The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-04-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

tic beet seed TO supply the demand of
growers in the Windsor district IL al
most completed. The work has been
delayed somewhat by reason OF
shortage of help although the COM
pany paid 37h cents per hour for ten
hours work. Windsor Is one of the
Seed growing districts of northern
Colorado and the Great Western COM
pany plans to grow enough seed to
supply all of its factories without the
help of imported seed in the future.
new municipal mountain park,
consisting of PIN acres of land on
Little Deer creek, eight miles south OF
Bear creek, has been bought by the
city of Denver for $1,000, and will be
opened to picnickers this summer. The
land Is for the most part level meadow
land covered with cottonwood trees.
Negotiations are now under way to
procure more of the Little Deer creek
bottom for the city, 1t being recog-
nized as ideal for campers. 1t 10
planned to improve roads leading to
the new acquisition.
The United States forest service 10
planning the immediate construction
of another automobile highway in
northwestern Colorado that will be Of
geenral benefit to !, putt county, for
there is every possibility that 1t Will
be made a connection between the Rab-
bit Ear road and the eastern slope by
way of the Rocky Mountain National
Park. The new road will cross Lulu
pass, passing through the long aban-
doned town of Lulu, and connect North
Park with Denver by way of the Fall
River automobile boulevard.
Children in the Denver public schools
bought nearly half million dollars
worth of thrift and war savings
stamps between Dec. 8, 1917, and
March 81, 1919, according to the re-
port of c. NJ. Schenck, custodian for
the stamps in school district No. 1.
During that time thrift cards have
been exchanged for war savings
stamps to the value of SS9,980 The
total purchases by school children in
Denver of thrift and savings stamps
were $435,976.29, the report shows.
The Adams County Farm Bureau,
composed of farmers all over the coun-
ty, is behind proposition to establish
a telephone line north and south
through the east end of the county,
connecting Fort Morgan and Deertrail.
The line, with branches, will be about
fifty miles long and will accommodate
more than $50 families There is also
movement on foot for north and
south roads through the east end of
the county to be graded and put In
good condition.
Without knowing that his name was
being considered for the position, and
never making application for same,
Rev. C. w. Gray of Mead, while not
even residing in the state and having
been gone for twenty months, was ap-
pointed by the governor of Pennsyl-
vania as chaplain of the prison at Phil
adelphia at a salary of $500 yenr.
He will continue his pastoral year at
Mead and return to the East in the
fall.
The Caribou district of Boulder
county is experiencing a decided re-
vival and more ore is now coming from
the camp than in many years past.
Nearly all of the famous old producers
are again active and have been
brought to fresh productron, or will be
by work now under way. III. c. New
ton is assembling material for an early
resumption on his group, and many
others in the field are in shape to
make the summer productive one.
Several experiments in scientific
farming are to be undertaken in Arap-
ahoe this year under supervision of the
county farm bureau Chief among
these is the raising of broom corn and
the incubation of alfalfa seed. Broom
corn has never been raised to any eX-
tent as far north as Arapahoe county.
This year five or six acres are to be
planted by as many farmers in the
vicinity of Strasburg
Denver architects will compete for
the honor of providing plans for the
VOORHEES, memorial gateway to the
Civic Center, to be constructed on the
Bates triangle at a cost of 100000. A
committee in charge of the building of
this memorial to the late John H. p.
VOORHEES, met in Mayor Mills office
and decided that such a competition is
necessary according to the rules of the
Denver architects organization.
James B. Ballinger is a soldier from
Mead, who was in the thick of the
fighting in France, and was so Sc
riously wounded and shot up that it
was feared for several months that he
could rot recover. Ballinger was
about as near a human wreck when
the surgeons began on him as can be
imagined, and now he is able to re-
sumo his old occupation of automobile
mechanic