vories and Edna M. Anderson were married.
1911 June La Veta: Half the population of La Veta were [sic) up early yesterday for the first day of trout season.
1911 June La Veta: Jenny Tweedy is showing her summer hats at the Eastside Milliner in the Wilkinson building.
1911 June La Veta: La Veta lost the ball game to Ravenwood 6-3 by allowing five scores in the ninth inning.
1911 June La Veta: Loren Dye has pulled down the greater part of his old residence and is building practically a new one on the same location.
1911 June La Veta: Mrs. Andy Denton is to serve Sunday dinners at their Wahatoya ranch.
1911 June La Veta: W.T. Pendleton purchased the La Veta Steam Laundry from Alsup and Black and will open soon.
1911 June Walsenburg: A La Veta doctor says that if you rub a raw onion on your head every day it will keep your hair from falling out. It will also keep your friends from dropping in.
1911 June Walsenburg: A large crowd of young people went out to Tenderfoot Hill Saturday evening for a beefsteak fry, returning later to the home of Rose Klein for cards.
1911 June Walsenburg: A large crowd of young people went out to Tenderfoot Hill Saturday evening for a beefsteak fry, returning later to the home of Rose Klein for cards.
1911 June Walsenburg: Attorney East has moved his practice to Trinidad.
1911 June Walsenburg: Burglars Wednesday night broke into Mrs. Howell's millinery store, J.B. Johnson's and J.J. Pritchard's stores.
1911 June Walsenburg: Cole and Rogers Railroad Shows will appear in Walsenburg with the only educated llama in the United States, Prof. Buckley's untamable lions, the world's funniest clown and his kicking mule.
1911 June Walsenburg: Forty guests attended the Unfug family reunion marking the 30th anniversary of their arrival in Walsenburg.
1911 June Walsenburg: Miss Gertrude Elliott has accepted a position as clerk at the Huerfano Trading Company store.
1911 June Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. George Dick and Miss Chatin have arrived at their destination in Dunfermline, Scotland.
1911 June Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. George Dick and Miss Chatin have arrived at their destination in Dunfermline, Scotland.
1911 June Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. George Dick sailed from New York May 31 on the Lusitania and will arrive in Liverpool June 10.
1911 June Walsenburg: Senator and Mrs. Charles Hayden went to Boulder for Commencement Exercises as guests of the college.
1911 June Walsenburg: The Joe Ball coal mine, in the Cameron vein, is open for local trade only. Call Steel's barn, Phone 1113.
1911 June Walsenburg: Thirty years ago Sunday the Mesdames Wells and L.B. Sporleder and Messrs. Fred and Adolph Unfug came to Walsenburg and they will celebrate the anniversary with a family reunion at Sporleders.
1911 June Walsenburg: Wanted - man to sell live fish at Walsenburg and neighboring towns. Big thing to good man. Write C.H. Cox, Cheraw, Colo.
1911 June Walsenburg: Work on the grandstand in Pictou is nearly completed since the miners are only working two days a week and pitched in to help.
1911 July La Veta: F.M. Eggleston bought out the Sears and Sears livery and removed the headquarters to the Star Livery.
1911 July La Veta: Harry Hamilton leased out the Russell Hotel and moved to Gunnison where he has mining property.
1911 July La Veta: John Jordan leased the La Veta Steam Laundry.
1911 July La Veta: Lands removed from the National Forest by the president are being opened to homesteaders.
1911 July La Veta: R.V. Cutler bought the bakery and is serving ice cream and sodas as well as baked goods.
1911 July La Veta: Theodore Gibbons and Carrie Hansen were married.
1911 July La Veta: There will be a big picnic at Cuchara Camps July 4th. Come everybody and enjoy the mountains where it is cool and pleasant. Refreshments, games, races, dancing day and night.
1911 July Walsenburg: "Our Man About Town" spent the 4th in jail. No column this week.
1911 July Walsenburg: A ten-round glove contest was held in Mazzone Hall Thursday evening between Young Erlenborn and Mike Malone.
1911 July Walsenburg: Former Walsenburg attorney Homer E. Garwood of Denver is vacationing at Cuchara Camps and visiting with old friends staying there.
1911 July Walsenburg: Former Walsenburg attorney Homer E. Garwood of Denver stopped by on his way to Cuchara camps for a vacation.
