The Lovington leader., 1916-11-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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The Fang Brewing Company plant
may be converted into m Ice plant
Las Animas county shipped t.s2.
head Of stock during October.
The funeral OF Thomas N. Hyder
Was held from ST. Paurs Methodist
church In Denver
The convict camp operating on road
work In Boulder canon will BE- trans
ferred to Clarasdorf
Mexican beans are bringing 35.25 In
the dirt at Fowler. The buyer stands
the expense OF cleaning.
Greeley Is to have fiye.foot cement
walks in the district along Fourth
street and Eighth avenue.
The Fremont County Poultry Asso.
citation will hold its annual poultry
show at Canon City. Jan. IL to IL.
The Pueblo stockyards report an in
crease OF 400 carloads OF stock handled
Ia october over the same months In
1915.
The Colorado Midland Railway Com.
pany has announced Its intention OF
running directly into the town OF Car
bondale.
Assistant District Attorney Frank A.
West was appointed major on the
Judge advocates staff Of the reorgan-
ized militia at Denver.
The Denver 4 Rio Grande railway
surveyors who have been making a
survey Of new route over Cumbres
Pass have reached Antonito.
Robert Wallace English, Il. promi.
nent In Denver business and Masonic
circles and q resident OF Denver for
many years. died at his home from
uremia.
The Hygiene consolidated school
district has awarded q contract for
the erection OF two-story modern
schoolhouse at Hygiene. The cost to
be $l0,422.
+. ID. Crocker OF Pueblo county sold
81 acres OF his farm land to o. p. Lar.
son for Sli.500. establishing a new val.
uation for Pueblo county farm lands
OF :lGl per acre.
Mr Bennett. a Palisade rancher, re.
ports that three.quarters of an acre
planted with tomatoes early In the
spring brought him returns at the rate
cf $40 per acre.
George X. Lunn. Socialist mayor OF
Schenectady. N. Y. former Denver
boy. and son Of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A..
Lunn OF Denver. was elected con.
gresham from his district.
Tungsten miners are preparing to
attend the January meeting OF the
Colorado Metal Mining Association to
urge influence with Congress to pro.
tcct their industry against the impor.
tation Of cheap ores from South Amer.
lea
Donald Knight, l6, suffered the frac.
ture OF a bone in the right leg and in.
juries TO the left leg and shoulder, and
Delbert Sutter. lG. sustained minor in.
juries when the two boys were run
over by twoton freight truck in
Boulder
The campaign for use OF Colorado
made goods and the patronizing OF
home industries scored a point when
Denver firm secured the contract
against score OF Eastern competitors
for the electrical fixtures for the Weld
county court house.
Demands OF Colorado and the entire
tungsten producing West for a tariff
on the black metal were laid before
the state senatorial delegation at a
meeting OF the tungsten miners with
Senators Shafroth and Thomas and
Congressman Timberlake at Boulder.
Nearly $5.OO0,OOO in common stock
and more than $5OO.OOO in cash divi
dends will be divided among stock
holders 81 the Great Western Sugar
Company as a result OF a resolution
passed in Denver by the board OF di
rectors Of the corporation and the de
olaring Of the usual quarterly divi
dend.
The International Farm Congress.
and the International Soil Products
exposition officials are considering ths
location of the permanent headquar
ters OF those organizations in Denver
The board Of governors will meet DE
cember l TO consider the matter, ac
cording to letter received from w
l. Drummond. chairman.
Formal orders declaring Thoma.
Byrd Page, millionaire mining man
formerly Of Denver but now an inmat,
OF sanitarium near Baltimore, Md.
mentally incompetent, were entered II
the County Court In Denver. The OF
ders were entered upon the testimon.
Of alienists Of Baltimore. whose depo
sitions were sent to the Denver cour,
Frank N. Briggs. state director 10
the fourth annual conference on maj
keting and rural credits. to be held a
the Sherman hotel in Chicago. Dec.
to 8. declared In Denver that Colorad
ought to have at least 100 represents
tives at the meeting.
Miners employed In the coal camp
In Boulder county have been given a
advance In pay. Men employed by tn
day will receive, under the new scale