The Meeker herald., 1919-02-01
Pithy News Notes
From An Paris Of
Colorado

| Inc potato growers OF the GTeoAoS
district do not want their potatoes
graded before they are sent out to
the consumers.
A tragedy which saddened the
hearts Of all occurred at Holyoke when
the life of year-old babe was snuHed
out by flames, burned to death while
asleep.
The contract for the erection Of Gen.
ter's new $4,000 school building has
been let and the plans and drawings
Of the proposed building are now on
display ut the Library building.
Nebraska Aggies repeated their
last years performance and defeated
the Colorado Aggies in the stock
judging contests at the Western Ma
| tional Stock Show in Denver.
Grand Junction and Grand Valley
business men are after a settlement
of soldiers In the valley under the
plan suggested by Franklin X. Lane.
secretary OF the Interior.
Damage estimated at several hum
dred dollars was caused by frozen
pipes in Denton Hotel at Salida after
the building was vacated by the Emer-
gency Hospital. A big boiler burst
and toppled over.
Ninety-seven men of the $3.50 reg
istered by the Colorado Springs Ex-
emption Board have died since their
registration, according to the tabu-
lation made by the city board in FL
Paso county.
Miss Mildred Morris and DR.. Caro-
line Spencer of Colorado Springs were
among the twenty-five militant su6ra-
gettes Of the National Woman. party
who were released from Jail after .
four-day hunger strike in Washing
ton.
A dairy COW belonging to c. s.
Bonner of Great Bend pays for her.
self every fifteen days. She was pur-
chased for $35 three years ago. and
In fourteen months produced $S47.80
worth of milk, an average of SEA a
day.
Not until he began tumbling about
the house, striking every object in the
room, and finally walked deliberately
into hot stove, did Mrs. Lydia Early
wine Of Num- realize that there was
anything the matter with her 4-year-
old son. When physicians were called
it was discovered that the child was
stone blind.
Senator Charles 8. Thomas noti-
fled the Civic and Commercial Asso-
citation of Denver that the acting
quartermaster general had declared
that the War Department had the
power to establish in Denver mill
tary purchasing headquarters and Il
II is the opinion of the acting quar-
termaster general in Washington that
the War Department has power, un-
der existing law and without add
tional legislation, to establish mill
tary purchasing headquarters and a
quartermaster's depot in Denver, nc
cording to telegram to the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association
from Senator Charles S. Thomas.
An inquiry concerning Colorado pro-
duction of steel, iron and small tools
for markets in France, Italy, Spain,
the Balkan states and North Africa
was received by the Colorado Manu-
facturers' Association from 4 firm in
Paris distributing supplies to the
French army. All Colorado concerns
turning out such products were not-
fled at once by Executive Secretary l..
Il. Lewis of the association.
Proposed salary increases before the
State Legislature received n setback
when it became known that the short
appropriation bill. as tentatively
drawn by the House committee, con.
tains sharp cuts from the short period
appropriations OF two years ago. with
total allowance to the various de-
- ~ oh 10
$2O.687.ll less than the preceding
Legislature authorized for the same
period.
An overheated stove in tho Thomas
Olsen home near Meekcr caused the
death of the three Olsen children.
who were alone at home, the parents
having gone to neighbor's after put
ting the children to he'd. The house
was totally destroyed and the charred
bodies found in the ruins.
That the Colorado Development
Federation continue it's Washington
bureau and other activities MS u pro-
tective measure to Colorado interests
was the request made by the state or
EanizatiOn OF county commissioners.
by unanimous vote. the organization
passed a resolution that each county
pay ut once it's share of fund 10 car
ry on the work OF the federation.
Mrs. Sassil and daughter, Mrs.
Roundtree, who have been living on
homestead thirty miles north Of Ord
way, were caught in the recent bIz-
xarsl and suffered from exposure to
such an extent that Mrs. Cassil died
and Mrs. Roundtree is in a critical
condition. The women were on the
prairie for forty-eight hou-1 before
they were found by cattlemen. who
obtained an automobile and with the
aid Of shovels to get through the
,nowdrifts succeeded in getting them
10 where medical aid could be sum-
mOned.
Following the filing of a protest