1911 July: For sale - good six-room house, 18 by 34 foot barn, chicken houses and yards, orchards, six lots. 403 Kansas Avenue.
1911 Aug. 26: A Pueblo firm won the contract for erecting the new building for the Ussel Memorial School and will start as soon as possible. King Investment and Construction Company won the bid with $17,950 and Hill and Kelling of Walsenburg will do the heating and plumbing at a cost of $3,060. The Independent
1911 August La Veta: Abraham Sparks, a member of the firm of Cisney and Sparks, married Hettie Kincaid, the daughter of Mrs. H.L. Myers.
1911 August La Veta: Advertisement: L.P. Springer, jewelry and watch repair, Galassino [sic] building, Ryus Avenue.
1911 August La Veta: Alliance Coal Company built several homes at their mine north of Oakview.
1911 August La Veta: Cisney and Sparks rented the Stranger store on Ryus for a warehouse.
1911 August La Veta: Colonel Owenby and John T. Sanderson Jr. took a gold nugget worth $1,000 from Russell to Denver to sell to the mint.
1911 August La Veta: D.R. Hindman, owner of the old Staplin ranch, was here looking over his reservoir site in the Wahatoya canon with a view of starting work on the project.
1911 August La Veta: Dr. J.B. Wright has opened an office in the Turner building on Main Street.
1911 August La Veta: For rent, two business rooms on Main Street. Inquire of Mrs. Daigre.
1911 August La Veta: L.P. Springer has rented the Gallasino store building on Ryus for a jewelry store and watch repairing establishment.
1911 August La Veta: Leola Vasquez, 16, died of typhoid.
1911 August La Veta: Robert Levin Kincaid and Rita Mayes were married.
1911 August La Veta: The second floor has been removed from the brick schoolhouse and work continues on the remaining two rooms.
1911 August La Veta: W.P. Robinson is trying to run the Advertiser while C.E. Turner is trying to catch the rest of the trout in the vicinity of Cuchara Camps.
1911 August Walsenburg: Don't forget the glove contest between Reed and Chavez Saturday night.
1911 August Walsenburg: Harry Gordon, Jr., was seriously injured in a hunting accident on the Fruth and Autrey ranch.
1911 August Walsenburg: It was cold enough for a fire on Tuesday night. The hay fever sufferers were glad for the change.
1911 August Walsenburg: Load up your shot gun and keep it handy! Chicken thieves are getting active...
1911 August Walsenburg: M. Serafini and family have returned from Sulphur Springs where they have been camping for several weeks.
1911 August Walsenburg: Messrs. Paul Frolich, G.R. Moore and M. Biernbaum are taking the baths at the famous Ojo Caliente hot springs in New Mexico.
1911 August Walsenburg: Mr. Otto Klein gave a stag party at his home on Seventh Street in honor of Mr. Jeff Farr Jr., who left the next day for Denver where he will take a business course.
1911 August Walsenburg: Postmaster E.L. Trounstine and P.L. Sanchez have been circulating petitions in favor of the eight hour work day for mine employees.
1911 August Walsenburg: Some one of authority should see to it that dead horses and cows are properly buried and not pulled out along the public road and left to rot.
1911 August Walsenburg: The Colorado legislature passed a law providing that, at public drinking places, sterilized cups must be used or a separate cup used by each person.
1911 August Walsenburg: The famous Rocky Ford melons arrived by freight, express and by the wagon load.
1911 August Walsenburg: The fighting sports will be entertained tonight by Reid and Chavez, who will fight 15 rounds for the state championship.
1911 August Walsenburg: Washington school teachers this term will be the Misses Snodgrass, Flach, Unfug, Evans and the Mrs. Brittain and Murry.
1911 August Walsenburg: Young Harry Gordon, 14, lost an eye when shot while hunting doves with his dad, Henry, Fred Klein and George Fruth.
1911 August: Andy Fellows has given up his restaurant The Greenlight and reopened The Narrow Gauge.
1911 September La Veta: A gang of men is building a four or five mile road from the main highway to the Cuchara Lumber and Supply mill on the upper Cucharas.
1911 September La Veta: Cement sidewalks are being constructed in front of L.A. Drum's residence and the Baptist Church on Main Street, and by the side of Mrs. Becker's residence on Garland Street.
