Huerfano County, Colorado
News Of The Day

1915 January La Veta: A skating party of young people and chaperones had a moonlight party on Mill Lake Wednesday evening, with weiners and buns served at large bonfires on each side of the lake.

1915 January La Veta: C.H. Kinsey is running a short order in connection with the Cozy Home.

1915 January La Veta: Eight or 10 inches of snow fell here last Friday, and about 20 inches at outlying ranches. It is but the second good snow of the season.

1915 January La Veta: For rent, nicely furnished rooms on Main Street. Inquire Mrs. A.C. Mauldin.

1915 January La Veta: H.H. Randolph and John L. Berry leased the Crystal Theater from Paul Ghiardi.

1915 January La Veta: Harry Hamilton is grading Ryus Park and removing the fence on the east along Main Street so tourists may camp there.

1915 January La Veta: Joe and George Pickens have taken over proprietorship of the former Marquis and Maestas Mercantile Company in the Stranger building.

1915 January La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Bergamo, formerly of La Veta are running the hotel at Badito.

1915 January La Veta: N.R. Lively and Julia Waggoner were married.

1915 January La Veta: Of the 3,999 children in Huerfano County between the ages of six and twenty, fifth-seven [57?] and a quarter percent attend school.

1915 January La Veta: Sixteen carloads of cattle were shipped from La Veta to Denver last week where Harry Fielden sold 66 calves at an average of $38 per head.

1915 January La Veta: Some 60 to 70 young people had a jolly party at the Ritter school.

1915 January La Veta: The Eggleston brothers have purchased a new Maxwell car for use in their livery business.

1915 January La Veta:  Leonard Fry is manager of the Campbell Meat Market.

1915 January Walsenburg: Huerfano County has 3,999 children between the ages of six and 20 and 2,297 of those, or 57˝ percent, attend school.

1915 January Walsenburg: Otto Klein and Miss Alma Samples were married Jan. 12.

1915 January Walsenburg: The State Militia guarded the courthouse and jail last weekend after unionists made threats to blow up the buildings.

1915 January Walsenburg: The Telephone Company connected the Phillips ranch on the Huerfano River and hereafter autoists can call up and find out the condition of the crossing before leaving town.

1915 January Walsenburg: Walsenburg is now in the new Western Division of the old Southern Colorado-Northern New Mexico basketball league with Trinidad and Raton.

1915 February La Veta: E.V. Gibbons and C.E. Thomas are removing their hardware store to the Masonic building where each will occupy one half as heretofore.

1915 February La Veta: H.L. Springer and Libby Armstrong were married. She is the daughter of Mrs. G.W. Armstrong, former proprietor of the Spanish Peaks Hotel and he is the only son of Mrs. M.M. Springer.

1915 February La Veta: Joe and George Pickens bought out the interest in the Marquis, Pickens and Maestas Mercantile store in the Stranger building.

1915 February La Veta: John Goemmer has reopened his blacksmith shop on Francisco Street.

1915 February La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Martin became parents of a son Feb. 23.

1915 February La Veta: S.C. George is desirous of selling a 160-acre farm one mile from Oakview and Alliance coal mines on the north side of the creek.

1915 February La Veta: Sterge Mavrodis bought out H.W. Stewart's interest in the billiard parlor on Main Street last week.

1915 February La Veta: The Alliance coal mine has laid off a number of men for lack of orders but still some 80 or 100 are on the payroll.

1915 February La Veta: The fixtures of the Vories Brothers Meat Market were sold to A.A. Campbell and Mr. Vories plans to ranch on Raspberry.

1915 February La Veta: The government observation station at Cuchara Camps reports 15 inches of snow fell in the storm.

1915 February La Veta: The wagon roads from Stonewall and across the divide and down the Cucharas should be improved for use by automobile owners for a pleasure and scenic drive.

1915 February La Veta: Town Board Tuesday evening granted the use of railroad park to William Spain for cultivation.

1915 February La Veta: Vories Brothers closed the La Veta Meat Market and sold the equipment to Mr. Campbell. They will move to their ranches on Raspberry Mountain.

1915 February Walsenburg: A fire started in a brick chimney between Bernstein's and the Chicago Saloon, heavily damaging the former's stock of goods.

1915 February Walsenburg: August Unfug moved his store to new quarters east of the Neelley-Caldwell Hardware Store.

1915 February Walsenburg: Died, Lucy Bell Wycoff, who came to Walsenburg in 1880, two years after her sons Tom and David opened their drug store here. Daughters surviving are Mrs. Henry Hunter and Mrs. Freeman Sumner.

1915 February Walsenburg: Louis Carli closed down his meat market last week after being in business one year.

1915 February Walsenburg: Mrs. Elizabeth Busch is opening a millinery shop on Third Street just east of Dr. Lamme's office.

1915 February Walsenburg: Mssrs. Devaney and Cross have opened a meat market the second door west of the post office.

1915 February Walsenburg: Since the closing of the saloons, soft drinks are big business, with 18 stores selling these beverages on Seventh Street alone, five being pool halls.

1915 February Walsenburg: The old frame store building opposite Furphy's livery on Main Street was torn down and a modern garage will be built.

1915 March La Veta: A child of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Martin, who live 15 miles up the Cuchara, died of measles.

1915 March La Veta: A fire in the Crystal Theater spread through the ventilators into the rafters but prompt attention saved the building with $300-400 damage to equipment, films and structure.

1915 March La Veta: Edwin L. Smith bought the dry goods stock of A..H. Sparks.

1915 March La Veta: For rent: an eight room modem house with 12 lots, 100 fruit trees, $15 per month. Enquire at this office.

1915 March La Veta: H.B. Sager came here 43 years ago $66 in debt, the cost of transportation from Kansas City, Missouri.  After six years of cowpunching he was able to afford to buy a good Hereford bull in 1882.

1915 March La Veta: Married - Joseph Akers and Edith Marker, Richard Wagner and Minnie Haley.

1915 March La Veta: The telephone company will present a moving picture of the progress from the first telephone in 1876 to the up-to-date instrument of 1915.

1915 March La Veta: There was a fire at the Crystal Theater but little damage was done.

1915 March La Veta: There was no picture show Tuesday evening on account of a railroad wreck which prevented the arrival of the films.

1915 March La Veta: Will J. Quinn of Denver has opened a new undertaking parlor in the Lester building on Main Street.

1915 March Walsenburg: A $1,000 reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the murderer of William Dick on the La Veta road four miles west of Walsenburg Feb. 13.

1915 March Walsenburg: A number of young people met Tuesday evening in the Studio of Miss Caroline Sporleder to organize a musical club.

1915 March Walsenburg: Died, Robert Dick, 47, of pneumonia. He was the brother of William Dick who was murdered while carrying the payroll of Huerfano Trading Company. Surviving are brothers George, Andrew, James and John, and sisters Anna Elwell and Jane Strachan.

1915 March Walsenburg: John Furphy, a native of Ireland, died in Florida. He and his wife, the former Margaret Gallager, had two daughters and 11 sons, including J. W., Tom, Gabe, Vincent and Herbert Furphy of Walsenburg.

1915 March Walsenburg: Mrs. Shirley Beck is teaching at the Valdez school at Cucharas.

1915 March Walsenburg: Pimiento Cheese, 20 cents for a two pound package; Rutabagas, 25 cents for eight pounds, The C.O.D. Store, 121 West Sixth Street.

1915 March Walsenburg: The opening of the new school at Ravenwood was celebrated with a dance.

1915 April 25: Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church Rev. J.B. Liciotti, Pastor.

1915 April La Veta: A.B. Sparks is selling groceries in the front part of his building and using the back portion for storage.

1915 April La Veta: Allen Roush has recovered the bakery floor with some kind of cork linoleum which is pleasant to walk on and easy to mop up and keep clean.

1915 April La Veta: Columbine Billiard Hall is adding a bowling alley.

1915 April La Veta: Ed Martin and D.S. Stewart plan to open a soft drink and cigar stand with tables in the McDonald building on Francisco Street.

1915 April La Veta: It was a very close election, but S.J. Capps was elected mayor, defeating Mrs. R.E. Thornton.

1915 April La Veta: J.D. Galassini has been operating the Crystal Theatre after the lease of Rudolph and Berry expired.

1915 April La Veta: John S. Barnes, 65, died. He was formerly a partner with A.M. "Mack" Pryor in the cattle, business and worked for CF&I for 25 years.

1915 April La Veta: Some of the 22 members of the La Veta Rifle Club have lately received some modern rifles from the United States government. The club, which is affiliated with the National Rifle Association, has a range for target practice on the Marker and Elley ranches south of town.

1915 April La Veta: The guns collected by the federal troops during the strike last year are being returned to their owners.

1915 April Walsenburg: Abe Bedran, 18, was shot and killed during a scrap between six Syrian men on Seventh Street, causing a number of Syrians from Aguilar and Trinidad to congregate in town.

1915 April Walsenburg: About 800 votes were cast in the three Walsenburg precincts to elect Joseph O'Byrne, mayor; Charles W. Cox, treasurer and Gabriel U. Furphy, Juan Y. Martinez and John J. Pritchard, two year trustees.

1915 April Walsenburg: C.D. Unfug has gone into business with C.W. Cox at the undertaking parlors.

1915 April Walsenburg: Graves and Poole have taken over the Autrey and Fruth machine shop on Fifth Street.

1915 April Walsenburg: Mrs. Gilligan is having a nine-room boardinghouse built on Third Street just off Main.

1915 April Walsenburg: One young man was killed during a scrap among six Syrian men on Seventh Street.

1915 April Walsenburg: Sixteen Syrians from Aguilar and Trinidad came to Walsenburg and shot and killed Abe Bedran, 18, a brother-in-law of Abe Cutter.

1915 April Walsenburg: The ballground at Walsen camp is nearly done and has 1,500 feet of fencing around it.

1915 April Walsenburg: The Baptist Ladies Mission Circle will give a Home Cooking and Apron Sale at J.S. Windsor's store Saturday afternoon.

1915 April Walsenburg: The Independent just celebrated its sixth birthday and owners now are Peter Krier, E.L. Neelley, W.B. Wayt, Paul Frohlich, Damaso Vigil, A.M. Pryor, Charles H. Sanchez, M.A. Sanchez, V.C. Wolf, Agnes and Kalmes, T.M. Hudson, J.B. Johnson, Guaranty State Bank and Dr. A.S. Abdun-Nur.

