The Fort Collins Express and The Fort Collins Review from Fort Collins, Colorado • 2

Correspondence and son John of Newcastle Ind John Tuttle who is now in Chicago is going to Wisconsin this week for a visit Lawrence Nichols cf Missouri Is visiting at the Kerr home Mrs Autrey and Myrtle caT-i WZI Fittington made a quick trip I to Fart Collin Friday after the doc- for Mrs John Fittington Norlin left this city Monday night for Laramie J- Bryan has gone to Torrington Wv0t £Pend 4116 months many a man who will not be willing to change places with King when during the coming summer King shoulders the massive tuba and starts marching down the street with the hand Mr- ancl Mrs Fred Hairis and little daughters Margaret and Helen ar nved on Tuesday from Long Beach California hich has been their home GETS ROAD CONTRACT A Osner a Denver contractor was the successful bidder on some-county road work on the main isouth of Berthoud he having been awarded the contract for grading on two hills and on hauling gravel for the-completion of the surfacing work The approximate cost of the gradim will be $1615 while bid oi hauling the gravel was 372 cents a ton The work is to be rushed in order that it may be completed before -the heavy traffic sets in this summer ROCKY RIDGE Julius Christiansen returned home "Wednesday after spending: two weeks at his ranch near Grand lake Mr Philips and family of Cherry Hill farm also Mr Whiteman of Fort Collins were callers in the Kerr home Sunday Mr sister and son of -diana arrived Saturday for visit in the Byarly home Miss Pearl Conaway was a Loveland visitor Sunday Mrs Alex Straehan Miss Alice Straehan and James Straehan of Foe- ed Creek called on Mr and Mrs Tiwm Dixon Sunday James Seaman of Fort Collins call--ed on Mr and Mrs Kerr Sate- day Bessie Byarly who is attending the I ed on Mrs Harry Swinscoe Sunday of Fort Couins were eaere at the Mrs Emma Jones and son Clarence Johnson's Monday afternoon The Eldar family enjoyed trip to the mountains Sunday LOVELAND (From the Eeporter) IL Calbourn went to Fort Collins today to look after business connected Samuels estate Miss Angelina Stance of Fort Cel jlins is the spring vacation Irvim 1 the road overseers Mrs Fred Stoddard who underwent horses being sick and requiring all of operation last Thursday In St Us time at home school in Bellvue spent week-end i Luke's hospital Denver is much ira-j Mrs Bert Martin went up with her parents proved and is expected home the latter Bnckhorn to spend Mr and Mrs Adam Heines part of the week IMrs Henderson Sunday with Fort Collins friends rs Ljtaa aadtwoj Jim Henderson is spending a the expectation of spend Mrs Autrey Miss Myrtle and 3Ir Mindless of Fort rs with the Pittington fanmy the coming few week on his ranch WAM emAcfa af Vm Hka at the home of her sister Mrs CL a tw? were of Mr and Mr tie Redstone has teen delayed for the last few days ft- tjie ew ys wi 11 sfter attending the Short Dr and Mrs Hall of Denver are spending the fore part of the week in this city visiting with their sons Sig jjajj and Oliver HalL Netherton has gone to Ster- Autrey and Mrs Wickham and chil- drenwere callers in the Swinscoe home Sunday afternoon guests jJo Smpson over Sday Harvey Buidett and famBy came up homestead over Cape Horn summer A Kelsoe has gone to Howard Colo to spend the summer months George Remele has left this city for Minneapolis to visit with hia father Gilbert Spires left Saturday on a i motorcycle to Canon City to spend his 1 vacation A vacation i vMjdinv ti Viptt life is schpdulfid j)on and Clavbough left this wayftougft lelt tills ty near that city Mrs WilIiam TiIton of Lyons has dIn the past few days fa -Fort siting with ther son Tunn -1 B3S 6a this city for ortlani will spend the coming th Vacffie-Northwest and mav ifflm left Vnrt rl inj Tnesd phiIIdelpWa herl he gpend the comjng geverai months visiting with relatives She expects to retura to tWg dty next falL Giikison who has been suf- feria'g 'or some t-me from gall stones tn to Denver Tuesday for an xamination He was accompanied by JMr and Mrs A SchUchter Prot Sackett has left this ci for the San Luis valley where he will spend the week on business for the eitension departmeilt of the col Mr and Mrs Peter Milliner and children who have been visiting here for the past two weeks left on Tuesday for their home in Morrison 111 They expect to return to this city to make their home after disposing of farm interests in Illinois and Indiana Miss Phoebe Willis of Denver who has been the guest of college friends yop past days Ieft tor Casper Wyo where she will visit 1 Claudia Kirhv is spending part of Teachers college