1911 September La Veta: Cisney and Sparks will have an opening Sept. 16 of the largest stock of ladies fall hats and tailored suits.
1911 September La Veta: Edwin L. Smith's new stone building, easily the largest in town, is nearly completed and is truly a great addition to the town.
1911 September La Veta: Lon Estes is operating a dry cleaning business in the Daigre block on Main Street.
1911 September La Veta: Parents will rejoice that the upper story has been removed from the school building and the cause of worry eliminated.
1911 September La Veta: School win open next Monday with the high school, seventh and eighth grades in the old school building, and the other grades in the Commercial Club rooms and the Voorhees store building.
1911 September La Veta: The new store building of. E.L. Smith is almost done.
1911 September La Veta: With the removal of the second floor of the school building, classes will also be held at the little school house on Field Street, the Commercial Club hall and I. R. Voorhees' store.
1911 September Walsenburg: A Pueblo firm won the contract for erecting the new building for the Ussel Memorial school and will start as soon as possible.
1911 September Walsenburg: Beautiful Hair - Yes, Soap Weed did it. Every bag guaranteed. Levy's Grocery Company. Phone 33.
1911 September Walsenburg: Elmer Towner and his family are returning to Walsenburg by wagon.
1911 September Walsenburg: Joe Palisano will sell all shoes at one-half price, 602 Main, in the Mazzone block.
1911 September Walsenburg: Joe Palisano will sell all shoes in stock at one half price, in the Mazzone block, 602 Main.
1911 September Walsenburg: Married: Ralph Levy and Ella May Hansen; Welling A. Sumner and Ruth Cowing.
1911 September Walsenburg: Miss Annie Dick and B.E. Klein were married Sept. 4 in Denver.
1911 September Walsenburg: Mrs. Filmore, 119 Spruce Street, will make you a beautiful switch from your own combings.
1911 September Walsenburg: Mrs. Filmore, 119 Spruce Street, will make you a beautiful switch from your own combings.
1911 September Walsenburg: Senator and Mrs. Charles Hayden will leave for Denver Friday where they will attend the opera, "The Spring Maid."
1911 September Walsenburg: Sheriff Farr captured the horse thief who was on his way to New Mexico with seven local animals.
1911 September Walsenburg: The National Croatian Society of Walsenburg extends thanks to all the other societies which took part in the Labor Day parade.
1911 September Walsenburg: Welling A. Sumner and Ruth Cowing were married Sept. 6.
1911 September: The National Croatian Society of Walsenburg extends its thanks to all the other societies which took part in the Labor Day parade.
1911 October La Veta: A number of men from the Cuchara Lumber and Supply Company's sawmill on the upper Cucharas footed it to town Saturday through three feet of snow.
1911 October La Veta: E.C. Wright threshed 1,747 bushels of barley, oats and wheat on his ranch just north of town, with an average of 25 bushels to the acre.
1911 October La Veta: E.R. Coleman has been contracted to do the stone work on the new school building.
1911 October La Veta: F.N. Raeder and Charles Hector are assisting Will McEvoy in the construction of a good trail over the divide between the Spanish Peaks for the Forest Service.
1911 October La Veta: Ghiardi and Co. will build a stone addition in the rear of the La Veta Hotel.
1911 October La Veta: Miss I. Von Hamilton has relocated her music studio to the Adamson house on Francisco Street.
1911 October La Veta: See the 42-piece plain white China Dinner Set available at Edwin L. Smith's store for just $3.75.
1911 October La Veta: The grand opening of E.L. Smith's new 100 by 50 foot store building was this week.
1911 October La Veta: The new school is to be built of stone and will be two stories.
1911 October Walsenburg: A masquerade ball was quite successful Saturday night at Kebler school house.
1911 October Walsenburg: Fifty-three are currently enrolled in the school at Rocky Mountain camp.
1911 October Walsenburg: For sale: four room house on corner lot, 50 foot frontage, fence, water, electric lights, cement walks, $2,000.
1911 October Walsenburg: Forty-five students are enrolled in Huerfano County High School.
1911 October Walsenburg: Fred Klein and his hunting party brought home 75 ducks Sunday.
1911 October Walsenburg: Louis Gilaudo will no longer be the jeweler at J.B. Johnson's and will open his own shop in C. Victor Mazzone's store.