1915 May 8: Walsenburg World, EXPLOSION IN MUTUAL MINE Explosion in Mutual Mine, 2 miles west of Walsenburg occurred about 1:20 Sunday afternoon, instantly killing 2 men and wounding 2 men. The dead men are Mike Sparks, a single man aged 28 years and Mike Gretch, a married man aged 38 years. Injured men are William Coleman and Stanley Smolsky, the first slightly injured and the latter more seriously. The explosion was felt at the mine office and the clerk notified the superintendent, Clyde Caballiet who was at the boarding house. Walsen and Robinson Mines were called for the rescue crew. First aid crew was on the scene in 20 minutes. A pumper, Charles Woolman was in the mine away from the explosion and started out. He assisted Coleman into the cage and brought him out. The rescue team brought out the others. Mutual Mine is owned by Mutual Coal Co. of Denver.

1915 May La Veta: A. Patras intends to build a barn by the railroad tracks.

1915 May La Veta: County Clerk William Freeland was in this section Monday paying off those men who are working on the Cuchara and Oakview roads. .

1915 May La Veta: Green Bruce will build another house this summer with the adobies he made last year.

1915 May La Veta: Jap, Green, Will, George and Rene Bruce went up on Silver Mountain Monday to work their claims but the snowstorm Tuesday drove them back home.

1915 May La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. A.V. Denton purchased the 320 acres east of the old Baker ranch on the Wahatoya for $2,000 from Hiram and Abner Baker.

1915 May La Veta: Steve Duzenack bought the old Baker ranch on the Wahatoya for $8,000.

1915 May La Veta: The county commissioners are contemplating using some of the money Mr. Rockefeller gave them to make a scenic route through Cuchara Camps to Trinidad.

1915 May La Veta: The La Veta ball team won 11-4 in a fast game over Oakview and the kids' team beat Alliance.

1915 May La Veta: The Maxwell, the Wonder Car, is available from A. Patras for $695.

1915 May La Veta: The Pickens brothers and George A. Edmondson formed the La Veta Tractor Plowing Association to sell tractors and plows and to do contract discing, seeding, etc.

1915 May La Veta: There is again some talk about opening a county road from here northwest to the Huerfano.

1915 May Walsenburg: H.D. Palmer has bought the Unfug and Unfug Garage at the head of Main Street.

1915 May Walsenburg: Miss Evangeline Graves entertained the Tipperary Girls last Saturday afternoon.

1915 May: Walsenburg World, Lucas Marquis, age 72, died at North Veta April 20, 1915. Funeral Wednesday April 22, 1915. Interment North Veta.

1915 May: Walsenburg World, Remains of Nick J. Pappas, who died in Walsenburg Thursday, April 15, 1915 were forwarded to Denver for interment.

1915 June La Veta: C.J. Voeztle opened a bakery in the Elrod building on Francisco.

1915 June La Veta: La Veta Tailoring moved from the Turner building to the John Kincaid building opposite the Baptist Church.

1915 June La Veta: Miss Pansy Beamer celebrated her birthday with her schoolmates.

1915 June La Veta: Mrs. Stella Craven, sister of Mrs. Edmonston, Mrs. Cutler and Mr. Sparks, will be moving here from Lawrence, Kansas.

1915 June La Veta: Patronize Mattocks Brothers for your blacksmithing and horseshoeing needs.

1915 June La Veta: Ransom, Proctor and Nellie Hayes arrived by railroad from California to be with their widowed mother.

1915 June La Veta: The barn and garage of A. Patras is going up next to the railroad tracks.

1915 June La Veta: The base ball team netted another $25 on their dance and construction will start soon on the grandstand at the ball field.

1915 June La Veta: The Cuchara Pass road is good to within two miles of the summit and it will be improved to connect with Las Animas County.

1915 June La Veta: The high school pupils have just distributed their first school annual.

1915 June Walsenburg: $4,500 will buy a highly developed farm of 138 acres. Old, long established water rights, ample buildings, etc. See Walsen and Lawson.

1915 June Walsenburg: A man may tell all he knows without giving anyone any particular information.

1915 June Walsenburg: Graduation ceremonies of HCHS were held at Empress Theater, with speeches by Isabel Young and William Trout and a duet by Louis B. Sporleder Jr. and Blanche Blickhahn.

1915 June Walsenburg: Home receipts and prescriptions carefully compounded and filled at Merritt's Drug Store, Seventh and Main Streets.

1915 June Walsenburg: One of the tent houses at the tent colony outside town caught fire Thursday but was quickly extinguished.

1915 June Walsenburg: Walsen Camp celebrated Decoration Day with two ball games in the first of which Cameron defeated the Pueblo All-Stars 7-1 and in the second Walsenburg beat Rouse 7-4.

1915 July La Veta: G.A. Mayes bought 80,000 trout, storing most in tanks but stocking his lakes with 24,000.

1915 July La Veta: G.F. Estes married Mrs. Ella Heftings.

1915 July La Veta: Mrs. F.C. Bailey, her mother Mrs. Bloomfield and their dog are occupying Kamp Komfort in Cuchara Camps and some Arizona people are in Lazy Lodge.

1915 July La Veta: Mrs. Robertson of Trinidad is building a spacious three-room cabin with large porches on the stream at Cuchara Camps and Miss Ruth Cooley, Trinidad, is having a two-room cottage built.

1915 July La Veta: The House of Mystery near Cuchara Camps is a popular objective for pedestrians in the daytime, but no one has been brave enough to visit the queer structure when the ghost walks.

1915 July La Veta: The road over the summit to Stonewall is mostly done.

1915 July La Veta: The Sporleder family of Walsenburg has been vacationing in Cuchara Camps.

1915 July La Veta: The Unfug family is vacationing in The Willows in Cuchara Camps.

1915 July Walsenburg: Kirkpatrick's soda fountain on West Seventh is now serving Hire's Root Beer.

1915 July Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blickhahn are the proud owners of a new Oldsmobile.

1915 July Walsenburg: See Joe Daher at 341 West Fourth Street for groceries, clothes, boots, shoes, hay and grain.

1915 July Walsenburg: The Altar Society of St. Peters Church will give a cake sale Saturday at Mr. Cowing's store.

1915 July Walsenburg: The Clerks' Association is to be congratulated for their three-day 4th of July celebration which was enjoyed to the utmost.

1915 July Walsenburg: The crack A.T. & S.F. Railway baseball team of Pueblo, champion semi-professionals, will appear at Walsen Baseball Park and tackle the Huerfano County champs, Walsen, next Sunday.

1915 July Walsenburg: The Montez and Voorhees store is having a sale on summer millinery.

1915 July: The merry-go-round is here and will run every night until after the 6th, located near the Denver and Rio Grande depot.

1915 August La Veta: A farris wheel and carnival are popular attractions in town this week.

1915 August La Veta: Dr. F.W. Acker is the new owner of Sulphur Springs and is selling lots there. He calls it "Radio Iron and Sulphur Springs."

1915 August La Veta: I.R. Voorhees and Will Quinn sold their undertaking businesses to George Benefiel.

1915 August La Veta: I.R. Voorhees sold his undertaking business to George Benefiel who will carry it on in connection with his furniture business. 

1915 August Walsenburg: Charles M. Estes, brakeman for the C&S, was killed Tuesday by being run over by the train.

1915 August Walsenburg: Charlie Chaplin will appear in a two-part comedy entitled "Work" Thursday at the Star Theater.

1915 August Walsenburg: Miss Gertrude Mae Elliott and Mr. Charles Siegfried Sporleder were married Wednesday morning.

1915 August Walsenburg: Reopening, The Empress Theater, with a new machine. Saturday night's show will be William Fox and Theda Bara in "A Fool There Was."

1915 August Walsenburg: There will be a dinner at the court house Aug. 14 for the benefit of the A.M.E. Church.

1915 August Walsenburg:  Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Sporleder entertained Baron Alfred Von Waldberg at dinner last Thursday evening. He is from Germany and is writing a book about the United States.

1915 August: A grafter was run out of town on the advice of Mrs. Gilligan at her boardinghouse.

1915 September La Veta: Adam Flockhart is opening a soft drink counter in the east room of the Spanish Peaks hotel.

1915 September La Veta: Alvin Anson resigned his position in the Luther Haase barber shop.

1915 September La Veta: Angelo Andriola [sic], who lived near Baldy Mountain, was run over by a wagon and killed.

1915 September La Veta: Enrollment in Miss Snedden's primary department is 16; Miss Vories has 20 in the second grade; 36 are in Miss Simpson's third and fourth grade and Miss Dotson has 36 in her combined fifth and sixth grade class.

1915 September La Veta: One of the finest and most artistic monuments in this part of the state has just been erected on the P.L. Estes lot in the local cemetery.

1915 September La Veta: Paul Ghiardi will be taking over the Spanish Peaks Hotel.

1915 September La Veta: Paul, the five-year-old son of Lawrence Kreutzer, was killed in an accident on the ranch.

1915 September La Veta: The public school opened with 144 enrolled in the elementary grades and 44 in the high school.

1915 September La Veta: The restaurant at Cuchara Camps has been closed for the season.

1915 September Walsenburg: Dr. T.D. Baird finally succeeded in getting water pipes laid to the Masonic cemetery after donations of $472.50 were gathered.

1915 September Walsenburg: Harry Stamas and Mike Koukos were killed by a fall of rock in the Walsen mine Monday.

1915 September Walsenburg: Mr. Caddell has been developing a coal mine three miles west of Pictou for Eastern interests.

1915 September Walsenburg: Rocky Ford Cantaloupes 10˘ each at the C.O.D. Store.

1915 September Walsenburg: Showing this week at the Empress Theatre, "The Fox Women" and Mary Alden in "A Man's Perogative."

1915 September Walsenburg: The Dan Costello hotel in Gardner burned to the ground Thursday night.

1915 September Walsenburg: The return engagement of the greatest Charlie Chaplin comedy ever, "The Champion," will be one night only, Sept. 29, Star Theatre.

1915 September Walsenburg: Walter Edwards and William Dick have formed a plumbing firm to be located opposite the post office and next to the C.O.D. Store on West Sixth.

1915 October La Veta: A lady is here prepared to take charge of the new school near Mr. Finn's ranch when the building is completed.

1915 October La Veta: A.B. Parks threshed out 3,500 bushels of oats at his place on the Wahatoya.

1915 October La Veta: Frank Erwin has been assisting in moving buildings to Russell from Fort Garland for headquarters of the Trinchera Estate timber company.

