Huerfano County, Colorado
News Of The Day

1925 January La Veta: Messrs. Fruth, Stone, Andrew Pickens and McPhail have leased the old Rugby mine and are opening up a new vein of coal.

1925 January La Veta: Officers of the newly organized La Veta Country Club are Dr. L.W. Lee, president; W.H. Harrison, vice president; Dr. G.R. Mallett, secretary and C.B. Johnson, treasurer.

1925 January La Veta: Some eight cylinder cars are run by guys with one cycle heads.

1925 January La Veta: The calf club members going to the Denver stock show are Kenneth Brown, Max Elley, John Goemmer, Claude Harrison, Gladys Campbell, Chester Springer, Georgie Kreutzer and Julian and Alice Beamer.

1925 January La Veta: The Huerfano Timber and Transportation Company is shipping a mill over from Blanca to set up in the Indian Creek district. 

1925 January La Veta: The La Veta Country Club was organized to offer golf, trap shooting, a rifle range, tennis, fishing, hunting, baseball, a club house and dance pavilion.

1925 January La Veta: The radio in the Summer's store is proving very popular.

1925 January La Veta: The school glee club entertained at the Commercial Club luncheon and meeting Tuesday in Stranger Hall.

1925 January La Veta: There are approximately 70,000 irrigated acres, scattered over an area of 1,500 square miles, in Water District 16, with about 50,000 in Huerfano County and 20,000 in Pueblo County.

1925 January Walsenburg: Gardner farmers and merchants are putting up ice and expect a good supply thanks to the prolonged cold spell.

1925 January Walsenburg: Hundreds of people celebrated the New Year at various dances held here by the Elks, Moose and Maccabees.

1925 January Walsenburg: Hundreds of people celebrated the New Year at various dances held here by the Elks, Moose and Maccabees.

1925 January Walsenburg: Luz Gonzales, new police magistrate, has declared his dislike for speeders.

1925 January Walsenburg: Miss Emma Bellotti returns this week to resume her duties as teacher of Bear Creek school.

1925 January Walsenburg: Ole Wahlberg, mail carrier on the Clanda route out of Rattlesnake Buttes, was compelled to make his trip on horseback because of the snowstorm.

1925 January Walsenburg: The young ladies of Ideal camp have started a bowling club.

1925 January Walsenburg: Those having perfect attendance at the Walsen School are Will Bodycomb, Pete Svegel, Luigi Cheisi and Mary Duzenack.

1925 February La Veta: By the order of Town Board, a $5 fine will be assessed any one found on the roof of town hall.

1925 February La Veta: Ed Sheffied is blacksmithing in Fred Vasquez' shop.

1925 February La Veta: Huerfano Timber and Trading Company is planning to set up a sawmill on Indian Creek.

1925 February La Veta: Huerfano Timber Company employs 75 people in this area for their mill on Indian Creek. 

1925 February La Veta: Huerfano Timber Company is opening a prop area on the Young ranch up the Wahatoya.

1925 February La Veta: T.F. Haase is barbering one day a week in Oakview.

1925 February La Veta: The La Veta Country Club was organized Jan. 26 to provide golf links, a rifle range and trap shooting grounds on 160 acres near town lake. Later there will be tennis, fishing, hunting and baseball facilities, a club house and pavilion.

1925 February Walsenburg: A number of farmers are deserting their properties around the Rattlesnake Buttes area.

1925 February Walsenburg: Chief of Police Ralph Levy says the curfew bell will ring tonight at 8 o'clock and every night thereafter.

1925 February Walsenburg: Died, Hector Patterson, 70, one of the consulting designers of the Huerfano County courthouse and builders of the Presbyterian Church. He was buried in Gardner.

1925 February Walsenburg: Fire destroyed the interior and roof of the Rialto Theater. It will be rebuilt in the popular new Egyptian Style.

1925 February Walsenburg: Irma Frazy bought Edward Slates' home at 508 East Colorado.

1925 February Walsenburg: Keys made, furniture repaired, knives sharpened - Outwest Repairing, 110 West Sixth, Phone 201.

1925 February Walsenburg: L.H. Kirkpatrick was elected president of the Walsenburg Chamber of Commerce, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Young who was elected to the state legislature. 

1925 February Walsenburg: Texas parties are examining the Rattlesnake Buttes for oil prospects.

1925 February Walsenburg: The Grae Rose Hat Shop will open this week in the former Majestic Apparel location at 124 West Sixth.

1925 February Walsenburg: The I.C.M. Club was organized by the high school boys with 23 members. Christy Mosco was elected president.

1925 February Walsenburg: The Ideal mine worked five consecutive days, much better than this time last year.

1925 February Walsenburg: The main highway has been changed to go around the rear of the Walsen school instead of in front.

1925 February Walsenburg: The mysterious I.C.M. Club was organized at Huerfano County High School with 23 members. Christy Mosco is president, Henry Sears, vice president, Sam Bulavsky, secretary  and Arthur  Benine, treasurer.

1925 March La Veta: A.B. Parks has been finding Indian pottery, spearheads and even a fireplace on his ranch up in this valley.

1925 March La Veta: Albert Parks has been digging up some Indian pottery, spear heads and portions of old fireplaces on his ranch on the Wahatoya.

1925 March La Veta: An earthquake the other day was felt from Pueblo to Rosita.

1925 March La Veta: An earthquake the other day was felt from Pueblo to Rosita.

1925 March La Veta: An unusually pronounced earthquake was reported the first of the week at Pueblo and along the Greenhorn range as far west as Rosita.

1925 March La Veta: Bernard Hamilton and his daughter own two and a half blocks in east La Veta with fruit trees, evergreens, alfalfa and enchanting views.

1925 March La Veta: E.C. Stream has a radio that is proving very popular with his customers.

1925 March La Veta: George Mayes is building a ''camping car" to use to travel and advertise his resort at Cuchara Camps.

1925 March La Veta: Guy Holder bought 31 lots from John Kincaid in the east part of La Veta and will go into the chicken business.

1925 March La Veta: J.W. Powell has been taking photographs of the Oakview oil well.

1925 March La Veta: Jess Melton leased the Firm coal mine and is operating it.

1925 March La Veta: Matt Arch is moving a small house onto the lots he bought from Walter Hamilton on Grand Street.

1925 March La Veta: O.D. Howlett moved his sawmill to Indian Creek, where he runs the saw and L.S. Lester has charge of the edger.

1925 March La Veta: Ray Coleman bought the Adamson house at the corner of Oak and Virginia Streets.

1925 March La Veta: The La Veta boys beat Primero in basketball 7 to 1 but the girls lost, 18 to 31.

1925 March Walsenburg: A new front has improved the Opera House Cafe on Main Street.

1925 March Walsenburg: Addie Cropsy Hudson has been winning some literary honors for her poetry.

1925 March Walsenburg: Huerfano County High School Panthers defeated the Aguilar quintet 21-3 Wednesday evening in Aguilar.

1925 March Walsenburg: Pupils of the Dand School organized a progress club to improve and beautify the schoolhouse and grounds.   

1925 March Walsenburg: Rubye Hammond, representing Walsenburg Schools, won the annual Women's Club reading contest.

1925 March Walsenburg: Six Colorado  counties produced 88 percent of the state's coal, with Las Animas County ranking first and Huerfano second in tonnage.

1925 March Walsenburg: The junior class play, with Steve Brown and Margaret Kirkpatrick in the leading roles, was a complete success.

1925 March Walsenburg: The play "Intimate Strangers" will be presented by the junior class of Huerfano County High School at the Star Theater Monday evening.

1925 March Walsenburg: The Rialto Theatre will reopen this weekend with its new Egyptian decor.

1925 March Walsenburg: Walsenburg Auto Dealers Association was organized last night with Tom Young, president.

1925 April La Veta: A large number of town people were entertained at the high school's Arbor Day exercises.

1925 April La Veta: Asa Arnold has bought the Sumpter Martin sawmill and moved it on to Chaparral Creek where he and his son Frank lately purchased additional land from C.M. Mack.

1925 April La Veta: Asa Arnold has bought the Sumpter Martin sawmill and moved it to Chaparral Creek.

1925 April La Veta: J.E. Marker left Friday for Ozawkie, Kansas on account of the serious illness of his 87-year-old mother.

1925 April La Veta: Miss Wanda Powell closed her school at Mustang and returned home to the ranch.

1925 April La Veta: The local high school won a 15 to 19 baseball game with St. Mary on the home diamond last Saturday.

1925 April La Veta: The passengers stranded in La Veta last Friday by the freight wreck were shown the scenic highlights around the area in borrowed wagons and cars.

1925 April La Veta: The Rev. R.S. Wallace has resigned as pastor of the Baptist Church.

1925 April Walsenburg: City Council appointed T.A. Frantz chief of police and Dr. S.J. Lamme city physician.

1925 April Walsenburg: F. William Unfug has purchased the Neelley-Caldwell Hardware Company, organized in 1908, and will operate under the name of Unfug Hardware Company.

1925 April Walsenburg: Harry Welsh will open a new bakery tomorrow in the building formerly occupied by the Western Auto Supply Company at 519 Main.

1925 April Walsenburg: Huerfano county produced 457,313 tons of coal in January and February this year, with 2,824 men employed.

1925 April Walsenburg: Mike Judiscak bought out the stock of the Western Auto store and opened Mickey's Auto Supply Company at 210 North Main.

1925 April Walsenburg: Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bauer are the proud parents of an 11 pound boy, born Apr. 5.

1925 April Walsenburg: The Caroline Sporleder Young music studio at 119 ½ West Sixth Street has been completely remodeled.

1925 April Walsenburg: The Chamber of Commerce and county agriculture agent moved out of Room 5 in the courthouse and the county commissioners moved in.

1925 April Walsenburg: The county commissioners have moved into Room 5 in the courthouse and the Chamber of Commerce relocated in the basement next to the Red Cross office.

1925 April Walsenburg: The first telephone in Walsenburg was installed at Walsen and Levy's store in 1882.

1925 April Walsenburg: The first telephone in Walsenburg was installed in the Walsen and Levy store in 1882 and the rental of the two sets was $70 per year, according to A. Levy.

1925 April Walsenburg: The new city council is composed of F.E. Cowing and H.G. Lamme, Ward I; Frank Mauro and Adolph Unfug, Ward II; J.Y. Martinez and N. Joseph, Ward III; and J.B. Aragon and P.S. Brown, Ward IV. J.J. Pritchard is mayor.

