1940 January La Veta: About six inches of snow fell on the dry soil Wednesday.
1940 January La Veta: About six inches of snow fell on the dry soil Wednesday.
1940 January La Veta: According to the latest report, mountain lion, coyote and bobcats are increasing in numbers in the San Isabel National Forest while elk and black bears are decreasing.
1940 January La Veta: Charles Alexander won the $5 prize, O.W. Beamer, $2 and F.T. Crawley and L.P. Springer $1 each in the Jaycees-sponsored "Trade at Horne" campaign.
1940 January La Veta: Earl Beamer reported for duty with the Navy and is the sixth La Veta boy to have enlisted with them in the past few months.
1940 January La Veta: Eastern Star installed Gladys Stansbury, W.M., Arthur Peachey, W.P., Mary Ellis, treasurer and Constance Ghiardi, secretary.
1940 January La Veta: Gladys Stansbury was installed Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star.
1940 January La Veta: Huerfano County's coal mines produced 82,000 tons this November and with 911 employed ranked fourth in the state.
1940 January La Veta: La Veta American Legion will sponsor an old time dance at Kincaid Hall New Year's Eve with music by Clarence Garmes' orchestra.
1940 January La Veta: Mr. McClure, supervisor of the construction of the new forest ranger residence, conducted Rotary members and their wives through the building Tuesday following the regular dinner and meeting at the La Veta Hotel.
1940 January La Veta: Mrs. Pete Brown was honored with a miscellaneous shower at Mrs. C.N. Brown's home.
1940 January La Veta: Senior Class News - There are too many boys in our class.
1940 January La Veta: The best snowfall of the season left eight or ten inches in this vicinity.
1940 January La Veta: The biggest snowfall of the season fell Friday and Saturday, leaving some eight to 10 inches and a temperature of six below.
1940 January La Veta: The Redskins traveled to Hoehne last Friday and lost a heart breaker by a score of 36-32.
1940 January Walsenburg: A check for $4,037.50 will be mailed by City Treasurer Malcolm MacDonald for payment in full of the city's 85 percent of liquor license collections for the year, which goes into the state's old age pension fund.
1940 January Walsenburg: Andreatta Grocery and Market, 234 West Seventh Street, is the only store in Walsenburg to have its own ranch to supply livestock products.
1940 January Walsenburg: Following two months of construction, Walsenburg's most picturesque cafe and bar, the Knotty Pine at 119 West Seventh, had its formal opening yesterday.
1940 January Walsenburg: Riprap work on the city reservoir, necessitated by the base crumbling last summer when the reservoir went dry, has been suspended.
1940 January Walsenburg: Starting Thursday the Gem Theater will present a special ladies matinee at which will be given free hosiery through the courtesy of Unfug Apparel Shop.
1940 January Walsenburg: The Bain Department Store at Seventh and Main will begin its closing-out sale Wednesday and the store will move to its remodeled Seventh Street warehouse.
1940 January Walsenburg: The Catholic Daughters will sponsor the annual Pre-Lenten Ball Feb. 3 in the St. Mary Auditorium with Charlie Quaranta and his orchestra of Pueblo furnishing the music.
1940 February La Veta: About 15 boys are stationed at the CCC side camp here.
1940 February La Veta: County Agent Phil Miles will take applications from farmers and ranchers south and west of La Veta for the purpose of forming a rural electrification district.
1940 February La Veta: Died, Jose Eligio "Lee" Montoya, a resident here since 1871. He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Joe Herrera and Mrs. Don Castro, both of La Veta.
1940 February La Veta: Died, Mrs. Annie Miller, 101, a resident of Malachite and Gardner since 1875. She leaves sons Ed and Robert, Redwing, daughters Mrs. A.A. Campbell and Mrs. Bruce Tirey.
1940 February La Veta: Dr. R.M. Ryan-of Antonito has opened his medical office in the Park Lane Hotel in the east room on the first floor.
1940 February La Veta: Emmett Smith and Ernest Atchison are home on furlough from the U.S. Navy.
1940 February La Veta: One dozen grapefruit, 99˘; four pounds Solitaire Coffee, 99˘; Ladies Shantung Pajamas, $1.19, at E.C. Streams.
1940 February La Veta: The B-Loyals Club will give a Leap Year Chili Supper Thursday, Feb. 29. Price 25 cents.
1940 February La Veta: The Boyd bakery and grocery store will open on Mar. 1.
1940 February La Veta: The junior class earned $60 for the junior-senior prom from their play, "Aunt Tillie Goes to Town.''
1940 February La Veta: The new $50,000 water system, built by WPA labor, is nearly complete and the two storage lakes will be opened within 60 or 90 days.
1940 February La Veta: The new forest ranger residence is almost complete and is a showplace for the community.
1940 February La Veta: The W.P.A.'s $50,000 water project to provide La Veta with two storage lakes will be completed this week and water may be turned into the basin at once.
1940 February Walsenburg: A true test of Huerfano County's oil possibilities is now in progress at Calvin W. White's Well No. 1, 12 miles northwest of Walsenburg.
1940 February Walsenburg: At least $10,500 in new construction is going on in Walsenburg in four locations.
1940 February Walsenburg: At the Fox Valencia - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Bennett in "Green Hill" plus 3 Mesquiteers give help to a bandit in "Wyoming Outlaw." Free photos of Joan Bennett to the first 200 patrons.
1940 February Walsenburg: Community cooperation between Walsenburg and La Veta will be expressed Sunday, when a joint concert of school bands is presented in Washington School Auditorium.
1940 February Walsenburg: George D. Andrews has been the "hot tamale king" of Walsenburg for 35 years. The business has supported 10 kids and his wife.
1940 February Walsenburg: Huerfano County will receive a total of $40,947.29 for welfare work during February; of this amount $33,307.60 will be used for old age pensions and $4,650 for direct relief.
1940 February Walsenburg: Lamb feeders of Huerfano County stand to collect more than $32,000 on the stock now being fattened, according to Earl Rogers of Rogers and Wayt, the second largest lamb feeders in the county.
1940 February Walsenburg: Nearly 600 children will be given body-building hot lunches every day under a WPA program soon to start at St. Mary School.
1940 February Walsenburg: Otto Klein, manager of Klein Motor Company at 116 East Sixth, announced the firm will sell their Ford agency and handle used cars only.
1940 February Walsenburg: Robbers entered Grant Wallace's service station at Main and Colorado and stole candy, cigars and the jackpot of a slot machine.
1940 February Walsenburg: Sumner Jellison, chairman of the beard contest, says no one may start growing whiskers for the Black Diamond jubilee until March 15.
1940 February Walsenburg: The Shamrock and Strawberry mines in Huerfano County were honored for having no accidents for two years.
1940 February Walsenburg: Wind whipped the snow into drifts of three to five feet, shutting Walsenburg off from the rest of the world Tuesday and Wednesday.
1940 February Walsenburg: Work on the Cuchara River riprap project and construction of a golf course south of Walsenburg is being rushed to supply jobs for 600 certified WPA clients.
1940 Mar. 29: "Complete list of all census enumerators together with the districts they will cover was released today by I.F. Beauchamp, district supervisor of the U.S. census bureau at Trinidad. "In Walsenburg the enumerators include the following: Hazel Elizabeth Blockter, Nelson Warren Andrews, Teddy Garduno, Miss Mili M. Tomsic, Lucy A. Fernandez and Ballard Ellis Ward. "The rural areas of Huerfano county will be enumerated by the following: Leonard L. Hunsinger, Gardner; Captain Francis Ralls, Gardner CCC; Joe Edward Faris, Badito; Malcolm 0. Harriman, St. Mary's; George E. Davis, La Veta; Walter Hudson, Santa Clara; Elva Zee Shepherd, Cucharas; Donald B. Roesner, North Veta; John O'Hagan Crestones; Leonard F. Scholes, Birmingham; Walter J. Chapman, Niggerhead; Harry Charles Haines, Pictou; Harold E. Albright, Oakview, Dan Guerrero, Rouse; David T. Valdez, Laguna and Cameron; Earl Brewer, Alamo; Alfred Cruz, outside La Veta; Ethel L. Stacey, outside Walsenburg. "All of the above listed persons will receive their kits of census equipment this weekend and the enumeration of population, housing, farms and irrigation will begin in Huerfano county Tuesday."
1940 March La Veta: A son was born to Glen and Lorraine Powell.
1940 March La Veta: At the Rialto Theater Saturday and Sunday, Charles Starrett in "The Stranger from Texas," a color cartoon and Chapter 7 of "Where Horror Waits."
1940 March La Veta: B-Loyal Circle had their Leap Year chili dinner last night, selling it for 25˘ per bowl.
1940 March La Veta: Died, Jose Silvario Herrera, 54, Neva Lee Garmes, six weeks and Martha M. Vasquez, 80.
1940 March La Veta: James Ghiardi is the new director of the local welfare office after the resignation of Mrs. Ellen Kastner.
1940 March La Veta: March roared in like a lion and brought 12 inches of snow.
1940 March La Veta: Nora Belo, 16 and a high school junior, died. A native of La Veta, she leaves her mother Lucy, brothers Joseph and Floyd and sister Helen.
1940 March La Veta: R.L. Kincaid sold the rest of his sheep, 1,783 head averaging 75.5 pounds apiece, to a commission company.
1940 March La Veta: The Baptist church was rededicated after repairs and redecorating following the disastrous fire a few months ago. About 140 attended the services and enjoyed a covered dish luncheon.
1940 March Walsenburg: $100 worth of tools and equipment were stolen from Lansdown Machine Shop on West Fifth Street.
1940 March Walsenburg: A 20-year campaign to construct a municipal water filtration plant climaxed last night when city council voted to buy the necessary land from Milton and James Utt for $300.
1940 March Walsenburg: C&S moved the railroad signals from the center of the street to the side at its Main Street crossing.
1940 March Walsenburg: E.W. Krier has a valuable collection of 2,000 Indian articles on display at his jewelry store.
1940 March Walsenburg: Eighteen county coal mines were producing this month.
1940 March Walsenburg: F.B. Umphress, manager of the local J.C. Penney, says the store will reopen Saturday after remodeling the Roof and Dick building to provide an additional 1,200 square feet.
1940 March Walsenburg: Ford Frick, president of the National Baseball League, was visiting friends and relatives in Walsenburg today, en route to New York from the West Coast.
1940 March Walsenburg: Named to the city all star basketball team were Ernie Nelson, Joe Ratkovich, Bob Levy, Pino Wilkins and Gaston Santi.
1940 March Walsenburg: Paul Nesbit has resigned as superintendent of Huerfano County High School.
1940 March Walsenburg: Santi Oil Company will build a huge new station at Main and Colorado on lots purchased from the old Martin estate.
