The state herald., 1919-08-29
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

The Midland Cereal Products Com
pany have signed a contract with the
Farmers and Merchants Association
which calls for the erection of fac
tory building In Brighton to cost $780,
900. The company will manufacture Il
breakfast food to be known as
"Whole Wheat Nuggets" The Brigh-
ton factory is one of three owned by
the company. The others are at
Sioux Falls, S. D., and Omaha, Neb.
The factory will use all the wheat
grown within hauling distance of
Brighton and will pay the market
price.
Frank Gable, director of the Du-
range roundup, to be held frpm Sept.
% to 20 inclusive, 10 arranging one of
the classiest wild west programs ever
offered. There will be bull riding.
cowgirls' races, running races, goat
rOping contests, trick roping contests,
steer bulldogging, Indian rnces, cow
boys relay races, bareback riding,
cowboys bucking contest. trick riding,
farmers wagon races, In all twenty
events day and $1,000 to be distrib-
uted to the winning contestants during
the four-day celebration.
Marked success is being had by the
State Fish and Game Department in
the use of retaining ponds adjacent
to natural streams for the growing OF
trout to fingers length before plac-
ing them In the creeks and rivers, ac-
cording to Roland G. Parvin, state
fish and game commissioner. Already
ten such ponds in different parts of
the state have been established under
direction of Commissioner Parvin, who
lr the first head of the department to
carry out the idea on statewide
scale.
William Il. Myera, who was arrested
several weeks ago charged with "high-
grading" gold amalgam from the Pow
der River Gold Dredging Company's
dredge, and who was released on n
$500 bond. failed to appear either on
the day set for q hearing by the JUS
tice Of the peace or before the Dis
trict Court, is now a fugitive from
justice and his bondsmen have had to
pay over the $500 of the forfeited bond
to Sheriff ]. G. DetwIler Of Summit
county.
| Frank +. Wood, 63 years old, the
oldest man In point Of service running
out of Denver in the railway mail
service, Is dead. Mr.. Wood was known
rs the most unlucky clerk in the serv-
ice 80 far as wrecks were concerned.
more wrecks than any other railway
mall clerk In the country. He entered
the service In 1888, running between
Leadville and Aspen.
Ticket business In the Union station
In Denver Is averaging $4,000 day,
which is taken by officials OF the ter
minal company us a certain indication
Of theimportance Of Denver. Ten years
ngo the average days business was
$4,000 and 5000 was business 20
great for one day ms to cause comment
among the officials.
A paving project to cost S7O0,OO(
and provide hard surfaced highways
through Colorado Spring from north tc
south and from east to west has been
indorsed by the Colorado Springs Au
tomobile Club and doubtless will be
submitted to the voters Mt special
election to be held next month.
Louis Sheldon, Navajo Indian, has
been sentenced by Judge W. N. Searcy
OF the District Court to serve sen
tence Of from one to three years IN
the state penitcntlary at Canon Cit,
for n statutory offense committed up
on a 16-year-old Indian girl. employed
as n domestic servant
One of the most disastrous losses
In the dairy Industry occurred at Hol-
ly when twenty-seven pure-brcd Hol-
stein cows and pure-brcd Holstein
bull died as the result of cntlng cane
when they broke Into q field on the
farm Of Jens Jensen. The loss will
total $1,000.
At an election held at Breckenridge
taxpayers voted on $4,000 bonds fol
the erection OF Il new schoolhouse. The
vote was ~ for the amendment and
q against
@. B. Akard and wife OF Montrose
have announced the donation OF full
chime pipe organ to be installed In the
new Congregational church now under
construction In TINT city. The organ
will be n memorial to their daughter
Mnttye Shirley Aknrd. deceased. The
organ. which is being constructed es
pecially for the space In the church
will be one Of the finest In the state