1915 October La Veta: Several infants in the Ojo and Oakview district have died of typhoid fever.

1915 October La Veta: Waldo Emerson and Maude Baker were married.

1915 October Walsenburg: A Halloween dance with a three-piece orchestra should be well attended tonight.

1915 October Walsenburg: Huerfano County paid out $105,459.34 last year for the maintenance of its public schools, over half of which was in salaries.

1915 October Walsenburg: Members of the junior class were hosts for the first school dance Friday evening.

1915 October Walsenburg: Miss Blanche Blickhahn and Morton W. Bierbaum were married Oct. 7 in Colorado Springs.

1915 October Walsenburg: Ninety-three teachers were employed in Huerfano County during the past year, including 15 men and 78 women, who jointly earned $56,613.95.

1915 October Walsenburg: Rouse Marshal Nate Patterson arrested five Slavs for gambling in a private home.

1915 October Walsenburg: See the Victor Talking Machines, Edison Disc and Cylinder Phonographs, and Baldwin pianos at Klein's music store.

1915 October Walsenburg: The state armory, Chapman Hall, opened its upstairs as an amusement center.

1915 Nov. 18, Old Pomes Re-Writ:  When the frost is on the pumpkin, And lies glittering on the lawn, It is hard to face the winter, If your over-coat is in pawn. Independent

1915 November La Veta: Buy Oakdale coal, lump $4.75 delivered, $4 at the car. Leave orders at the bakery or with Elmer Read, back of Goemmer's blacksmith shop.

1915 November La Veta: The foundation for the new school house on Charles Kitchen's place was completed this week and measures 20 by 30 feet. There are 15 scholars in the district.

1915 November La Veta: The town was turned upside down on Halloween; the streets looked as if a cyclone had struck and people spent two days searching for their property, and cleaning windows.

1915 November La Veta: There are 15 schools enrolled in the new schoolhouse on the Charles Kitchens ranch near the Cuchara road.

1915 November Walsenburg: Fruth and Autrey will build an alfalfa mill at their ranch next month.

1915 November Walsenburg: Hear our new five piece orchestra every Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday nights - the Empress Theater.

1915 November Walsenburg: Miss Edith E. Edwards is prepared to give music lessons on reasonable terms at 120 East Third Street.

1915 November Walsenburg: Miss Katherine Barnes and Mr. James B. Dick Jr. were joined in marriage Nov. 10.

1915 November Walsenburg: On account of increased cost at Chicago, I am obliged to charge $13 for those $20 suits that I have been selling for $12.50 - W. E. Doyle.

1915 November Walsenburg: Public school lands are being sold by the State of Colorado for $6 an acre.

1915 November Walsenburg: St. John's Hotel, Sixth and Main Streets, Rooms with bath, European Plan, Cafe in Connection - John R. Dick, proprietor.

1915 November Walsenburg: There is a war in Turkey but anyone attending the shoot at Ravenwood could bring home a turkey.

1915 December La Veta: About three inches of snow Wednesday was welcomed for the needed moisture and the hope it will tend to eliminate La Grippe.

1915 December La Veta: Adam Flockhart was fined $200 for selling intoxicating liquors in town.

1915 December La Veta: Adam Flockhart was fined for selling intoxicating liquor, which is illegal since La Veta went "dry."

1915 December La Veta: Agnes D. Patterson married Julius Goemmer, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goemmer.

1915 December La Veta: Died, the Lupton baby of pneumonia, and Mrs. William Ward, who was buried beside her husband in the town cemetery.

1915 December La Veta: Mrs. Jasper Smith, 61, died of pneumonia, leaving her husband, son Bert, sister Mrs. Lougheed and brothers Martin, Charles, George and James Boyd. She had lived on the farm on the Cucharas for over 30 years.

1915 December La Veta: Sterge Mavrodis was found in violation of the ban on selling liquor.

1915 December La Veta: The Hector, Stranger and Pickens families will have their annual reunion in Stranger Hall Christmas night.

1915 December La Veta: The Sparks grocery store was burglarized.

1915 December Walsenburg: Agnes D. Patterson and Julius Goemmer, both of Walsenburg, were married in Denver.

1915 December Walsenburg: Candido Smirchich, the tailor of lower Main Street, died Dec. 15.

1915 December Walsenburg: Died, Israel Frye, 81, at the home of his son-in-law George Klein. After arriving in Denver via ox team in 1859, he prospected in Old Colorado City, the San Juans, Rosita, Leadville, Poncha Springs and Gunnison before coming to Old Rouse in 1888.

1915 December Walsenburg: Died, Ying Lee, who came to Huerfano County in 1883 to work for William Krier when he was running the La Veta Hotel. He had been in Walsenburg since 1886, in the laundry business.

1915 December Walsenburg: Fairview School, Dist. No. 25, Cucharas, gave a  pleasing Christmas program with music and recitations before breaking for the holidays.

1915 December Walsenburg: The early pioneers of Huerfano County are invited to a meeting to organize an association to write the history of the early days with special attention to old trails, roads, irrigation ditches and farming.

1915 December Walsenburg: The grade school basket ball team will play the Walsen mine team at Chapman Hall Wednesday evening.

1915 December Walsenburg: The large new company garage is nearly completed at Cameron.

1916 January La Veta: Dr. Jim Lamme overturned his car on the way to Ojo but he was uninjured.

1916 January La Veta: Ice hauling is in progress today.

1916 January La Veta: It rained in the night and melted all the snow.

1916 January La Veta: Marshal Arthur Bruce was shot through the jaw while fighting with Mrs. C.D. Jones over a gun.

1916 January La Veta: Mrs. Craven bought the Plaza Bakery from the Voegtles, who moved to Arizona.

1916 January La Veta: Mrs. W.H. Woodruff, nee Arnold, died and was buried in Oregon. She was the daughter of Mrs. Roberts of La Veta.

1916 January La Veta: Oakdale Coal Company will build an amusement hall as soon as work is completed on the electric building.

1916 January La Veta: One hundred and twenty five pounds of honey was extracted from the wall of Sterge's pool hall.

1916 January La Veta: The ice harvest can start now after the zero degree weather.

1916 January La Veta: Twenty-five elk are coming from Jackson Hole to the area around Rye. Why not place some here?

1916 January Walsenburg: A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Sporleder Dec. 26.

1916 January Walsenburg: Alex Friend has opened a new grocery store.

1916 January Walsenburg: Died, Fred Caddell in a mining accident; Alex Hamilton, a resident of over 30 years; Paul Grover, 25, an employee of Huerfano Trading Company the past two years.

1916 January Walsenburg: Miss Grace Biernbaum and Master Benjamin Jaramillo will present their graduation recitals Feb. 10 at the studio of Miss Sporleder.

1916 January Walsenburg: Ranch butter, 28 cents a pound; cooking butter, 25 cents; creamery butter, 38 cents a pound at the C.O.D. Store.

1916 January Walsenburg: Mr. Walter Hammond is again in charge of the Farmer's Lumber Yard on North Main Street.

1916 January Walsenburg: The J.B. Johnson store in the Fred Walsen building was sold to J.W. Smith and will be called J.W. Smith Dry Goods Company.

1916 January Walsenburg: The supreme favorite, Mary Pickford, in "Rags" Jan. 25 at the Star Theater.

1916 January Walsenburg: There will be a mass meeting at the courthouse to solicit funds for the Jewish war sufferers with Mrs. M. Bernstein directing the event.

1916 February La Veta: A big lot of coal is being shipped from both Oakdale and Ojo mines; one train of 25 cars came down from the latter place Wednesday.

1916 February La Veta: A post office is to be established at Cuchara Camps with Mrs. G.A. Mayes postmaster.

1916 February La Veta: Born, a boy Feb. 20 to Mr. and Mrs. William Lenox, and a girl, Feb. 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Springer.

1916 February La Veta: E.P. Wallace bought a new five-passenger Ford to use in connection with his work for the telephone company.

1916 February La Veta: Fred Edmisten's leg was broken in two places in a railroad accident at Cuchara Junction.

1916 February La Veta: La Veta Light, Heat and Power is offering a $5 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone breaking electric light globes.

1916 February La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Lamme are here visiting with their sons the doctors.

1916 February La Veta: The Parsons Brothers of near Stonewall have purchased $5,000 worth of cattle from the Kreutzer Brothers.

1916 February La Veta: The post office is to move to the Eggleston building on the east side of Main.

1916 February La Veta: The Town of La Veta offers a $5.00 reward for information leading to the conviction of anyone breaking electric light globes.

1916 February Walsenburg: Mrs. Bernstein is directing a mass meeting at the court house to solicit funds for the Jewish war sufferers.

1916 February Walsenburg: Mrs. S.M. Andrews is in Denver to study the millinery market in the interest of Unfug Millinery, 116 East Fifth Street.

1916 March 9: Baptist Church, Cecil T. Garnett, Pastor.

1916 March La Veta: A number of La Veta people went up to Oakview to help celebrate St. David's Day, a Welch holiday.

1916 March La Veta: A thief made off with everything in the cash register at the Columbine Billiard Hall - $1.

1916 March La Veta: A.A. Campbell is building a stone addition to the rear of Benefiel's store room.

1916 March La Veta: Alex Clobskey, the goat man, is selling apples around town from his donkey cart.

1916 March La Veta: Alvin Anson is running for mayor on the Independent ticket and Ell Smith is running for that office on the Citizens tickets.

1916 March La Veta: Boyd Danks has opened a tailor and dry cleaning shop on Main Street.

1916 March La Veta: Dr. and Mrs. S.J. Lamme and Mr. and Mrs. William Kincaid went to Trinidad to see the much-advertised  "The Birth of a Nation."

1916 March La Veta: Frank Vercellano sold his interest in the mercantile business to his partners Jake Tessari and Pete Ghiardi.

1916 March La Veta: George Edmonston moved his dry goods stock into the south halt of his store with the grocery department and Benefiel moved his furniture into the north half.

1916 March La Veta: Luther Kirby has opened his Elk Auto Livery and Feed Stable.

1916 March La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith became parents of a daughter born on March 5.

1916 March La Veta: Tuesday evening some youngsters got up a Wienie Roast for Garrett Epperson who is moving to Walsenburg.

1916 March La Veta: Will McEvoy was injured in a landslide while helping to load dirt for the Presbyterian church yard at the hill on the west side of town.

1916 March La Veta:  Julius C. Kreuger, brother of Mrs. Spielmann and Mrs. Strange and a pioneer of La Veta, died in California.