1940 March Walsenburg: State highway engineers are planning to construct a new scenic road from Cuchara Camps over Cuchara Pass.
1940 March Walsenburg: The annual Southern Colorado A.A.U. basketball tournament starts tonight in St. Mary Auditorium with nine teams participating.
1940 March Walsenburg: W.R. Gore has been hired as superintendent of Huerfano County High School after the resignation of Paul W. Nesbit.
1940 March Walsenburg: With the closure of the Mustang post office in the northern part of the county, Clarence Eklund, 76, is forced to retire after 32 years as postmaster.
1940 April 30 Claude Cordova of Woodland Park spent the weekend with his parents.
1940 April 8: World Independent Duke's Cafe, West 6th Street, Entirely new - Try us for the best in Mixed Drinks - Beer - Wine, and Short Orders.
1940 April 8: World Independent San Isabel Liquor Store, 526 Main Street, Beer, $1.59 per case, 3 bottles for 25 cents.
1940 April La Veta: A fire started from a gasoline engine backfire destroyed the Ojo Springs store, filling station, cafe and residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Garlick, an estimated $3,000 loss.
1940 April La Veta: Dr. and Mrs. R.M. Ryan moved into the newly redecorated Lauth apartments on Main Street. The office is on the north side.
1940 April La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Marker will celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary April 26. They were married in La Veta.
1940 April La Veta: Mrs. Laura Moore was honored with a surprise party on her 77th birthday.
1940 April La Veta: The community band concert earned $46.61 for the school band.
1940 April La Veta: The Womens Relief Corps will take over caretaking of the cemetery and is also raising funds to pay a person for the job.
1940 April La Veta: Workmen are remodeling the Lauth Apartments across from the drugstore for Dr. R.M. Ryan and his wife.
1940 April La Veta: Mrs. Laura Moore was pleasantly surprised by 12 ladies who gathered at her home to celebrate her 77th birthday.
1940 April Walsenburg: A new neon sign was installed on the Gem Theater on Main Street.
1940 April Walsenburg: Chic Loughmiller and Stephen Lamme are opening the L & L Studio at 511 Main Street.
1940 April Walsenburg: Eight students will make up the first high school graduating class at Gardner.
1940 April Walsenburg: Government checks totalling over $12,203 have been distributed to nearly 200 farmers of Huerfano County for the 1939 A.A.A. program compliance.
1940 April Walsenburg: Josephine Dalpiaz and Marvin Elliott will star in the musical play "Martha" to be presented at Huerfano County High School.
1940 April Walsenburg: One of the three men who escaped from the Huerfano County jail in February 1939 was recaptured in San Pablo.
1940 April Walsenburg: The Huerfano County Chamber of Commerce is considering establishing a small city park on the old Pritchard properties on North Main Street.
1940 April Walsenburg: The storm left 10 inches of heavy snow in town, which broke down the huge awning at O'Brien Hardware.
1940 April Walsenburg: Three feet of snow cancelled the musical play at HCHS.
1940 May 1: To Vivien Leigh falls the most coveted role in Hollywood history, that of Scarlett O'Hara in the filmization of Margaret Mitchell's famous story Gone with the Wind, opening Saturday at the Valencia. World-Independent
1940 May La Veta: A Junior Chamber of Commerce was organized Friday night with Officers William Feldman, Walter Padilla, S.W. Pressey, Don Roesner and Joe Kincaid.
1940 May La Veta: About 400 people took the "Hereford Tour,'' visiting the ranches of the Firms, Campbells and Goemmer Brothers.
1940 May La Veta: At the Rialto Theater Saturday and Sunday, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in: "His Girl Friday" plus Chapter 14 of "The Sealed Room."
1940 May La Veta: Died, Benesaldo Trujillo, one of the county's oldest residents who settled on the Cucharas when there were still Indian tepees there.
1940 May La Veta: Forest Ranger R.C. Bryant reports the snowpack at Blue Lakes measures 25 inches.
1940 May La Veta: La Veta's population is now 891, compared to 782 ten years ago.
1940 May La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Jake Marker celebrated their 50th anniversary. They were married April 26,1890 in La Veta and have lived in this vicinity ever since.
1940 May La Veta: Saturday night at the Rialto Theater will be "Five Little Peppers at Home" with Emith Fellows, plus the last chapter of "The Shadow" and a community sing of old time songs.
1940 May La Veta: The Jaycees propose to replace the clay between Main Street and the sidewalk with red rock from Ojo.
1940 May La Veta: The junior class will have a party Saturday at the Sulphur Springs and then return for a dance in the schoolhouse in the evening.
1940 May La Veta: The track team won three first places at the meet in Alamosa with the winners being Rufe Martinez, George Zember and the mile relay team of Zember, Lee Powell, Glenn Smith and Homer Bell.
1940 May La Veta: Twenty-four members of the junior class and the 14 seniors attended the annual banquet and dance Friday evening. Gilbert Arnold was toastmaster for the evening.
1940 May Walsenburg: According to census figures, Walsenburg gained in population with 5,715 in 1940 compared to 5,503 in 1930.
1940 May Walsenburg: All men are requested to wear overalls and miner's hats during the Black Diamond Jubilee and women cotton dresses or western wear.
1940 May Walsenburg: Contestants for Miss Black Diamond jubilee are Ella Jo Andrews, Rosann Dissler, Frances Glinsky, Millie Chacon, Eloira Lenzini, Martha Wheelock, Anna Mae Vickers and Barbara Bellotti.
1940 May Walsenburg: Eight students will graduate from the Gardner branch of HCHS today.
1940 May Walsenburg: Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins in "Virginia City," with Randolph Scott and Humphrey Bogart, starting Sunday at the Valencia.
1940 May Walsenburg: Leonard Stroud, champion trick rider, will be directing the Black Diamond jubilee and performing some of his daring and unique tricks.
1940 May Walsenburg: Miss Pauline Packard and her wonder horse Tiger will appear all three days of the Black Diamond jubilee rodeo.
1940 May Walsenburg: Ninety-four seniors will graduate from Huerfano County High School on May 29 and 42 from St. Mary May 28.
1940 May Walsenburg: Rosann Dissler won over seven other candidates to become Queen of the Black Diamond Jubilee.
1940 May Walsenburg: The famous Koshare Indian dancers of La Junta will be performing during the Black Diamond Jubilee.
1940 May Walsenburg: The Junior Chamber of Commerce's popular log cabin tourist booth opens today at the O'Byrne Hardware store corner at Seventh and Main streets.
1940 May Walsenburg: The Rev. Maurus Zabolitsky has been transferred to Canon City after three years with St. Mary Parish.
1940 May Walsenburg: The Vogue, Oscar Santi's new $15,000 super service station at Third and Main Streets, will open Saturday, June 2.
1940 June La Veta: A cabin two miles south of Cuchara Camps was burned down by careless campers.
1940 June La Veta: Bill Kincaid painted the front of his store green and cardinal, and we mean cardinal.
1940 June La Veta: Drilling at the Hamilton-Miller oil well six miles east of town is down to 1400 feet.
1940 June La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. George Drury have completed a new home about one mile south of La Veta.
1940 June La Veta: Mrs. George Drury had a party in her new home one mile south of La Veta.
1940 June La Veta: Robbers broke into E.C. Stream's store early Wednesday morning and stole about $400 in cash from the two cash registers in the grocery and dry goods departments, as well as the safe.
1940 June La Veta: The CCC side camp which has been here one year was dismantled and the boys moved back to Gardner.
1940 June La Veta: The census places the population of Huerfano County at 15,901, compared to 17,062 in 1930.
1940 June La Veta: The Nature Study Camp in Cuchara Camps opens Sunday with a campfire program and the rest of the week will be taken up with hiking and recreational activities.
1940 June La Veta: The opening party for Sulphur Springs will be an old-time dance next Saturday night.
1940 June La Veta: Tuesday Night Study Club members had their annual progressive dinner June 25.
1940 June La Veta: Two street dances - a modern one and an old-time one -will be held at each end of Main Street on July 4 from 7-9, followed by dances in Kincaid Hall, Art's Place on Ryus Avenue and in Cuchara Camps and Sulphur Springs.
1940 June La Veta: William Feldman resumed work at the E.C. Stream store after his appendectomy two weeks ago.
1940 June La Veta: William Shrout, operator of a saw mill on La Veta Pass, was injured this week when a tree fell on him.
1940 June Walsenburg: Announcement was made today of the marriage of Miss Rosine Amidei to Gerald Ariano June 15.
1940 June Walsenburg: Authoritative sources declare Cuchara Camps annually brings in an income of $10,000 in Huerfano County through its vacation facilities.
1940 June Walsenburg: Miss Betty Cox, instructor at Washington School, was elected to be in charge of the Jaycee tourist information booth this season.
1940 June Walsenburg: Miss Geraldine Sporleder received her Interior Decoration diploma from Edgewood Park school in New York June 3.
1940 June Walsenburg: Tennis players wanting to use the Civic League courts will have to help maintain them because of the drastic cuts in the WPA rolls.
1940 June Walsenburg: The Hotel Kirkpatrick Coffee Shop is now prepared to serve meals although the grand opening is some weeks off.
1940 July La Veta: Ad - Life Begins with a New Permanent - try the Ines Marie Beauty Shop.
1940 July La Veta: La Veta's new $50,000 reservoir and pipeline were completed after a year's work by nearly 100 men.
1940 July La Veta: Members of Snowy Range 4-H Club made a tour of their projects July 10, visiting the Morgan, Nauerth, Ottinger, Heikes Brothers, Dickinson, Stone, Holmes, Sager and Vernon places and enjoying a picnic at Mrs. Vernon's new picnic grounds.
1940 July La Veta: The 4-H Fair Aug. 23-24 will for the first time have a small admission fee, ten cents for adults.
1940 July La Veta: The forest service placed picnic tables in Railroad Park for the Fourth of July.
1940 July La Veta: The Jaycees are selling red and blue auto tags reading "Huajatolla, Breasts of the World," for 50˘.
1940 July La Veta: Tuesday Night Study Club members had their annual progressive dinner June 25.
1940 July Walsenburg: A man in crumpled seersucker trousers sat before a bank of radio microphones this morning and opened a new chapter in American history. He was President Roosevelt, who for nearly eight years has held the world's toughest job and agreed to seek a third term.
1940 July Walsenburg: A plan for military training for boys 15 to 21-years-of-age will be initiated with a meeting Monday morning at the Jubilee grounds.
1940 July Walsenburg: Charles Atencio of the W.P.A. Recreation Project will give swimming instruction, at Martin's Lake weekdays from 1-4 in the afternoon, for all ages.
