Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-02-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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
q handkerchief to tho South Side I'M
provement Society of Colorado City to
be sold at a bazar 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 un-
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 Z. Field and A. f. Bent to
| represent the state Of Colorado at the
national convention on weights and
measures which is to be held in Wash
ington, ID. c., February 25th and 26th.
The work of tearing down buildings
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
Larkland. on the Denver & Rio
Grande. forty-three miles south of
Denver.
Department Commander John W.
| WinEate of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public has issued a formal order to
all posts in the Department OF Colo
RADIO and Wyoming. requesting the
members to observe Lincoln's aud
Washngton's birthdays in prope:
| form.
Richard Il. Burke has rclinquishcd
control OF the eating houses and din
inE ears operated along the Moffat
Road TO Clark Gregg, former superin-
tendcnt OF dining car service on the
Denver a. Rio Grande, and later stew
ard of the Colorado Traffic Club in
Denver.
The county commissioners OF Prov
ers county have granted u permit for
the organization OF the Holly a. Grana-
da Irrigation district. for the reclama-
tion Of $1,000 acres south OF the two
towns. The water supply will be
taken from Rule creek, west OF Ln-
mar. and be stored In = large reser-
voir.
The Holly Sugar Company has made
public its contracts for growers OF
bcets next season. offering the best
terms yet made by 1t. For beets with
| IL to II $40 per cent. sugar content
they will pay S. per ton; Is per cent,
s5.25; 1G per cent. $3.50: II per cent.
s5.75. and for each per cent. over II. Is
cents.
Emuiating the example set by the
Allied Printing Trades OF Denver. the
Knights of Columbus, which now has
100000 members, Is seriously cOnsid-
ering q proposition to build n 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 a bill for an appropriation Of
5000 for the worlds congress of the
deaf. to be held in Colorado Springs
this summer. The bill was referred to
the committee on industrial eSposi-
tions 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
! VI. 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
rchocls on condition that each school
board which accepts a gift OF the sort
does 80 wi h 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-fiYe ner cent and all fresh