1911 October Walsenburg: Louis Gilaudo no longer be jeweler at J.B. Johnson's jewelry store and will open his own shop in C. Victor Mazzone's building.
1911 October Walsenburg: Messrs. Wolf, Martin and Lester of Walsenburg have gone to work for the Cuchara Lumber and Supply Company on the upper Cucharas.
1911 October Walsenburg: Messrs. Wolf, Martin and Lester of Walsenburg have gone to work for the Cuchara Lumber and Supply Company on the upper Cucharas.
1911 October Walsenburg: The friends of Grandma Higgins gave her a handkerchief shower for her 91st birthday.
1911 November La Veta: Merchants delivering goods now are Joe K. Kincaid, A.C. Mauldin, J.M. Garren, George A. Edmonston and Cisney and Sparks.
1911 November La Veta: Some of those working on the new schoolhouse for $2 a day asked for a 50 cent raise and were refused, causing a few to quit work.
1911 November La Veta: The La Veta Rifle and Gun Club rebuilt their club house recently blown down and will have a turkey shoot at their range just east of town lake this afternoon.
1911 November La Veta: Thomas Foster's pool room is now located in the Galassini building on Ryus Avenue.
1911 November La Veta: William Thomas, who now resides in Oakview, was Chief signalman to Admiral Dewey during the battle of Manila.
1911 November Walsenburg: Charles Reed, 29, was hit by the cage in the shaft at McNally mine and killed on Oct. 26.
1911 November Walsenburg: For sale, four room frame house, corner lot, 50 foot frontage, good fence, lawn, water, electric lights, cement walks on two sides, $2,000.
1911 November: For Sale, two lots, three brick houses, one store building, in good location close to Main Street, $12,000. Rents now are $100 per month. Frank Nizzi, Walsenburg, Colo.
1911 December La Veta: Charles Firm and Jessie Kitchen were married.
1911 December La Veta: Charles Mack has disposed of the rest of his fine ranch on the upper Cucharas, to Mr. DeVietti although he retains 320 acres of timber land and an interest in the sawmill. He is moving his family to Arizona for his wife's health.
1911 December La Veta: D.H. Neeley changed his mind about moving to Pueblo and bought six lots from F.M. Eggleston at the south end of Main Street where he proposes to build a cement residence.
1911 December La Veta: E.E. Coleman and Mrs. Laura Baysinger were married last week.
1911 December La Veta: Fred Klein and Grady Kendell of Walsenburg bought Foster's bakery.
1911 December La Veta: George A. Edmonston's store was robbed of an estimated $125 worth of clothing, suitcases, shoes, knives and other articles.
1911 December La Veta: Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph is offering one-half price long distance calls Christmas morning.
1911 December La Veta: The Christmas holiday brought lots of snow, accompanied by temperatures down to 20 degrees below zero.
1911 December La Veta: The cornerstone at the new schoolhouse was dedicated and filled with records of District No. 9 public schools, Masonic Lodge and the La Veta Bank.
1911 December La Veta: The cornerstone was dedicated for the new two-story stone school building.
1911 December Walsenburg: About 45 couples attended the dance at the McGuire schoolhouse Saturday and the dinner afterward at the hotel.
1911 December Walsenburg: Fred Klein will move his stock in his music and novelty store across the street to the building formerly the bakery.
1911 December Walsenburg: Henry T. Meyer of Gardner and Miss Ethel Thorne of Badito were married by Rev. J.A. McKee at the Methodist parsonage in Walsenburg Dec. 12.
1911 December Walsenburg: Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph is offering one-half price long distance calls on Christmas morning.
1911 December Walsenburg: The N & P Pool Hall is moving out and the Huerfano Trading Company will occupy the building.
1911 December Walsenburg: Trinidad Electric, Gas and Power Company are working on their power house at Walsen camps.
1911 December Walsenburg: Yano and Rice won the contract to build the basement and 40 by 16 foot addition at the Methodist church. 1914: A Candy Sale and Oyster Supper will be given as a benefit for the public library.
1912 January La Veta: At the Photo-Play To-Night, a great railway picture, song and a good comedy. Shows at 7:30, 8:20 and 9:10. All seats ten cents.