1940 July Walsenburg: More than 40 "young guardsmen," boys aged 15 to 21, had a drill session today with Major Ralph Levy, assisted by Frank Tafoya.
1940 July Walsenburg: The annual St. Mary parish picnic, sponsored by Knights of Columbus and Catholic Daughters of America, will be July 28 at the Capps ranch near Rouse.
1940 July Walsenburg: The Goodwill Club, a national organization to help destitute children, has organized a branch in Walsenburg with Joe Benedetti, president; Alex Shosky, vice, president, Tom Solomon, secretary and Nick Magnone, treasurer.
1940 July Walsenburg: The Jaycees will have a dance Saturday night at Cuchara Camps with Tom Socha and his orchestra.
1940 July Walsenburg: Volunteers are working on improvements of the swimming facilities at Martin Lake.
1940 July: See the truth about drug addicts in "Marijuana," for 25 cents Friday through Sunday at the Gem Theater. Not recommended for children.
1940 August La Veta: Deputy District Attorney Sam T. Taylor will have a branch office at Town Hall, where he will be every Tuesday afternoon.
1940 August La Veta: George Pickens of the Howard Lumber and Supply was appointed to fill the vacancy on town board caused by the death of James Ghiardi.
1940 August La Veta: Joe Kincaid will open a new hardware store in the old R.L. Kincaid building on Main Street following repairs.
1940 August La Veta: John P. Stranizer celebrated his 91st birthday August 15.
1940 August La Veta: John Smalley opened a new coal mine in the Middle Creek district.
1940 August La Veta: Judge - Have you ever earned a dollar in your life? Vagrant - Yes, Your Honor, I got a dollar for voting for you in the last election.
1940 August La Veta: Plans are being made to widen the Apishapa Arch.
1940 August La Veta: The boxing and wrestling matches sponsored by the Jaycees was well attended and proceeds go towards 4-H prizes.
1940 August La Veta: The forest service will soon begin widening the Apishapa arch near Cordova Pass, which is only wide enough for one vehicle.
1940 August La Veta: The Jaycees intend to install metal street signs and posts along Main Street.
1940 August La Veta: William McCracken, coach at LVHS the past two years, will not be returning this fall.
1940 August La Veta: Workmen have been preparing the R.L. Kincaid building on Main Street for a hardware business to be operated by Joe Kincaid formerly of the W.H. Kincaid store.
1940 August Walsenburg: Andy C. Schafer Jr., mayor of Walsenburg, was elected president of the Colorado Elks Association Saturday afternoon during their convention here.
1940 August Walsenburg: Greyhound racing will be held for the Elks convention tonight in the HCHS Stadium.
1940 August Walsenburg: Huerfano County's assessment for 1940 raised $441,005, an increase over 1939 according to County Treasurer J. Frank Cordova.
1940 August Walsenburg: Nazis began "total war'' tactics in monster air raids over England.
1940 August Walsenburg: The Elks convention next Saturday will open with a parade along a three-mile route and nearly 100 stores and businesses will have special decorations.
1940 August: Drive up and let us serve you from our tempting menu. Little Pig Inn, North Walsen Avenue.
1940 September La Veta: Enrollment is 61 in the high school and 166 in the grades, making a total of 227.
1940 September La Veta: Albert Jameson shot a young bear he found raiding his chicken house in Cuchara Camps.
1940 September La Veta: Dr. R.M. Ryan moved his residence and office from the Lauth Apartments on Main to the Ray Coleman residence on Oak Street.
1940 September La Veta: Enrollees of the Templeton Gap CCC camp near Colorado Springs will be moved to Gardner for soil conservation work.
1940 September La Veta: Frances Holmes won five firsts and two seconds for Hampshire sheep in the state fair.
1940 September La Veta: Hap Judiscak of Walsenburg has moved his family to La Veta.
1940 September La Veta: Joseph L. Blumberg will no longer be school principal here as he was named head of the Huerfano County Welfare Department.
1940 September La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Stranger invite friends to an open house for their 50th Wedding Anniversary Oct. 4.
1940 September La Veta: Mr. Roush has added more equipment at La Veta Automotive Company garage to offer better service.
1940 September La Veta: No. 1 Can of Pink Salmon, 18 cents; No. 2 ˝ Can Bartlett Pears 23 cents at E.C. Stream's Store.
1940 September La Veta: Tuesday Night Study Club had its annual picnic in Farrar's picnic grounds with a sumptuous feast to mark the club's seventh year of existence
1940 September La Veta: Walter Kuhn of Hugoton, Kansas has begun construction of a home in the Kansas settlement in Huajatolla canon.
1940 September La Veta: We note the aspen are beginning to turn.
1940 September Walsenburg: Five-piece solid oak breakfast set, $29.95 at O'Byrne's, Main at Seventh.
1940 September Walsenburg: Mary Jo Sammons is editor-in-chief of the Panthers Tale, the Huerfano County High School newspaper, Doris Whetstone, news editor, Elizabeth Hepplewhite, sports and Roberta Hart, features.
1940 September Walsenburg: Rain which fell sporadically all day Tuesday has been blamed for the extremely light turnout for the primary election.
1940 September Walsenburg: The WPA completed the new $15,073 dark native stone warehouse at the fairgrounds.
1940 September Walsenburg: William M. Ward of Denver has acquired an interest in First National Bank.
1940 September: Boys who placed large rocks on the D&RG and C&S rails near the western city limits of Walsenburg caused the derailment of a small C&S motor car.
1940 October La Veta: A WPA project has been approved for flood protection for the town along the riverbanks.
1940 October La Veta: Ben Pascoe was elected county commissioner for District #2.
1940 October La Veta: G.N. Bragelli from Rome will be manager of the cheese factory when it reopens Nov. 1. They will be making romano cheese from goat and sheep milk.
1940 October La Veta: La Veta's new water system has been completed at a cost of $50,000 and now has the capacity to store 80,000,000 gallons of water.
1940 October La Veta: Miss Georgia Spangler has been employed as bookkeeper and secretary at Howard Lumber and Supply, taking the place of Virginia Akers who resigned.
1940 October La Veta: Miss Georgia Spangler has taken over duties as bookkeeper at Howard's Lumber after Virginia Akers quit.
1940 October La Veta: Sadie Virginia Akers, the daughter of J.E. Marker, married John Calvin Vories, the only son of Benton.
1940 October La Veta: Saturday and Sunday at the Rialto, "The Durango Kid" starting Charles Starrett and the Sons of the Pioneers, plus, a colored cartoon and Chapter 6 of "Deadwood Dick."
1940 October La Veta: Seniors on the school honor roll are Violet Zember, Edna Jean Vories, Eloise Utt and Hannah Goss.
1940 October La Veta: The new $50,000 La Veta domestic water system constructed under the auspices of the WPA was completed with the addition of a new reservoir which allows an extra 20-million gallons storage.
1940 October La Veta: The REA project to Cuchara Camps has been joined with San Isabel Electric Association.
1940 October La Veta: While remodeling his house, J.P. Stranger found a postcard dated Jan. 12, 1887.
1940 October Walsenburg: A final uncorrected total of 9,198 registered voters was announced today by County Clerk Damacio Vigil.
1940 October Walsenburg: More than 40 Walsenburg residents went to Montana to work in the sugar beet harvest.
1940 October Walsenburg: Nancy King and Michael Giordano, operator of the Ravenwood mine, were married Saturday in Monte Vista but will make their home here.
1940 October Walsenburg: Ninety-six Huerfano County High School students have applied for N.Y.A. jobs paying from $3 to $6 per month.
1940 October Walsenburg: Starts Friday at the Valencia Theater, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr in "Boom Town."
1940 October Walsenburg: The Croatian Fraternal union Lodge No. 1292 will give a pre-election dance at the pavilion Nov. 2.
1940 October Walsenburg: The Cuchara dam west of Walsenburg, designed to divert flood waters from the city and for irrigation east of the city, is nearly one-half completed by the F.S.A.
1940 October Walsenburg: The first snow of the season fell on the Sangre de Cristo range and the Spanish Peaks yesterday, leaving what appears to be a heavy fall on the highest peaks.
1940 October Walsenburg: The five Dussart boys, Louis, 29, Fred, 25, John, 23, Phil, 22 and George, 21, were registered yesterday with the U.S. Army.
1940 November La Veta: After a losing football season, La Veta athletes are looking forward to basketball which starts Dec. 10 against Holy Trinity of Trinidad.
1940 November La Veta: Election returns show Ben Pascoe received just 63 more votes than Harry Capps for county commissioner and the 223 mail-in votes will have to be counted before the result is known.
1940 November La Veta: George "Spud" Kreutzer has been promoted to private first class in the U.S. Army Air Corps at Lowry Field in Denver.
1940 November La Veta: Gilbert Arnold won second place in the essay contest, "Why Eligible Voters Should Vote," of 300 entries. The contest was sponsored by the Walsenburg Jaycees.
1940 November La Veta: Milt Welsby, Lem Boyd, Ben Underwood and Glen Brown left Sunday for California in search of employment.
1940 November La Veta: Olena Goss, daughter of Burl, married Virgil Ottinger Oct. 22 in Raton.
1940 November La Veta: Rev. J.H. Gerault, pastor of the Baptist Church, is in Lamme hospital in Walsenburg suffering with severe burns he received Sunday when he attempted to fight blazes which gutted the interior of his church.
1940 November La Veta: The county's complete and final official election results announced last Friday show Ben Pascoe defeated Harry Capps for county commissioner by 30 votes.
1940 November La Veta: The La Veta R.E.A. project has been linked with the San Isabel Electric Association which operates in the Beulah-Rye area.
1940 November La Veta: The season's first storm last weekend left several inches of snow on the streets.
1940 November La Veta: The unusually mild autumn ended with a reading of ten below zero on Tuesday.
1940 November Walsenburg: A total of 6,840 votes were cast Nov. 5 in Huerfano County.
1940 November Walsenburg: County Physician Dr. A.F. Stanley will begin immunization shots against diphtheria after several cases were discovered in this area.
1940 November Walsenburg: Live hens, 16˘ a pound; Italian sausage, two pounds 45˘; walnuts, 19˘ a pound. Andreatta's Market.
1940 November Walsenburg: Lockets, $1.19; diamond wedding ring set, $22.50; Men's Milo Watch, $6.95. Benmar Jewelry.
1940 November Walsenburg: Remodeling of the Klein Motor Company building on East Sixth Street provides ground floor office space for rent on the west side.
1940 November Walsenburg: Remodeling operations on the recently purchased city hall building at 120-122 East Sixth were begun today to convert the old garage into offices.