Greeley today -Sateday Claudia Itirby is spenamg tered upon her duties in the Lincoln: Qiarley Fittington Bert Martin and her vacation with Rocky Ridge nen 3 oq where she has been elected Oliver Gabriel have been cutting lum- i wppV cha vn citwj sdiool on -w i MoJav totakethe pkee of Mss GreweH whofcer for fte MRington Bros for lhe aionaay Is transferred to fill the vacancy cans- past week Mrs Chris Meyer called on Mrs jy the resignation of Miss Hook 5 Mrs Oliver Gabriel is spending a William Lyml ol Fort CoUto lart Jot aJom wtn mrtte la Swtog Saturday afternoon Buckhorn plaster mill died early tUs canon Mrs John Henry and morning at the Sutherland hospitaLj a Fittington was bit by callers the George Ruff home Sun- ptomaine poisoning was the cause of rwoodtkk on his left shoulder which death No arrangemeifci for buricKs him inatdt pain irtftw in ll be made until word received- While koking for tungsten night guest of Claudia Kirby of In- from relatives in Sadorus Einois jnesday Fittington located a Aaron Trindle a resident of Love- gtod lead which runs high in gold land almost from the founding of the The hills are well decorated with iV city died Saturday morning at 10 terpen prospectors but results have day the occasion being her birthday at the age of 82 years at his very poor so far chSmoteJtoenrSSlJT404 Mri children motored to lieuvue bunaay had been failing in health for some ftu ek She is butting it for a short visit at the Sharon time Md his delth was not unexpert- socss Jake Bauer of Hastings Neb viriJ hdenUS' fcty Holman Snider spitSakrday vnth Jake iauer or Hastings rei visit- another of her pioneer citizens and a T0vn Fittington and family on the ed his sister Mrs Carl Christensen csvfl war veteran Tawrene place and family the first of tieweeb old Lawraice place Mrs Gerlasch is on the sick list this LIVERMORE I ESTES PARK Mr week Helm who and Mrs Edward Cooley and soa motored to Timnath Saturday impending the night with Mr and Mrs iHemy Homer returning Sunday Mr and Mrs George Campton were and Mrs oeorge uimpton were shopping Fort Collins Saturday afternoon j0va pjttlngton and Geo Hardwick returned to their homes in Welch Park Wednesday from Fort r-rtr Jackson Fittington left home too weeks ago and no one has heard from K- Vnce he left Paul Less sold his sawmill to Harry MZlIngtoa Saturday Paul Less sold his sawmill to Harry i Satoday He wU jtbemJ on their piece the iftitee 1 The work on the Fast canon road1 i poop a pse all former records in park at tedance MIss Amanda Byrd has jvteped bness i Hayden ave from the coast eight feet of snow Wednesday they wait to Camp Wheler on the Upper Grand Friday morning they left place and arrived in Estes Park via Pondre lakes and the Fall river route that evening They report a great trip A number of Fort Collins and Loveland auto parties have returned home from here via gulch Glen Haven and the North Folk to the Forks hotel They report the road to be good and a fine scenic trip much (Efferent from the other route John Maknberg has gone to Idaho He has been succeeded by Williams as Everyman George Johnson the ice magnate of the Park Is preparing for another active season The fish hatchery has a fine lot of young trout ready for the streams Among the Fort Collins visitors 5 i 1 I I1le Weather continues warm and? Alfred is attending Colo- rado college returned to his work Sat- urday after spending his spring vaca- lion with his parents Mr! and Mrs William nelm This is sec ond year and he is making a fine rec ord for himself four-year-old Esther Ger-S under the care at present having swallowed a piece of haling wire Little is Henry Hoff of the Timnath district spent a few hours Sunday with his mother Mrs John Hoff and family Mrs Murdock Nelson and children of Fort Collins were Sunday callers at Guy 1 dlT green grass some of it three in ches high is showing almt very here Spring flowers are in blossom a week or more before returning to hcr home Ferry Grubb has arrived here from of and the fruit buds are sweffing so a rapidly that a hard frost will mean A at his nsu inevitable destruction to them in the I 'very near future unless colder weather! Mr HaPZ appear immediately idaysmDenverbut the Hupp do- eusmess Just the same the past three or four years They like Colorado and have come to stay William Hall and wife and Mrs Herrin and son of Wellington were Fort Collins visitors Tuesday Clayton Wolf Is entertaining Sid1 student fit liis home In this city thru the spring vacation Bishopp is the business manager of Silver and Gold the university paper NffrlanJ Tuesday mormng where he will spend the week looking after the tungsten "'aims in which he and a group of Fort Collins men are interested The company now has seven men actively employed in their mine and it is pro- during high grade ore Ramsey of Washington Cl was a business visitor in Fort Collins on Tuesday Little of the government horse breeding station has gone to Montrose and will spend the remainder of the week on the Western Slope attending to business for the station Miss Eleaner Byerley a student nurse at the hospital will undergo an operation for appendicitis this morning Miss Byerley is not in a critical condition and it is expected that the operaton will be entirely successful Charles Wright and Hampton of Colorado Springs who have been spending the past few days looking after investments in this city and in the Laramie river district returned Tuesday to their home Herman Seaman returned jto Fort Collins this morning He has been in Loveland since Saturday Mr Seaman expects to engage in faming near Loveland after the first of May Loveland Herald Word has been received from Dr and Mrs A Kickland who have been spending the past two months in Rochester Minn and in New York city to the effect that they expect to arrive In this city Saturday evening Coach Hughes without making preliminary announcement staged the first practice game of the season for the Aggie ball team at the college on Tuesday afternoon The opposing team was the Laporte nine and those who were lucky enough to learn of the contest declare that it was surely one the best games to be seen here in many a day Ranger McConnell and wife of the Manhattan station spent Friday in Fort Collins Elmer King of Berthoud passed thru this city Friday on his motorcycle He says he is on his way to Billings and expects to make the Montana city in a very few days Bob Bransom came to Boulder thig morning enroute to the Loveland camp where he is interested in tungsten mining Mr Bransom is one of wealthiest and most popular citizens Boulder Camera Strayer of near south of Masonville was in the city yesterday to attend a stock sale Mr Strayer expected to purchase a jack A Froid came from Boulder on Thursday to look after business matters He will return to Boulder to spend the summer months with his daughter Martin Johnson and family Mrs Wm Klinefelter Spent Saturday and Sunday with old Rocky Ford friends as she was enroute to her home in Fort Collins From Kansas Rocky Ford Enterprise Mrs Wolfe of Laporte spent Saturday in the city on business Mr and Mrs Turner and eon expect to leave this city on Monday for Atlanta Ga where they will visit with relatives Mr Turner will remain until the latter part of the month while Mrs Turner and son and Mrs Turner who went to Atlanta last week will remain until the first of the summer season A charming courtesy to Mrs Foster who leaves shortly to make her home in Greeley was a farewell party given Friday afternoon by Mrs Wheeler The guests were warm friends of Mrs Foster and thoroly congenial which assured the succesq of the affair in advance In deference to the proximity of April day Mrs Wheeler had arranged the program of entertainment in accordance and when upon the arrival of all the euestg a needle contest was announced the unsuspecting victims diligently vied with each other in a race to thread needles the eves of which were filmed over with gelatine After allowing them to struggle vainly for a short time the hostess replaced the needles and Mrs gfc Clair and Mrs Taft the last to finish were awarded the prizes Strayer of Masonville spent Saturday in the city looking after business matters Mrs Daisy Harrington of Longmont has been spending the past week visiting with Fort Collins friends COFFIN GETS OF JOB Claire Coffin for ther past several' years a member of the faculty of the high school in Longmont and who has had charge of the athletic work of the school during that time has been appointed assistant state geologist and assigned to faculty work In the University of Colorado Mrs Coffin who has been visiting 'with her parents Mr and Mrs A Edmonds has returned to her home in Longmont to prepare for moving to Boulder where the Coffins will reside after the first of June DEATH CALLS AN AGED WOMAN Mrs Malinda Stephens a resident of Fort Collins for the past ten years died at 7:30 on Tuesday morning aged 83 years The weakness of advanced years was the cause of death Mrs Stephens was born Aug 16 1833 in Genesses county New York She came here in 1906 and this city has since been her home She leaves surviving a son Albert Stephens of Toledo Ohio Mrs Carrie Ransom South Haven Mich and Mrs Geo-Lute of this city MAY MARKET LOTS A meeting of the Dixon Cabin