1925 April Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Lobby Club Boosters trounced the Lester-Pryor nine 10-2 in the opening game of the baseball season last Sunday afternoon.

1925 May La Veta: A new and commodious bath house is being erected at Sulphur Springs with four baths and a rest room. Three new cabins are under construction and the old ones are being repaired.

1925 May La Veta: A nine-hole golf course has been laid out in Cuchara Camps.

1925 May La Veta: Dave Clark bought the shoe repair shop from Bob Owenby.

1925 May La Veta: Dr. Blair is building a new 40 by 90 pavilion at the Sulphur Springs and installed six new bath tubs in the bath house.

1925 May La Veta: John Bowdino bought the 600 acre pasture at the head of the Cucharas from the Pene brothers.

1925 May La Veta: The local baseball team won a game on Bear Creek last Sunday by a score of 13-4.

1925 May La Veta: The senior play netted the class $100.

1925 May La Veta: Wanted: a burro gentle enough for a small child to ride. Will not pay more than $5.00. Mrs. M.M. Springer.

1925 May Walsenburg: A Petrified human was being displayed on the streets last Friday, discovered somewhere in the Mississippi Valley.

1925 May Walsenburg: John Trujillo has a new stock of shoes at the Quality Shoe Shop, 114½ West Seventh Street.

1925 May Walsenburg: Sheriff Capps, Deputy Martinez and two government men carried off a booze factory they discovered in the foothill, on the upper Cucharas last Saturday.

1925 May Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Steam Laundry has moved to new quarters at 207 West Sixth Street.

1925 June 9: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lansdown are Pueblo visitors today.

1925 June 9: Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Winterburn and Mrs. Sturm of La Junta spent the week end with Mrs. E. Evans and daughter, Eva.

1925 June 9: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Barr and baby left Tuesday by auto for Kansas, where they will make their future home.

1925 June 9: Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Wayt Are Walsenburg Guests - Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wayt of Los Angeles, Calif., arrived here yesterday to spend several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wayt. They are accompanied by their granddaughter. Mr. Wayt was for many years associated with the business interests of this city. Four years ago he severed most of his business relations to move to California.

1925 June 9: Mrs. A.L. Wahlmeier, who has been suffering with a prolonged siege of flu, is slowly recovering at her home in Walsen.

1925 June 9: Mrs. G.D. Gammon and daughters, Regina and Freda, of Kansas City are visiting Mrs. E. Evans and daughter, Eva.

1925 June 9: Thos. B. Davis leaves tonight for Flagstaff, Ariz., where he has secured employment.

1925 June La Veta: About 100 acres of lettuce is being grown around La Veta on an experimental basis.

1925 June La Veta: Beans and squash were touched by a slight frost Sunday night.

1925 June La Veta: Died, Manuel Pino, a resident of this area since 1863.

1925 June La Veta: Dr. Blair is rushing completion of a 48 by 72 foot dance pavilion with a double floor of maple at Sulphur Springs.

1925 June La Veta: Dr. Blair's new 40 by 90 foot pavilion at Sulphur Springs is almost done.

1925 June La Veta: La Veta, 22, Turner, 7.

1925 June La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Walls are building a new house on their ranch.

1925 June La Veta: Mr. Vincent is laying out attractive grounds and adding a dining room, a billiard parlor and plenty of bedrooms at San Isabel Clifton Springs resort.

1925 June La Veta: Sunny Prator and David Firm pitched the home team to a 4-3 victory over Cameron.

1925 June La Veta: The baseball game ended with the score of 19 for La Veta and Knights of Columbus of Walsenburg, 18.

1925 June La Veta: The La Veta State Bank has been sold.

1925 June La Veta: The La Veta State Bank has been sold.

1925 June La Veta: Wanda Powell and Albert Jameson were married at the home of the bride's parents.

1925 June Walsenburg: The Cash Variety Store has moved to 512 Main Street.

1925 July 21: John L. East Jr. Cuts Throat On Toy Car By Accident – Slips In Wet Mud While Pushing Cousin In Machine – John L. East Jr., 8 year old son of ex-Senator John L. East, was seriously injured last evening when he slipped in some mud and cut his throat against a toy automobile. According to Mr. East, the child was pushing his cousin, Eugene East, of Trinidad, around in the little car. When he came to the wet spot he slipped and cut his throat on the tin radiator cap of the little machine. Mr. East picked up his son and rushed him to the office of Dr. Geo. Andrews, where it was found that the jugular vein was missed by a fraction of an inch. Five stitches were necessary to close up the wound. The boy is reported to be improving.

1925 July La Veta: A soda fountain has been installed at the Sulphur Springs resort.

1925 July La Veta: A.W. Scott bought Mrs. Springer's interest in the drug store and is now sole owner.

1925 July La Veta: Earl Kreutzer had the misfortune to get his leg broken at the Fourth of July Rodeo.

1925 July La Veta: Finally, after three years since the crime, the Oakview mail robbers have been caught.  

1925 July La Veta: Lawrence Summers is the manager of the store up at Ojo.

1925 July La Veta: One aeroplane passed over the range going west on Tuesday and three more the following day. Flyers are rare in this section of the firmament.

1925 July La Veta: The vacant building next door to the Fair has been prepared for weary celebrators on the 4th.

1925 July Walsenburg: A 16-foot diving platform has been constructed at the swimming pool in People's Park. The Hollywood Ramblers will play for the dance there Thursday night.  

1925 July Walsenburg: A new heating system will be installed in the county jail so box car tourists and floaters need not fear the cold winter nights.

1925 July Walsenburg: An auto used as the Trinidad-Walsenburg bus crashed into the front of the Opera House Cafe, startling two women eating lunch.

1925 July Walsenburg: C.W. Jones is now confined to the "cage" after four escapes from the county bastille.

1925 July Walsenburg: Cameron School of Swimming for Boys and Girls, Claude Chase and Julius Rossman, instructors.

1925 July Walsenburg: Daredevil Liniger was unable to do stunt flying on the 4th of July because the plane could not take off from the wet field.

1925 July Walsenburg: Dr. Charles Brunelli, a former Army dentist, married Miss Clara Kaltenbach of Denver on the 4th of July.

1925 July Walsenburg: Gallo Day will be celebrated this weekend in Gardner, Turner, Rouse and Walsenburg.

1925 July Walsenburg: Rest rooms are being installed on the balcony of Liberty Stores for the use of clubs and other organizations for meetings.

1925 July Walsenburg: School Board of District No. 4 revised the contracts of teachers and those in rural schools will receive from $90 to $120 per month.

1925 July Walsenburg: Seven by seven foot auto tents, $12 at Cardinals.

1925 July Walsenburg: The 4th of July celebration will include races, parade, Daredevil Liniger with stunt flying, sheep shearing contest, horse races, baseball, street dance, fireworks, concerts and speeches.

1925 July Walsenburg: The Izaak Walton League obtained a quarter million trout which will be kept in 16 ponds at Gardner and more on the Maes place in Cucharas until next spring. They have leased Cucharas dam and will build a club house.

1925 July Walsenburg: There will be no county fair this year because of the lack of crops due to the dry season.

1925 July: Rest rooms are being installed on the balcony of the Liberty Store so that clubs and others can meet there.

1925 August La Veta: A.W. Scott bought out Mrs. Springer's interest in the drug store to become sole owner. .

1925 August La Veta: D.W. Hurst reports his dairy business is expanding so rapidly he needs to double his herd to 40 to supply his wholesale trade.

1925 August La Veta: Dr. G.R. Mallett will be moving to Walsenburg after practicing here the past three years.

1925 August La Veta: Mrs. H.E. "Kit" McGee's home in Cuchara Camps was destroyed by fire.

1925 August La Veta: No real damage has been reported after the frost the other night.

1925 August La Veta: Prof. and Mrs. J.T. Tippitt returned from a 3,500 mile trip and had no trouble until between Trinidad and here, where they had three flat tires and muddy roads.

1925 August La Veta: Several near accidents have occurred on Lougheed hill west of town and it should be widened at the first opportunity.

1925 August La Veta: The coal mines at Oakview are beginning to work regularly again.

1925 August La Veta: The new road to Sulphur Springs has been completed, taking a route higher up from the creek.

1925 August La Veta: The ranch house on the Andy Denton place burned down.

1925 August La Veta: The town water is being piped to the Public camp ground. Holy Mackerel! What will the visitors think? It's perfectly all right to connect the grounds up, but for heavens sake, don't turn on the water there until it's deodorized.

1925 August Walsenburg: An auto used as a Trinidad-Walsenburg bus crashed into the front of the Opera House Cafe, startling two women eating lunch.

1925 August Walsenburg: Arthur Lenzini's team, The Railroaders, won the Twilight League by defeating The Bankers 9 to 3.

1925 August Walsenburg: Cheer-a-bit Bible class will hold a fresh food sale at Mathews furniture store Saturday morning.

1925 August Walsenburg: Cheer-a-Bit Bible Class will hold a fresh food sale at Mathews furniture store Saturday morning.

1925 August Walsenburg: John Karavas bought the St. John cafe from George Nicholas.

1925 August Walsenburg: The Gypsy Sweethearts, a girls' five-piece orchestra, played at the Peoples' Park Pavilion last night.

1925 August Walsenburg: The Gypsy Sweethearts, a girls' five-piece orchestra, played last night in the Peoples Park Pavilion.

1925 August Walsenburg: The Shriners will choose the winner of the $10,000 house to be given away in their drawing tonight.

1925 August Walsenburg: Tourist travel has increased 300 percent this year in Walsenburg.

1925 August Walsenburg: You can win $5 or $10 in the "Don Q Son of Zorro" limerick contest by completing the following: "There was a young lady from Zorro/Ariding along on a burro,/She met one Don Q,/Said 'How do you do,' . . .

1925 August Walsenburg: You can win $5 or $10 in the ''Don Q, Son of Zorro" limerick contest by completing the following: ''There was a young lady from Zorro/Ariding along on a burro/She met one Don Q,/Said, 'How do you do ........

1925 August: Newlyweds Fred and Margaret (Merritt) Workman were charivaried.

1925 September La Veta: Eighty-five-year-old Manuel Lujan died and was buried in Wahatoya cemetery.

1925 September La Veta: Enrollment in the grade school is 173 and in the high school, 67, for a total of 240 students.

1925 September La Veta: Joe Ward carries the mail from La Veta to Oakview.

1925 September La Veta: Some first class lettuce was shipped from here Saturday but unfortunately the prices are low.

1925 September La Veta: The Cooper Brothers, a Wild West trained animal and show, will visit La Veta Sept. 5 for two performances, featuring riders, ropers, clowns, etc.