1940 November Walsenburg: Several inches of ice and snow remained on the streets this morning after the weekend brought the season's first snowstorm.
1940 November Walsenburg: The City of Walsenburg has set a 14 mill levy for 1940-1941, the same as has been in effect this year.
1940 November Walsenburg: The Wonder Bar, our most exclusive cafe and bar, has been completely remodeled by owner Louis Zanon.
1940 November Walsenburg: Thirteen to 14 inches of snow blanketed Walsenburg and 18 inches in the area last weekend in the heaviest storm since Feb. 12.
1940 December La Veta: "L" Club this year will be giving sweaters to seniors Joe Linscott, Charles Bowdino and LeRoy Kitchen.
1940 December La Veta: Another two feet of snow fell in town the past week.
1940 December La Veta: Approval of a $34,525 W.P.A. project for construction of six miles of the Cordova pass road will employ 60 men for six months widening and graveling the road.
1940 December La Veta: Assessments of Huerfano County property total $5,970,245, a $441,000 increase over last year.
1940 December La Veta: B-Loyal Circle will have a Bazaar Saturday in Mrs. Dryden's house on Main Street, with chile, pie and coffee only two bits.
1940 December La Veta: Frank N. "Bill" Raedner, about 80, died while developing some coal property at Ojo. He mined and prospected in this area for 40 years.
1940 December La Veta: Harold Clair accepted a position as butcher for E.C. Stream and moved his family up from Walsenburg.
1940 December La Veta: La Veta Light, Heat and Power has on sale appliances suitable for Christmas gifts, such as the Manning-Bowman Toaster, Chrome Plated, Mica Element, just $2.75.
1940 December La Veta: La Veta received about two feet of snow but farther out of town ranchers are reporting up to three feet.
1940 December La Veta: New IOOF officers just elected were Elton Holmes, Ernest Lindley, Fred Arnold, Fred Kreutzer and R.M. Garren.
1940 December La Veta: The Christmas trees are up at Francisco and Main and Ryus and Main and the merchants are busy decorating their windows.
1940 December La Veta: The La Veta Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Trade at Home Days for all local merchants in December with coupons and a cash giveaway.
1940 December La Veta: The worse storm in 22 years left six feet of snow in Cuchara Camps.
1940 December La Veta: Two feet of snow fell, guaranteeing a white Christmas.
1940 December La Veta: La Veta Lodge No. 59 AF&AM elected Edward W. Falk, George A. Goemmer, George F. Holmes, E.C. Stream and W.H. Harrison.
1940 December Walsenburg: A $14,000 WPA project will turn Valdez reservoir, also known as Saliba lake, into a fish retaining pond.
1940 December Walsenburg: About 2,500 people attended the Christmas season opening Dec. 1 in Walsenburg.
1940 December Walsenburg: Children of 200 Walsenburg families were treated to Christmas toys distributed by the Walsenburg Lions Club.
1940 December Walsenburg: Katz Department Store, 25th Anniversary Sale - Overcoats, $8.85 to $14.88; Suede Leather Jackets, $4.87 to $9.95; Ladies Bags, 77˘ to $1.98; Dolls, 43˘ to $1.87.
1940 December Walsenburg: Sixteen 1941 cars have been sold by Walsenburg dealers so far this month.
1940 December Walsenburg: Star Grocery has been remodeled for the accommodation of a produce department.
1941 January La Veta: A house-warming party was held for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Willis who moved to the Ghiardi ranch east of La Veta.
1941 January La Veta: Died, Laura M. Coleman, 70, leaving her brothers James, Charles and Frank Powell of La Veta and Walter of Lamar.
1941 January La Veta: John Goemmer has been named to the board of directors of the Colorado Hereford Association, which has chosen Southern Colorado as the site for this year's tour.
1941 January La Veta: John Smalley received a broken leg when he was caught by a failing rock in his coal mine on Middle Creek.
1941 January La Veta: John Smalley received severe injuries in his mine up Middle Creek while working alone. He was found by his son Pete and Junior Carroll, who went to the Yacconi ranch for help.
1941 January La Veta: Louis Magnino, grocery clerk at Kincaid's, was rushed to the Pueblo hospital with appendicitis.
1941 January La Veta: Margaret Coe was installed Worthy Matron of Eastern Star and William Kincaid Worthy Patron.
1941 January La Veta: Showing at the Rialto Saturday and Sunday, James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat 0'Brien in, "Torrid, Zone," plus a musical.
1941 January La Veta: The junior class play, "Everybody's Crazy Now," will be given in the high school auditorium Thursday and Friday, Feb. 6 and 7, Admission 25 cents.
1941 January Walsenburg: A driving snowstorm and a low of minus five degrees marked Christmas Day in Walsenburg.
1941 January Walsenburg: A full complement of 165 boys and 15 supervisors have arrived at the Gardner CCC camp to begin erosion control work.
1941 January Walsenburg: A total of $405 was turned into the Red Cross war relief drive by 82 residents of Del Carbon.
1941 January Walsenburg: An explosion and fire completely destroyed the Wonder Bar Cafe; damage is estimated at $8,000.
1941 January Walsenburg: Angelo F. Mosco announced a new coal development would begin within 30 days, upon completion of a huge new tipple at the Sampson mine three miles northwest of Walsenburg.
1941 January Walsenburg: Huerfano County's first baby for the year arrived at the home of Albert Guerrero, 227 Sproull, on Jan. 2.
1941 January Walsenburg: A total of 110 automobile licenses were sold Saturday, the largest license day of the year according to County Clerk Damacio Vigil.
1941 January Walsenburg: J.H. Higgins of Pueblo plans to open a Western Auto Store in Walsenburg soon.
1941 January Walsenburg: Nila Vigil, daughter of Ed Vigil of Butte Valley, was seriously injured yesterday when she fell from her horse on the way to school.
1941 January Walsenburg: The Soil Conservation's CCC camp was moved from Templeton Gap, near Colorado Springs, to Gardner.
1941 January Walsenburg: Work on the final dismantling of Alamo No. 1 mine and camp started this week. The camp, containing about 150 buildings, has been vacant the past seven or eight years.
1941 February La Veta: A son was born Feb. 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Morgan, who live on the Hamilton ranch east of La Veta.
1941 February La Veta: Dr. Ryan moved to Walsenburg, leaving La Veta without a physician.
1941 February La Veta: Elsie Falk has been installed president of the Junior Club.
1941 February La Veta: Glenn Drury bought the Carver estate farm just south and west of La Veta and M.F. Beck bought the old Carver homestead on the Wahatoya.
1941 February La Veta: Hannah Goss, Jean Vories and Violet Zember made up the honor roll for the senior class.
1941 February La Veta: Kim Ritter bought the Lamme ranch.
1941 February La Veta: L Club elected Rufus Martinez, president, Doyle Eckman vice president, Byron Denton, secretary and George Field, treasurer.
1941 February La Veta: One hundred and thirty attended the Rotary Club's Father - Son Banquet.
1941 February La Veta: R.L. Kincaid recently bought the ranch of Fred Kreutzer and the McEvoy place from John Penne, both just east of La Veta.
1941 February La Veta: Ruth Brooks, Mary Brown, Ruthena Beamer, Lola Boyd and Georgia Drum were initiated into Study Club as new members.
1941 February La Veta: Sixteen members of the Epworth League enjoyed a skiing and tobogganing party on La Veta Pass.
1941 February La Veta: Sixteen members of the Epworth League enjoyed a toboggan and skiing party to the top of La Veta Pass Sunday, returning in the evening for a chili supper in the basement of the church.
1941 February La Veta: The Jaycees would like to start a craft shop where adults and children can work and meet.
1941 February La Veta: The volunteer fire department was organized with Chief Harold Clair and Assistant Chief Pete Baione.
1941 February La Veta: Weir and Copple have purchased the Roesner truck line and will continue hauling hay, grain and cattle as well as operating a general trucking business.
1941 February La Veta: William Ward volunteered for the Army and left for training.
1941 February Walsenburg: A county sponsored WPA project will develop Saliba Lake into a recreation center and fish propagation area.
1941 February Walsenburg: A total of 15 liquor licenses and five beer licenses have been sold in the county since Jan. 1, bringing in $5,100, of which 85 percent goes into the old age fund.
1941 February Walsenburg: Coach Gaston Santi awarded basketball and football sweaters to HCHS seniors Eugene Mintz, Mike Stimack, Jack Johnson, Albert Miskiel, Joe Hauser, James Stewart, Alistair MacDonald and Ben Naranjo.
1941 February Walsenburg: Fernando Serafini, former Standard Oil agent for this region, will open the Unique Shop Saturday at 712 Main with a full line of jewelry, auto accessories and sporting goods.
1941 February Walsenburg: Hitting the nets for 22 points in the first period, St. Mary Crusaders last Saturday night scored a convincing 41 to 28 victory over the Monte Vista Pirates.
1941 February Walsenburg: Materials for the construction of a technical office and a number of garages for the Gardner C.C.C. camp have been shipped and construction is expected to begin Saturday.
1941 February Walsenburg: The Board of County Commissioners paid a total of $17,442 in bills last month.
1941 February Walsenburg: The Catholic Daughters of America will sponsor the fifth pre-Lenten Ball Saturday, Feb. 22 with Kenny Woodruff and His Men of Music in St. Mary Auditorium.
1941 February Walsenburg: Thieves entered the Walsenburg Mercantile Company Sunday morning and netted $13 in cash.
1941 February Walsenburg: Walsenburg Elks plan an entertainment for Valentines Day with a bingo party with "surprise prizes" the selection of a Valentine Queen and dance with music by Bill Heller's orchestra of Del Norte, followed by refreshments at a late hour.
1941 March La Veta: A two-foot snowfall closed the schools Tuesday and Wednesday.
1941 March La Veta: A two-foot snowfall closed the schools Tuesday and Wednesday.
1941 March La Veta: Bruce Prator's party will be at the sand rocks about 5:30 this evening. Music will be supplied by the Denton one-piece orchestra.
1941 March La Veta: County commissioner Ben Pascoe urges the use of vacant lots as garden plots to grow produce this summer for the WPA hot lunch program.
1941 March La Veta: Eighteen more men have been called from Huerfano County for induction into the US Army on March 18.
1941 March La Veta: Expenditures of the Huerfano County Commissioners in February was $7,022, bringing the 1941 total paid out to $14,960.88. County Clerk Damacio Vigil predicts the county will be heavily in debt by year's end if the commissioners continue spending so much.
1941 March La Veta: Expenditures of the Huerfano County Commissioners in February was $7,022, bringing the 1941 total paid out to $14,960.88. County Clerk Damacio Vigil predicts the county will be heavily in debt by year's end if the commissioners continue spending so much.