1916 March Walsenburg: A miner headed for Oakview was assaulted at the Solar store when he got off the train.

1916 March Walsenburg: A number of the younger set enjoyed a hay rack ride to Coler Reservoir Saturday evening.

1916 March Walsenburg: George Griffin is making improvements at his property at the corner of Fourth and Pioneer Streets, with fencing and a lawn.

1916 March Walsenburg: Governor Carlson will be in Walsenburg Thursday, March 30 to address the Womens Christian Temperance Union.

1916 March Walsenburg: John D. Rockefeller is proud of his camp at Cameron for its ideal location, well-built houses, running water, electricity and room for lawns in front of homes and kitchen gardens in the rear.

1916 March Walsenburg: Mike Galanis opened a general store at 530 West Seventh Street.

1916 March Walsenburg: Nineteen-year-old Earl Levy, youngest son of Alex Levy, was killed near Montrose when an avalanche demolished the train he was riding.

1916 March Walsenburg: Plans are being made for a high school race between Trinidad and Walsenburg where the athletes will run the 43 miles in teams of 10 or 15.

1916 March Walsenburg: See Pauline Frederick in the Dramatic Sensation of the Century, "Zaza," at the Star Theatre Mar. 28. 10 cents admission.

1916 March Walsenburg: The Talpa school was closed for the term March 1 by Prof. McBride.

1916 March Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Commercial Club had its first meeting and a county fair was discussed.

1916 March Walsenburg: Two miners were murdered, probably for breaking union rules by working on Sunday, in the Jackson mine.

1916 April La Veta: Died, Homer Barnard, who came to La Veta in 1871 after serving four years in the Civil War and surrendering at Appomatox.

1916 April La Veta: Forty-two ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church came to La Veta for the spring meeting of the Pueblo Presbytery.

1916 April La Veta: Minnie Carver has returned after nursing in Panama for two years.

1916 April La Veta: Sunday dinners at the Springer Hotel are becoming quite popular with local people and last Sunday good music was provided during the dinner hour.

1916 April La Veta: The La Veta chapter of Womens Christian Temperance Union met at the home of Mrs. Frank Eggleston with 50 members present.

1916 April Walsenburg: If you wish beautiful, clear white clothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all good grocers. 

1916 April Walsenburg: John Kirkpatrick of the Taxpayers party defeated Ralph Stanley, Independent, 660-345 in the town mayoral race.

1916 April Walsenburg: The CF&I are planning the erection of about 50 modern cement houses at Walsen Camp in the near future.

1916 April Walsenburg: The Rev. George M. Darley will be installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Walsenburg April 27.

1916 April Walsenburg: Start a fire under your apple trees tonight. It is going to be a cold one and may be good bye to the fruit crop unless you start your smudge pot and who in Huerfano County has a smudge pot?

1916 April Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Chamber of Commerce was organized with a large number of businessmen from Trinidad present.

1916 May La Veta: A band of gypsies camped in town for a few days.

1916 May La Veta: About 120 votes were cast in the school election and J.P. Stranger was elected secretary.

1916 May La Veta: All school children in Huerfano County are invited to participate in the track meet at the amusement park in Walsenburg Saturday.

1916 May La Veta: E.L. Smith is adding groceries to his dry goods stock.

1916 May La Veta: Harry C. Clifford and Miss Margaret Colvin were married.

1916 May La Veta: Las Animas county is supposed to finish the road over Cuchara Pass.

1916 May La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Springer are parents of a baby girl.

1916 May La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Parker became parents of a boy April 23 and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Read had a son April 26.

1916 May La Veta: See the Hoity-Toity Girls at Kincaid Hall on Sunday evening in the snappiest musical comedies.

1916 May La Veta: The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smith died of whooping cough.

1916 May La Veta: The editor went fishing Thursday but only caught one sucker and that was himself.

1916 May La Veta: The farmers are happy after all the recent rain and snow and all the talk is of beans, alfalfa and such.

1916 May La Veta: The fire department was reorganized with T.P. Steele, chief, C.E. Eggleston, captain and W.L. Warner, secretary and treasurer.

1916 May La Veta: The Memorial Day parade will start at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 30 at the corner by the bank and proceed to the cemetery. 

1916 May La Veta: The Spanish Peaks Hotel caught fire for the second time this week but the flames were quickly put out.

1916 May Walsenburg: A hay rack ride and camp fire at Martin Lake were enjoyed by a number of our young people. 

1916 May Walsenburg: An addition is being built onto the Money Garage next to the high school.

1916 May Walsenburg: Coming to the Star Theater, the greatest of all comedies, "Tillie's Punctured Romance," with Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler and Mabel Norman.

1916 May Walsenburg: Graduates of Huerfano County High School for 1916 are Marie Busch, Hazel Murray, Pearl Phipps, Mae Weston, Evalyn Capps, Tinny Martinez, Augusta Archuleta, Tito Jaramillo, Rick Duran, Robert Riley and Otto Unfug.

1916 May Walsenburg: Members of the Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesus offers condolences after the death of Antonio Autobee, 42.

1916 May Walsenburg: Members of the NMU and 500 Clubs had a Leap Year Ball Friday evening at Maccabee Hall.

1916 May Walsenburg: Members of the Retail Credit Association, Walsenburg Clerks Association and Walsenburg Commercial Club have decided to put on a Fourth of July celebration in Walsenburg.

1916 May Walsenburg: The Klein Hotel is being remodeled, with what were formerly the office, parlor and lobby all joined into one commodious lobby area.

1916 May Walsenburg: The school children have been organized into squads against the Demon Dirt during Clean Up Week in Walsenburg May 15 to 20.

1916 May Walsenburg: The Western Confectionery now occupies a brick building on Seventh Street between Albert and Main streets.

1916 June La Veta: A fire started on the south side of the East Spanish Peak Tuesday and at this writing is threatening the town of Aguilar.

1916 June La Veta: A grandstand is under construction at the base ball grounds.

1916 June La Veta: Advertisement: Even the Babies Smile for Me! James L. Powell, photographer.

1916 June La Veta: Born, boys to Mr. and Mrs. Karl Spielmann and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Estes and a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Craig.

1916 June La Veta: From now on, we accept cash only.  J.D. Galassini, La Veta Billiard Parlor.

1916 June La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Bissell are to run the restaurant at Cuchara Camps this summer.

1916 June La Veta: Mrs. Massey is running the Edmisten restaurant on Ryus Avenue.

1916 June La Veta: Sons were born this week to Karl Spielmann and Clyde Estes.

1916 June La Veta: Sunday dinners will be served at Sulphur Springs beginning Sunday by reservation only.

1916 June La Veta: The base ball team went to Aguilar Sunday and won by a score of 14-6.

1916 June La Veta: The best ball game of the season was last Sunday afternoon when the Walsen team came up and was defeated 7-5.

1916 June La Veta: The dance for the benefit of the La Veta Volunteer Fire Department netted over $20.

1916 June La Veta: The La Veta fire department will give a dance tomorrow evening to raise money for helmets and coats.

1916 June Walsenburg: A fire which destroyed the motor house at Breen mine, where there is no adequate water supply, is believed to be arson.

1916 June Walsenburg: A.C. Schafer was given a "Sock Shower" in honor of his forthcoming marriage.

1916 June Walsenburg: Dr. A.R. Scott has purchased the office and equipment of the late Dr. George L. Hoel opposite the post office.

1916 June Walsenburg: More than 1,000 people in over 200 cars attended the dedication of the new bridge on the Huerfano River, formerly the worst ford on the Denver to Gulf Highway.

1916 June Walsenburg: Next Friday the Baptist Sunday school will hold a picnic over the hogback near the Pictou road.

1916 June Walsenburg: The Breen Mine was burned by an arsonist last Friday night.

1916 June Walsenburg: There will be a mass meeting at the court house at 8 P.M. Saturday evening about the war crisis with Mexico.

1916 July La Veta: Dredging continues at Russell.

1916 July La Veta: F.R. Lindin has reopened the La Veta Steam Laundry, now located in the McDonald building on Francisco Street.

1916 July La Veta: Guy R. Shull is offering the Ojo Canon coal mine for sale or lease.

1916 July La Veta: Sixty or 70 people are staying in Cuchara Camps this week.

1916 July La Veta: Sunday dinners will be served at Sulphur Springs beginning Sunday by reservation only.

1916 July La Veta: The 4th of July menu at Cuchara Camps Hotel is soup, fricasseed chicken and dumplings, roast beef, corn beef, corn, tomatoes, peas, mashed potatoes, tea, coffee, cocoa or milk. 50˘.

1916 July La Veta: The Camp Fire Girls of Walsenburg are making things lively at Kamp Komfort in Cuchara Camps.

1916 July La Veta: There was a big racial fight at Alliance over the 4th of July holiday.

1916 July Walsenburg: C.N. Bissell writes from Cuchara Camps that many tourists are gathering and evenings are spent around the camp fire roasting "weanies."

1916 July Walsenburg: Cole Brothers Big World Toured Shows and Trained Wild Animal Exhibition will be here next Wednesday.

1916 July Walsenburg: Dr. S.J. Greear of La Veta has located in Walsenburg and may be found at the Oxford rooming house until he can find an office suitable.

1916 July Walsenburg: Fancy Cream Cheese, 25 cents a pound; Women's Fine Union Suits, 65 cents; Men's Oxfords, $2.15. Huerfano Trading Company.

1916 July Walsenburg: Ford C. Frick has a position as assistant mine clerk at Farr.

1916 July Walsenburg: Heavy rains have been falling near Walsenburg and though none have really caught the town, have patience, we'll get them soon enough.

1916 July Walsenburg: John Nish, superintendent at Ravenwood mine, and Joe Watson, the camp marshal, were arrested for disturbing the peace.

1916 July Walsenburg: Miss Freda Mazzone returned home Saturday after finishing the summer term in Greeley where she took the Teacher's course.

1916 July Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Graves arrived last Friday to make Walsenburg their future home.

1916 July Walsenburg: Mr. M. Bernstein is back from Denver to personally supervise his 27th Anniversary Sale.

1916 July Walsenburg: The Cameron Drum Corps are now equipped with new suits which were made by the Ladies Club.

1916 July Walsenburg: The election case by which J.B. Farr, W.H. Freeland, Joe S. Sanchez and A.D. Valdez were ousted from office by decision of the Colorado Supreme Court may yet reach the United States Supreme Court.