1925 September La Veta: The fine potatoes on display at the bank were grown by John Todd at the head of Bear Creek.

1925 September La Veta: The Ku Klux Klan picnic at Sulphur Springs brought 200 cars through town.

1925 September La Veta: Town Board has hired J.J. Shippey deputy marshal.

1925 September Walsenburg: Charlie Chaplin and Strongheart the Wonder Dog star in "The Gold Rush" at the Rialto next week. The picture is the most costly ever shown in Walsenburg.

1925 September Walsenburg: Early enrollment figures at Ussell Memorial School stand at 572 students.

1925 September Walsenburg: Many from here are attending the State Fair in Pueblo and some are exhibiting cattle.

1925 September Walsenburg: Rose Zubal and John Young applied for a marriage license.

1925 September Walsenburg: The Second Presbyterian Church of Rev. R. Jaramillo will build a $10,000 church as their old building is too small for the growing congregation.

1925 September Walsenburg: The site for the new joint depot for C&S and D&RG was chosen today between Russell and Main Streets just south of the Sears Garage.

1925 September Walsenburg: The Wonders won the junior state baseball title under the leadership of pitchers Johnny O'Connor and Lee Miller.

1925 September: Walsenburg's first modem apartment building will be built at Main and West Third for $20,000. It will be two-story, 80 by 33 feet and contain six apartments.

1925 October La Veta: A.B. Parks threshed 400 bushels of grain, mostly barley which averaged about 33 bushels to the acre, not bad for dry land farming.

1925 October La Veta: Governor Morley ate at the Spanish Peaks Hotel when he came through town.

1925 October La Veta: Most pretty women are dumb, according to an expert.

1925 October La Veta: Some 30,000 sheep passed through here Saturday after being on summer pasture at the J.W. Vernon place on the divide, en route to Manzanola.

1925 October La Veta: The first killing frost was Oct. 13.

1925 October La Veta: The first snow of the season fell Oct. 14, the day after the first killing frost.

1925 October La Veta: The Lettuce Growers Association has been shipping produce despite the low price. Shippers this week were Odovich, Alkins, Brooks and Petro.

1925 October La Veta: The ninth graders of the La Veta and Oakview schools plan to cross bats Friday afternoon if the weather is propitious.

1925 October La Veta: Travellers on the passenger train last night were given a shake-up and scare when the engine collided with another on the top of the pass.

1925 October Walsenburg: F.I. Barron will install a Turkish bath in his barber shop.

1925 October Walsenburg: Robbers blew the two safes at the Colorado Supply Store at Walsen, taking $200 in cash and about $300 in jewelry.

1925 October Walsenburg: The local creamery under Frank S. Mauro, one of the best equipped plants in the state, is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

1925 October Walsenburg: The S. Schafer Packing Plant, one half mile south of Walsenburg on the Trinidad road, will have an open house Monday. The firm was founded by Andrew C. Schafer Sr., who came to town in 1912 and now runs the business u with his sons, Andrew and William.

1925 October Walsenburg: The S. Schafer Packing Plant, one-half mile south of Walsenburg on the Trinidad road, will have an open house n Monday.

1925 October Walsenburg: The S. Schafer Packing Plant, one-half mile south of Walsenburg on the Trinidad road, will have an open house on Monday.

1925 October Walsenburg: The site for the joint depot for the Colorado and Southern and Denver and Rio Grande Western railroads was chosen between Russell and Main Streets across the tracks from the Sears and Sears Garage.

1925 October Walsenburg: The site for the joint depot for the Colorado and Southern and Denver and Rio Grande Western railroads was chosen between Russell and Main Streets across the tracks from the Sears and Sears Garage.

1925 October Walsenburg: Try the Radio Cafe, formerly the St. John Cafe, with George Nicholas, chef.  Meals 60¢.

1925 October Walsenburg: Walsenburg Creamery will celebrate its 10th anniversary Oct. 29 with an open house.

1925 October Walsenburg: Walsenburg Creamery will celebrate its 10th anniversary Oct. 29 with an open house.

1925 October Walsenburg: Walsenburg has the first Lady Maccabee Lodge west of the Mississippi River, organized Friday night with 29 charter members.

1925 November La Veta: Annie Bowdino and Claude Bright were married.

1925 November La Veta: Charles Keeling has been shipping sugar beets he grew on the A.B. Parks ranch.

1925 November La Veta: George W. Kitchens died on the ranch where he had lived for 43 years.

1925 November La Veta: J.T. Manning bought the hardware store from the bank trustees.

1925 November La Veta: Mr. Snedden of Oakview married Marguerite Kitchen, eldest daughter of Charles Kitchen.

1925 November La Veta: Mr. Snedden of Oakview married Marguerite Kitchen, the eldest daughter of Charles.

1925 November La Veta: Nola Smith, William Miller, Lee Mauldin and Louis McDonald compose a new orchestra which played for the Thanksgiving dance.

1925 November La Veta: Roy Heikes has moved his family to Oakview where he has found employment.

1925 November La Veta: The Goemmer brothers are buying a 560 acre ranch on Echo Creek.

1925 November La Veta: The high school seniors gave a Halloween masquerade party Friday night at the schoolhouse. Ghosts and fortune tellers played an important part.

1925 November La Veta: Too much county money is being spent on catalog orders - Good People, spend your money with Huerfano County merchants.

1925 November Walsenburg: A speeder going at not less than 35 miles per hour struck the Paulouski sisters while crossing Main at Third and did not stop.

1925 November Walsenburg: A speeder going not less than 35 miles an hour struck the Paulouski sisters while they were crossing Main at Third Street and did not even stop.

1925 November Walsenburg: For rent, three room brick apartment with bath, Kansas Avenue, $15.

1925 November Walsenburg: For sale, four room frame house with fireplace on Capitol Hill, a corner location with three lots, $2,000. Slates Realty, 109 East Sixth Street.

1925 November Walsenburg: Superintendent and Mrs. M.M. Watson of Ideal are in Denver where Mr. Watson will be a witness in Dr. Blazer's trial.

1925 November Walsenburg: When J.W. and E.L. Sears first came here in 1915 to open a small garage on East Fifth, there were 60 cars in Huerfano County. Now there are 2,847 and they have one of the largest auto concerns in southern Colorado, employing 24.

1925 December La Veta: Big Confetti Dance December 25, at Kincaid's Hall, music by Jack's Orchestra. Prizes.

1925 December La Veta: Charles Clifford Morgan and Emma May Homsher were married by Rev. B. Hitchings of the Presbyterian Church.

1925 December La Veta: Drilling is continuing at the Oakview oil well; the depth is about 3,300 feet at the present time.

1925 December La Veta: Huerfano County produced a record 265,152 tons of coal in November with over 3,700 miners employed.

1925 December La Veta: John Kincaid and Mabel Noel were married.

1925 December La Veta: John Ritter, 88, died. He had lived on his ranch for 36 years.

1925 December La Veta: Mary Luchino of the Ritter School received a perfect spelling pin from her teacher, Mildred Smith.

1925 December La Veta: Pansy Beamer and Louis Coleman announced their marriage.

1925 December La Veta: Stella Busch is the teacher at Baker School.

1925 December La Veta: The customary Christmas tree has been placed in the courthouse yard.

1925 December La Veta:  Paul Ghiardi's Essex is getting its regular mid-winter exercise - Jimmie is home from college.

1925 December Walsenburg: C.J. Williams will open his new Motor Parts, Company Jan. 1 in the former post office building.

1925 December Walsenburg: D&RGW trains between Pueblo and Trinidad will now add parlor cars and cut 30 minutes off their traveling time.

1925 December Walsenburg: Died, Harvey Cray Wycoff, 92, a Civil War veteran and pioneer. He lived in Walsenburg for 35 years.

1925 December Walsenburg: Forest Ranger Paul Gilbert found a gold placer field near Slide Mountain on Manzanares Creek southwest of Gardner,

1925 December Walsenburg: Matt Jerman's orchestra will play for a dance at the Walsen Club for the Diavolo baseball club benefit.

1925 December Walsenburg: Ralph Levy has sold the Seventh Street lot his coal office stands upon for a modern Studebaker and Rickenbacker auto agency.

1925 December Walsenburg: The 20 employees of the telephone company will have their Christmas party tonight.

1925 December Walsenburg: The Huerfano Trading Company at Solar was broken into and robbed of money and stamps.

1925 December Walsenburg: The John Dand schoolhouse in District 27, a one room modern school, is about completed. Elizabeth Yelonek, teacher, resigned and Katherine Read was hired.

1925 December Walsenburg: The John Dand schoolhouse in District No. 27 is about completed. It is a one-room modem school under the care of Elizabeth Yelonek, teacher.

1925 December Walsenburg: This is the annual Father-Son Week.

1926 January La Veta: Albert Parks and Fred Kreutzer shipped some sugar beets they had grown on their farms.

1926 January La Veta: An eight pound baby boy was born to Hugh and Sarah Sager.

1926 January La Veta: Proctor Hayes broke his leg in three places when his horse fell on him.

1926 January La Veta: Ralph Harris and Cora Monroe of Liberal, Kans. were married.

1926 January La Veta: Sugar beets raised on the farms of Albert Parks and Fred Kreutzer were shipped out this week.

1926 January La Veta: The ice measured ten inches thick when the harvest this week started.

1926 January La Veta: The new highway will be built well north of town. Will La Veta be wiped off the map?

1926 January La Veta: The snowstorm was accompanied by a temperature of fifteen below zero.

1926 January La Veta: Will La Veta be wiped off the map by the highway being built so far north of town?

1926 January Walsenburg: An average of 3,700 men were employed daily in Huerfano County coal mines during 1925.

1926 January Walsenburg: District 19, Walsen-Farr, has over 500 students enrolled, with 275 in Walsen school alone, employing eight teachers.

1926 January Walsenburg: Huerfano County produced one-fifth of all the coal in Colorado in 1925. An average of 3,700 men were employed daily.

1926 January Walsenburg: Nearly $1 million worth of improvements were done in Walsenburg in 1925, including Norton's Cottage Camp, Union Depot the high school gym and athletic field, St. Mary auditorium and other new buildings.