1941 March La Veta: Friday and Saturday are Dollar Days in La Veta; buy four pounds of Solitaire Coffee for $1 at Streams or four quarts of motor oil for $1 at Young Brothers Service Station.
1941 March La Veta: Howard Lumber and supply has issued a 32 page Rotagravure Spring and Summer catalog.
1941 March La Veta: It has been snowing every day and about 12 inches are on the ground right now.
1941 March La Veta: Nineteen members of the Spanish Peaks Grange attended the meeting of Mt. Blanca Grange at Redwing and also enjoyed the dance afterward.
1941 March La Veta: Russia is the only country truly neutral. She honestly hopes all the others will lose.
1941 March La Veta: Senior class members on the honor roll are Gilbert Arnold, Maurice Bailey, Hannah Goss, Ellen Gregory, Edna Jean Vories and Violet Zember.
1941 March La Veta: Sophomores on the honor roll are Olive Jo Baysinger, Dorothy Bruce, Art Dickinson, Lena McCargish, Helen Zember and Donald Ward.
1941 March La Veta: The La Veta junior Chamber of Commerce joined the national and state Jaycees.
1941 March La Veta: The La Veta junior Chamber of Commerce joined the national and state Jaycees.
1941 March La Veta: The snow measurement on La Veta Pass March 1 totaled 33 inches.
1941 March La Veta: Thirty-three inches of snow fell on La Veta Pass March 1.
1941 March La Veta: Thirty-three inches of snow fell on La Veta Pass March 1.
1941 March Walsenburg: After four long years of City League basketball, the Santi Oilers finally became champs by defeating Coors, 35-31.
1941 March Walsenburg: Charles Jansa was named new manager at the Safeway Store here, replacing Carl Tesitor who goes to Craig as market manager.
1941 March Walsenburg: Charles Quaranta and his orchestra will provide their toe-tickling music for the annual St. Patrick's dance sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.
1941 March Walsenburg: Eugene T. Childers, Frank Mauro Jr., Leon Poli and Myron D. Williams were elected top officers of the Walsenburg Elks Lodge.
1941 March Walsenburg: Joe Malesovich was selected for the title role in the Washington School play, "Huckleberry Finn," and Donald Santi will be Tom Sawyer.
1941 March Walsenburg: Maurice and Frank Cowing, Alfred Lenzotti and Chubby Durnell returned Saturday from the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. All reported a fine time.
1941 March Walsenburg: Miss Jewel Krier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Krier, will be one of the 36 singers of the University of Colorado choir appearing here April 1.
1941 March Walsenburg: S.W. Jellison, manager of Fawks Drug, was named Most Valuable Member by the Walsenburg Lions Club.
1941 March Walsenburg: Senator Sam T. Taylor, as present President Pro Tem of the Colorado senate, is serving this week as Lt. Governor.
1941 March Walsenburg: The new 1941 Phico Super-Quality Refrigerator only $152.95 at Wayt Lumber Company, 508 Main.
1941 March Walsenburg: There are numerous reports of flowers blooming around the city - a little early.
1941 March Walsenburg: Two new teachers, Bernard Friel and Wayne Davis, have been added to the staff at Washington School.
1941 April 29: The following schools have closed for the summer following eighth grade graduation ceremonies: Sunnyside, Lower Badito, St. Mary, Butte Valley, Lower Maes Creek, Vigil, Farisita, Fairview, Upper Maes Creek and Cucharas. - World Independent
1941 April La Veta: Advertisement - Loveliness or Loneliness? Ines Marie Beauty Shop.
1941 April La Veta: Dr. W. E. Burkholder, chiropractor of Rocky Ford, will be in La Veta beginning Apr. 20 in the Lougheed house on Main Street.
1941 April La Veta: La Veta Pass has 41.40 inches of snow cover and Blue Lakes has 40.75 inches. It took five hours to get to the Lakes from Cuchara Camps.
1941 April La Veta: San Isabel forest supervisor Poch says the name "Apishapa Pass" has been officially approved.
1941 April La Veta: San Isabel forest supervisor Poch says the name "Apishapa Pass" has been officially approved.
1941 April La Veta: Schools were dismissed Tuesday and Wednesday on account of the two-foot snowfall.
1941 April La Veta: Sleepy Hollow is the name of the new recreation room, at the Park Lane Hotel, which has a juke box for dancing.
1941 April La Veta: The local Jaycees will receive their charter in a ceremony Monday, April 14 at 8 p.m.
1941 April La Veta: The new board of directors of the Rotary Club are L.W. Coleman, Ralph Bryant, H.A. Howard, John Goemmer, Albert Jameson, C.C. Webster and James Falk.
1941 April La Veta: Twenty-six 10-foot tall trees were planted along the road in the La Veta Cemetery for $70 in labor.
1941 April Walsenburg: Between 1936 and 1941, the Robinson No. 4 mine at Farr produced 763,974 tons and the average employment was 175 men.
1941 April Walsenburg: CF&I mines receiving safety certificates were Kebler, which had no deaths from 1932 to 1941 and the Robinson No. 4 at Farr, 1936 to 1941.
1941 April Walsenburg: Fernando Serafini says he will open branch stores of his Unique Shop in Raton and Trinidad.
1941 April Walsenburg: More than 450 Catholic men attended the annual Men's Corporate Communion sponsored by Knights of Columbus at St. Mary Church Sunday.
1941 April Walsenburg: Nearly 100 men have signed up for the annual beard contest for the Black Diamond Jubilee.
1941 April Walsenburg: Nine mines in Huerfano County are again operating after reaching agreements with UMWA officials.
1941 April Walsenburg: Nine mines in Huerfano County are again operating after reaching agreements with UNMA officials.
1941 April Walsenburg: The Hill School Natural History Museum will be formally opened tonight under direction of Misses Ruby Bell and Janet Chatin.
1941 April Walsenburg: The Pythian Castle on North Main will undergo extensive remodeling in preparation of the state convention there in August.
1941 April Walsenburg: Voting in the city election next Tuesday is expected to be especially heavy with the registration of over 1,500 new voters since 1939.
1941 May La Veta: Cupid has disrupted the tenor of things at La Veta High School as one male and three female teachers have opted for matrimony rather than the faculty.
1941 May La Veta: Friday-Saturday specials, 3 pounds pancake flour, 15˘, 1 pound black pepper, 25˘, 8 pounds spuds, 25˘, at E.C. Streams.
1941 May La Veta: Indian and Middle Creeks are in flood and washing out bridges after all the rain.
1941 May La Veta: Irving Simms is now in Sitka, Alaska at the U.S. Naval aviation station.
1941 May La Veta: Most of the 18 inches of snow which fell last weekend was washed away by the rainstorm Tuesday.
1941 May La Veta: Mrs. Dora Bruce and son have moved from Pueblo to make La Veta their home again.
1941 May La Veta: New officers of Rotary Club are C.C. Webster, president; Albert Jameson, vice-president; H.A. Howard, treasurer and E.A. Stansbury, secretary.
1941 May La Veta: Our old time friend D.D. Ryus was among the 65 former residents of La Veta attending the annual picnic in Los Angeles California.
1941 May La Veta: The 17 members of the senior class will have a picnic at Martin Lake Friday for their sneak day.
1941 May La Veta: The local excelsior mill shipped 40,000 pounds of excelsior to Fort Warren, WY for defense needs.
1941 May La Veta: The new baptistry in the Baptist Church will be dedicated May 18.
1941 May La Veta: The trees along Main Street are being whitewashed.
1941 May La Veta: Tuesday Night Study Club enjoyed a progressive dinner at the homes of four members despite the rain and snow showers.
1941 May La Veta: Walter Padilla and Harold Clair opened the Mountain View Sandwich Shop next door to Walt's Barber Shop.
1941 May La Veta: Walter Padilla and Harold Craig are opening a new eating establishment or lunch counter in the building next door to the barber shop.
1941 May Walsenburg: A new system for complete auditing of the city's books on a monthly basis was approved by the Walsenburg city council at the last meeting.
1941 May Walsenburg: Imogene Sample of Turkey Ridge school and Mamie Odak of St. Mary are in Denver to compete in the state spelling contest.
1941 May Walsenburg: John Corsentino, president of the Walsenburg Ditch company, pointed out the advantages gained by the association of 14 farmers with the completion of the Walsenburg-Holita dam and irrigation ditch.
1941 May Walsenburg: Miss Irene Bunk and Virgil Ladurini will be married in St. Mary Church by Rev. F.J. Bottler Thursday, May 8.
1941 May Walsenburg: N.Y.A. workers at H.C.H.S. began today to remodel the journalism room as part of the extensive improvement program at the building.
1941 May Walsenburg: Ninety WPA workers will begin June 3 on the project to lay 15,000 square yards of cement on the Main-Walsen intersection.
1941 May Walsenburg: The Black Diamond Jubilee caravan will leave tomorrow evening for the trip to Trinidad.
1941 May Walsenburg: The Doyle-Addington Funeral Home formally opens May 30-31 at 128 East Seventh Street.
1941 May Walsenburg: The Vogue Phillips. "66" service station is celebrating its first birthday today, according to Leslie Mathes, manager.
1941 May Walsenburg: Thirty-eight new citizens, whose citizenship petitions have been approved the past year, plus 29 applicants, are to be among those honored June 4 at the "I Am an American Day" celebration.
1941 May Walsenburg: Two new GMC pickup trucks at a total cost of $1,548 and including extra equipment were purchased yesterday by the Huerfano county commissioners, despite the county's $300,000 debt.
1941 May Walsenburg: Walsenburg and Huerfano County did itself proud this weekend as the HCHS band thrilled thousands of spectators at the Canon City Blossom Festival.
1941 June La Veta: Cordova Pass is now officially Apishapa Pass by edict of the United States Board of Geographic Names. It is pronounced A-pish-a-pa, with the accent on the second syllable.
1941 June La Veta: Fourth of July activities will include a kiddies parade, drawings for $150 in prizes, a baseball game and two big dances.
1941 June La Veta: On the Fourth of July, an old-time dance will be held at Kincaid Hall and a modem one at Muleshoe Lodge.
1941 June La Veta: Sat.-Sun. at the Rialto - "Penny Serenade" with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, plus a cartoon and the Pathe news.
1941 June La Veta: Some 200 people joined the Hereford Tour to visit the ranches of Lewis Edmundson, the Firm Brothers, Walter Campbell and the Goemmers, followed by a picnic on Apishapa Pass.
1941 June La Veta: The Jaycees announced that a Kiddies Parade will start off the Fourth of July festivities, followed by street sports, baseball, two dances in the evening and other activities.