1916 July Walsenburg: The G.O.O.S.E. Club went to the home of Dr. and Mrs. Hally at Rouse Tuesday evening for cards and dancing, returning home early the next morning.

1916 July Walsenburg: The great and only Robinson circus and has come and went, being a great treat for all ages with its performances above average.

1916 July Walsenburg: The members of the Camp Fire Girls left on Monday for a week's outing at Cuchara Camps.

1916 July Walsenburg: The opening of the Walsen YMCA will be Aug. 15 with a vaudeville company engaged for the evening.

1916 July Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Commercial Club succeeded in getting the electrical rates reduced from 14˘ to 12 ˘ per kilowatt hour and the minimum from $1.50 to $1.

1916 July Walsenburg: Two 4th of July celebrations were held under the auspices of the Walsenburg Clerks Association.

1916 July Walsenburg: Walsenburg Auto Plumbing and Electric Company sold their garage at Fourth and Main to Sears and Sears.

1916 August La Veta: A bloody fracas at Alliance left Mr. and Mrs. Clikus [sic] and a man named Levy pretty well cut up.

1916 August La Veta: Allen J. Roush is proprietor of both La Veta Automotive Company and La Veta Bakery.

1916 August La Veta: Charles Estes, 42, was run over and killed by a railroad car, leaving a wife, two children, his father C.F. Estes and sister Mrs. Heilman.

1916 August La Veta: Harry Hector and Adam Flockhart were down from the clouds this week; they are mining within a quarter mile of the top of the West Spanish Peak.

1916 August La Veta: Quite a mine shaft has been sunk on a dike just east of town on the Kincaid ranch and some good looking ore is being secured.

1916 August La Veta: The bankruptcy sale of A. Patras is this week.

1916 August La Veta: There was a bloody fracas at Alliance when miners took after each other with knives.

1916 August La Veta: Will, Arthur and Rene Bruce are staying in the old house on the main road at Cuchara Camps. The two former are working on a new cottage and the latter cooks and provides fish and game.

1916 August Walsenburg: For sale: the Morris Hotel, hot and cold water, steam heat, bathroom.

1916 August Walsenburg: Four men have been arrested and charged with being implicated with the robbery of $5,000 from Francisco Pacheco.

1916 August Walsenburg: Francisco Pacheco, a sheep raiser who lives about three miles above the Solar mine, was robbed of $5,000 and sheriff's men are tracking the thieves with bloodhounds from Trinidad.

1916 August Walsenburg: Frank Oberding, the mining inspector, brought four charges against the Mathews and McNally mine concerning powder and carrying carbide lamps into the mine.

1916 August Walsenburg: Huerfano County  High School opens Sept. 5 and offers three courses - Preparatory, Scientific and Commercial. I.E. Stutsman, principal.

1916 August Walsenburg: Lost, bay horse, branded JP on right front shoulder, weight 1094 pounds. Notify M.J. Bayak, Solar, Colo.

1916 August Walsenburg: Mr. Welborn, president of CF&I company and Mr. McKennon, general manager, attended the ball Saturday night to formally open the new Walsen YMCA.

1916 August Walsenburg: Mrs. Grace Unfug of Pueblo has accepted a position as milliner at Mr. August Unfug's store.

1916 August Walsenburg: The Baptists' building fund is up to $120.

1916 August Walsenburg: The new YMCA building at Walsen camp replaces the "poor" building used for the past five years.

1916 August Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Commercial Club resolved to oppose the Herd Law which will force livestock owners to contain their animals on their own land.

1916 August: Mrs. Grace Unfug of Pueblo has accepted a position as milliner at Mr. August Unfug's clothing store.

1916 August: Mrs. James I. McGinn, almost 18, the former Hazel Pett, died in Aguilar.

1916 September La Veta: About 2:30 a.m. last Sunday a fire broke out behind the bakery. The flames burned into the ceiling but Mrs. Wright, who was sleeping on the balcony was able to escape without injury.

1916 September La Veta: Asa Arnold won the contract to carry the mail from La Veta to Cuchara Camps.

1916 September La Veta: Daddy Lee captured two bears this week in the vicinity of Raspberry Mountain.

1916 September La Veta: Miss Evalyn Capps is attending teachers college in Greeley.

1916 September La Veta: Stella May Clark and John Ray Daniels of North Carolina were married and they will live in Monte Vista.

1916 September La Veta: The fire on Sept. 3 in Alex McDonald's building destroyed the baking room of Allen Roush and damaged the frame part of the Kincaid building next door.

1916 September LaVeta: J.M. Lininger, the dentist, will be in La Veta permanently after Oct. 1.

1916 September Walsenburg: A fire in the Empress Theater last night was caused by film exploding in the box.

1916 September Walsenburg: Butter, 34˘ a pound, fresh eggs 25˘ a dozen at the Cash Supply Store, Ralph Levy, proprietor. Phone 70.

1916 September Walsenburg: Charlie Chaplin in his latest, "The Vagabond" and Miss Sarconi will render soprano solos in the Star Theatre Sept. 18.

1916 September Walsenburg: Eleanor Cowing and Ford Frick were married Sept. 16 at the bride's parents' home.

1916 September Walsenburg: Four boys were charged with burning down a haystack of Pablo Sanchez worth $400.

1916 September Walsenburg: Sister Camille, formerly known to us as Anna Mazzone, was in Walsenburg this week visiting her family.

1916 September Walsenburg: The Ladies Maccabee Benevolent Association presented "An Old Maid's Convention" at the Empress Friday night and it proved to be a scream from curtain rise to curtain fall.

1916 September Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Clerk's Association gave a big dance Saturday evening with the Star Orchestra giving a splendid performance.

1916 October La Veta: Allen J. Roush is asking everyone to settle their debts at the bakery. He probably will not re-open after the fire destroyed his building last month.

1916 October La Veta: C.L. Martin bought the bankruptcy stock of A. Patras and opened the store to the public.

1916 October La Veta: Hoyt Crawford married Nellie Hayes and Lawrence Meade wed Irene Arnold.

1916 October La Veta: I have opened a private boarding house in the Minnie Adamson building on Francisco Street - will quote rates on good home cooking, Mrs. E.M. Snyder.

1916 October La Veta: Leonard Fry has leased the meat market from A.A. Campbell.

1916 October La Veta: Mrs. E.M. Snyder has opened a private boardinghouse in the Minnie Adamson building on Francisco Street.

1916 October La Veta: Mrs. M.M. Springer has opened a Lunch Room in the former sample room of the Springer Hotel.

1916 October La Veta: The La Veta Garage has started a menagerie. Two young coyotes are the first arrivals from the wild.

1916 October Walsenburg: For sale cheap - 100 Ramboulette lambs, two to five years old - Antonio D. Valdez. Phone 211.

1916 October Walsenburg: For sale, 600 vacant lots in Walsenburg, easy terms. C. Victor Mazzone.

1916 October Walsenburg: Horses, wagons and stoves for sale at the American Junk Yard, South Main Street.

1916 October Walsenburg: Miss Eva Florence Curry will appear in a graduation concert at Miss Caroline Sporleder's Studio.

1916 October Walsenburg: Mrs. Chauncy Summers and infant son Dan are home from Pueblo.

1916 October Walsenburg: Rev. Dr. Darley is forced by ill health to give up his ministry at the Presbyterian Church here.

1916 October Walsenburg: Seventeen couples attended the Young Married's Club dance Wednesday evening.

1916 October Walsenburg: The Better Half of the G.O.O.S.E. Club met with Mrs. W.C. Hunt Tuesday.

1916 October Walsenburg: The library is open from 3:30 to 5 on Tuesdays and Fridays. Terms are 25 cents for three months, 50 cents for six months or $1 a year.

1916 October Walsenburg: The Republican county committee established their headquarters in the old Central Hotel on East Sixth across from the Klein Hotel.

1916 Nov. 9: An all aluminum double cooker may be purchased for $1 at the following stores: M. Martinez, Lorenzo Lenzini & Bro., Huerfano Trading Company, Sporleder Selling Company, Kriers Store Company, Abe Cutter, Cash Supply Store and C.O.D. Store in Walsenburg; Huerfano Trading Company in Oakview, Pryor, Tioga, Toltec and Turner and at the Colorado Supply Company in Walsen. Walsenburg World

1916 November La Veta: Anyone indebted to me should pay the bank immediately - A.H. Sparks.

1916 November La Veta: H.B. Sager has sold his ranch to O.E. Willis.

1916 November La Veta: Levy Kincaid has purchased one half interest of the WM. Kincaid ranch and will move there after building a home.

1916 November La Veta: Mr. Voegtle is back and will reopen his bakery with his good bread and cakes.

1916 November La Veta: School was dismissed at two o'clock last Monday on account of Gov. Carlson's visit.

1916 November La Veta: The kids did less damage than usual on Hallow'een; not because they have reformed, but because people took more care in putting away their belongings.

1916 November La Veta: Tom Wheeler has leased the Brooks' ranch close to Ojo and Mr. Brooks moved to the Enos George place.

1916 November Walsenburg: A. Levy will open the new Strand Theater, formerly The Empress, Saturday night with the musical comedy "Vanity Fair."

1916 November Walsenburg: Died, A.P. McIntire, a pioneer of Sharpsdale who has resided in the county 36 years. He leaves a widow, daughters Mrs. A.S. Neely of Cameron and Mrs. W.N. Wycoff, Greeley, and two brothers, Fremont and Alvi S. of Walsenburg.

1916 November Walsenburg: Doughnuts, 15 cents a dozen at City Bakery, A.J. Dissler, proprietor.

1916 November Walsenburg: M. Bernstein and Archie Levy are managing the new Strand Theater on East Sixth Street.

1916 November Walsenburg: Maxwells, Fully Equipped, at Young and Sons, 221 North Main, Phone 338-J.

1916 November Walsenburg: Sheriff Neelley arrested 31 men at Oakview camp for gambling during a raid Saturday on the Japanese boardinghouse.

1916 November Walsenburg: Sometime Thursday night thieves cut a hole in the ceiling of the bank from a room above and entered, taking about 300 pounds of loose silver.

1916 November Walsenburg: The Maccabees will present their minstrel show - Marvelous Melage of Mirth and Melody - on Nov. 8-9 at the Owl Theater.

1916 November Walsenburg: The single young men of Walsenburg met at Edmund Orahood's home and organized the Arcadian Club with Jack Carlton, president, Eugene Brock, secretary and Herbert Furphy, treasurer.