1926 January Walsenburg: Rev. J.B. Liciotti will be honored for his Silver jubilee at the dedication of the new St. Mary School auditorium-gymnasium on Dec. 30.

1926 January Walsenburg: The Spriesterbach Motor Company moved to larger quarters at 333 West Seventh Street.

1926 January Walsenburg:  The Spriestersbach Motor Company moved from 207 North Main to larger quarters at 333 West Seventh Street.

1926 February 11: The Muskies and the Maccabees basketball teams

1926 February La Veta: Frank Powell bought a handsome Star touring car.

1926 February La Veta: J.M. Gilstrap has purchased the building south of E.C. Stream's store from E.L. Smith and will move his bakery to that location.

1926 February La Veta: J.M. Gilstrap is fixing up his new building and plans to have the bakery open next week.

1926 February La Veta: La Veta and Mosca Passes are clear of snow and open to traffic.

1926 February La Veta: More snow has fallen and the temperature reached fifteen degrees below zero this week.

1926 February La Veta: Quite a few local residents went to the Valentine dance of the Rouse-Lester Social Club.

1926 February La Veta: Thirty young people enjoyed the dance in the Cuchara schoolhouse Friday evening for which Jack's Orchestra provided the music.

1926 February Walsenburg: A marriage license was issued to Tom Conder, 23, of Gordon, and Rose Strukel, 19, of Maitland.

1926 February Walsenburg: About 800 people attended the wedding Sunday of Nancy Felecie and George Sudar.

1926 February Walsenburg: Eagle Shoe Shop, Mike Joseph, 703 Main Street.

1926 February Walsenburg: Marie Bauer has reopened her beauty shop at 205 West Sixth Street.

1926 February Walsenburg: Marie Bauer has reopened her beauty shop at 205 West Sixth Street.

1926 February Walsenburg: Mrs. George Halliday has taken over management of the Walsenburg Flower and Gift shop.

1926 February Walsenburg: Mrs. George Halliday has taken over the Walsenburg Flower and Gift Shop.

1926 February Walsenburg: Mrs. H.Q. Anderson has charge of the domestic science department at Ideal.

1926 February Walsenburg: The foundations and steel framework are completed for the new high school addition.

1926 February Walsenburg: The freshman class made a letter "W" followed by the figures "29" on Capitol Hill recently and hope this will become traditional in future.

1926 February Walsenburg: The Huerfano County High School board began steps to purchase Block 17, Capitol Hill Addition, for $800 to build an athletic field.

1926 February Walsenburg: The La Mosa cigar factory has moved to larger quarters at 206 West Seventh Street.

1926 February Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Diavolo baseball team was organized last night.

1926 February Walsenburg: Two hundred and ninety- two automobile licenses were sold during January.

1926 March La Veta: A new summer resort is being started on land leased from Mr. Young in Wahatoya canon. Walsenburg people will build 18 cottages and stock the creek.

1926 March La Veta: A new summer resort is being started on land leased from Mr. Young in Wahatoya canon. Walsenburg people will build 18 cottages and stock the creek.

1926 March La Veta: L.M. Kreutzer bought the old Daigre 160 acres adjoining Town limits on the east and south.

1926 March La Veta: Mr. Kato is opening a restaurant in the McDonald building on Main Street.

1926 March La Veta: Stanley Snyder bought out the interest of Mr. Kirkpatrick in the repair shop.

1926 March La Veta:  Mr. Cato is opening a restaurant in the McDonald building. 

1926 March Walsenburg: A new sanitary fountain for dispensing soft drinks and ice cream was installed at Huerfano Drug Company.

1926 March Walsenburg: Boyd Rees of Cameron School won the county oratory contest over Clementine Overand of Ideal by one point.

1926 March Walsenburg: Boyd Rees of Cameron School won the county oratory contest over Clementine Overland of Ideal by one point.

1926 March Walsenburg: Contracts were signed for a new $75,000 east wing addition to St. Mary School for an auditorium- gymnasium.

1926 March Walsenburg: Fred G. Walsen gave the lots adjoining the school for an athletic field.

1926 March Walsenburg: Fred G. Walsen gave the lots adjoining the school for use as an athletic field.

1926 March Walsenburg: Marcel and bob curl 75¢ by Edna Robart at Hull's Barbershop, next to the Star Drug Company.

1926 March Walsenburg: Marriage licenses were issued this week to Paul Carsella and Anna Bechaver, both of Toltec, and Thomas Ugolini and Minnie F. Bellotti, Walsenburg.

1926 March Walsenburg: The local Elks club, with about 400 members, will build a new $40,000 lodge building.

1926 March Walsenburg: The local Elks plan to build a $40,000 lodge. There are about 400 members presently.

1926 March Walsenburg: The Welch bakery on Main Street was enlarged by adding the store formerly the Veteran Candy Shop.

1926 March Walsenburg: Three thousand school children of the county have entered the county-wide letter writing contest.

1926 March Walsenburg: Unfug Filling Station at Sixth and Albert opened for business this week.

1926 March Walsenburg: Work will start next week on the new $75,000 gym-auditorium addition to St. Mary School.

1926 April La Veta: Died, Emma B. Foote, a La Veta resident since 1885. She leaves a daughter, Jessie Donegan and two sons, Albert and Arthur.

1926 April La Veta: Died, Emma B. Foote, a La Veta resident since 1885. She leaves a daughter, Jessie Donegan and two sons, Albert and Arthur.

1926 April La Veta: Died, Robert Smith, an old timer of the upper Huerfano and brother of W.E., S.L. and J. Ed of La Veta.

1926 April La Veta: Died, Robert Smith, an old timer of the upper Huerfano and brother of W.E., S.L. and J. Ed of La Veta.

1926 April La Veta: Dr. Mallett and Mrs. Fred Vasquez were awarded the prize at the Eastern Star dance for best old-time waltzing.

1926 April La Veta: Dr. Mallett and Mrs. Fred Vasquez were awarded the prize at the Eastern Star dance for best old-time waltzing.

1926 April La Veta: E. Baione bought the pool hall at Oakview camp.

1926 April La Veta: This season's snowfall at Cuchara Camps is a record breaker, 268 inches or 22.4 feet, the best by far for the past 18 years.

1926 April La Veta: Three hundred of the 430 registered voted, electing Harold Craig mayor, W.H. Harrison treasurer, J.P. Stranger clerk and C.F. Boyd, Dave Clark, W.B. Hall, Luther Martin, James Powell and J.E. Sharpless trustees.

1926 April Walsenburg: At the Star Theater, Tuesday and Wednesday, "Phantom of the Opera" and on Thursday and Friday, Gloria Swanson in "Untamed Lady."

1926 April Walsenburg: Kirkpatricks Circle K soda factory will treat the kiddies to a free matinee at the Rialto Saturday.

1926 April Walsenburg: La Moza Cigar factory will treat the kiddies to a free matinee at the Rialto Theater Saturday.

1926 April Walsenburg: Eugene Vories was appointed postmaster to replace A. Pete Atencio whose term expired last October.

1926 April Walsenburg: Pete Atencio's term as postmaster expired and Eugene Vories was appointed to the position.

1926 April Walsenburg: The Elks closed negotiations for the Murray property at East Sixth and Russell Streets as the site for their future lodge.

1926 April Walsenburg: The Opera House Cafe is getting all new furniture and fixtures, according to owners Tony Andreakis and Mike Kartas, who have had it for ten years.

1926 April Walsenburg: Tony Andreakis and Mike Kartas, owners of the Opera House Cafe the past 10 years, are getting all modem furniture and fixtures.

1926 May La Veta: C.A. Sadlier was elected chief of the volunteer fire department.

1926 May La Veta: C.H. Brooks has been appointed police magistrate again.

1926 May La Veta: George A. Goemmer has graduated from the University of Wyoming. 

1926 May La Veta: Harry Gamblin and Harvey Huesties have been running a grader over our streets.

1926 May La Veta: High school graduated this year are Alice Lester, Ruth Goemmer, Earl Rich, Max Elley, Carlos Richman and Lee Mauldin.

1926 May La Veta: J.W. Boyd bought the Levi Kincaid ranch on the Wahatoya.

1926 May La Veta: Sulphur Springs opened yesterday with 11 cottages for rent, the enlarged bath house and the dance pavilion.

1926 May La Veta: Sulphur Springs will open May 30 with 11 cottages to rent, the enlarged bath house and dance pavilion.

1926 May La Veta: The Indian Creek Mining and Milling Company was organized with R.B. Linscott, president; R.E. Boyd, vice president; William A. Dutton, secretary and E.A. Cross, treasurer. They are working above Sulphur Springs.

1926 May La Veta: Town Lake is to be drained to repair a broken pipe and we shall be supplied with water direct from the creek until the lake refills.

1926 May Walsenburg: A large garden has been planted at the new county poor house on the road to La Veta.

1926 May Walsenburg: Huerfano County has 5,455 students enrolled in the 49 districts, with 1,268 in Walsenburg public schools and 823 in St. Mary Schools.

1926 May Walsenburg: The St. Mary Crusaders defeated La Veta in a baseball game Wednesday in Walsenburg by a score of 9-6.

1926 May Walsenburg: Two miners were killed and another seriously injured in a rock fall at the Robinson Mine Friday morning.

1926 May Walsenburg: Two miners were killed and another seriously injured in a rock fall in the Robinson mine this morning.

1926 June La Veta: Eat at Pine Tree Inn in Cuchara Camps. Phone 97 J 5 for Sunday reservations. Picnic lunches a specialty.

1926 June La Veta: Fourteen railroad cars will bring the D&RG employees to the annual picnic in La Veta.

1926 June La Veta: Haase added a beauty shop to his barber shop and Mrs. Eva Brennan is operating it.

1926 June La Veta: Hubert Atchison married Lenore Arch, Matt Arch married Mrs. Sylvia Cisney and Marion E. Pulver married Julia Ellis.

1926 June La Veta: La Veta's third filling station will be located near the Star Garage at Francisco and Main Streets.

1926 June La Veta: Mr. Haase added a beauty parlor to his barbershop and Eva Daigre Brennan is running it.

1926 June La Veta: Owen Ward Brown and Ethel Margaret McMillan were united in marriage.

1926 June La Veta: The 85 miners employed at Oakview are working half time.

1926 June La Veta: The Indian Creek Mining and Milling Company was organized with R.B. Linscott, president; R.E. Boyd, vice-president; William A. Dutton, secretary and E.A. Cross, treasurer. They are working above Sulphur Springs.

