The Elbert County tribune., 1919-05-09
COLORADO NEWS Norxs.

Marked shortage has been reported in
some sections, particularly in parts of
the San Luis, Arkansas and Uncom-
| pahgre Valleys. General reports indi-
rate that the labor supply is from 8
to 10 per cent greater, but still APP
proximately 10 per cent below normal.
There Is a surplus of labor reported
In many of the towns, but difficulty
Is encountered In getting people from
the cities and towns to go into the
country and undertake farm work.
w. II. Tebbs of Dolores, Colo, SOL
dier who was injured In the wreck on
Cerro summit, told people who were
caring for his wounds that with the
Fifth engineers of the Seventh divi-
sion he had gone through warfare for
days and days, and that he had mar
rowly escaped death several times
day for weeks at a stretch, and that
he came through without scratch,
and had hoped for the time when he
could walk into his home unscathed.
Instead he went home wearing a ban
dage on his head and big black eye
as result of being dumped around in
narrow gauge upset.
EIdredge Anderson of Denver is
dead and Charles ]. Ross, also of Den
yer, is badly injured, the result of
collision of their motorcycle side car
with an automobile driven by W. G.
Riddock, Fountain, Colo The collision
occurred on the Pueblo road seven
miles south of Colorado Springs at n
Al. I.fs
to pass load of hay, and his car and
the motorcycle met head on. Riddoca
said he could not see the motorcycle
approaching.
Sergt. Il. A. Day and L. n. Hagood,
recently discharged from the army,
have reached Kremmling, In small
car of universal reputation, being the
first tourists to arrive in Middle Park
in 1919. They came from La Grange,
Mo-, looking for homestead locations.
They drove through Wyoming TO
Baggs, thence to Craig, Colo, from
whence they went TO Grand Junction
and AIontrose, then to Glenwood
Springs and Wolcott and State Bridge.
A cafeteria for the employees of the
Swift Company's packing plant at the
stockyards has been opened In Den
yer. Meals may be secured for "a to
% cents and the profits will revert to
the employees, who own the restau-
rant. Girls at the plant will act as
servers during the meal hours, which
last for an hour and half There
will be three shifts at each meal so
that the total organization can be fed.
Within three weeks at the outside,
work upon the Improvement of the Big
Thompson canon road, the main gate
way to Estes Park and the Rocky
Mountain national park, will com
mence. The plans for the work drawn
by the engineers of the state highway
commission were returned to the com.
mission by the federal roads bureau
with the approval of the governments
engineers.
The members of the Congregational
church were surprised at the annual
meeting and banquet at Montrose when
G. B. Akard, vice president of the
First National bank. announced that
he and his wife would place memo
rial for their dead daughter Native
Shirley Akard, in the new COngregn-
tlonal church in the shape of a pipe
organ to cost between 5000 and S10.-
600
In competition with 1000 contest
ants, Miss Bernice Brown of Barr
Lake school, four miles east of Brigh.
ton, has won the $50 Victory bond
given by Samuel ID. Nicholson, state
chairman of the Victory Loan drive
for the best essay on 1.-THE Price of
Peace" Miss Browns teacher, Miss
Evelyn Hartman, was awarded an emf
nent service badge for the interest she
created among her pupils in the work
Water commissioners in the Greeley
district are urging the farmers to con
serve the water supply in the bitches
and not run any more than is absolute
ly necessary, because of threatened
shortage in the streams While there
seems to be plenty of storage and res.
ervoir water the direct flow is alarm
ingly less than for many seasons at
this time, and unless heavy rains oc,
cur within the next few weeks, draw.
ing on the reservoir water will have to
start about month earlier than usual,
which VIII mean scarcity of irriga.
ton water in the late summer and con
sequent loss to many farmers.
The price being paid for sugar beets
this season, $40 a ton flat, has stimu
lated the interest of farmers in this
crop, with the result that Colorado will
have, If conditions remain favorable
throughout the planting season. the
largest sugar beet acreage in its his
tory this year. There will be very
marked increase in acreage in the
Northern Colorado district, with small.