The Lamar register., 1910-02-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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explosion at seventy-five.
| The annual summer teachers insti
tute of the district comprising Ell
Paso. Teller. Ebert and Douglas coun-
ties will be held at Colorado Springs
during the last two weeks in July.
The wife of President Taft mas sent
handkerchief to the South Side I'M
provement Society of Colorado City to
be sold at a bazaar to be given by the
ladies of the society.
The Missouri Pacific. January 31st.
took over the Pueblo & State Line
railroad for $500 and other consider
ations." This line runs from Pueblo
to the Kansas state line.
An experiment farm conducted I'M
der the auspices of the State Agricul-
tural College for growing alfalfa as
well as potatoes. will be established in
the Greeley district next season.
Gov. John F. Shafroth has appoint
ed John E. Field and A. e. Bent to
represent the state of Colorado at the
national convention on weights and
measures which is to be held in Wash
iDgton, d. c.. February 25th and Goth.
on the site for the new Denver post
office building. between Curtis and
Champa and Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets, will be commenced next
month.
Denver people are planning to es-
tablish during the coming summer an
attractive summer resort to be called
LAKELAND, on the Denver C Rio
Grande, forty-three miles south of
Denver
Department Commander John W.
wingate of the Grand Army of the Re-
public has issued formal order to
all posts in the Department of Colo
RADIO and Wyoming. requesting the
members to observe Lincoln's and
Washinston's birthdays in proper
form.
Richard r. Burke has relinquished
control of the eating houses and din
ing cars operated along the Moffat
Road to Clark Gregg, former superin-
tendent of dinipg car service on the
Denver & Rio Grande, and later stew
ard of the Colorado Traffic Club in
Denver.
The county commissioners OF Prov
ers county have granted a permit for
the organization OF the Holly a. Grana-
da Irrigation district. for the reclama-
ton of $4,000 acres south of the two
towns. The water supply will be
taken from Rule creek, west of La
mar. and be stored In q large reser-
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The Holly Sugar Company has made
public its contracts for growers of
beets next season. offering the best
terms yet made by II. For beets with
~ to IL $40 per cent. sugar content
they will pay s. per ton; Is per cent.
1925: 16 per cent. $3.50: IL per cent.
s5.75. and for each per cent. over IL, Is
cents.
Emulating the example set by the
Allied Printing Trades OF Denver, the
Knights OF Columbus. which now has
100000 members. is seriously consid-
ering a proposition to build a large
wing to st. Anthony's hospital in Den
yer. similar to the one definitely
planned by the printing trades. for the
special purpose of accommodating
knights afflicted with tuberculosis.
Senator Charles J. Hughes has in
troduced bill for an appropriation Of
$1,000 for the worlds congress of the
deaf. to be held in Colorado Springs
this summer. The bill was referred to
the committee on Industrial exposi-
lions and as Senator Hughes is giving
his personal attention to the bill he
feels that the appropriation will be
granted.
At the suggestion OF Mrs. Catherine
NJ. Cook. state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, the State Land Board
Is considering a scheme to donate
from two to five acres of land for
playground purposes to each public
school in Colorado which is occupying
public land at the present time. The
plan is to donate the land to the
schools on condition that each school
board which accepts a gift of the sort
does so win the understanding that 1t
mus, supply the equipment necessary
to furnish the playground in the prop.
er manner.
In order to ascertain II the cost OF
living has increased in Greeley in the
last year materially over that of pre-
vious years. a merchant in business at
Greeley for twenty-five years has gone
carefully over his books. compiling the
cost of groceries and dairy products in
the years 1890. 1900 and 1910. The re-
suit shows that all dairy and farm pro-
ducts. butter. bacon. eggs. cheese. etc,
have increased from ten to fifty per
cent in cost since 1890, but the cost
of the bulk of all other groceries. with
the exception OF lard. has not in.
creased and in many cases is much
less. Sugar is cheaper. coffee 10 cents
a pound less, spices are much lower
and all groceries far purer. Canned
goods have decreased in cost over
twenty-five per cent and all fresh
fruits are cheaper. with the exception
of apples.
Williams Brothers and s. NJ. Burby,
living at Hay Creek. about thirty miles
west of Palmer Lake. had four horses
killed in two days by mountain lions,
which are said TO be numerous in that
vicinity. Residents of that section say
the mountain lions are holder this win.
ter than they have ever been.