1926 June La Veta: The La Veta team went down to Walsen Sunday afternoon and lost by a score of 8-1.

1926 June Walsenburg: Construction began last week on Norton's tourist cottage camp on North Walsen one block north of the high school.

1926 June Walsenburg: Construction of Norton's tourist cottage camp was begun on North Walsen one block north of Huerfano County High School.

1926 June Walsenburg: Kilmurray's Sandwich Shop has opened in the former Unfug Trading Company building. 

1926 June Walsenburg: Kilmurray's Sandwich Shop will open tomorrow in the former Unfug Trading Company building.

1926 June Walsenburg: Two Walsenburg boys, George A. Unfug and Angelo F. Mosco, were among the graduates of Colorado University in Boulder.

1926 June Walsenburg: Two Walsenburg boys, George A. Unfug and Angelo F. Mosco, were among the graduates of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

1926 July La Veta: A jolly truckload of young people drove down from Cuchara Camps on Tuesday evening to attend the movies.

1926 July La Veta: Six new cabins have been constructed in Cuchara Camps.

1926 July La Veta: The La Veta boys beat the railroad's team at baseball 13 to 2 during the D&RG picnic in the park.

1926 July La Veta: The La Veta team went down to Walsen Sunday afternoon and lost by a score of 8-1.

1926 July Walsenburg: The first county fair since 1923 will be Sept 16 - 18.

1926 July Walsenburg: The highway leading to the camps northwest of here will be improved and the entry into the city will be changed.

1926 July Walsenburg: The No U Turn knobs were erected on Main Street and parking time will be limited on Main, Russell, Albert, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh streets according to the new traffic ordinance.

1926 August 2: The Western Casualty Company

1926 August La Veta: Dr. C.E. Willburn leased the dental office of Dr. G.R. Mallett, who is moving to Walsenburg.

1926 August La Veta: J. W. Boyd is preparing to build a filling station on Main Street.

1926 August La Veta: Mrs. Elrod is renting out rooms in her house on Francisco Street.

1926 August La Veta: Some La Veta people climbed Trinchera recently and reported the glacier that disappeared was swept into a canon by a slide.

1926 August La Veta: The annual picnic of the Baptist Church was held at the ranch of Eugene Vories above San Isabel Clifton Streams.

1926 August La Veta: The Forest Service has lately completed a splendid wide trail round both the Spanish Peaks, and the scenic trip is available to horseback riders.

1926 August La Veta: The National Forest is constructing trails around Blue Lake under the supervision of Asa Arnold.

1926 August La Veta: The Trinidad Chamber of Commerce is inquiring about our Balanced Rock which is one of the most unique specimens of its kind in the world.

1926 August La Veta: There used to be an old Tramway up near Blue Lake Camp.

1926 August Walsenburg: Before moving to its new location at Sixth and Main, the former Huerfano Trading Company location, Walsenburg Electric Supply will sell its player pianos, slightly used, for $375, and player Piano rolls at 75 cents each.

1926 August Walsenburg: County surveyors of Huerfano and Las Animas counties will begin setting a definite common boundary next week.

1926 August Walsenburg: On Friday the 13th lightning struck the Wayt lumberyard and began a fire which caused $5,000 damage and also struck the Walsen power house causing $8,000 damage.

1926 August Walsenburg: On Friday the 13th lightning struck the Wayt lumberyard and began a fire which caused $5,000 damage, and also struck the Walsen power house for $8,000 in damages.

1926 August Walsenburg: School shoes, $1.98 to $2.49, Walsenburg Jobbing House, 725 Main, M. Katz, proprietor.

1926 August Walsenburg: The annual CF&I picnic will be held Saturday at Cameron.

1926 August Walsenburg: The Chamber of Commerce plans to establish an athletic field and playground just west of Huerfano County High School.

1926 August Walsenburg: The largest ever liquor raid in this county netted 575 gallons of moonshine from a four-room distillery west of Walsenburg. 

1926 August Walsenburg: Thomas Brown, 56, was killed by a fall of rock at Calumet No. 2, also known as Little Turner mine.

1926 August: The front of the Huerfano Drug Store will be remodeled and the building divided into two shops.

1926 September La Veta: Earl Rich has taken charge of the Ritter district school near the Pickens ranches.

1926 September La Veta: If you don't think tourism is a desirable asset, just ask the farmers between here and Cuchara Camps who had a ready market for poultry, butter, eggs and vegetables right at home.

1926 September La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Atchison have purchased the Fair store.

1926 September La Veta: Pioneer Hiram Vasquez celebrated his 83rd birthday.

1926 September La Veta: Rev. Turrentine has been replaced by Rev. E.J. Reeves at the Methodist Church.

1926 September La Veta: The Larrabee and Colvin families of Liberal, Kansas have bought 12 lots at Cuchara Camps and are building a cabin.

1926 September La Veta: The Star Garage is installing a gasoline station in front of its Main Street building.

1926 September La Veta: Thirty-nine residents of Liberal, Kans. enjoyed a big steak fry at Cuchara Camps before departing for home.

1926 September La Veta: William Culler has sold his stock to Stergh Mavrodis.

1926 September Walsenburg: Auto tents, 7 by 7 foot, $13.95 at Cardinal's.

1926 September Walsenburg: Barney Oldfield, the auto racer, passed through Walsenburg Monday afternoon after losing his clothing from a trunk on the running board in Trinidad.

1926 September Walsenburg: Dorothy Baker is the new Miss Walsenburg and Margaret Hunt is the new Miss Huerfano County:

1926 September Walsenburg: School shoes, $1.98 - $2.49. Walsenburg Jobbing House, 725 Main, M. Katz, proprietor.

1926 September Walsenburg: The auto racer Barney Oldfield passed through Walsenburg Monday after losing most of his clothes when his trunk fell off the running board somewhere around Trinidad.

1926 September Walsenburg: The new auditorium and gym at HCHS will be formally opened Sept. 22.

1926 September Walsenburg: The proposed union depot is to be a 32 by 119 foot red brick with a green tile roof.

1926 September Walsenburg: Walsenburg Electric Company will move to the corner section of the Roof and Dick building Oct. 1.

1926 September: The road to Big Four-Tioga is to be surfaced with red rock.

1926 October La Veta: An attempt will be made to open the road to the Blue Lakes next summer. About 40 cars made the climb this season but the strain cannot be beneficial to the innerds [sic] of the motors.

1926 October La Veta: County Commissioner Allen Roush attended a meeting with a state engineer who said the new highway will come into La Veta but will follow Front Street through the McComb Addition rather than Oak Street as previously.

1926 October La Veta: Emma May Kitchen died, a resident of La Veta since 1901, leaving her husband and two daughters, Marguerite Snedden and Viola June Kitchen.

1926 October La Veta: La Veta was crushed by St. Mary in the football game, by a score of 37 to 0.

1926 October La Veta: The first snow of the season fell early today but is rapidly melting. We have no kick against summer lasting until November.

1926 October Walsenburg: Approximately $4,500 was realized from the St. Mary Fair.

1926 October Walsenburg: August Unfug, whose apparel shop has been located at 624 Main since 1906, is moving to Sixth and Main Streets.

1926 October Walsenburg: Bishop Tihen of Denver dedicated the Little Flower Chapel at Gordon.

1926 October Walsenburg: Frankie Murphy of Denver and Jack Kane of Chicago will trade blow for blow tomorrow night at Arcade Hall.

1926 October Walsenburg: Matt Giro and Joan Meeker starred in the Dramatic Club's successful play "Ann's Little Affair'' at the Star Theater last night.

1926 October Walsenburg: Mrs. Julian Lamme received the prize offered by the Civic League for having the most beautiful garden.

1926 October Walsenburg: Seventh Street store owner Mike Paulovsky, 42, died Sunday, leaving a wife and two daughters.

1926 October Walsenburg: Seventh Street store owner Mike Paulovsky, 42, died Sunday, leaving a wife and two daughters.

1926 October Walsenburg: St. Mary senior class officers are John Kirkpatrick, president, Anna Mosco, vice-president, Charles Krier, treasurer and Herbert Lewis, reporter.

1926 October Walsenburg: The grain elevator is being rapidly dismantled to make way for the new union depot.

1926 October Walsenburg: The local Boy Scouts will present the Kitchen Cabinet Sympathy Orchestra from Pueblo at the Star Theater.

1926 October Walsenburg: The new auditorium/gymnasium at St. Mary School will be opened Oct. 19 with a chicken dinner and a dance following.

1926 October Walsenburg: The new auditorium-gymnasium at St. Mary will be opened tomorrow night with a chicken dinner and a dance following.

1926 October Walsenburg: Walsenburg Electric moves to new quarters at Sixth and Main next week after being located at 504 Main since 1919.

1926 November La Veta: Christmas Trees for Sale. Your Choice, $1.00. J.H. Kincaid.

1926 November La Veta: Clyde Brooks and Mildred Stohmeyer were married.

1926 November La Veta: Federal officers confiscated large quantities of illicit liquor in a series of raids in the county Tuesday.

1926 November La Veta: Huerfano County voted to go dry by only 236 votes.

1926 November La Veta: J.R. Shearer built a milk house at a year-round spring close to his ranch house.

1926 November La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Levy Kincaid initiated their new radio on Saturday evening by inviting 14 friends and relatives to supper and afterward tuning it in.

1926 November La Veta: The football team had a tough time at Primero, being caught in a snowstorm, could hardly see the ball and bucked snow all the way home, some not arriving until one or two in the morning.

1926 November Walsenburg: A contract was let to Archie Levy to build the new athletic field for Huerfano County High School on two blocks donated by Fred C. Walsen.

1926 November Walsenburg: A large number of criminal cases in Walsenburg are blamed on the use of "marijuana."

1926 November Walsenburg: Approximately $4,500 was realized from the three-night St. Mary Parish Fair and Bazaar.

1926 November Walsenburg: August Unfug will have a formal opening of his womens wear shop in his new location at Sixth and Main, Huerfano Trading Company.

1926 November Walsenburg: C&S are extending their tracks northeast of the present station another 4,000 feet and installing a new water tank and an automatic coal chute.

1926 November Walsenburg: City Council banned street stands in Walsenburg as unsightly and for obstructing traffic.

1926 November Walsenburg: Federal officers confiscated a large quantity of illicit liquor in a series of raids here Tuesday.