1912 January La Veta: J.H. Kincaid has purchased the bakery.
1912 January La Veta: J.H. Pennel, blacksmith for the La Veta Coal Mines, died and was buried in the town graveyard.
1912 January La Veta: J.J. "Joe" Pickens is the new town marshal.
1912 January La Veta: John Goemmer left for Denver on Tuesday to see his little grandson Adolph ride the calf.
1912 January La Veta: T.P. Steele closed his movie house in Kincaid Hall and reopens next week in the new Smith building at the corner of Main and Francisco.
1912 January La Veta: T.P. Steele closed his picture show in Kincaid hall and will reopen next week in the new Smith building on the comer.
1912 January La Veta: The Cuchara Camps Outing Association was formed by G.A. Mayes, John W. Powell and C.C. Whitney to develop, improve and sell resort property.
1912 January La Veta: The Cuchara Camps Outing Association was organized by G.A. Mayes, John W. Powell and C.C. Whitney to conduct a pleasure resort for tourists, buy, sell and lease real estate, erect a lighting system, sell lumber and building material, improve properties and build hotels, residences and cottages.
1912 January La Veta: With the reopening of the schools for the new year, the high school reports 14 enrolled and the grade school, 225.
1912 January La Veta: Fourteen are enrolled in the high school and 225 in the grades, for a total of 239 students.
1912 January Walsenburg: A 13-year-old boy was crushed by a train he attempted to ride home to Walsen Camp from school.
1912 January Walsenburg: According to the last census, Walsenburg has a population of 2,423; Walsen 1,437; and Pictou-Toltec 1,250, or a total of 5,110.
1912 January Walsenburg: All pupils living south of the Denver & Rio Grande tracks and west of the Colorado and Southern tracks are not permitted to attend school until further notice because of the scarlet fever epidemic.
1912 January Walsenburg: All pupils living south of the Denver and Rio Grande tracks and west of the Colorado and Southern tracks are not permitted to attend school until the scarlet fever epidemic has subsided.
1912 January Walsenburg: Dainty, daring, death-defying Senorita Eulalie Montgomery smilingly looks death in the face in her grand aerial exhibition at the Darktown Minstrels Monday night at Mazzone Hall.
1912 January Walsenburg: Edward Harron, 13, was crushed by a train when he attempted to ride home to Walsen camp from school.
1912 January Walsenburg: George Klein is remodeling his saloon to include a lunch counter.
1912 January Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buckland motored from Walsen camp to spend Christmas Day in Walsenburg.
1912 January Walsenburg: George Klein is remodeling his saloon to include a lunch counter.
1912 January Walsenburg: Mr. M. Mestas of the Huerfano Trading Company is organizing a military band.
1912 January Walsenburg: The Elks New Years Day party was attended by about 500 with the attraction being various musical programs led by Burro Sanchez on the cornet and local talent presentations.
1912 January Walsenburg: Young Edward Harron, the 14-year-old son of Alexander Harron, was run over by a train and killed.
1912 February La Veta: Charles Kitchens bought the old Krueger ranch on Echo Creek.
1912 February La Veta: F.M. Eggleston and Sons are building a 20 by 60 foot addition on the east side of their livery barn at the corner of Francisco and Main streets.
1912 February La Veta: F.M. Eggleston and Sons are building a 20 by 60 foot addition onto the east side of their livery on East Francisco.
1912 February La Veta: J.K. Kincaid bought the Davis property on Ryus Avenue for $400.
1912 February La Veta: Miss Tweedy has moved her millinery shop into the Parks building on Main Street.
1912 February La Veta: Mrs. O.P. Stephens sold her residence and property to Dr. S.J. Lamme for $1,500 and moved to Spokane, Wash.
1912 February La Veta: The Columbine Saloon was entered by a burglar.
1912 February La Veta: The drug store will shortly be moved into Mr. Estes' new building and Vories Brothers will move their meat market into the Masonic building.
1912 February La Veta: Vories Brothers bought Garren's grocery stock and are moving their market into the Masonic building.
1912 February La Veta: W.H. Adamson has the contract to build the new city hall on Francisco and the hose cart will be moved there when it is finished.
1912 February Walsenburg: A carload of stone arrived all cut and ready for the erection of Mr. Jim Dick's new residence on Capitol Hill.
