The Ordway new era., 1909-06-25
STATE NEWS ITEMS

over five months by snow
The State Normal School and the
Greeley Commercial Club Will arrange
daily excursions from Denver to Gree
ley during the five days of the y. h, a.
convention at Denver.
A contract has been awarded by the
Colorado Fuel 4 Iron Company for
construction of twenty new concrete
houses at Coal Creek and work VIII
be started at once. They will cost
$4,000,
Fred Lombard of Colorado Springs
has been named by Governor Shafroth
for the post OF water commissioner OF
the tenth irrigation district. one or
the most important districts within El
Paso county.
The Hawkeye Club of Denver viii
hold an outdoor meeting sometime ear
ly in July at Denver. w. w. Grigss.
1912 California street, Denver. Is chair.
man and wishes to hear from all Iowa
people now in this state
The Fremont and El Paso county
surveyors are laying out the new
boulevard between Colorado Springs
and Canon City. As soon as the sur
vey is finished work on the road Will
be started by the convicts.
James T. Egan of Denver plans to
reclaim 800 acres of desert land in
the extreme eastern part of Weld
county by the building OF two small
reservoirs. Each will have capacity
OF 5.50O.u0O cubic feet.
\ deal involving $500 acres OF valu-
able land In BrOadmoor. suburb OF
Colorado Springs. is being negotiated,
it Is said. for the purpose OF locating
thereon the Myron Stratton Home for
the Poor. provided for in the will OF
lhr late Winfield Scott Stratton.
The county commissioners of Las
Animas county have appropriated
$1,000 for completing the state high
way north and south through the
county by the employment Of convict
labor This makes over $4,000 given
by citizens and taxpayers for the road.
4 recent report says that Lawn
Lake. In Black Canon. only fifteen
miles from the village OF Estes Park.
Is frozen to a depth Of four feet and
snowbauks are deep around ii. This
condition at this season of the year
has not been known before in the his.
tory OF the park.
At a recent meeting OF the Boulder
county commissioners $500 was appro-
priatcd to the commercial orsaniza-
tons of the county. $3.50 going to Boul-
der 5000 to Longmont, 800 each to
Louisville and Lafayette. and $50 to
Lyons. Ouc-half of this amount is pay.
able now and the other half in Novem.
ber
Professor o. B. Whipple. for many
years In charge of the State Agricul-
tural experiment station of the West
ern slope. has resigned. He has ac'
ceptcd similar position with the Mon.
tana Agricultural College at Bozcman.
Mont. He will be succeeded at Grand
Junction July LIST by George p. Wei.
don.
4 beautiful oil painting OF Gen. U. s.
Grant. made from life while he was
President. and a portrait Of ex.Gov.
Routt of Colorado were recently pre-
scnted to the State Historical depart.
mcnt in the Capitol building In Den.
ver on behalf Of the Routt family.
Both OF the pictures are artistically
framed
From all states In the Union stu.
dents are arriving to attend the State
Normal summer school at Greeley. and
indications are that the attendance
will reach 600 Fifty teachers will
come from the schools of st. Joseph.
Mo. and as many from the Indian Ter.
ritory. \ delegation has already ar.
rived from Memphis. Tenn. and Louis.
lana will send twenty-five students.
a Water Consumers Protective As.
sociation has been formed In Denver
for the purpose of gathering and dis.
seminating all information that may
be of value to the community regard
ing the water question OF whether or
not the city shall purchase the Den
yer Water Company's plant or grant
the company a new twenty-year fran
chise.
The Denver convention promises
to exceed in numbers any convention
OF recent years and to equal In excel.
lence the great Cleveland convention
of 1905" is n statement recently is.
sued by DR.. Lorenzo d. Harvey, presi.
dent. and Professor Irwin Shepard,
secretary, of the National Educational
Association. which holds its forty.
seventh annual convention In Denver
July 5th.9th.
A violent hailstorm, which is said to
be the worst in the city's history
struck Trinidad on the 18th inst. and
caused severe damage to trees and or
chards and caused the streams to swell
and wash out great number of cul
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