1926 November Walsenburg: Joe Espander announces the opening of Model Cleaners and Tailors at 129 West Seventh.

1926 November Walsenburg: The dark red brick of Walsenburg's new union depot began to rise Wednesday.

1926 November Walsenburg: The dedication of the new St. Mary High School building has been postponed as it is not completed.

1926 November Walsenburg: The dedication of the new St. Mary high school building has been postponed as it is not completed.

1926 November Walsenburg: The Maccabees are moving their hall to the Joseph building on lower Main Street.

1926 November Walsenburg: The snow storm "confused" the football game with Primero.

1926 November Walsenburg: This is Canned Foods"  Week at Joe's Market and Grocery, Star Grocery, Snodgrass Food Company, Fulton Market, Walsenburg Mercantile, C.O.D. Store and Economy Grocery.

1926 November Walsenburg: This is Canned Goods Week at Joe's Market and Grocery, Star Grocery, Snodgrass Food Company, Fulton Market, Walsenburg Mercantile, the C.O.D. Store and Economy Grocery.

1926 December 1: Baxter Hardware and Trading Co., Joseph O'Byrne, President and F.H. Danford, Secretary, Wholesale And Retail Hardware and Agricultural Implements

1926 December La Veta: Building of the Methodist Church is now underway in the excavation made some years ago and abandoned.

1926 December La Veta: Byrdie Beamer and Paul King were married, as were Bernice Kreutzer and Thomas O'Neil.

1926 December La Veta: Floyd Denton and Marlene Homsher were married in California.

1926 December La Veta: Jimmie Bowdino and Clarence Kreutzer gave a dance in the Wahatoya schoolhouse on Saturday which was enjoyed by many.

1926 December La Veta: Record crops of barley and oats were reported in this section, with some farmers harvesting 50 bushel wheat.

1926 December La Veta: Representatives of  the Frink Creamery were here seeking guarantees of 1,000 gallons of milk per day for the proposed cheese factory.

1926 December La Veta: Residents in the Ritter district enjoyed a holiday party, program and old fashioned games in the schoolhouse Tuesday evening.

1926 December La Veta: Superintendent Jim McCune of Ojo says the mine is shipping 200 tons of coal per day.

1926 December La Veta: The American Automobile Association has a new official route for tourism from Denver through this way to the south and west, which should bring a lot of traffic through town if the highway isn't rerouted.

1926 December La Veta: The Commercial Club has secured a lease on the south portion of the county stock barn and will turn it over to the school basket ball team for games and practice.

1926 December La Veta: The La Veta High School coach, William F. Ford, died at La Veta Hospital after suffering an appendicitis attack.

1926 December La Veta: The Methodists have started excavation for their church, which will be 50 by 70 feet in size.

1926 December La Veta: The new Methodist Church is to be 60 by 70 feet.

1926 December La Veta: The personal property of A.B. Parks which was disposed of at a sheriff's sale Wednesday afternoon was purchased by J.B. Hamilton for $2,500.

1926 December La Veta: Total payrolls for the coal mines in Huerfano County average $20,000 daily, or over $2 million yearly.

1926 December Walsenburg: A 30-foot tall balsam Christmas tree has been erected on the courthouse lawn.

1926 December Walsenburg: A thirty foot balsam Christmas tree has been erected in the court house yard.

1926 December Walsenburg: August Musso will open the new $10,000 Alpine Rose Cafe next Wednesday.

1926 December Walsenburg: Pat Vallely resigned so J. Jamieson will be the new foreman at the Cameron mine.

1926 December Walsenburg: Pioneer March Addington, 84, died. Born in Georgia in 1844, he served with the Confederate Army and came to Gardner in 1872. Of 11 children, nine survive, including Mrs. Addie Costilla, Leta Diez, Charles, William and Robert of Huerfano County.

1926 December Walsenburg: The cold weather halted work for the season on the new Union Depot with just the brick walls up.

1926 December Walsenburg: The Elks will have their big charity ball in the new Maccabee Hall in the Joseph building on lower Main Street.

1927 January Walsenburg: George Mavroganis of Tioga won $15 in the Sears and Sears Garage mileage contest, getting 35.3 miles per gallon.

1927 January La Veta: A Lewis Nilson has opened a tailoring and dry cleaning establishment here.

1927 January La Veta: A record crowd attended the Oddfellows' dance Saturday evening.

1927 January La Veta: Dr. R.A. Mathew has his office in the Masonic building.

1927 January La Veta: Earl Kreutzer won $152 as second prize in the calf club class on his yearling at the Denver stock show.

1927 January La Veta: Ellis Smith, whose calf won the state fair in Pueblo, Elton Holmes, John Goemmer and Chester Springer will take their calves to the annual stock show in Denver.

1927 January La Veta: George Drury has purchased the old Phillips ranch from P.L. Estes.

1927 January La Veta: John Hamilton is president of the First National Bank of La Veta, Levy Kincaid is vice president and W. H. Harrison, L.W. Lee and George Blickhahn are directors.

1927 January La Veta: Paul Ghiardi is planning to remodel the Spanish Peaks Hotel.

1927 January La Veta: Snyder and Gamble have a new garage and repair shop at the corner of Francisco and Oak Streets.

1927 January La Veta: The Dewey home was the scene of another old-fashioned dance and get-together of longtime friends Thursday evening.

1927 January Walsenburg: At present there are 23 dairy herds locally and movements are on foot to form a Huerfano County Dairy Association.

1927 January Walsenburg: Mose Martinez, 31, secretary of the local I.W.W., was shot and seriously injured Sunday evening at the Plaza Pool Hall on West Eighth Street.

1927 January Walsenburg: Red hot jazz and dreamy waltzes will be rendered Saturday night in St. Mary Auditorium as only Hayden Lane's five-piece orchestra of Pueblo can render them.

1927 January Walsenburg: The Denver and Rio Grande Western has asked the state utilities commission for suspension of passenger service between Alamosa and Walsenburg.

1927 February 9: Lamme Bros.

1927 February La Veta: A recent rough census of the Alamosa Barbour camps, which practically join, placed the population at about 700.

1927 February La Veta: Charles Powell is building a two-room cabin on his ranch for tourist rental.

1927 February La Veta: Dr. Lee will now be physician for the coal camps while Dr. Wilkinson takes over the hospital.

1927 February La Veta: Nina Alexander won first and $10 at the girls' declamatory contest Friday evening and Zella Rich was second.

1927 February La Veta: The adjoining camps of Alamo and Barbour now have a combined population of nearly 700.

1927 February La Veta: The foundation of the new Methodist Church is completed up to ground level and will rise four more feet to complete the basement portion.

1927 February La Veta: The Ghiardi and Company store now have a selection of hats.

1927 February La Veta: The Goemmer Brothers now have the last word in comfort and luxury - a Stutz eight-cylinder coach.

1927 February La Veta: The La Veta Automotive Company has leased land across the street in Railroad Park to expand the business.

1927 February La Veta: The survey on the Mosca Pass road is underway and though the project is budgeted, the road probably will not open this year.

1927 February La Veta: W.O. Van Etten, 77, committed suicide in Walsenburg.

1927 February Walsenburg: Contracts have been signed to improve the city water system which should improve water pressure on the hill.

1927 February Walsenburg: Flora Trujillo of Ideal and Jake Pacheco of North Veta were married last Monday.

1927 February Walsenburg: Sporleder Selling Company has opened a branch store in Alamosa.

1927 February Walsenburg: The Chamber of Commerce is planning to build itself a home of Niggerhead Coal at the north end of Main Street.

1927 February Walsenburg: Two hundred and fifty people attended the annual Chamber of Commerce meeting and banquet at St. Mary Auditorium.

1927 February Walsenburg: Violet Wheelock and Julius Rossman have the leading roles in the Huerfano County High School junior class play "A Hidden Guest."

1927 February Walsenburg: Violet Wheelock and Julius Rossman have the leading roles in the Huerfano County High School junior class play, "A Hidden Guest."

1927 February Walsenburg: Windsor Hardware and the Masonic Temple were damaged by a $10, 000 blaze.

1927 February Walsenburg:  A large crowd attended the acrobatic show given at the Rouse Y.

1927 March 30: Furphy, Undertaker

1927 March La Veta: Brick for the new Methodist Church has arrived and the structure has progressed to the point where bricklaying can be proceeded apace.

1927 March La Veta: Deep snow and drifts closed La Veta Pass at 10 a.m. yesterday.

1927 March La Veta: Deep snow and drifts closed La Veta Pass at 10 a.m. yesterday.

1927 March La Veta: Died, Robert N. "Turk" Moore, 84, the last GAR member in Huerfano County.

1927 March La Veta: La Veta Heat, Light and Power proposes to open a power plant in Cuchara Camps.

1927 March La Veta: La Veta Heat, Light and Power proposes to open a power plant in Cuchara Camps.

1927 March La Veta: La Veta Light, Heat and Power Company will build a two-roomed building in Cuchara Camps to house an electric plant and caretaker.

1927 March La Veta: Measles and chicken pox are depleting attendance at the school.

1927 March La Veta: Miss Alice Lester has taken Mrs. Fred Dryden's place as musician at the picture show.

1927 March La Veta: W.F. Ireland is taking over the La Veta Dairy Company.

1927 March Walsenburg: Four soft drink parlors have been closed for violation of their licenses. They are located at 823 Main, 816 Main, 119 West Seventh and 214 West Seventh.

1927 March Walsenburg: Over 1,000 visiting Elks attended the dedication ceremony of the new $53,000 Elks Lodge in Walsenburg.

1927 March Walsenburg: Over 5,000 people attended the annual Auto Show during which 20 new cars were sold.

1927 March Walsenburg: Over 5,000 people attended the annual Auto Show, during which 20 cars were sold.

1927 March Walsenburg: Some 1,000 visiting Elks are expected to attend the dedication of the new $35,000 Elks Lodge here.

1927 March Walsenburg: The Chamber of Commerce moved to the Levy Brothers building in the 100 block of West Seventh Street.

1927 March Walsenburg: The first train will stop Thursday at the new Union passenger depot.

1927 March Walsenburg: The new Walsenburg sign on Capitol Hill, which is 20 feet high and 100 feet long and holds 270 globes, will be lighted Thursday.

1927 March Walsenburg: Work on the new union depot and station is being pushed and it may open within the next two weeks.

1927 April La Veta: A.P. Atchison won the contract to build an intake tower at town lake and an embankment on the east end.

