The Meeker herald., 1919-03-01
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, is dead at his Den
yer home.
As xOOn M the frost Ia out OF the
ground work will be started on the
electric light plant which is to be the
latest addition to Craig.
Government reports show that there
are now 4O8.OOO hogs In Colorado.
worth &s.0s2,OOO. rs compared with
l70.2A In 1910. worth &l,58s,l's.
Eaton's town hoard is the first of
the Weld county towns to grant the
Union Pacific railroad officials re-
quest for universal speed limit for
all towns In the country.
The acreage Of wheat harvested in
Colorado In 1918 was $4,000, Us COM
pared with 34O.720 acres for 1909. The
increase has been largely In the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
Julio ChnvOn, IL Mexican, pleaded
guilty to killing 4 mountain sheep In
Glen canon near GlenwoOd Springs,
and was fined 800. This IL the first
conviction OF its kind In number
OF years.
At the city election April list the
taxpayers will vote on II bond issue
of S:5,OOU for the building Of new
city hill at I.ongnOn,, and an Issue
of $4,000 for the Improvement OF
city parks.
beavers are blamed for impurities
In BOulder's drinking water and state
officials will be asked for permission
to slaughter II colony OF them ut the
Lakewood intake TO the water system
In The mountains.
MILFORD Rurwcll and MOrcy Good
man OF La Junta have been awarded
buttons by the United States Treas
ury Department for their work In war
savings nnd thrift stamp sales. They
will also each receive II letter OF COM
mendati0n from officials In Washing
ton.
Louis I,nchOfsky, past exalted ruler
Of the LOvclnnd lodge OF Elks, re-
ceivcd word from the state executive
committee OF the order that the an
nunl state convention would be held
In LOvplnnd this year, the last week
In August, during the I.arImcr county
fair.
The mystery surrounding the dIsap-
pcarance of John Breuss, IS, wealthy
Garfield county rancher, last NOvein-
Der, was solved when his bOtly WAS dis
covered buried four feet beneath H
manure pile on his farm. Three Mex
leans Of the silt district are In jail at
GlenwOod Springs charged with the
mans murder.
Corp. Henry Rendering OF La Junta.
% years old, died In e,nbarlation hos
pItnl No. 1 Mt 1IobOken, n. J. He ar
rived In HobOken the first Of Fel'ru-
ury. and was taken from the trans
port suffering from Influenza, which
developed Into pneumonia. He Is sur
vived by his father and mother, and n
brother and sister.
At a countrywide meeting of the
farmers aud stOckmen Of I.ariIner
county, the Larimer county farm bu-
reau was organized with more than II
hundred members. Farmers and thelI
wives from all sections Of the county
are joining this bureau daily, and 1t
promises to reach membership of
several hundred before summer.
The huniredtlI anniversary OF the
founding Of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows will he celebrated by
Colorado members In Denver In OctO-
her The selection Of Denver for the
celebration and also the next conven-
tIOn to be held at that time. was the
main order OF business at the clos
Ing session OF the Odd Fellows con
ventiOn.
The FOSSIL remains of nm nutl,ielu.
yian monster. half fist, and half reptile
believed 10 have lived millions OF
wears ago when the great Uintah ba.
vim WAS nm OCEAN. Inns been discovered