The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-04-19
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Hay ut $40 in the stack and hard to
get at that price has made new rec
ord in Montrose.
Among the 1919 plans for Delta is
brass band, baseball team composed
of home talent and a big Fourth of
July celebration.
The latest word received in Denver
ninth division for America sets the
date of embarkation as May 10th.
Fifteen acres of land near Ault.
known as the Johnson place was sold
for $4,000, or $500 an acre, which is
almost a record price for land In this
section.
The forest service estimates that the
commercial stand of timber in Colora-
do national forests is 1906, $4,000
board feet, having stumpage value of
more than $S6,OOO,O0O.
Harry Jordan paid s134 in court at
Boulder to protect friend whom he
refused to name, but whom, he insist
ed, had given him a quantity of meat
from a deer he shot in the hills.
Catlin & Blake of Montro5e, owners
of the largest orchard on the Western
slope, report that with a perfect crop
of fruit safe up to the present time, the
seasons yield should be $150,000 this
year.
The World War Veterans of Pueblo
had charge of the Victory loan parade
which started the campaign in Pueblo.
This organization Is composed of the
men and boys who had any part what
Soever in the war.
The entire town of Monument is
down with the influenza. There are
n registered cases of the disease
there. Cripple Creek also is afflicted
with a recurrence of the disease. There
il little influenza in Colorado Springs.
Four hundred babies cared for in
one month free, many of them given
their food every day and others
clothed, fed and under the care of ply
sicians, Is the record made by the child
welfare station in Pueblo during the
last month.
Sale of approximately 1,400 acres of
land four miles south of Longmont for
| 100000 is recorded in a warranty
deed filed in the office of the county
clerk 1t is the largest realty deal
transacted since County Clerk Beck
with took office four years ago and is
one of the biggest made in Boulder
county for many years.
Sufficient pinto beans to give each
one of Weld county's $4,000 inhabitants
ration of forty pounds and potatoes
| sufficient to give each inhabitant
sack will perish in that county this
spring and summer because of unfav
orable road conditions and inadequacy
of railroad facilities for shipping the
spuds and lack of market for the
beans.
John Klauss, farmer of the Wind
sor district, who was away from home
at the time OF the old clothes drive, is
minus his shirt and $7S in cash which
he had in the pocket, and which his
wife bundled up with lot of other old
clothes and sent to the Red Cross for
the refugees. Klauss had left the
money in the pocket of his work shirt
which he had left at home for the wife
to sew rip in the back.
The hunt for bootleggers in Colora-
do is not to be relaxed because of the
action of the Colorado Legislature in
the closing days of the session, Colo
mel Allen, head of the department, has
announced. Instead, the force along
the Wyoming Colorado line will be in
creased and the commander states that
the law evaders will find it more
difficult task to get liquor to Denver
than in the past.
George Wright of Montrose has re-
ceived notification from the War De-
partment that the body of his son, who
died of wounds in France, will be
brought home for burial If he so de-
sires.
Fire of unknown origin started in
the big grocery and meat market of
the Miners Association, Lafayette, de-
stroyed the building and its contents
as well as the grocery store of John
Gordon and the residence of William
Wehman, causing loss of $13,500. The
Miners Association estimates its loss
at $4,000, with $1,000 insurance. Cor
don's loss is $1,000 with $1,000 insur-
ance. The Wehman residence was
worth $4,000.
Colonel Barney, recruiting officer in
charge of recruiting in Colorado and
Wyoming, has been definitely in;
formed that he can promise service in
China, Hawaii, the Philippines or Pan
anna, and all enlistments are for three
years flat, with no reserve. Likewise
he is enlisting men for duty in France
and on the Rhine in the American Ex-
peditionary Forces. Colored men
without previous service can now en-
list in the cavalry service in the Phil