company was held Monday afternoon at which plans for the filing of a plat showing the subdivision of 120 acres into building sites is shown was considered The company is composed of a group of Fort Collins men who now own 120 acres on the Poudre river which was formerly known ns the Dixon ranch The plot has been surveyed and divided into building lots of various sizes and the company may put these lots on sale the coming summer with the view of developing a summer camp along the new Poudre road Fox live stock agent for the Northwestern returned to" this city Monday after spending Sunday with his family in Denver RECORD SALES OF BICYCLES I Bradley the local bicycle man reports a phenomenal business for the-past month he having sold 22 bicycles during the month of March This is the biggest business he has handled in the way of sales in one month during 11 the fifteen years that he has been in tbe bicycle business in Fort Collins He says most of the sales are to boys who have employment such as paper routes on the local papers etc The bicycles he says are now so standardized that there is little choice among the better grades but he finds the Iver-Johnson $45 wheel about the best seller here altho-he handles other makes both higher and lower priced He accounts for tho big sales record by the fact that times better and boys and young men are finding opqnjng to them this spring better than heretofore ESTES PARK CONTRACTOR MARRIED YESTERDAY A quiet wedding took place at on Tuesday afternoon April 4 at the residence of Rev Willson 600 So Howes street officiating cler- gyman The contracting parties were Mr Piltz a contractor and build- er from Estes Park and Mrs Ida Gaddis of Lyons Colorado The ceremony was witnessed by Mr Cushing and Miss Martha Ford I After the knot had been properly tied and the newly-weds had received the blessings of the man of God and the congratulations of witnesses they-went on their way rejoicing WILL WORK FOR WILSON Shideler has arrived in this city from Boulder to accept a position with Wilson "My he taking up his new duties the first of the week Mr Shideler comes from Oklahoma and Mrs Shideler who is visiting with relatives in that state will join him here in the near future He is an expert salesman and window trimmer and will prove a valuable addition to the force of the Wilson store- Harris Akin has returned to his home here from Chicago where he has been marketing lambs Mrs Ida Law Miller has gone to Denver for a week-end visit with her-daughter Mrs Maizie Peralta Mrs John Slayton of Wellington spent Saturday shopping in Fort Hns Joe Michaud and family and Mias jMark Hardin came up from Margaret Murray visited Mr Mi- Collins the middle of last week chaud's parents at Laporte Sunday Geo Roberts has been suffering the raea away Lawrence Nickels of Columbus week with an attack of lumbago Mo arrived Monday and is visiting John Currie is happy in the posses-j 15PS a Ison of Fort Collins spent Saturday Mr and Mrs Kerr sion of a new Cadillac ear 1 Mr and Mrs Dana visited the Mr and Mrs Aldrich and ehil- William Lynch family in Fort CoHnsdren were the guests for dinner Sat- unday Urday of Livermore relatives and were Andrews James Andrews and on their way to their home at Virginia Gray of Fort Collins brot out a i Dale bunch of dogs Monday for tbe ourpose Charles Kelley of Virginia Dale of hunting down wild cats that have passed through Livermore Saturday been killing pheasants around Rocky enroute to Fort Collins on a business Ridge A number of the cats have trip been seen lately but none made their Livermore ranchmen are busy putt-appearance Monday ing in their grain and from present Munroe is having a 220-ton re- indications the acreage wRl be large merit stave silo erected on his ranch Mr and Mrs Wm Tibbetts were Fort Collins visitors the middle of last week Mr and Mrs Fred Stabler and Mrs here Clifford Hlgbee of the Park hotel was a Denver visitor Saturday Alder dree of the Forks hotel reports a good business A lot of new cottages have been built on the North Fork the past few months Hlgbee A McGlashlin Reed Higbee and A Levy have returned from a walk to Grand lake which required five days They went to Fern lodge Monday Tuesday from there to Grand lake much of the way being made on snowshoes over six to Denver to spend the remainder of the veek attending to business affairs Edwin Tears traveling passenger agent for the New York Central was a business visitor In this city on Tuesday Death visited the home of Mr and Mrs Lowe 1202 Laporte avenue Mondav night taking an infant child born Monday The little one was buried Tuesday -Mrs Lowe is reported to