The Arvada enterprise., 1919-05-01
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to get the Montrose building campaign
INTO full swing. The items which will
20 to make up the program for the
summer include the $l50.OOO court
house. the $4,000 city hall, the $751;
300 Main street paving, the $4,000
tel, the $4,000 hospital, the $4,000
dehydration plant, the $35,OOO Congre-
Hational Church, the $1,000 Christian
Church, some $4,000 In new resi-
dences, and added to this the $4,000
now being expended in new buildings,
the amount In sight for probable 1919
construction makes total of $685.
600. The erection of the $35O,OOO fed
eral building is slated for 1920, and
possibly the erection OF a $1,OOO,OOO
sugar factory in 1920
Among the attractions ut the Rocky
Ford fair will be miniature horse
show. Attractive purses will be Of
fered for II number Of events in the
fancy class and already the associa-
tion ia promised a number of fine ami
mails from Pueblo, Colorado Springs
and other places. For the past few
years there has been some trouble In
securing the quality Of melons that
the association desires to give to pa
irons, but this year some twenty-five
acres will be grown in different parts
OF the valley on the best melon land
to be found, from selected seed. and
there is reason to believe that the big
pile will be the most attractive that
has ever been offered.
The resources Of the banks OF Colo
RADIO have increased 1858, ,792 .O4
since Dec. 81, 1918, according to alb
stracts in the office Of Grant Meier
son, stute bank commissioner. The
figure covers the aggregate gain In as
sets OF 215 state and savings banks.
eighteen trust companies and eight
private banks. The total resources Of
the banks amounted to $1O2 ,SO4 ~ 4.38,
of which savings banks held $53. .202,
9I1.D, trust companies $4S,2lO, ,504 80,
and private banks Sl,3O1. .424.7O The
average reserve was 27.53 per cent
Archibald COwie, former manager OF
the Beaver Park Land and Water COM
pany, editor and publisher OF the Pen
rose Press and the head OF many other
organizations and projects connected
with the town OF PenrOse and the Bea-
yer Park district, and who pleaded
guilty to the charges of embezzlement
and of padding the pny rolls Of his
company, was sentenced by Judge
James l.. Cooper of the Fremont coun-
ty District court to term OF from
two to three years In the penitentiary.
Potato acreage will be cut about IS
per cent of the 1913 acreage this sum
mer, according to dealers and farmers
around Greeley. This years potato
shipments will total 5000 carloads,
while the 1919 crop probably will run
under 1900. Much Of the potato acre
age Is going into sugar beets, while
other potato land Ia being seeded to
alfalfa. The value Of the 1918 crop
to the farmer was about x2.25O.OOO.
A lone armed bandit held up and
robbed Conductor F. w. Schulz and
Brakeman l.. F.. HOrten Of u Colorado
4 Southern freight train at Louisville
Junction. The rObber secured two valu-
able watches, IL fine Elks fob charm
and SO In money. Schulz and Hor.
not resist.
Confessing to the shooting Of Jacob
Alellinger, proprietor OF IL store II
Rush, Earl and Tom Combs, cousins,
are In the county juIi at Colorado
Springs, where they will face charges
of deliberate murder. The two men,
attempting to rob the store. shot Mel.
linger through the back aud then tried
to escape.
Tom and Earl Combs, confessed
murderers Of Jacob Bailinger. Rush
merchant, made a strenuous effort Ia
plead guilty to the charge Of murdss
In the first degree, aud Judge J. w.
Sheafor had to force them tO make n
IA preliminary hearing ut Colorado
Springs.
John w. Spencer, supervisor Of the
Battlenlent forest, with heatiQuarte ters
Grand Junction, has made reQuiai.
tiOn upon the federal government for
10000 black spotted trout which will
be distributed In the streams of this
section OF the state. Another reQuisi.
tion. about one. fourth M large. will liz
made upon the state government. Tho
hatcheries at Glenwood also will make
. volunteer contribution.
Prices received by the war depart.
ment In the sale 0f surplus supplies
totslIng S1SOOO,0OO. the war depart.
ment announced, averaged ~ t~r cent
Of the initial cost. Military railway
material disTsOned Of brought S7l .OGO..
900: exactly what these supplies cost
the government. Aircraft production
material was sold NJ 10 y,~r cent Of
It's cost and ordnance supplies brought
81 p~r cent.
| After she had received letters
which she hnd written 10 her son, Les.
lie Tuck with the Wnr lk.uu RI ,us.ut' y