1941 June La Veta: The senior class from Hugoton, Kansas spent the weekend in Wahatoya canon.
1941 June La Veta: The young people had a dancing party at Rock Rest to bid farewell to Ellen Gregory and Yvette Williams.
1941 June La Veta: We received three inches of rain over the weekend.
1941 June Walsenburg: A. baby incubator has been added to the Lamme Hospital.
1941 June Walsenburg: Continuing high expenditures in Huerfano County were proved when it was learned that $13,298 had been spent by the commissioners during May.
1941 June Walsenburg: Flags are available for a small charge to display June 3 in connection with the huge USO drive. Call 100 by telephone.
1941 June Walsenburg: Fourteen first aid teams plan to compete during the Black Diamond Jubilee.
1941 June Walsenburg: Marcus Katz' department store is going out of business after over 20 years in Walsenburg.
1941 June Walsenburg: Miss Clarabelle Haines was crowned queen of the Black Diamond Jubilee at the Coronation Ball last night at the Pavilion.
1941 June Walsenburg: Moisture for the year amounts to 11.28 inches, which is above average.
1941 June Walsenburg: Saturday will be the wedding of Olga Eugenie Saliba and Franklin Azar of Trinidad at St. Mary Church.
1941 June Walsenburg: Saturday will be the wedding of Olga Eugenie Saliba and Franklin Azar of Trinidad in St. Mary Church.
1941 June Walsenburg: Swimming in Schafer Lake near Pictou is all well and good but bare swimming is something else again.
1941 June Walsenburg: Swimming in Schafer Lake near Pictou is well and good but bare swimming is something else again.
1941 June Walsenburg: The Black Diamond Jubilee caravan will leave tomorrow evening for the trip to Trinidad.
1941 June Walsenburg: The Walsenburg Merchants beat the Colorado Springs Aircraft team 12-9 yesterday in La Veta.
1941 June Walsenburg: Work to remodel the front and interior of the Knights of Pythias castle on North Main began today.
1941 July La Veta: American Legion Auxiliary No. 57 met at the home of Cornelia Coleman at Sulphur Springs.
1941 July La Veta: Arrivals in Cuchara Camps include Mr. and Mrs. Bret Waller, Mrs. Nora Taylor, Aubie and Mozelle House and Mrs. Ward Vickery.
1941 July La Veta: The young people of Cuchara Camps enjoyed an evening at the movie in La Veta and will have a treasure hunt on Friday night.
1941 July La Veta: This issue contains the letter, "Why I Spend My Vacations at La Veta" from B.M. Stigall, principal of Paseo High School in Kansas City, MO.
1941 July La Veta: Town Board reminds residents that the shooting of firearms within town limits is prohibited after someone shot through the back door of the drug store Saturday.
1941 July La Veta: Winners of the Kiddies Parade were Barbara Boyd, Joyce Matteo and Estalene Shaw, under six years, and Doris Downs, Myrna Brooks and Frances Matteo, six-to-eight-year-olds.
1941 July Walsenburg: A devastating hail and rain storm hit Apache, Turkey Ridge and Rattlesnake Buttes last night, destroying crops, livestock and property. Two inches of rain and hail were received within 30 minutes.
1941 July Walsenburg: A heel print on a piece of carbon paper and two burnt matches resulted in the arrest of a transient today for his part in ransacking the Continental Oil and Sinclair bulk plant offices at the D&RG freight yard.
1941 July Walsenburg: Another two weeks work is yet to be done before the Walsenburg filtration plant will be ready for operation.
1941 July Walsenburg: At the St. Mary Parish picnic at Sulphur Springs, Mrs. Elivia Repola won the women's baseball throwing contest and Gerald Ariano the men's division.
1941 July Walsenburg: Billy Williams, Donald Baer and Tommy Zellar received warm thanks from the police when they found and returned the purse a Gardner lady which contained $6.53.
1941 July Walsenburg: For bargain nights Wednesday and Thursday at the Rialto Theater, see Ann Sheridan and John Garfield in "Castle on the Hudson."
1941 July Walsenburg: Gallo Day will be observed with a celebration at Gardner and dances at Walsenburg, La Veta and Muleshoe.
1941 July Walsenburg: Installation, of structural steel on the exterior of the new Fox Theater progressed today and will be in place shortly.
1941 July Walsenburg: Mike Vincent has joined John Matteroli in Walsenburg Motors, 121 West Seventh.
1941 July Walsenburg: More than 90,000 pounds of Huerfano County wool is now in storage at the warehouse of Walsenburg Mercantile.
1941 July Walsenburg: Offices of the United States Soil Conservation service were moved from the Roof and Dick building to Hotel Kirkpatrick on West Sixth Street today.
1941 July Walsenburg: Operating funds of the county are nearly expended, in spite of the fact the year is only half gone.
1941 July Walsenburg: Perry Kimbrel, employed on the Sporleder ranch on the Huerfano, is recovering today from a rattlesnake bite he received while irrigating.
1941 July Walsenburg: The annual St. Mary Parish picnic, with games and contests, will be Sunday, July 20 at the Sulphur Springs west of La Veta.
1941 July Walsenburg: The old Morris hotel at Sixth and Albert, a frame structure some 30-40 years old, is being razed.
1941 August La Veta: A mattress making factory of the AAA program opened in La Veta Tuesday.
1941 August La Veta: All property owners are required to clear weeds before the county 4-H fair.
1941 August La Veta: Cuchara Valley Stock Growers Association will have their third annual old time Cowboy Ball at Cuchara Camps Aug. 16.
1941 August La Veta: Goemmer Brothers won the prize for the best float in the 4-H County Fair parade, the Women's Relief Corps, was second and the Snowy Range 4-H Club, third.
1941 August La Veta: La Veta water for once is absolutely safe. The new water system is filling the bill.
1941 August La Veta: Milt Welsby reopened the blacksmith shop on Francisco Street.
1941 August La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Devon Voiles and daughters Rebecca and Rae of Hooker, OK are back in the Camps after a trip to Colorado Springs.
1941 August La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clair have bought out the interest of Walter Padilla in the Mountain View Sandwich Shop.
1941 August La Veta: Mrs. John Elley celebrated her 75th birthday as well as the 40th anniversary of her family's crossing Stonewall Pass in a wagon Aug. 22, 1901.
1941 August La Veta: Nineteen Huerfano County 4-H members attended the 4-H camp in Stonewall Wednesday through Saturday.
1941 August La Veta: Phil Atchison is on his way to Jamaica where he will be assistant superintendent of construction on a new U.S. naval base to be built there.
1941 August Walsenburg: Thirteen Huerfano County men will be called for induction into the army Sept. 22, according to Allen Roush of the selective service.
1941 August Walsenburg: A capacity crowd of 2,000 people attended the grand opening of the new Fox Theater.
1941 August Walsenburg: A fire destroyed the revival tent set up on West Sixth Street near the coal chutes.
1941 August Walsenburg: Archie Levy offered to turn over his pool on West Eighth Street to any organization which would sponsor swimming activities.
1941 August Walsenburg: Fernando Serafini of the Unique Shop offers two 21-jewel Waltham wristwatches to the best players of the St. Mary High School football squad.
1941 August Walsenburg: For rent: four-room house, partly furnished, $18. Inquire at 130 East Fourth Street.
1941 August Walsenburg: Private Alfonzo Lopez of Walsenburg and the Essex Scottish Infantry, is the first Colorado man signed into the service of Great Britain.
1941 August Walsenburg: Sun.-Tues. at the Rialto, ''Moon Over Miami" starring Don Ameche and Betty Grable. Fri.-Sat., "Footsteps in the Dark" with Errol Flynn.
1941 August Walsenburg: Usherettes at tomorrow night's grand opening of the Star Theater will be Elvira Lenzini, Helen Tesitor, Mildred Furphy, Marie Ozegovich, Thelma Perse and Geraldine Amidei.
1941 August Walsenburg: Walsenburg women are buying up the stocks of silk hosiery in local stores before all silk supplies are diverted to defense uses.
1941 August: The Very Rev. John B. Liciotti, pastor of St. Mary Parish the past 28 years, has returned from a two-year sick leave.
1941 September La Veta: Miss Margaret Vories will teach the Pleasant View school this term, which has first through sixth grades.
1941 September La Veta: Mountain View Sandwich Shop was broken into and three slot machines stolen. The music box was broken into but the thieves could not reach the money.
1941 September La Veta: Mountain View Sandwich Shop was robbed and three slot machines were taken.
1941 September La Veta: The 30-year-old Frank Eggleston building on Main Street, next to the Boyd Service Station, is being demolished for a sports field by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
1941 September La Veta: The slot machines stolen from the Mountain View Sandwich Shop were found on the Dickinson ranch north of La Veta on Pinon Hill completely smashed and empty of money.
1941 September La Veta: The Women's Relief Corps will give a Cooked Food Sale Saturday Sept. 27 at Joe Kincaid's hardware store.
1941 September Walsenburg: All county WPA projects are closed temporarily, leaving 147 unemployed.
1941 September Walsenburg: Betty French, Virginia Kreutzer, Mina Ghiardi and Mary Jo Sammons have been added to the staff at the Huerfano County department of public welfare.
1941 September Walsenburg: City Council approved a WPA project to cement the tennis courts at First and Pinon Streets and put in a wading pool there after the removal of the bandstand.
1941 September Walsenburg: Five hundred and forty students have thus far enrolled in Huerfano County High School for the semester.
1941 September Walsenburg: Freezing temperatures Monday night cost local farmers at least $25,000 in crop damage.
1941 September Walsenburg: Teachers have been found for all but six of Huerfano County's rural schools, Barbour; Rutledge; Upper and Lower Pass Creek; Oakview; Cuchara Camps: Upper and Lower Maes Creek.
1941 September Walsenburg: The 30th annual St. Mary Fair is planned for October.
1941 September Walsenburg: The Perry Stacy filling station in Gardner was broken into and about $60 in merchandise taken.
1941 September Walsenburg: There are fewer grade school children enrolled this year than last.
1941 September Walsenburg: Walsenburg and Huerfano County residents were treated to a rare display of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights last night.
1941 September Walsenburg: Walsenburg will get new tennis courts, a new wading pool and a beautiful triangle park at Main and Walsen, according to Mayor G.R. Mallett.
1941 September: Pritchard Lumber Company is open with its new building, exactly 60 days after the old structure burned down.
1941 October La Veta: Ben Veltri of Trinidad wants to open a cheese factory in the old Frink building on Francisco.
1941 October La Veta: Died, James Warren "Jimmy" Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ellis of Walsenburg, who was born in South Dakota in 1924. He leaves a sister, Betty Jean, and his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ellis of La Veta.