1927 April La Veta: About 30 people attended the surprise birthday party for Max and Vada Elley at Strangers Hall.

1927 April La Veta: For sale: 160 acres on Bear Creek, $4.50 per acre, 40 acres under fence, spring that never goes dry. Juan Ortega, Rouse, Colo.

1927 April La Veta: Joe Visich and John Giomardi of Walsenburg are assisting Fred Doyle of Denver in laying the brick at the new Methodist Church.

1927 April La Veta: John Goemmer was elected president of the La Veta Baby Beef Club Thursday evening, Kenneth Brown, vice-president and May Smith, secretary.

1927 April La Veta: La Veta Light, Heat and Power Company has secured the agency for Kelvinator Domestic and Commercial Electric Refrigerators.

1927 April La Veta: Mildred Smith married Ed Shearer and Ruth Donegan was married to Ralph Brooks.

1927 April La Veta: Mildred Smith married Ed Shearer and Ruth Donegan was married to Ralph Brooks.

1927 April La Veta: Our recent weather has been good for the soil but bad for the soul - snow, rain, wind, mist, frost and a damp, chilly atmosphere.

1927 April La Veta: Owen Williams and Clyde Brooks will build a Texaco station at a corner of Oak and Ryus Streets.

1927 April La Veta: Some Baptists are pretending it's summer, and are planning a wienie roast at the Boyd ranch.

1927 April La Veta: The cornerstone for the new Methodist Church was laid.

1927 April La Veta: The high schools of Walsenburg, St. Mary, Aguilar and La Veta will meet here April 30 for a track competition and baseball tournament.

1927 April La Veta: The store at Ojo has been abandoned with the decrease in population.

1927 April La Veta: There are 390 registered voters in La Veta.

1927 April Walsenburg: A total of 1,904 people voted of 2,303 registered to elect J.J. Pritchard, mayor, C. Victor Mazzone, clerk and William Krier, treasurer.

1927 April Walsenburg: Cy Atencio won the Recreation pool tournament from Sam Bonfiglio.

1927 April Walsenburg: The flow in the Cucharas River is said to be normal despite the driest winter in 56 years.

1927 April Walsenburg: The Huerfano Agency will make $100,000 worth of improvements on its Gordon mine, where a new vein is being tapped.

1927 April Walsenburg: The Huerfano Agency  will make $100,000 worth of improvements on its Gordon mine, where they are tapping a new vein.

1927 April Walsenburg: The last of the sewer system is under construction between Walsen and the high school.

1927 April Walsenburg: The last of the sewer system project is under construction between Walsen and the high school.

1927 May La Veta: Alamo school will add two more rooms to accommodate the children living at Barbour mine, which opened this past year.

1927 May La Veta: Alex Clopsky [sic] failed to turn up for his mail this winter.

1927 May La Veta: Andrew Gallegos and Italico Michelizza will graduate eighth grade in District 32, Oakview. Guy Macy is their teacher.

1927 May La Veta: Continental Oil Company will build a filling station in railroad park.

1927 May La Veta: Cuchara Camps now has telephone connections, a post office, store, hotel, commissary, amusement pavilion and 60 summer homes.

1927 May La Veta: District 21, Cuchara Camps, will graduate three eighth graders, Pat and Pete Mayes and John Vories.

1927 May La Veta: Drs. Lee and Wilkinson have operation of the La Veta Hospital.

1927 May La Veta: Evan Marker and Sadie Kreutzer were married and Levein Elwood Haase married Eloise Luzader.

1927 May La Veta: If it doesn't rain pretty soon, we'll be having more than a long dry spell. It's dry enough to suit the prohibitionist and then some.

1927 May La Veta: Professor LeRoy Curtis was reelected superintendent of La Veta Schools.

1927 May La Veta: Some Walsenburg people have taken charge of the Sulphur Springs and some of the cabins are occupied.

1927 May La Veta: The county is having a portion of Highway 111 to Cuchara Camps surfaced.

1927 May La Veta: The eighth grade will hold Commencement Exercises May 18 with a piano solo by Dorothy Lougheed, a reading by Maurice Ireland and salutation by Elnora Simms.

1927 May La Veta: The seniors celebrated "sneak day" on Wednesday by breakfasting at Ojo, climbing old Baldy with 11 reaching the summit, and dining on the pass.

1927 May Walsenburg: About 6,000 people are expected to attend Walsenburg's fourth annual Music Week in which 200 local musicians will participate.

1927 May Walsenburg: About 6,000 people are expected to attend Walsenburg's fourth annual Music Week in which 200 local musicians will participate.

1927 May Walsenburg: Approximately 2,000 people attended the Ludlow memorial services May 24.

1927 May Walsenburg: Captain Charles A. Lindberg, "the flying fool", made the first transatlantic flight to France Saturday.

1927 May Walsenburg: Carbon monoxide poisoning killed six men in the Del Agua No. 3 mine explosion last Friday, May 27.

1927 May Walsenburg: Died, Michael Spok, 22, Toltec miner and former Walsenburg baseball star, of spinal meningitis which he contracted after being injured in the mine in 1923.

1927 May Walsenburg: Eighth grade graduates of District No. 38, Sunnyside, under Georgia Hart, teacher, are Jasper Bruce, Tommy Kobaejshi and Pauline Brittendal.

1927 May Walsenburg: Eighth grade graduates of Grand View School are Lena and Mena Dighera, Rosie Luchino, Ida Sordella and May Smith. Miss Nellie D. Smith is their teacher.

1927 May Walsenburg: Federal officers confiscated 150 gallons of wine in a raid on the Turner boardinghouse.

1927 May Walsenburg: Gordon School closes June 3 after graduating eighth graders Helen Kador, Paul Grusonik and Clarence Clair.

1927 May Walsenburg: Hubby: I miss the old cuspidor since it's gone. Wifey: You missed it before - that was the trouble.

1927 May Walsenburg: In homage to Spring, high school students will gambol to the tunes of modern jazz as Greek gods and goddesses in a pageant, "Springtime."

1927 May Walsenburg: In homage to spring, the high school students will gambol to the tunes of modem jazz as Greek gods and goddesses in a pageant entitled "Springtime."

1927 May Walsenburg: John Kirkpatrick was valedictorian of the graduating class of St. Mary High School. There were 21 in the class.

1927 May Walsenburg: Mac McGregor's Blue Demons will play for the most unique dance of the year on May 21, for the benefit of the Independent Junior League.

1927 May Walsenburg: More than 100 kids in the CF&I mining camps in Huerfano County will go to the Camp of the Whispering Pines for 10 days for $5 each.

1927 May Walsenburg: Pioneer T.R. Jones, 81, died. He lived on the old Bourcy place, now the site of the Victoria Hotel, until he left this country in 1877.

1927 May Walsenburg: St. Mary High School had its graduation exercises May 26 when John Kirkpatrick delivered the valedictory address.

1927 May Walsenburg: The 46 students of the senior class at Huerfano County High School spent their sneak day at Blue Lakes.

1927 May Walsenburg: The Alamo School will add two rooms to accommodate the children from Barbour mine, which opened this past year.

1927 May Walsenburg: The Opera House Cafe is reopening after a $1,100 remodeling project to improve the charcoal broiler, steam tables and refrigeration case.

1927 May Walsenburg: The sand storms have been wicked.  The school children could not even go to school alone because they couldn't see a half a block.

1927 May Walsenburg: Today's Independent is the largest paper ever issued in Huerfano County, published by the Walsenburg Woman's Club.

1927 May Walsenburg: Two hundred eighth grade students will receive diplomas the next few weeks from county schools.

1927 May Walsenburg: Walsenburg was plunged into darkness Sunday night when a switch burned out at the Trinidad Electric Railway, Transmission and Gas company plant.

1927 June La Veta: A rodeo is being planned for the Fourth of July in Cuchara Camps, also dancing, games, refreshments, etc.

1927 June La Veta: A snowslide down Trinchera took out a half mile strip of trees and fifty feet of packed snow remain in a canyon near Blue Lakes.

1927 June La Veta: Chick Brooks is managing an auto repair shop in the Vasquez blacksmith.

1927 June La Veta: Grace Lougheed married Robert Young.

1927 June La Veta: More than 300 members and their families attended the annual picnic of the Loyal Order of Moose at Cuchara Camps Sunday.

1927 June La Veta: Muriel Walls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Walls, married George Davis.

1927 June La Veta: Muriel Walls, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Walls, married George Davis in Walsenburg Wednesday. He is employed by Guaranty State Bank.

1927 June La Veta: New floors have been laid in the pavilion, dining room and commissary in Cuchara Camps.

1927 June La Veta: Orvil Clark has sold the shoe shop to J.C. Griffey.

1927 June La Veta: Sheriff Capps was here yesterday to locate some more stolen articles which had been cached near the old slaughter house.

1927 June La Veta: The construction on the Methodist Church is almost complete.

1927 June La Veta: The first tourist camp house being erected by La Veta Automotive company near railroad park is about completed, and looks most attractive.

1927 June La Veta: Work has started on the new filling station at Ryus and Main, which will be brick with a red tile roof.

1927 June Walsenburg: $12,000 worth of improvements have been made on railroad crossings on Main and Seventh Streets.

1927 June Walsenburg: A ten-pound baby boy can make more noise than a 250-pound man can suppress.

1927 June Walsenburg: A third pool hall is under construction at Del Carbon.

1927 June Walsenburg: Baseball score - Pontiac Boosters 6, Pictou Bronchs 2.

1927 June Walsenburg: Bill Flynn, 14, holds the attendance record at Walsen School for 720 days, or five consecutive years.

1927 June Walsenburg: Branding the proposed gas line from Amarillo, Tex. as impractical and inefficient, S.M. Thompson of Caliente Fuel Co., predicted gas could never seriously compete with coal as fuel.

1927 June Walsenburg: Cameron Cubs, 10, Turner Cardinals, 9.

1927 June Walsenburg: Eighth grade graduates from Cameron school are Grace Cerjanec, Bonnie Claire Temple, Eleanor Prudhoe, Elvera Dona, William Coco and Edward Race. Mrs. Relich is their teacher.

1927 June Walsenburg: Eighth grade graduates of Tioga School are Franklin Platzek, Mike and George Conder, Emilio Wilkins, Joseph and Mary Giordano and Serafini Andreatta.

1927 June Walsenburg: More than 300 persons from Huerfano and Las Animas counties took the circle tour through the mountains, sponsored by the chambers of commerce in Walsenburg, La Veta, Trinidad and Aguilar.

