The Elbert County tribune., 1919-12-05

take piace aIi over the United States
from December 70 10, 1919.
There are abont 10000 lambs being
fed In the Mesita-Sail Acasia territory.
Tie proposed auditorium M Mesita
seems a certainty over 5000 has
i.een raised already.
George l. Murray. son OF Mrs. Ella
A. Murray, returned TO his mother at
Colorado Springs after being reported
''fnisslngr In the United States army
s'nce April.
Proposals for SJO0.000 bond issiie
10 erect an auditorium. gymnasium
and additional classroorns mt the local
high school were overwhelmingly de-
feated at Colorado Springs.
William Edwards of Trinidad, a
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and Starkvilie. was
ioited from the top of a car and was
ground to death under the wheels of
The next car.
Increases Of from 10 to % per cent
Ia all city salaries are provided in AN
ordinance adopted by the city council
at Colorado Springs. PatroImen, fire
men and city clerks fared best with
tffIfiseS Oh Ironi S-o f' SOL nippthhs-
Officials OF the local district office
of the United States forest service
have begun cooperative work with the
San Isabel Public Recreation Associa-
fion for the development of new
Colorado national playground on the
Sun 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 nnotber $1,000 worth of
Iewelry and stock
There were twice as many babies
horn In Pueblo in October thnn there
were deaths. according 10 statistics
given out by the city board of health.
or the babies born, the majority of
chem were boys The health report
shows that there We're eighty-siN
babies born In October and fifty-three
were boys
The body of the unidentified man.
murdered several months ago. which
wuS found by three women sirolling
across the pr;iirics near Pueblo. is be-
iieved TO he that Of Tony Lapresto, 81
years old. % former saloonlleeper of
Aguila,, Colo who disappeared last
Innunry after threats of blackmail had
been made to him.
A contract has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to George
Toupainc of Grand Junction for the
construction of the first quarter of "A
mi,e OF the proposed concrete rond
from this city to Palis,.dc. Appropra
tiuns have already been made for an
additional three miles on this road. ex-
trading the concrete roadway TO Fruit
dale.
zen miles of the new roadway up
~. Thompson canon leading to Estes
!'nris have been completed and auto
lists declare the road one of the hest
aud safest mountain highways in the
state The road bed is from twenty to
ti,irty feet wide at all points. thus elm
mating much of the danger tn passing
vehicles that has always heretofore ex-
listed.
Discovery OF an nrtesian water basin
in the larsen dry farming district
northwest of Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cattlemen and farm
crs The flow was struck on the Wick
ert ranch, which is fifteen miles north
west of Grover. There Is volume
sufficient to keep n two-inch pipe
filled, and the water is free from sui
uhur and other dlstasteful contents.
An engineer who investigated the well
believes that the artesian basin lies
under Il large acreage of land
George Golden, negro. serving a
life sentence, mnde sensational dash
for freedom at the state penitentiary at
Cuiion City but was captured after he
had scaled the twcnty-five-foot wall,
swan the Arkansas river and reached
the foothills In South canon.
Stlckers, human and otherwise, come
n nli varietlesl The sayest of 1920
has been issued by the Colorado Pub
lie Health Association. It's redolent
of Christmas cheer as fir tree all
trimmed with candles or brisk snow
storm or bright red holly wreath
hung in the window. It's done in soft
blue, and green and red and has n
Santa Claus climbing down a chimney,
his back bent under the CHEEKY mes
sage he carries of "A Merry Christ
mas. Health and Happy New Year"
That's new message for Old Man to
carry It's the message of the Colo
RADIO Public Health Association to
every man, woman and child of Colo
RADIO. It's going on letters and bills
and Christmas packages and mail OF
every description through the medium
OF ''health'' Christmas seals which are
n national institution.
Salaries of I'll Paso county officials