1916 November Walsenburg: Wanted: a good stout girl for house work, $6.00 per week.

1916 December La Veta: "The Price of Her Silence," in five reels, 10 cents and 20 cents at the Crystal Theater.

1916 December La Veta: Died, Henry A. "Harry" Hector who was born in England in 1874 and came to La Veta in 1889 with his family. Unmarried, he leaves six sisters and two brothers.

1916 December La Veta: Ice harvest is now underway; it is about 12 inches thick.

1916 December La Veta: John Ritter turned his ranch over to his boys, and he and his wife moved to town. The ranch and  stock are valued at $20,000.

1916 December La Veta: The Fielden ranch has been improved with the erection of a 20 by 100 foot barn.

1916 December La Veta: The Methodist ladies will have a bazaar in the Lester building tomorrow and give a supper in the evening.

1916 December La Veta: There will be a big dance Christmas night in Kincaid Hall.

1916 December Walsenburg: A daughter was born Dec. 26 to Mrs. and Mrs. F.C. Sporleder.

1916 December Walsenburg: A.P. McIntire, one of the earliest settlers at Sharpsdale, died. He is the brother of Freemont and Alvi S. McIntire of Walsenburg.

1916 December Walsenburg: For rent, 10-room hotel building, unfurnished, on East Sixth Street. Contact C. Victor Mazzone.

1916 December Walsenburg: Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne appear in "Diplomatic Service," at The Strand Theatre Dec. 12.

1916 December Walsenburg: L.B. Sporleder has issued a booklet on the Huajatolla mountains or Spanish Peaks, with legends and half-tones.

1916 December Walsenburg: Sheriff Neelley boarded northbound passenger train and arrested a Slav believed to be the murderer of a storekeeper in Aguilar.

1916 December Walsenburg: The new YMCA building at Lester was formally opened last Saturday night.

1916 December Walsenburg: Walsenburg will be the seventh city in the world to see the moving picture "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" at the Strand Dec. 25. There will be two showings.

1917 January La Veta: County Commissioner William McEvoy's wife died after just two years of marriage.

1917 January La Veta: County Commissioners Robert Smith and Alex McDonald are out and J.T. Trujillo and Walter Hamilton will be sworn in today. Robert Young is the hold-over.

1917 January La Veta: Died, Mrs. William McEvoy, whose husband is county commissioner and a rancher on the Wahatoya.

1917 January La Veta: Dr. J.W. Lininger has located his dentistry office in the Turner building.

1917 January La Veta: E.L. Smith now has William McLain driving a delivery wagon out to the coal mines.

1917 January La Veta: Edwin L. Smith has stopped delivering his goods to the coal camps west of town.

1917 January La Veta: One man is dead and another injured after a fight and shooting in Ojo.

1917 January La Veta: School classes will be held on Saturdays so the boys can be out early in the spring to assist with farm work since so many men have answered Uncle Sam's call.

1917 January La Veta: Several teams have been busy shipping ice on Saturday and Sunday but 20 years ago the streets were lined with wagons for two weeks at a time.

1917 January La Veta: The tin pan and cow bell brigade gave a few selections of popular music on Christmas Eve.

1917 January La Veta: We understand a miners union has been organized at Oakview.

1917 January Walsenburg: A 24 by 42 foot addition costing $2,000 will be built onto the Baptist Church, doubling its size.

1917 January Walsenburg: A large crowd attended the wedding Monday at St. Mary Church when Miguel A. Atencio, son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Atencio, married Miss Elvira Valdez, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andres Valdez.  The large ball was held Tuesday night at the YMCA in Walsen. 

1917 January Walsenburg: About 400 dancers attended the Walsenburg Clerk's Association mask ball Saturday night. Winners of the costume contest were Mrs. George Edwards, Miss Rose Dissler, Alex Ross and Tony Riccotine.

1917 January Walsenburg: All you homesteaders get busy on that 640 acre law or someone will beat you to it.

1917 January Walsenburg: Archie Levy is having extensive improvements done on the Strand Theater.

1917 January Walsenburg: Beginning Jan. 9, the Strand Orchestra will give a dance every Wednesday evening at Maccabee Hall.

1917 January Walsenburg: Dance to the music of the Star Orchestra tomorrow night at Maccabee Temple. Admission $1.00.

1917 January Walsenburg: Dr. S.J. Greear moved his office to the Roof and Dick building where the Huerfano Trading Company was and Huerfano Trading moved to the former Walsenburg Mercantile across from the C&S depot.

1917 January Walsenburg: F.D. McCullough, outgoing county stenographer, has opened an office in the Kearns building to do public stenography and write life insurance.

1917 January Walsenburg: For Rent - a ten-room hotel, unfurnished, on East Sixth Street. Apply C.V. Mazzone.

1917 January Walsenburg: For sale - horses, mules, wagons and harness. J.W. Furphy, 208 West Seventh Street.

1917 January Walsenburg: Fred C. Sporleder designated the Guaranty State Bank as the official county repository as his first action as new county treasurer.

1917 January Walsenburg: Harvey Starbuck, former deputy district attorney, opened a law office in the Roof and Dick building in the rooms vacated by John L. East, who moved to the court house when appointed county attorney.

1917 January Walsenburg: Mr. McArthur, former violinist at the Empress Theatre, has accepted a position at the Strand.

1917 January Walsenburg: P.L. Sanchez opened a real estate and insurance office in the Roof and Dick building.

1917 January Walsenburg: Paul Krier, manager, announced that a new Star Theater will be built of red brick on Main near Seventh, south of its present location.

1917 January Walsenburg: The 25 new cement houses at Ideal are ready for occupancy and Miss Anna O'Hagan has charge of the school.

1917 January Walsenburg: The Commercial Club says the new county hospital is assured, which will be turned over to a Sisters of Charity after construction. $2,000 has already been subscribed toward the $12,000 needed.

1917 January Walsenburg: The St. John Hotel, Sixth and Main, has taken over the old Central Hotel just east, adding 10 rooms.

1917 January Walsenburg: The two express companies doing business in Walsenburg delivered 4,641 packages of intoxicating liquors here during the last six months of 1916. Total cost of these shipments was $1,265.00.

1917 January Walsenburg: The Walsenburg fire department has a brand new $2,000 Ford fire truck.

1917 January Walsenburg: Will Henry, manager of the Bernstein store, was initiated into the "misteries" of the Arcadian Club Tuesday night.

1917 February La Veta: Albert Foote and Miss Mary Tanhauser were married in the Methodist parsonage Saturday evening.

1917 February La Veta: Ben Pascoe and Mabel Pickens were married.

1917 February La Veta: Buy your fine china at Gibbons Hardware.

1917 February La Veta: Drs. S.J. and J.M. Lamme have added to their equipment the latest tests for eyes, and can fit you for glasses.

1917 February La Veta: La Veta Light, Heat and Power signed a contract with Trinidad Electric to provide 24-hour a day electrical service.

1917 February La Veta: R.A. Hayes, 72, died in California. He was born in North Carolina, served in the Confederate Army and came to La Veta in 1872. He leaves his wife, the former Miss Ownbey and a son Frank.

1917 February La Veta: The county clerk has issued so far this year 292 automobile licenses, collecting therefrom $1,200.50.

1917 February La Veta: The girls have rented Mr. Sparks' building in which to play basketball.

1917 February La Veta: W.H. Parke, 63, was found dead of alcoholism in his blacksmith shop.

1917 February Walsenburg: Alva Benson of Red Wing and Mary Schmidt of Gardner were married Feb. 4.

1917 February Walsenburg: Archie Levy is having extensive improvements done on the Strand Theater.

1917 February Walsenburg: City Council ordered that all houses must be numbered and all property owners must build sidewalks.

1917 February Walsenburg: Colorado goes "dry" effective June 1.

1917 February Walsenburg: Died, John Breen, 75, an early coal mine developer of Huerfano County. He was superintendent for the Walsen and Rouse mines, and half owner of the Breen.

1917 February Walsenburg: During the past year, the 29 producing coal mines of Huerfano County had 22 accidents, 10 of them fatal, with 2,767 men employed.

1917 February Walsenburg: Joe Bergamo installed an Empire milking machine - the first in the county - at his big dairy ranch at Malachite.

1917 February Walsenburg: Mary R. Trujillo is now managing the El Bello Hogar Hotel (formerly The Southern) on Main Street near Eighth.

1917 February Walsenburg: Mike James has three tables for pool and one for billiards at his Friendly Pool Hall on Main Street near Seventh.

1917 February Walsenburg: Mike Joseph moved his shoe shop from opposite the post office on West Sixth to the other side of the street, formerly Joe Santi's.

1917 February Walsenburg: Mines producing within the past year were Robinson, Rouse, Ideal, Lester, Cameron, Ravenwood, Oakdale, Pryor, Big Four, Tioga, Reliance, Caddell, Vesta, Rugby, Toltec, Black Canon, Sunnyside, Breen, Larimore, Loma, Turner, Solar, Gordon, Mutual, Pinon, Ojo, Pictou and Walsen.

1917 February Walsenburg: Ten new houses are ready for occupancy at Cameron and another 50 will be built immediately.

1917 February Walsenburg: The Commercial Club says the county hospital is assured, with $2,000 of the $12,000 needed already subscribed. It will be turned over to a Sisters of Charity organization after construction.

1917 February Walsenburg: The county commissioners have purchased an automobile for use in county business.

1917 February Walsenburg: The Independent is moving its office to 119 West Seventh Street near Main, in the Cash Supply Store room formerly the Workman building.          

1917 March La Veta: Died, Martha Jane Prator, who came to La Veta with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Bruce in 1870 and married Augustus Prator in 1880. Five of her six sons survive and both of her daughters.

1917 March La Veta: Homer Potts was found not guilty of murdering Undersheriff John Wright.

1917 March La Veta: J.W. Lininger and Minnie Carver were married.

1917 March La Veta: Mrs. Mary Patton is selling her four room house with water and electricity preparatory to moving to a lower climate for her health.

1917 March La Veta: State highway officials propose to build the new highway across the mesa to La Veta Pass and completely bypass the town of La Veta.

1917 March La Veta: The school board traded off the old school building on Field Street.

1917 March La Veta: William White has leased the Parks blacksmith shop.

1917 March Walsenburg: A 24-piece Italian band and a new Italian war picture will be the features at the Walsen Y.M.C.A. Tuesday.

1917 March Walsenburg: A club house, hotel and bath house will be built at Cameron and Mr. Rockefeller's bandstand is under construction.