1912 February Walsenburg: Enrollment at Huerfano County High School is 44, with 18 boys and 26 girls.
1912 February Walsenburg: Fred Klein has moved his piano stock into his store and the new addition onto the rear has been fitted with booths where he will serve ice cream.
1912 February Walsenburg: Fred Klein has moved his piano stock into his store and the new addition onto the rear has been fitted with booths where he will serve ice cream.
1912 February Walsenburg: M.A. Sanchez was appointed interpreter for the district court session.
1912 February Walsenburg: Mazzone's Hall was packed to the door for the "Belles of Darktown" minstrel show given by the Eastern Star.
1912 February Walsenburg: The man who gets mad at what the newspaper says about him should return thanks three times a day for what the newspapers knew about him and suppressed.
1912 February Walsenburg: The school boys of Rocky Mountain organized a baseball team and propose to play Gordon Sunday. A little early yet for baseball, boys.
1912 February Walsenburg: The Socialist Local will hold a big public meeting this weekend in the Slavish Hall on South Main Street.
1912 February Walsenburg: The Star Theatre reopened after an enforced shutdown of several months by the town trustees, who refused to issue a license.
1912 February Walsenburg: The young ladies of Toltec camp will give a Leap Year dance Saturday night.
1912 February Walsenburg: Town Council paid the Ice Company $218.50 for lights used in January.
1912 February Walsenburg: William Stanton and Sons will open a Planing mill in the old Fred Vest shop.
1912 March 12: ACCIDENT Henry Gordon received a serious injury by tearing the ligaments in his right foot while kicking at a piece of ice which was frozen deeper in the ground than it at first appeared. He is under the doctor's care and is doing nicely.
1912 March 12: Dr. and Mrs. Lesher entertained Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Ellitott to dinner Friday of last week.
1912 March 12: Miss Alice Flynn returned home Monday from Trinidad where she has been spending a short time visiting relatives.
1912 March 12: Miss ELizabeth Tennant left Wednesday for her home in Tollersburg where she will spend her Easter vacation.
1912 March 12: Miss Florence Palmerton will leave Friday for Denver where she will spend her vacation.
1912 March 12: Miss Kistler expects to spend her Easter vacation at her home in Denver. She will leave Friday.
1912 March 12: Miss Marguerite Hendershot is expected home from Boulder Friday, and will spend her Easter vacation with her parents.
1912 March 12: Miss Pearl Boyd, returned Sunday from Pueblo where she has been with her mother at the Minnequa hospital. Mrs. Jennings shows slight improvement.
1912 March 12: Mr. J.M. Abercrombie, Jr., spent Monday in Walsenburg having driven in from Huerfano.
1912 March 12: Mr. W. Sharp of Malachite spent a few days in town the first of the week on business.
1912 March 12: Mrs. Featherspoon, who has been visiting at the home of her son, Mr. Charles Countryman, left for her home in Glennwood Springs Wednesday.
1912 March 12: Mrs. Jos. Workman and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Roche expect to move to Gardner this week where they will spend the summer.
1912 March 12: The Card and Social Club will meet at he home of Mrs. August Unfug Wednesday afternoon of next week.
1912 March 12: The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church met at the home of Mrs. Fred Unfug Wednesday.
1912 March 12: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Fred Hugely left Sunday for Nebraska.
1912 March 12: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. Clarence Commons returned from Dawson, New Mexico on Friday and packed his furniture and left with his family for that place.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Al Stevens drove through the camp on Monday.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Earl Shumway and Athur Hall spent the fore part of the week in camp.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Johnie and Myrtle Weston, of Sunnyside, and the Misses Parsons and Mr. Parsons of Pictou attended the dance here Saturday night.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Black were Walsenburg shoppers Saturday.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. Ben Black moved intot he house vacated by Mr. Commons.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. Johnie Simpson returned on Monday from a week's visit with relatives in Kansas.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. Johnson Foley has been on the sick list.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. Pete Westwater was a Walsenburg visitor Sunday.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mr. Will Heure was a Maitland visitor Sunday and Thursday.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. Mrs. Robert Scrogan and son were Walsenburg shoppers Tuesday.
1912 March 14: Walsenburg World McGuire Items. The benefit dance for Mrs. Masfard was not as well attended as was expected. Max Trujillo's orchestra furnished the music.