The Dolores star., 1919-05-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Capt. Harold Shoup, eldest son of
Governor and Mrs. Shoup. who has
been in service overseas for two and
one-half years, has sailed from France
for New York.
The final settlement of the estate
Of Winfield Scott Stratton. multi-mil-
lionaire mining man who died in 1902,
will be made in the county court Of
FL Paso county.
DIR. Livingstone Farrand. former
president of the state university and
now head of the Red Cross in Wash
ington, will be in Boulder for com
mencement and deliver the address On
June 25th
Advance reports indicate that the
cultivated acreage in Colorado in 1919
will be the largest on record for the
state, the most substantial increase be-
ing in acreage devoted to sugar beets
and wheat
| Denver schools will close for the
summer vacation on June 9th. A de
| lay of several weeks was caused in the
| closing of the schools because of the
! enforced vacation of two months last
/ fall on account of the influenza epi-
| demic
/ The recent development of KiOwa
| county in eastern Colorado Is fUrcibly
| illustrated by the increase in bank de-
| posts from S244 BOIL on December
81. 1917, TO $3.50 S49.99 on December
81, 1918, an advance of approximately
| 100 per cent
| Frederick Fromm, farmer living
near Wellington, Colo, is dead and
I Herman Webbcr. IL neighbor. is in bad
shape in the Fort Collins hospital rs
the result of an automobile accident
four miles north of Wellington ON the
Cheyenne road.
Mai Alfred Brown of L. :. army,
stationed at Camp Dodge in the in
fantry service, has accepted IL call to
the University of Colorado as secre-
tary of the Y. NJ. G. \. The call was
sent by the student board and the
majors acceptance received.
Having failed to receive any bids
on the project for widening the grade
in the Big Thompson canon ON the Es-
lcs Park road the State Highway Com
mission has decided to undertake the
improvement on its own initiative by
letting the contract TO several par
ties.
An estate of $SO0.O0O, mostly cash
and bonds, is divided into thirty-nine
bequests by the will of Asa Sterling,
late president of the First National
Bank Of Greeley. Half goes to his
widow and the rest to one brother,
three sisters and thirty-four nieces and
nephews.
| The sales of school land in Colo
RADIO during the biennial period end
/ ing November 30, 1918, were 224,O05
acres, and the total price was S3,2lS,-
SIT. Most of this sum goes into the
permanent school fund of the state,
and the interest it earns is used for
the support of public schools
Prof. Roosevelt 7. Walker, for the
last three months field organizer for
the extension department of the Uni
versity of Colorado, has resigned and
will 90 to Athens, Ga, to become pro-
| fessOr Of English at the University of
GeOrgin. He is returning to a position
he held for several years before com
ing TO Colorado.
One-half of the buildings in Fraser,
Colo, We're destroyed by "A fire. Only
four buildings were left on the north !
side of Main street, and the saving Of |
these was due to quick Trip by
Moffat road train from Taberuash !
/ bringing fire fighters. How the fire |
started is not known, for it was under .
good heaGwdy in n small building when |
discovered.
The third trail to the summit of |
Pixies Peak, said to excel both the /.
present trails in scenic attractions, will /.
be completed in time for the summer /
tourist season,
There are now more than 300 op. |
portunities for the establishment of |
factories, business enterprises and for |
professional people, in the smaller cit /
les and towns Of the state, according /
TO the annual opportunity survey con /
Quoted by the State Board of Immi- .
grafton, which is now nearly complete. |
Marie Green, = years old, fell from |
the second story window of her home .
at La Junta, and outside Of a severe
shaking up, suffered no serious in. |
jury. The child was leaning against
screen when it gave way. She .
struck on an electric light wire which |
broke the fall
Harold Monroe of Montrose Is a |
member Of the crack gun crew which .
captured the championship honors OF
the Pacific coast. This crew. as n
result of this record, received bonus
OF $l,4oo and 50 a month extra pay
Tor period Of two years, for the in
divldual craftsmanship.
Hoy Wong, pioneer and sightles,