1917 March Walsenburg: A flood-light is now focused on the large flag on top of the Krier store at Sixth and Main Streets.

1917 March Walsenburg: A sneak-thief broke a rear window of the Victor Mazzone building on Main Street and entered the side of Louis Gilaudo's jewelry store and stole numerous watches.

1917 March Walsenburg: About 3,500 Colorado coal miners formed a union, the Coal Miners Protective Union, and seceded from the UMWA. Local committee members are Mike Valdez, Rich Hendren and Adam Flockhart.

1917 March Walsenburg: Professor J.A. White of Denver, psychological healer and seer, predicts we will have no war with Germany.

1917 March Walsenburg: Ten new houses are ready for occupancy at Cameron and another 50 will be built immediately along with   Mr. Rockefeller's bandstand.

1917 March Walsenburg: The Commercial Club voted $150 towards the building of a hospital in Walsenburg.

1917 March Walsenburg: Two couples were married this week, Giovenni Santi, Toltec and Rose Digiocomo, Walsenburg and Albert Lazarini, Ideal and Lena Lenzini, Toltec.

1917 March Walsenburg: Winners of the letter writing contest were Jenny Fartarell, Washington School; Elberta Vogel, Hill School; Andrew Conder, Maitland; Carol Isaacson, Mustang; Kathryn Firm, La Veta and Fern Meyer, Gardner.

1917 April La Veta: A box social held at the schoolhouse on the Cucharas last Saturday netted $26 for the farmers' club. 

1917 April La Veta: Gravel is being taken off the hill north of town and being dumped on the road where it is wet and swampy near the bridge.

1917 April La Veta: Henry Roberts, who a short time ago bought an interest in the Vasquez blacksmith shop, has rented the Turner cottage at the corner of Oak and Field.

1917 April La Veta: J.E. Stewart is taking over management of Ghiardi's Crystal Theatre.

1917 April La Veta: Marie Arnold, 13 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arnold, died of pneumonia. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Roberts.

1917 April La Veta: Mrs. Ghiardi and Mrs. Gross are now operating the Spanish Peaks Hotel.

1917 April La Veta: Mrs. William Kishman has given up the management of the Spanish Peaks Hotel and Mrs. Paul Ghiardi and her brother Mr. Gross and wife will now be the proprietors.

1917 April La Veta: Neal Baysinger has purchased a Ford roadster and will be strictly with it with those Texas young ladies this summer.

1917 April La Veta: Ruth Donegan received first prize for "The Harm of Tobacco" in the Womens Christian Temperance Union's essay contest.

1917 April La Veta: Sterge Mavrodis, president of the local union at Ojo, was elected check weighman for the mine.

1917 April La Veta: The Spanish Peaks Hotel is the worst firetrap in town.

1917 April Walsenburg: A special train will take miners to Ludlow for the commemorative program and union speeches on the anniversary of the Ludlow massacre three years ago.

1917 April Walsenburg: Agapito Atencio, assistant postmaster, married Ida Estella Abeyta of Turner.

1917 April Walsenburg: Appointed by town board were Fred Unfug, clerk; Silverio Martinez, marshal; George Blickhahn, attorney and H.H. Dally, health officer.

1917 April Walsenburg: Archie Allison, salesman at J.W. Smith's Dry Goods, went to Denver and enlisted in the Colorado Cavalry.

1917 April Walsenburg: Every body around here seems ready to fight the Kaiser.

1917 April Walsenburg: James B. Dick Jr., son of William, married Isabelle McGowan, the daughter of James McGowan, superintendent of Hezron mine.

1917 April Walsenburg: Married, Joe Ladurine and Noemi Santi, both of Toltec.

1917 April Walsenburg: Over 300 jammed into the Rouse school house for a patriotic meeting.

1917 April Walsenburg: Ralph Levy and Walter Edwards have organized a cavalry troop with 35 members to help whip the Germans.

1917 April Walsenburg: W.R. Shade was awarded the electrical work contract for the new Star Theatre.

1917 May La Veta: Six students will graduate from La Veta Union High School this month. They are Bruce Prator, valedictorian, Laura Kincaid, salutatorian, Rene Bruce, Dewey Marker, Claudia Groves and Albert Turner.

1917 May La Veta: The blizzard left three feet of snow in Cuchara Camps, bringing the total snowfall this winter to 211 inches.

1917 May La Veta: The President has named June 5th as registration day for all men between the ages of 21 and 30.

1917 May Walsenburg: About 3,000 United Mine Workers and sympathizers attended the memorial services at Ludlow last Sunday.

1917 May Walsenburg: Edward Slates sells all types of typewriter ribbons. Call on him at the county clerk's office in the courthouse.

1917 May Walsenburg: For sale - horses, mules, wagons and harness. J.W. Furphy, 208 South Seventh Street.

1917 May Walsenburg: For sale: a 1916 five-passenger Case automobile, cost $1,400 new, now a bargain.

1917 May Walsenburg: Headline: 120 Men Die in Hastings Mine Catastrophe: 62 Widows and 141 Orphans Survive Them.

1917 May Walsenburg: Jack Carlton, Fred Unfug Jr. and Irvin Orahood left today to enlist.

1917 May Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Everitt Sears have returned to their homestead at Mountainview after spending the winter in Walsenburg.

1917 May Walsenburg: Nine seniors will graduate from the county high school next Thursday evening.

1917 May Walsenburg: Phoebe Roberts, Cameron School fifth grader, won the county spelling bee and Ruth Black, a fifth grader from Walsen School, placed second.

1917 May Walsenburg: The Walsenburg troop of cavalry, troop F, was mustered into service Wednesday night with 62 men. Ralph Levy was elected captain.

1917 May Walsenburg: William McDermott, President of the Walsenburg Clerk's Association, has succeeded Archie Allison as salesman at J.W. Smith Dry Goods.

1917 May Walsenburg: Winning the county spelling bee for the 6th, 7th  and 8th grades were Richard Caddell, Walsenburg, first, and Beatrice Toogood; Pictou, second., both eighth graders.

1917 June La Veta: A.C. Schafer and Lillian Erwin were married.

1917 June La Veta: Although town board does not recognize a franchise, La Veta Light Company goes serenely on supplying the town and people with lights.

1917 June La Veta: F.N. Raeder brought in a sample of oil yesterday from his claim near Ojo.

1917 June La Veta: Frank Arnold has rented what is known as the Hills place on the upper Cucharas from Sumpter Martin.

1917 June La Veta: S.L. Roberts opened a garage in the Boyd blacksmith building.

1917 June La Veta: The barbers, Alvin Anson and T.F. Haase, have raised their prices to 50 cents for a haircut and 25 cents for a shave.

1917 June La Veta: The birth of a girl to Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Young of Raton gave Mrs. Mary Arnold Roberts a fourth great- granddaughter and one great-grandson.

1917 June La Veta: The Commercial Club rented Adamson Park for public camping.

1917 June La Veta: The frost last week was a surprise.

1917 June Walsenburg: $15,000 was collected at Walsen camp for Liberty bonds.

1917 June Walsenburg: A bazaar at Gardner will benefit the building fund of the Catholic Church for a parochial school.

1917 June Walsenburg: A.J. Dissler, proprietor of the City Bakery, married Virginia Agnes at St. Mary Church Tuesday morning. 1920: Owen Hornburg is the new secretary of the Commercial Club after the resignation of A.P. Atencio who is too busy at Guaranty State Bank.

1917 June Walsenburg: Alexander Firm of La Veta and Judge Aaron O. Willburn of Clover were elected members of the Huerfano County High School board of control. Other members are Juan G. Bustos, Cucharas, and Crescentio Trujillo, North Veta and Martha Thorne, secretary.

1917 June Walsenburg: Frederick John Walsen was born June 9 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Walsen of Denver. Mrs. Walsen is the daughter of John B. Johnson, formerly a prosperous merchant here.

1917 June Walsenburg: George Dick Jr. is the new salesman at the Huerfano Trading Company at Sixth and Main Streets.

1917 June Walsenburg: Jack Carleton, F.H. Unfug and E.M. Orahood joined the army and were assigned as clerks in the engineer "corpse."

1917 June Walsenburg: Lillian McNally succeeded Alpha Buckle as mine clerk at Maitland.

1917 June Walsenburg: More than 100 Walsenburg residents took the D&RG wildflower excursion to the top of La Veta Pass.

1917 June Walsenburg: Professor H.B. Caughran was selected as the new Huerfano County High School principal, succeeding Prof. I.B. Stutsman, who resigned.

1917 June Walsenburg: Sampson Sweet, for many years a prominent citizen of Walsenburg, dropped dead on Main Street at Seventh of apoplexy.

1917 June Walsenburg: The local carpenters union entertained about 100 friends at Maccabee Temple Monday.

1917 June Walsenburg: The new Star Theater will reopen July 1 after a $20,000 remodeling by owner Paul Krier. It will seat 750 people.

1917 June Walsenburg: Those graduated from Huerfano County High School last night were Myrtle Andrews, Meryle Miller, Effie Lee McKee, Lillian Davis, Fred Unfug, Mike Rozlosink, Lewis Brown and Robert Anderson.

1917 June Walsenburg: Walsen camp gave $15,000 and Cameron $6,000 as part of the $30,000 collected from CF&I miners for Liberty bonds.

1917 June Walsenburg: Walsenburg headquarters of the Red Cross opened in the Mazzone building, Main and Sixth, and about $7,000 has already been pledged.

1917 July La Veta: A company is drilling for oil on the McClure ranch east of La Veta.

1917 July La Veta: Cuchara Camps Restaurant and Commissary are now open to serve visitors with meals at reasonable prices.

1917 July La Veta: Dances are being held every Saturday night at the pavilion in Cuchara Camps.

1917 July La Veta: Eula Martin and Frank Moran were married.

1917 July La Veta: Last Saturday night a beefsteak fry and Indian war dance were part of the dance program at Cuchara Camps, followed by a midnight drive in the mountains.

1917 July La Veta: The Price ranch resort up Indian Creek has been busy with campers and lodgers recently.

1917 July Walsenburg: John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, will speak July 7 in Miners' Day ceremonies in Walsen.

1917 July: Colorado has passed a new liquor law requiring each person to buy monthly permits for one quart of whiskey for medical, sacramental, or scientific purposes.

1917 August La Veta: According to the state counters, between 175 and 200 automobile have passed the intersection at Ryus Avenue and Main Street since the first of the month.

1917 August La Veta: C.C. Webster has moved his family to West Ryus Avenue where headquarters for La Veta Light, Heat and Power Company will also be located.