1927 June Walsenburg: Mrs. George Halliday is the new manager of the Peoples Pavilion on West Seventh Street, which opens Saturday night with Boyle's eight piece orchestra.

1927 June Walsenburg: Prairies and farm lands are universally green after a three day drizzle ended the drouth threatening crops.

1927 June Walsenburg: Rip Wood, 29, was killed Friday while repairing Trinidad Electric Transmission, Railway and Gas Company's switches near the Pacific Coal Company's Caddell Mine.

1927 June Walsenburg: Some 362 Masons from Walsenburg and southeastern Colorado attended the annual St. John's Day picnic at Cuchara Camps.

1927 June Walsenburg: The 17 eighth grade graduates of Walsen School will give a class play June 8 during graduation, exercises.

1927 June Walsenburg: The boys from Huerfano County CF&I camps go to camp for a 10-day stay June 26 through July 7 and the girls July 7 to 17. They will learn first aid and crafts and take part in outdoor recreation.

1927 June Walsenburg: The Rialto Theater has a new $1,000 cooling system according to manager Mike Zalesny.

1927 June Walsenburg: Three days of rain and drizzle, amounting to two inches, ended the long dry spell.

1927 June Walsenburg: Unless the mountains in the western part of Huerfano County have warm weather or rains soon, farmers of the county will face a drouth this season. The continued cold weather is holding 15 to 30 inches of snow in the mountains.

1927 June Walsenburg: W.E. Cherry, D&RG brakeman, was killed by eight freight cars running over him yesterday at Walsen.

1927 June Walsenburg: While trying to hang up a speed record to Rouse, 12 miles southwest of here, John Matteroli, 35, mechanic at the Walsenburg Garage, lost control of his Nash roadster and ended up in a ditch after the car turned over twice near Mayne.

1927 June Walsenburg: William Schiemenz, 36, a former mule driver at the Cameron mine, committed suicide in Denver, the victim of a triangle love affair.

1927 June Walsenburg: Wool prices soared to 29 cents a pound today so Huerfano County sheepmen loaded two cars, representing about 60 percent of the estimated 245,000 pound crop.

1927 July La Veta: A heavy hail storm caused much damage to gardens, crops and roofs.

1927 July La Veta: Died, Thomas A. Nogle, 80, the father of Mrs. Milton Heikes.

1927 July La Veta: G.A. Mayes announced there will be a rodeo in Cuchara Camps for the 4th of July.

1927 July La Veta: Howlett and Penne's thresher is keeping busy in the ongoing harvest.

1927 July La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kimsey of Klamath Falls, Ore. visited his sister Mrs. Jap Bruce.

1927 July La Veta: Several Sunday School classes have formed an embroidery club and will sell their work to raise funds for the church.

1927 July La Veta: The Huerfano County Sunday School picnic will be July 30 in Cuchara Camps, with field races and games, golf, baseball and an old-fashioned basket dinner.

1927 July La Veta: The new filling station at Oak and Ryus is open and Mr. Snowden is for the present delivering service.

1927 July La Veta: The oil well at Oakview is down to 550 feet and they are still drilling.

1927 July La Veta: With the opening of the filling station at the corner of Oak and Ryus, La Veta has four service stations.

1927 July Walsenburg: As a result of the cloudbursts which washed out the Loma Branch tracks and a highway bridge 300 miners at Calumet No. 1 are out of work.

1927 July Walsenburg: By a score of 6-2, John Zubal hurled the Walsenburg Diavolos to a victory over-the crack Dawson, New Mexico nine here Sunday before a crowd of more than 600 fans.

1927 July Walsenburg: Cloudbursts near Turner washed out the D&RG Loma Branch tracks for 160 feet, tore out the Turner railroad bridge and left the Gordon highway bridge impassable.

1927 July Walsenburg: Dorothy Baker of Walsenburg, Miss Colorado for 1926, will represent Huerfano County in the Music Week at Denver.

1927 July Walsenburg: Dr. and Mrs. Charles Brunelli and daughter Norma motored to Westcliffe July 4 for the rodeo.

1927 July Walsenburg: Dr. G.R. Mallett's office in the Kearns building was robbed of $155 while he stepped outdoors to visit.

1927 July Walsenburg: Engineers have begun surveying for the proposed Mosca Pass highway which would shorten the distance from Walsenburg to the Sand Dunes by 55 miles.

1927 July Walsenburg: For rent: 2 room apartment on the second floor, $21.50; 2 rooms on first floor, $20 a month. 318 East Kansas, Phone 431W.

1927 July Walsenburg: Huerfano County flockmasters shipped a sixth carload of wool Wednesday, bringing the total of shipments this season to 229,650 pounds of wool through the National Wool Exchange Co-op pool.

1927 July Walsenburg: Little Anna Katherine Tessler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Tressler, is convalescing after an appendix operation.

1927 July Walsenburg: Paving work on the Seventh Street C & S railroad crossing was finished late Sunday night and the street reopened to traffic.

1927 July Walsenburg: The Boy Scouts paid $375 for two lots and the erection of a cabin for their use at Cuchara Camps.

1927 July Walsenburg: The Community Church now has 250 members.

1927 July Walsenburg: There have been 44 deaths since Jan. 11 from accidents or suicide without a doctor present, and 21 from natural causes.

1927 July Walsenburg: Work preparatory to paving the city's street railroad crossings on Main and Seventh Streets, estimated to cost $12,000, was begun last week by crews of the D&RG and C&S companies.

1927 July: The Walsenburg Independent Church has been organized with 57 members and will be called the Community Church.   Dr. J.G. McMurty, present minister of the Presbyterian Church, will fill the pulpit.

1927 Aug. 12, Reinstatement of four men said to have been discharged from Huerfano and Las Animas county mines for their part in the Sacco-Vanzetti protest is the demand of the I.W.W. here today. - The Independent

1927 Aug. 16, Miss Ellen May "Nellie" French has sold her Nellie French Chocolate Shop, 715 South Main Street, to Mr. and Mrs. George Brassfield of Clovis, NM, for $1,600. Miss French will go to San Francisco to operate a millinery shop with her sister Mrs. A.L. Hendrix. - The Independent

1927 Aug. 2: Flash floods down Green Canyon left two blocks in Aguilar under water and three mines are closed because the railroad bridges were washed out. The Temple Fuel Company just above the junction of Vogt and Broadhead canons lost its boardinghouse, two residences, the warehouse with $10,000 worth of grain stored inside and a store, as well as 15 automobiles. The Independent

1927 Aug. 26: The School Bell Rings! Buy your school supplies at Walsenburg Variety Store, Agnes Bros., Howards, J.S. Windsor, Capitol Hill Grocery, Walsenburg Jobbing House, Diamond Exchange, City Pharmacy, Service Drug Company (Let Fred Deliver It), Walsenburg Creamery, Star Drug Company and The Novelty Store. The Independent

1927 Aug. 30: Boys and girls representing clubs in Huerfano County who will compete in the state fair demonstrations and contests in Pueblo next week are Ruby Baker and Josephine Ireland, Walsenburg, Ruth McKinley, Marian Wright and Florence Gribbell, Rattlesnake Buttes, Ina Smith, Kermit Karst and Opal Wolf, Apache, and Mae Smith, John Goemmer, Elton Holmes and Ellis Smith, La Veta. - The Independent

1927 Aug. 5, Damaged water lines due to the flood in Aguilar prevented fighters from controlling a fire of unknown origin that destroyed the Apishapa Trading Company warehouse, valued at $11,000, which was filled with grain, hay, feed and flour. - The Independent

1927 August La Veta: C.H. Brooks has his justice of the peace office in the room adjoining the Spanish Peak Hotel, and also sells cigars and other tobaccos.

1927 August La Veta: Cloudbursts have cost $185,000 to mine and farm property in Huerfano County in the past four days.

1927 August La Veta: Half a dozen cottages at Cuchara Camps are now connected to the local electric light plant.

1927 August La Veta: Minnie Adamson built a cottage and garage in her park.

1927 August La Veta: Minnie Adamson has for rent a four-room modem apartment as well as a three-room apartment on Francisco Street, plus a four-room unfurnished house in the park.

1927 August La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Asa Wilcox gave a swimming party at the pool in Lester in honor of their daughter Elizabeth's 13th birthday.

1927 August La Veta: The Boy Scouts drove to Blue Lakes Camp then hiked to Crystal Lake at the foot of Trinchera, then to Wolf Lake and around Bear Lake and back to Blue Lakes.

1927 August La Veta: The Boyd filling station is nearly complete and will open soon.

1927 August La Veta: The dedication of the Methodist Church took place last week.

1927 August La Veta: The dedication services were held Sunday in the new Methodist Church with a special program, supplemented by the wedding of Fred Waggoner and Lucille Stacey of Malachite. 

1927 August La Veta: The La Veta Stampede drew about 800 automobiles, with an attendance of perhaps 3,800 people.

1927 August La Veta: The Singer Brothers Big Trained Animal and Novelty Show, with the Kelly La Tell Troupe, wire artists and Amon Simms Company, acrobats and clowns, will be here Aug. 30 at the ball park.

1927 August Walsenburg: Nellie French sold her Chocolate Shop at 715 South Main to Mr. and Mrs. George Brassfield of Clovis NM for $1,600.

1927 August Walsenburg: A cloudburst left two and a half inches of water in several downtown businesses such as the Huerfano Motor Company, 207 Main Street.

1927 August Walsenburg: Brown's Beauty Parlor, 107 East Sixth Street, will be closed this week for redecorating.

1927 August Walsenburg: Fifteen young people of Gardner will spend a week camping on the Medano, chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Tirey.

1927 August Walsenburg: Returning football players at St. Mary High School are Victor Fini, Frank Furphy, Jim Pacheco, Buddy Kilmurray, John Sudar, George Turner and Stancato.

1927 August Walsenburg: Seventeen young women are entered in the Miss Walsenburg of 1927 contest and the winner will be chosen at the Bathing Beauty Dance Aug. 17 at the People's Park Pavilion. Don Juan and His Traveling Arcadians will furnish the music.

1927 August Walsenburg: The union miners are threatening to go on strike in protest of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

1927 August Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Tire Shop team won the Southern Colorado Amateur baseball championship and will go to Denver for the state finals.

1927 August Walsenburg: V.C. Wolfe and his wife of Seattle visited Walsenburg and he remarked he hardly recognized the city. Mr. Wolf