1941 October La Veta: For the first time, in football history, Primero did not beat La Veta. The final score was 0-0.
1941 October La Veta: The Colorado Cheese Company is remodeling the old Frink cheese factory and will produce Romano cheese from cow, sheep and goat milk.
1941 October La Veta: The high school boys defeated the Pueblo Centennial Freshmen 19-0 last week for their first win of the season.
1941 October La Veta: The Odd Fellows will have their annual Buck Barbeque in late October for the public.
1941 October Walsenburg: A $6,024 WPA project to improve the Civic League's park at First and Pinion streets was approved.
1941 October Walsenburg: A $6,024 WPA project to improve the Civic League's park at First and Pinon Streets was approved.
1941 October Walsenburg: A total of 1.38 inches of welcome rain fell on Walsenburg this week.
1941 October Walsenburg: A total of 140 men from Huerfano County have been called for induction into the army.
1941 October Walsenburg: Bedspreads 98˘; pure silk hose 49˘; ladies coats $5.95, at Joltons (formerly Katz Department Store).
1941 November La Veta: At the Rialto Theater, "The Texas Rangers Ride Again" with John Howard and Ellen Drew, plus Chapter 8 of "The White Eagle."
1941 November La Veta: Ben Veltri of the Colorado Cheese Company gave the program at the regular meeting of Rotary Club Tuesday evening and explained the factory's need for more milk to continue production.
1941 November La Veta: Died, Mrs. O.D. Howlett, nee Emma Jean Whitmayer, a La Veta resident since 1907, leaving three children, George B., Norman and Mabel Spielmann.
1941 November La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Levy Kincaid are having a new home built on their ranch east of town.
1941 November La Veta: President Roosevelt proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 20 to be Thanksgiving throughout the nation.
1941 November La Veta: Robert Bruce arrived on a 15-day leave from Fort Barkley, Tex., for a visit with his mother Mrs. Dora Bruce.
1941 November La Veta: The County Commissioners plan to adopt a 25.633 mill levy to raise $226,468.73, based on a valuation of $8,836,080.
1941 November La Veta: The Mountain View Sandwich Shop was robbed again, with the thieves making off with a slot machine.
1941 November La Veta: The Pied Pipers will play for a dance Nov. 22 in Kincaid Hall. Admission 60 cents plus tax.
1941 November Walsenburg: Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, a newly organized group of Walsenburg young women, will assist the local Lions Club in the toy repair program for needy families.
1941 November Walsenburg: Dorothy Lamour and, Jon Hall in "Aloma of the South Seas" Sunday, at the-Fox Theater, plus "Two in a Taxi" starring Anita Louise and Russell, Hayden.
1941 November Walsenburg: Extensive remodeling on Shosky's Cafe has begun and plans call for a glass brick and vitrolite glass front in the colors of wine and cream.
1941 November Walsenburg: Miss Janet Chatin, instructor at Hill School, will be in Denver Thursday to give a report on archaeology in the Cucharas district.
1941 November Walsenburg: More than 5,000 people worked the Armistice Day visit of the Colorado defense corps air maneuvers over Walsenburg.
1941 November Walsenburg: Pueblo has been designated as the see of a newly-created Roman Catholic diocese to be composed of 30 counties, including Huerfano.
1941 November Walsenburg: St. Mary Crusaders beat the Cathedral Bluejays of Denver 13-0 in their homecoming game yesterday with touchdowns by Anthony Kaparos and Bob Stimack.
1941 November Walsenburg: The annual Huerfano County High School carnival will open tonight at six o'clock with a chili supper, games, concessions, amusements and dancing.
1941 November Walsenburg: The Kings Men orchestra will play for the St. Mary Homecoming dance tomorrow. Admission is 36˘ plus 4˘ tax, extra ladies 9˘ plus 1˘ tax.
1941 November Walsenburg: Theater Manager Bob Pennock of the local Fox Theater leaves Friday for La Junta and Jack Bruno of Las Vegas will replace him.
1941 November Walsenburg: Thelma Perse was named St. Mary High School homecoming queen, escorted by George Cornali.
1941 November Walsenburg: Triple threat at the Fox! "Trail of the Lonesome Pine,'' Fred McMurray and Henry Fonda, ''Her First Beau,'' Jane Withers and Jackie Cooper, and "The Road to Zanzibar," Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
1941 November Walsenburg: Work begins this week on the new bridge over the Cucharas at Ysidrio Street.
1941 December La Veta: A good crowd was present at the Rialto Theater Friday evening to discuss plans for future activities of the Huerfano County Association for National Defense.
1941 December La Veta: A local Civilian Defense organization was formed with Mayor W.B. Hall heading it, assisted by Lou Coleman, C.C. Webster, A.E. Jameson, E.C. Stream, H.A. Howard and J.S. Holmes.
1941 December La Veta: As the students and teachers of La Veta High School listened to the President of the United States Monday their faces were grim.
1941 December La Veta: Sub zero temperatures were recorded this week, with plenty of wind.
1941 December La Veta: Ten Huerfano county residents received their citizenship papers yesterday in district court.
1941 December La Veta: The building next door to the Boyd's adobe one was purchased by Charles Krier.
1941 December La Veta: The cheese factory is in need of more suppliers of milk in this district.
1941 December La Veta: The entire high school has really been in an uproar this week since America is in the war.
1941 December Walsenburg: A dance will be given tomorrow night in the Walsenburg Pavilion for the benefit of the Huerfano County Red Cross fund.
1941 December Walsenburg: A total of $35,000 in building permits were issued this year, with the highest expenditures made on the Fox Theatre remodeling, the new Pritchard Lumber Company, and new city buildings on East Sixth Street.
1941 December Walsenburg: A total of 48 parcels of real property were sold for $4,781.84 in the annual county treasurer's delinquent tax sale.
1941 December Walsenburg: John Paul Tice of Butte Valley has been promoted to the rank of sergeant in the Army.
1941 December Walsenburg: Showing Sunday through Tuesday at the Fox Theatre, "Bambi" and "The Spoilers" starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich, a color cartoon and the latest news.
1941 December Walsenburg: The Knute Rockne trophy, won by the St. Mary High School football team for the state parochial championship, is on display at Star Drug.
1941 December Walsenburg: The lives of Huerfano County men stationed at Pearl Harbor are feared for. They are Arthur Morandi, Navy; John Lynch, Navy; William Watts, Coast Artillery; Frank Warrick, Navy; William Stoker, Navy; Gilbert Romero, Bobian Gonzales and Edward Farr, all with the Navy and stationed at Pearl Harbor.
1941 December Walsenburg: The St. Mary Recreation Room will be open to all men and boys this winter with assistance from the W.P.A.
1941 December Walsenburg: The WPA project to build a filtration plant west of the city begins Dec. 8.
1942 January La Veta: Arthur Foote, Sam Masinton and George Kreutzer have been made staff sergeants in the air corps at Lowry Field near Denver.
1942 January La Veta: Robert Nason, 21, son of Clarence Nason, and Bruce Prator, 17, son of Mrs. Lillian Harrison, were accepted for Navy duty at the Pueblo recruiting office last week.
1942 January La Veta: Stella Quillian Alexander, 78, of Gardner, was killed in a car accident. Her sisters Mrs. Hopkins and Mrs. Alexander live in La Veta.
1942 January La Veta: The local chapter of the Eastern Star will open a Red Cross sewing room in Masonic Hall Thursday, Jan. 29.
1942 January La Veta: The local post of the American Legion will sponsor a box supper Saturday, Feb. 14 in Kincaid Hall to raise funds for fire fighting services. Cards and music will be the entertainment.
1942 January La Veta: The upcoming marriage of Ruth Curtis to Karl T. Gilbert of Isle Royale National Park, Mich., has been announced. They will be wed at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. George A. Goemmer.
1942 January Walsenburg: About 75 men attended the Junior Chamber of Commerce Bosses Night banquet last night in the Rainbow Room at the Hotel Kirkpatrick.
1942 January Walsenburg: Albert Cesario, proprietor of the Jolly Boy Bakery, received a letter from his brother Sam of the U.S. Navy in Pearl Harbor saying his family has been evacuated back to California.
1942 January Walsenburg: Children's School Shoes, 67 cents at Jolton's Quitting Business Sale ending Jan. 31.
1942 January Walsenburg: Fire completely destroyed the Central Beer Tavern at 524 Main Street while temperatures of minus 10 and 12 hampered fire fighting efforts.
1942 January Walsenburg: Hide sales in Huerfano County totaled about 2,500 during 1941, a slight decrease from 1940.
1942 January Walsenburg: The open installation of the Order of Rainbow for Girls featured a piano duet by Betty Dick and Elaine Levy.
1942 January Walsenburg: Walsenburg Elks sent Christmas packages of cigarettes, cookies, candies and other items to 42 of Huerfano County's members of the armed forces.
1942 February La Veta: All men of La Veta between the ages of 20 and 45 who are not already registered must register for the Selective Service Monday, Feb. 16, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Town Hall.
1942 February La Veta: Arthur and Ernest Prator have enlisted in the Army and their brother Bill enlisted in the Navy.
1942 February La Veta: The Advisory Board for Selective Service in La Veta is C.C. Webster, Mary Stranger, Julia M. Lively and E.C. Stream.
1942 February Walsenburg: An estimated 730-800 men were registered in Huerfano County yesterday and today in the third selective service call for single men 20-45.
1942 February Walsenburg: City school children have purchased more than $1,140 in defense bonds and stamps.
1942 February Walsenburg: Employees of the seven leading coal producing mines in Huerfano County have pledged $32,700.50 for defense bonds.
1942 February Walsenburg: Mrs. Kathleen Grover was hired English teacher at Washington Junior High School to replace B.J. Friel, who left last week for service in the US Navy.
1942 February Walsenburg: The Denver and Rio Grande Western displayed their seven-car "Food for Freedom" train here throughout today.
1942 February Walsenburg: The Ysidero street bridge across the Cucharas has been completed.
1942 February Walsenburg: Walsenburg and its six annexed additions occupy 1,040 acres, compared to 320 in the original town site.
1942 February Walsenburg: Walsenburg is prepared to move its clocks forward one hour in line with the presidential order to save daylight hours for work.
1942 March La Veta: After announcement was made of the closure of the Gardner CCC camp, the county agricultural planning committee asked federal officials to leave all or part of those activities for the benefit of the entire county.
1942 March La Veta: Art Brubaker closed his pool hall and sold the fixtures to Fred Kreutzer.
1942 March La Veta: Charles Green, a freshman, was the only student of La Veta High School to receive all A's.
1942 March La Veta: Colorado Cheese Company has made arrangements to bring 200 milking goats to this area which will range in the foothills.