1917 August La Veta: Classes will resume soon at Echo Canon school house.

1917 August La Veta: For rent, one and two room cabins. Inquire at Price Ranch on Indian Creek.

1917 August La Veta: Married: Frank Arnold and Mary Hayden; Bay Woodruff and Hazel Birch; Fred Dryden and Vera Crawford.

1917 August La Veta: Mrs. Eva Lenox is now musician at the Crystal Theater and Miss Pansy Beamer has charge of the box office.

1917 August La Veta: Mrs. Pearl Steele is offering her fall millinery fashions in the house across the street from the Lamme hospital.

1917 August La Veta: Some members of the town board went up to the newly-acquired town park at the head of the Cucharas and the county surveyor will locate a road from the sawmill to the lakes.

1917 August La Veta: Some people are already harvesting their beans. 

1917 August La Veta: The Town Board has taken a spasm and is enforcing the ordinance regarding stock running at large.

1917 August: The Jeff Farr Jr., Roy Hill, John Eastland, and J.F. Coss families all spent Sunday in Cuchara Camp.

1917 September La Veta: C.E. Thomas married Mrs. L. Gray who lives two miles north of town.

1917 September La Veta: E.V. Gibbons has put a gasoline station in front of his store on Main Street.

1917 September La Veta: John Mazmkle of Ojo was fined $10 and costs by Justice C.V. Mazzone for bootlegging.

1917 September La Veta: The city police at Gardner, namely E.B. Mockmore, must have had a scrap with his wife for he has quit wearing his star.

1917 September La Veta: The dynamo at the light plant went out and left town in the dark.

1917 September La Veta: The fallacy that potatoes cannot be raised in and around La Veta was certainly exploded this season.

1917 September La Veta: The Galassini pool hall was burglarized.

1917 September La Veta: The new CF&I hay barn is almost completed.

1917 September La Veta: Threshing is in full swing and Levi Kincaid must have beat the record on oats at 71 bushels to the acre.

1917 September Walsenburg: Charles Costa, a Portuguese Negro convicted of bootlegging, escaped from the county jail but was captured in Raton.

1917 September Walsenburg: Dr. N.T. Abdou is the latest addition to Walsenburg's medical fraternity.

1917 September Walsenburg: Five special trains passed through Walsenburg carrying 20,000 Colorado soldiers to Ft. Riley, Kansas.

1917 September Walsenburg: Miss Emma Douglass of Fort Collins will be the first home demonstration agent in Huerfano County.

1917 September Walsenburg: Miss Idel McKee of Oakview School and Miss Effie Lee McKee of Pryor School spent the weekend in town visiting with their mother.

1917 September Walsenburg: The $15,000 remodeling and reconstruction job at Hill school is finally completed and classes will commence Monday at 9 a.m.

1917 September Walsenburg: The North Butte farm club decided to have a community exhibit in the Huerfano County Harvest Festival in Walsenburg next month.

1917 September Walsenburg: The Young Married People's Club was entertained Tuesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Welling Sumner. The high scores were won by Mrs. M.E. Cowing and S.M. Andrews.

1917 September Walsenburg: Two thousand booklets have been issued for the Huerfano County Harvest Fair Oct. 10-11 in Walsenburg ballpark, sponsored by the commercial club and Huerfano County farmers and ranchers.

1917 September Walsenburg: Walter Edwards of Edwards and Dick Plumbing and Heating has been called to the colors and left to "do his bit."

1917 September: A transient peddlar was arrested near La Veta with no less than 15 quart bottles of whiskey in his spring wagon.

1917 October La Veta: A fire in the Advertiser building when only part of the issue was out, has demoralized us considerably but we shall soon be in a normal condition once more.

1917 October La Veta: A fire in the Turner building next to Masonic Hall also damaged the Haase barbershop and the stationery store next door.

1917 October La Veta: Dr. Lininger has arranged a very modern office in the Turner building.

1917 October La Veta: During the patriotic program and dance at Kincaid Hall, S.J. Capps collected $25.20 for the boys leaving for the service - Mike Dusnak, John Bione, Hoyt Crawford, Orlando McRae, William Price and William Snedden.

1917 October La Veta: Evalyn Capps and Nona Reynolds have enrolled in the State Teachers College in Greeley, where the 600 registration is the largest in history in spite of the war troubles.

1917 October La Veta: Karl Spielmann gathered 10 bushels of pears from one tree, a rather remarkable crop for this section.

1917 October La Veta: The new war tax will increase postage to three cents and two cents for post cards.

1917 October La Veta: Work is progressing on the Veta Pass highway; grading is finished above the mule shoe and cement bridges are being put in at the creek crossings.

1917 October La Veta: Young Bob McGraw, formerly of La Veta, is playing in the big leagues and almost pitched a shutout over Detroit, but Ty Cobb parried successfully and hit in a run.

1917 October Walsenburg: About 1,000 people gathered last night to bid farewell to the 44 Huerfano County soldiers who left today for Fort Funston, Kans.

1917 October Walsenburg: An athletes association was formed at Huerfano County High School with Charles Brunelli, president; Bruce Buckland, vice president and Albert Stanley secretary-treasurer.

1917 October Walsenburg: Eighteen aliens from ten countries were naturalized as citizens Monday by Judge McHendrie.

1917 October Walsenburg: Five special trains passed through Walsenburg carrying 20,000 Colorado soldiers to Fort Riley, Kansas.

1917 October Walsenburg: Four hundred hospital garments were sent to Denver yesterday by the Walsenburg Red Cross Chapter, assisted by auxiliaries in La Veta and the camps.

1917 October Walsenburg: J.B. Farr is the Huerfano County Food Commissioner in charge of the conservation of food supplies.

1917 October Walsenburg: M. Kalmes clothing store is moving to the Solomon John building, Eighth and Main, as soon as the remodeling is completed.

1917 October Walsenburg: Recognition of the union will probably be granted soon to the United Mine Workers of America by the CF&I Company.

1917 October Walsenburg: Sheriff Neelley and Undersheriff Coggins raided a pool hall on West Seventh Street and got five Greek gamblers right under the nose of the city police force.

1917 October Walsenburg: The 1917 class in gardening of the Huerfano County High School planted and cultivated the garden which yielded the Hubbard squash which won the Huerfano County Harvest Fair last week.

1917 October Walsenburg: The district judge ruled that E.L. Neelley and J.G. Archuleta are entitled to the salaries of sheriff and county clerk for the more than one year since they were elected and that they were deprived of their offices by J.B. Farr and W.H. Freeland.

1917 October Walsenburg: The kindergarten, first, second and third grade classes have another week's reprieve because the ground floor of Hill School is not complete.

1917 October Walsenburg: The ladies of the Methodist Church will serve dinner and supper Oct. 10 and 11 in the Mazzone building at Sixth and Main Streets during the Harvest Festival days.

1917 October Walsenburg: The new 40-room boardinghouse at Turner is almost completed.

1917 November La Veta: A fire at Oakview burned down what used to be the saloon building.

1917 November La Veta: An effort is being made to establish an automobile stage line between here and Oakview and Ojo.

1917 November La Veta: Construction on the depot is almost completed.

1917 November La Veta: Kincaid's Hall will be the scene of a popular dance Wednesday night, Thanksgiving Eve.

1917 November La Veta: Leonard Fry leased the Galassini pool hall on Ryus Avenue.

1917 November La Veta: Malachite, Redwing and Sharpsdale organized a Red Cross branch Sunday with 14 members.

1917 November La Veta: Porter Land and Investment Co. of Denver bought about $3,000 worth of hogs in this vicinity at an average price of 15 cents.

1917 November La Veta: Real plays at The Crystal Theater attracted crowds this week. Some were good actors.

1917 November La Veta: The present hose cart is a man-killer and the town should buy something better for use by the fire department.

1917 November La Veta: The Royal Hawaiians will appear at Kincaid's Hall next Monday night.

1917 November La Veta: We understand the Baptist people gave up their Thanksgiving food sale on account of the possibility of being out of harmony with the government conservation program.   

1917 November Walsenburg: A well equipped gambling room at the International, Seventh and Albert Streets, was raided by the sheriff and deputies and five men were arrested.

1917 November Walsenburg: Agnes and Dissler are opening a new furniture store in the old Coors building on Main Street near Sixth and will also have management of the M. Kalmes Furniture Store on West Sixth opposite the post office.

1917 November Walsenburg: Call at C.M. Buckles' confectionery for homemade bread, pies and cookies, tobacco, cigars and candy.

1917 November Walsenburg: CF & I has started to rebuild the mule barn at Rouse which burned down about two weeks ago.

1917 November Walsenburg: CF&I are still building new houses at Ideal, Lester and Rouse mines.

1917 November Walsenburg: Eighteen-year-old Raymond Howard Jones was killed in an accident in the Walsen mine.

1917 November Walsenburg: Hart-Schaffner and Marx wool suits and overcoats, $17-$35 at Agnes Brothers, 620 Main Street.

1917 November Walsenburg: Huerfano County has started a fund drive for the army Y.M.C.A. war camps.

1917 November Walsenburg: John Brillis, a Greek, got 30 days in the county jail for carrying concealed weapons.

1917 November Walsenburg: Raymond Howard Jones, 18, was killed in an accident in the Walsen mine.

1917 November Walsenburg: The old Huerfano County High School was gutted by fire Monday night. Dr. C. D. Lesher, owner of the building, says it was covered by several thousand dollars worth of insurance.

1917 November Walsenburg: The Rouse/Lester Concert Band gave a performance at the Rouse Y.M.C.A. Tuesday.

1917 November Walsenburg: Two thousand Huerfano County families have enlisted in the "conserve food - waste nothing" campaign.

1917 December La Veta: A Turkey Shoot provided amusement Thanksgiving afternoon though too late for the big feed.

1917 December La Veta: After the wooden "traffic cops" at the intersection of Main and Ryus were broken down the first night, the town decided to put up cement center posts to keep people in the right lane and slow them down.

1917 December La Veta: Allen Roush of La Veta Automotive is expecting to receive eight new Ford cars, which are practically all placed.

1917 December La Veta: As the government is urging the storage of more natural ice to save coal in the manufacture of the artificial kind, there is a good prospect for the renewal of the ice business here.

1917 December La Veta: Died, Don Leo Chalifu, who was born about 1846 in New Mexico and came to this area to settle around 1858.

1917 December La Veta: Died, Leo Chalifu [sic],