be improving Bert Cave and family will motor to Rocky Ford the latter part of the week to look after his cattle interests there and to combine a pleasure trip with business They expect to return Sunday Mrs Bessie Balia and children Earl and Esther of Boulder came up Monday evening to spend a week with Mrs mother Mrs Heckart Mrs Harry Ross and little son Harry Bartlett Ross of Loveland are also visiting with Mrs Heckart Mm Mary O'Connor who has been teaching school in one of the foothill districts left this city Tuesday for Chicago where she will spend the coming several months visiting with relatives and friends Forsythe left this city Tuesday for Leadville Glenwood Springs and other points on a business trip After making arrangements for the operation of his merry-go-round in these cities he will return to his home here about Saturday The spring vacation opened on Monday and the teachers and school children are off duty this week Picnics and trips to the mountains will be in order this week if weather conditions permit as the youngsters are inclined to make the best of their opportunities for having a good time School work will be resumed next Monday Mrs Gordon Fothergill has gone to Boulder tor a short visit with friends THE HIGHLANDS Mss Bessie Byerly spent Saturday! and Sunday with the home folks Mr and Mrs Oscar BoCev -nter-Mr and Mrs Ernest Cogswell visit-! tained the choir members of the Boxed with the Steiner family in elder church last Friday eve-town Sunday ning at home Mrs Autrey and Myrtle were Mrs Minnie Jones was a visitor hi callers at the Hanchett home on this eomturiu last VTednesdav Thursday afternoon Mrs Harry Rogers who has Mrs Bullard of Stove Prairie sick is able to be up again Her lit-daughter of Mrs Nicholson is suffer- tie daughter Thelma who was also ing from broken limb She was sick is very much better "kicked by a horse Harry Forrester was here last week Mr and Mrs Elder had supper renewing old acquaintances He has Sunday evening with Mrs Ida Elder5 Just returned from California where Mrs Forsythe is spending the week he has made his home for the past with her daughter Mrs Roy three years His property in San Mrs Meyer called oh Mrs Diego was destroyed by tbe flood He Lynch Saturday afternoon is here with the object of locating in Mrs Nye spent the week-end Colorado again with Mrs Ida Elder and Mrs James Ruby Rogers is on the sick list this Mobley Little Hester Gerlach swallowed aj Mrs Crowfoot visited with Mrs small piece ofVire Monday afternoon Peterson last Friday No serious trouble has resulted from Miss Dora Brubaker and Miss Ester it yet I Skold visited with friends in Black Mrs Henry Graff is spending the Hollow Sunday week at home Mrs Bisbee and Mrs Nelson were Mrs Flora spent the day Wed-1 Fort Collins visitors last Monday aesday in town with her daughter! Miss Mackey spent the week-end in Mrs Eaton (Denver The Riddle family moved from the Mrs Trent visited with Mrs Frank OBSERVATORY Wells Sunday It Lanyon who has just returned from the West Virginia after serving eight years in the service as shipsfitter and plumber is visiting his brother Archie Lanyon Hie firm name of Archie Lanyon plumber may be changed to the Lanyon Eros Saturday were Mr and Mrs Walter Mr- Fothergill will join her today and the remainder of the week will be spent in Denver attending the grand opera season The ordinary citizen who knows about as much about music as he does about pelegra should take a look at a new musical instrument recently purchased by the Fort Collins band and I now on display in the window of the Petty jewelry store and after look-ling long and earnestly should give I thanks that he does not play the bass horn in the band For the instrument in question is about the most Miss Hahn and Miss Craig They were accompanied by Messrs Whitford and Rutherford of Montrose John Wallace of Fort Collins arrived in the Park Saturday expecting to spend his summer vacation here The Round Trees of A six In all spent Saturday in the Park Frank ARea drove up from Fort Collins Saturday to spend a few days Everybody is glad to hear that the bill before congress providing for enlargements to the Rocky Mountain Wright place to Fort Collins last week Cogswell is the possessor of a new Overland touring car Mr and Mrs Dana spent Sunday at the Lynch home in Fort Byerly is enjoying a visit from his sister Mrs Eunice Throwley National park has been reported fa- thing in the way of a musical instru-vorably by the committee Tbe barring grand pianos and pipe tiong consist of Deer mountain Gem which has recently been lake and Twin Peaks shown in these part and there will be.