1942 March La Veta: Colorado Cheese Company is bringing in 200 goats to spread around in place of dairy cows.
1942 March La Veta: H. Earl French replaced F.J. Poch as supervisor of the San Isabel National Forest.
1942 March La Veta: La Veta Hardware is forced to go out of business.
1942 March La Veta: La Veta residents bought or pledged to buy about $15,000 in Government Defense Bonds and Stamps in the one-day drive last Friday.
1942 March La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Tom Elley will celebrate their 50th Anniversary on March 20.
1942 March Walsenburg: Approximately 2,500 acres of crop land in Huerfano County will have a more dependable water supply under the Soil Conservation Service.
1942 March Walsenburg: D.J. Passero's Central Cafe will reopen Saturday after remodeling following the fire in January.
1942 March Walsenburg: Dario Felice, son of Frank Felice of West Seventh Street, was raised to the rank of corporal at Camp Roberts, California.
1942 March Walsenburg: Del Carbon school boys and girls have turned in 800 pounds of scrap iron in the recent drive.
1942 March Walsenburg: Friday and Saturday at tire Fox Theater, Walt Disney's "Dumbo" plus Tim Holt in "Six Gun Gold" and the last chapter of "The Iron Claw."
1942 March Walsenburg: Initiation ceremonies for the largest class since 1927 will be Thursday when the local Elks lodge inducts 29 new members.
1942 March Walsenburg: Margie Thornberry, HCHS senior, will represent Colorado in the National Elks Scholarship Contest.
1942 March Walsenburg: Members of the Victory Book Campaign in Walsenburg sent another 543 volumes for use by the armed services. They have sent over 2,000 books so far.
1942 April La Veta: Chester Springer, Floyd Garritson, Harold Danks, Joseph Klikus and Norman Boyd left last week for military duty.
1942 April La Veta: E.E. Ault arrived last week with a herd of about 175 purebred goats and will operate a goat dairy on the Tom Wheeler place in the second block of East Ryus.
1942 April La Veta: John and Laura Elley celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married March 20, 1892 in Nebraska.
1942 April La Veta: Only 359 people voted of the 575 registered.
1942 April La Veta: Only 359 people voted of the 575 registered.
1942 April La Veta: The all day rain on Monday turned to snow and left about 14 inches on Tuesday.
1942 April La Veta: The Chamber of Commerce is preparing new advertising folders for circulation - the first time in years we have had such advertisements.
1942 April La Veta: The IOOF moved into its newly remodeled building on Ryus Avenue.
1942 April La Veta: The rains and 40 inch snowfall on La Veta Pass caused a rockslide which delayed the trains over the weekend.
1942 April La Veta: The rains and 40 inch snowfall on La Veta Pass caused a rockslide which delayed the trains over the weekend.
1942 April Walsenburg: As a part of the nationwide observance of Army week Huerfano County will hold a huge mass meeting of all citizens at Huerfano County High School auditorium April 8th.
1942 April Walsenburg: A Denver man pled guilty to selling 800 cockerel chicks in Huerfano County as pullets.
1942 April Walsenburg: By Government Order, the distribution and sale of metal Venetian blinds must be discontinued by May 1. Order now at O'Byrne Furniture and Hardware.
1942 April Walsenburg: Huerfano County sheepraisers fear a 50 percent loss to the lamb crop due to the heavy snow.
1942 April Walsenburg: Recent heavy rain and snow has added materially to the snow stocks in the mountains and water storage in the county is the best in nearly a decade.
1942 April Walsenburg: The annual cleanup of the campus and church grounds is being completed today by students of St. Mary School.
1942 April Walsenburg: Walsenburg residents were thrilled Saturday and Sunday by the splendid showing made by 44 basic training planes which passed over the city bound for Pueblo.
1942 May La Veta: About 20 teachers and other volunteers have been busy the past four days registering local residents for sugar rationing. Since the registration is taking place in the high school, school has been dismissed each afternoon.
1942 May La Veta: Retail price controls on many groceries and clothing, dry goods, cigarets [sic], drugs, toiletries, furniture, appliances, hardware and miscellaneous agricultural supplies begin May 18.
1942 May La Veta: Warren Farrar and Rufe Martinez, senior classmen who are apprentice seamen in the Naval reserves, are waiting for the call to duty shortly after school is out.
1942 May Walsenburg: All W.P.A. projects in Walsenburg, including a park program at the West Fifth Street grounds and construction of a caretaker's house at the city filtration plant will be shut off Monday.
1942 May Walsenburg: Because Huerfano County reached and exceeded its USO quota in a single hour on the opening day of the drive for funds, the entire state of Colorado received national recognition.
1942 May Walsenburg: Beginning May 18, the World-Independent rates will increase to eight cents per week by carrier in the city, by mail in Huerfano County to $3 a year and by mail elsewhere to $4. It will still cost three cents an issue.
1942 May Walsenburg: Eugene T. Childers, editor of the World-Independent, received the Arthur A. Parkhurst trophy for community service to readers.
1942 May Walsenburg: Lee Sylvia Ruffini has been named Huerfano County winner of Omar Flour "V-girl" contest and will compete in the state contest.
1942 May Walsenburg: Senator Edwin C. Johnson will speak June 3 at St. Mary Auditorium as a kick off of the gigantic Three Star fund drive.
1942 May Walsenburg: The city and county will combine their efforts to establish a playground and recreation area at Martin Lake.
1942 May Walsenburg: The senior class of St. Mary High School will present a three-act comedy, "The Mad March Heirs," featuring George Mauro, Teresa Marvelli, Eleanor Furphy, Louise Covi, John A. O'Rourke and Sylvia Comminotti.
1942 May Walsenburg: The St. Mary nursery school cosponsored by the school and W.P.A. will hold an open house tomorrow morning from nine to noon.
1942 June La Veta: A new bridge over Middle Creek to replace the one washed out last month was opened last week.
1942 June La Veta: La Veta extends a first welcome to a war hero, Joe Linscott, who served on the aircraft carrier Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
1942 June La Veta: La Veta will celebrate the 4th of July with its usual rousing big program of races, sports, baseball, fireworks, dance, etc., under the sponsorship of the American Legion.
1942 June La Veta: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arnold have purchased the Jack Stone residence.
1942 June La Veta: The Boy Scouts will whitewash the trees on the main streets and donations are requested to buy materials.
1942 June La Veta: The La Veta Chamber of Commerce is distributing 5,000 copies of an advertising folder called "Land of the Huajatollas."
1942 June Walsenburg: A hardball league is being organized by Bill Pospahala, Tony Madle, George Giro, Frank Repola, Bob and Frank Stimack, Paul Shaw, George Dasko and Rico Guigli.
1942 June Walsenburg: A weed fire caused the complete destruction of the two-story CF&I warehouse just west of city limits in Walsen June 24.
1942 June Walsenburg: Four Huerfano County boys recently arrived in Hawaii for military duty - Maurice Cowing, Milo Rogers, Ellis Lee and William O'Rourke.
1942 June Walsenburg: Lloyd Ingles, superintendent of the Kebler mine at Tioga, has been elected president of the newly organized Huerfano County mine officials association.
1942 June Walsenburg: Nearly 100 boys ages 9-13 have formed six softball teams under the direction of playground director Frank Repola.
1942 June Walsenburg: Oscar Santi has been named county administrator of the scrap rubber drive.
1942 June Walsenburg: The John Lessar family of Butte Valley have set a record for furnishing sons to the war effort with five of their boys in the service - Frank, Martin, Fred, Louis and Harry.
1942 June Walsenburg: The mattress making project sponsored by the surplus commodities division of AAA will start in Del Carbon next week.
1942 June Walsenburg: Work began today on the Martin Lake recreational area through the cooperation of the county commissioners and the City of Walsenburg.
1942 July La Veta: La Veta and Walsenburg Rotarians and their wives enjoyed a picnic Wednesday evening at Cuchara Camps.
1942 July La Veta: La Veta majors of the Huerfano County Association for National Defense are Wilma Boyd, Charles Masinton, E.C. Stream, C.C. Webster, H.A. Howard, Rev. L.V. Snodgrass, Mary Zember and Bertha Richman.
1942 July La Veta: Local breeders of purebred Hereford cattle sent 116 bulls to a Mr. Bain of Great Falls, Idaho.
1942 July La Veta: Miss Helen McLaughlin resigned her position at the post office to take a job in Denver and is being replaced by Mrs. Cornelia Coleman.
1942 July La Veta: The county commissioners pledged $50 toward the 4-H and County Fair in La Veta, which will be three days in the week of August 17th.
1942 July Walsenburg: A splendid record of rubber collection in the county was announced by Oscar Santi, campaign chairman, with nearly 71 tons collected since June 15.
1942 July Walsenburg: City police officers reported they had confiscated an air rifle from a youngster on Eighth Street after he had shot out several street lights.
1942 July Walsenburg: Civic minded citizens are asked to help clean up Huajatolla Park before its dedication July 17.
1942 July Walsenburg: Early harvest yields are 25-30 bushels of wheat per acre, with 3,000 acres planted to that crop.
1942 July Walsenburg: In an effort to get every last pound of rubber in Huerfano County, defense officials have located three rubber bins on Main Street for odds and ends of rubber.
1942 July Walsenburg: Mary Lou Levy and Brunete Galassini of Walsenburg are among the enrollees at the aircraft mechanic learner course in Pueblo.
1942 July: Little Donald Edward Cordova, three-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cordova, contributed a tiny tire for the rubber collection. The tire bore the legend "Made in Japan."
1942 August La Veta: 4-H Club members winning free trips to the state fair were Marjorie England, Harriet Smith, Jack Coe and Mildred Jean Goss.
1942 August La Veta: Died, Mary Stevenson Young, mother of George and John Young of La Veta. She was born in Scotland in 1867 and married Adam Young in Walsenburg in 1884.
1942 August La Veta: E.A. Stansbury has commenced his duties as postmaster.
1942 August La Veta: The 4-H and County Fair opens Monday with a parade and baseball game. Tuesday evening will be a boxing program at the high school gymnasium, followed by a modern dance at Kincaid Hall.
1942 August La Veta: The order prohibiting riding bicycles and roller skates on sidewalks in the business district will be strictly enforced by the order of Town Board.
1942 August Walsenburg: Recent rains have delayed the wheat harvest.
1942 August Walsenburg: A new technical course in radio repair and maintenance will open tonight at the shops of Huerfano County High School.
1942 August Walsenburg: A total of $30 in war savings stamps were sold last night in the first of a series of Victory dances being sponsored by HCHS.
1942 August Walsenburg: A victory dance will be held Wednesday evening at Huerfano County High School.