The Arvada enterprise., 1919-12-04

There are about 10000 lambs being
fed In the Mesita-Snn Acasia territory.
The proposed auditorium at Mesita
seems q certainty. Over 5000 has
been raised already.
George L. Murray, son Of Mrs. Ella
A. Murray, returned to his mother at
Colorado Springs after being reported
missing" in the United States army
since April.
Proposals for a $4,000 bond issue
to erect an auditorium, gymnasium
and additional classrooms at the local
high school were overwhelmingly de-
feated ut Colorado Springs.
William Edwards of Trinidad, a
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and Starkville. was
jOlted from the top Of car and was
ground to death under the wheels of
the next car.
Increases of from Is to 25 per cent
in all city salaries are provided In an
ordinance adopted by the city council
at Colorado Springs. Patrolmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
increases of from $40 to $35 monthly.
Officials of the local district office
Of the United States forest service
have begun cooperative work with the
San Isabel Public Recreation Ass0cia-
tion for the development of a new
Colorado national playground on the
San Isabel forest.
Expert yeggmen opened. the safe at
the Portland (Colo.) postoffice and es-
capped with $1,000 in stamps. thrift
stamps and liberty bonds, and robbing
the drug store in which the postoffIce
Is located of another $1,000 worth of
jewelry and stock.
There were twice as many babies
born in Pueblo In October than there
were deaths, according to statistics
given out by the city board of health.
OF the babies born, the majority Of
them were boys. The health report
shows that there were eighty-slx
babies born In October and fifty.three
were boys.
The body OF the unidentified man,
murdered several months ago, which
was found by three women strOlling
across the prairies near Pueblo, is he
lieved to be thnt Of Tony LaprestO, 81
years old, former saloonkeeper Of
AguIlar, Colo, who disappeared last
January after threats Of blackmail had
been made to him.
A contract has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to George
Tonpaine Of Grand Junction for the
construction Of the first quarter Of a
mile Of the proposed concrete road
from this city to Palisade. Appropria-
tiOns have already been made for an
additional three miles on this road, ex-
tending the concrete roadway to Fruit.
dale.
Ten miles Of the new roadway up
Big Thompson canon leading to Estes
Park. have been completed and auto
lists declare the road one Of the best
and safest mountain highways In the
state. The road bed In from twenty to
thirty feet wide at nil points. thus elm.
mating much Of the danger to passing
vehicles that has always heretofore "a.
listed.
Discovery Of an artexian water basin
In the Larsen dry farming district
northwest Of Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cattlemen and farm.
err. The flow was struck on the Wick.
ert ranch, which liz fifteen miles north.
west Of Grover. There Is volume
sufficient to keep twO-inch pipe
filled. and the water In free from sul.
phur and other diStasteful contents.
An engineer who Investigated the well
believes that the artesian basin lies
under q large acreage Of land.
George Golden. negro. serving Q
life sentence, made sensational dash
for freedom ut the state penitentiary at
Canon City. hut was captured after he
had scaled the twenty.five-foot wall.
swan the Arkansas river and reached
the foothills In South cahon.
Stickerx, human and otherwise, come
In all varieties! The gayeSt Of 1870
StIckers is the Christmas seal which
has been issued by the Colorado Pub.
lie Health Association. It's redolent
Of Christmas cheer a. q FIR tree all
trimmed with candles or q brisk snow
storm or a bright red holly wreath
hung In the window. It's done In soft
blue. and green and red and has 4
Santa Claus climbing down a chimney,
his bnck bent under the CHEEKY mes.
sage he carries Of "a Merry Christ.
mas. Health and a Happy New Year."
That's \ new message for Old Man 10
carry. 'fs the message Of the Colo.
RADIO Public Health Association to
every man. woman and child of Colo.
rado. It's going on letters and bills
and Christmas packages and mall Of
every description through the medium
of "health" Christmas seals which are
= national institution.
Salaries Of Ei PnSo county officials
md the maintenance Of the courts and
Institutions Of the county will cost
approximately S21O.OOO during ia9O.
according t0 two separate budget esti.
mates which were presented to tho
r0tinty ct,tnnissIOncrr hv Harry Rrhol.