The Dolores star., 1919-05-09
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

was available at this time last yehr-
Marked shortage has been reported III
some sections, particularly In parts OF
he San Luis, Arkansas and uncOin-
oahgre Valleys General reports indi-
cate that the labor supply is from
to 10 per cent greater, but still ap-
oroNimately 10 per cent below normal.
There is a surplus of labor reported
IN many of the towns, but difficulty
5 encountered in getting people from
the cities and towns to go into the
country and undertake farm work.
W. II. Tebbs of Dolores, Colo, sol
dier who was injured in the wreck ON
CerrO summit, told people who were
caring for his wounds that with the
Fifth engineers of the Seventh diVi-
sion he had gone through warfare for
days and days, and that he had mar
rowly escaped death several times II
day for weeks at stretch, and that
he came through without a scratch,
and had hoped for the time when lie
could walk into his home unScathed.
Instead he went home wearing ban
dage on his head and II big black eye
us a result of being dumped around in
II narrow gauge upset.
Eldredge Anderson of Denver is
dead and Charles J. Ross, also of Den
yer, is badly injured, the result of Il
collision of their motorcycle side car
with an automobile driven by W. q.
Frh, .nlIi Sinn
occurred on the Pueblo road seven
miles south of Colorado Springs at II
curve. Riddock drove out TO the left
to pass load of hay. and his car and
the motorcycle met head on. RddoCk
said he could not see the motorcycle
approaching.
Scrgr. T. A. Day and L. n. Ilagood,
recently discharged from the army,
have reached Krcmmling, in II small
car of universal reputation, being the
first tourists to arrive in Middle Park
in 1919. They came from La Grange,
Mo, looking for homestead locations.
They drove through Wyoming TO
RaggS, thence to Craig, Colo, from
whence they went to Grand Junction
and MontrOSc, then to GlenwOOd
Springs and Wolcott and State Bridge.
\ cafeteria for the employees Of the
Swift Compunys packing plant at the
StockyardS has been opened in Den
Yer. Meals may be secured for u to
IS cents and the profits will revert to
the employees, who own the rcStau-
rant. Girls at the plant will act as
servers during the meal hours, which
last for an hour and a half. There
will be three shifts at each meal so
that the total organization can be fed.
Within three weeks at the outside.
work upon the Improvement of the Big
Thompson canon road, the main gate
way to Estes Park and the Rocky
Mountain national park, will com
menCe. The plans for the work drawn
by the engineers of the state highway
commission We're returned to the com
mission by the federal roads bureau
with the approval of the government :
engineers.
The members of the Congregational
church We're surprised at the annual
meeting and banquet at Montrosc when
G. b. Akard, vice president of the
First National bank, announced that
he and his wife would place a memo.
rial for their dead daughter, Mattye
Shirley Akard, in the new Congregn.
tional church in the shape of Il pipe
organ to cost between $4,000 and So.
900
In competition with 1000 contest.
ants, Miss Bernicc Brown Of Barr
Lake school. four miles east of Brigh
ton, has won the 800 Victory bond
given by Samuel ID. Nicholson, state
chairman of the Victory Loan drive
Tor the best essay on "Thc Price OF
Peace Miss Browns teacher. Miss
Evelyn Hartman, was awarded an cmi
nent service badge for the interest she
created among her pupils in the work
Wafer commissioners in the Greeley
district are urging the farmers to ruu,
serve the water supply in the bitches
and not run any more than is absolute
~ necessary, because Of threatened
shortage in the streams. While there
seems TO be plenty Of storage and res
ervoir water. the direct flow Is alarm
insly less than for many seasons nj
this time, and unless heavy rains oc
eur within the next few weeks, draw,
ing on the reservoir water will have I,
start about "A month earlier than usual
which will mean a scarcity Of irriga
tion water in the late summer and con
Sequent loss to many farmers.
The price being paid for sugar beets
this season, $40 ton flat, has stilnu
lated the interest of farmers in thi.
crop, with the result that Colorado vii
have, if conditions remain favorabl,
throughout the planting season, til,
largest sugar beet acreage in its his
tory this year There will be Il YER,
marked Increase in acreage in tn,
Northern Colorado district, with small
Pr Increases in the Arkansas V,IIn,