Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-28
for q week or more.

Denver Elks are nearly $4,000 TO
the good from last weeks big doings
according to Denver papers.
And TO think BILLY" Adams was gov
ernor for one day. And again to think
nothing serious happened. Gov. Shat
roth had gone to St. Louis and Lieut..
Gov. Fitzgerald was In Arizona.
Intoxicated to the point of insanity.
George Abasker. aged 26 years, bar
ber. attacked his mother when she
| reprimanded him for his dissolute
habits. He struck her several times,
1t is claimed. and turned upon his
sister when she went to the aid of
her mother What sad thing to re.
cord But II wasn't the boy that struck
his mother-it was John Barleycorn.
| Just to show a skeptical world that
fruit raising in the immediate vicinity
OF Denver is no joke, George r.. Rich.
cultural society. in charge of the dem.
onstration farm of the Denver Res.
ervo.r Irrigation company. has produc.
ed over $4,000 worth OF apples from
the 70-acre orchard on the farm this
season, and is now engaged In super
intending the picking and packing OF
the crop.
Rotten eggs. known, packed and la
beled as such are sold by Denver
commission men to Denver grocers
and disposed of to restaurants. bak.
| ers and even In the homes of the
poorer people, who pay for them at
the rate of twelve cents a dozen, says
Wilbur f. Cannon, pure food commits
sioner. The commission men openly
boast of their business In rotten eggs.
declare II is profitable and ask what
| are you going to do about it?" A firm
that win handle such truck ought to
be put Ia the pen.
The Grand Junction chamber of com
merce Saturday telegraphed to Chi
cago to reserve 400 square feet of
space nj the Chicago land and irriga-
lion exposition which is to be held In
the Chicago auditorium beginning No
vember 90. The space bought for the
Grand valley exhibit is the largest so
far secured by any individual city in
The west. The fruit growers of that
section are sure enough boomers And
we raise just as big and Just as fine
apples as any place on the top Of
the earth.
If the results OF the recent religious
census may be taken as a guide Den
yer almost Is the best city In the
state, while Alamosa is far and away
the worst, says the Denver Post Love
land makes the best showing in the
state. its average of church adherents
being 81 per cent-slightly higher than
the Denver average. In Alamosa,
where $500 residents were visited.
there, only were $50 who admitted
that they belonged to a church The
remaining f,750 citizens expressed no
preference for any religious dcmoni-
nation.
Oct. "a the new law regulating the
practice of veterinary medicine, sur
gerry and dentistry went into effect,
and Nov. 2 the state veterinary exam
lining board will hold an examination
at the capitol, Denver, for those non
graduates who wish to obtain state
license. The new law is strict regard
ing any one practicing without state
license and section of this law says
that any one practicing after the date
: named who does not first take an ex
animation as. prescribed by the exam
ining board and obtain license will
be guilty of n misdemeanor and will
be prosecuted by the state.
William Frey. part owner of the
famous Grey Wilson orchard near Cliff
ton in the Grand valley. has made affi
davlt to an apple yield from a single
tree, which II is believed bids fair tc
take the worlds record. Sixty boxes
of Ben Davis apples. a ton and a hall
Of apples. worth over 800 was picked
Saturday from a single tree in Mr.
Frey's orchard. In previous years as
many as forty boxes OF apples were
picked from this tree which is about
twelve years old. and 1t had con
siderable local reputation. but this
seasons record surpasses all expec
tation. The entire orchard of eighteen
acres has yielded 1000 boxes of apples
worth, net to the growers over SIS,
900.