Cheyenne record., 1919-05-08
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

h6pOTlb received Dy Lne SIate w
operative Crop Reporting Service indi-
cate in a general way better sup
ply of farm labor at this time than
was available at this time last year.
Marked shortage has been reported in
some sections, particularly in parts OF
the San Luis, Arkansas and Uncom-
pahgre Valleys. General reports indi-
cate that the labor supply is from g
tG 10 per cent greater. but still ap-
proximatels 10 per cent below normal.
There is surplus of labor reported
in many ef the towns, but difficulty
is 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
der 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 u
day for weeks at stretch, and that
he came through without scratch,
and had hoped for the time when he
could walk into his home unscathed.
dage on his head and big black eye
as result of being dumped around in
narrow gauge upset.
Eldredge Anderson of Denver is
dead and Charles J. Ross, also of Den
yer, is badly injured, the result of
rnI1isinn of fhoir SiiD
with an automobile driven by w. G.
Riddock, Fountain, Colo. The collision
occurred on the Pueblo road seven
miles south of Colorado Springs at
curve. Riddock drove out to the left
to pass load of hay, and his car and
the motorcycle met head on. Riddock
said he could not see the motorcycle
approaching.
Sergt. T. A. Day and L. N. Hagood,
recently discharged from the army,
have reached Kremmling, in 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
Baggs, thence to Craig, Colo, from
whence they went to Grand Junction
and Montrose, then to Glenwood
Springs and Wolcott and State Bridge
A cafeteria for the employees of the
Swift Company's packing plant at the
| stOckyards has been opened In Den
yer. Meals may be secured for p to
% cents and the profits will revert to
the employees, who own the restau-
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 were returned to the COM
mission by the federal roads bureau
with the approval Of the governments
engineers.
The members of the Congregational
NAAAA MI WOW cuA ~ AsCN a. thC
meeting and banquet at Aiontrose when
| c. B. Akard, vice president of the
First National bank. announced that
he and his wife would place memo
rial for their dead daughter, Mattye
| Shirley Akard, In the new Congrega-
tional church In the shape of pipe
| organ to cost between $1,000 and $1O,-
| 900.
In competition with 1000 contest
ants, Miss Bernice Brown of Barr
Lake school, four miles east Of Brigh-
| ton, has won the $50 Victory bond
given by Samuel d. Nicholson, state
| chairman of the Victory Loan drive,
for the best essay on 1.-THE Price of
Peace" Miss Browns teacher, Miss
Evelyn Hartman, was awarded an emil
nent service badge for the interest she
created among her pupils in the work.
Water commissioners in the Greeley
district are urging the farmers to con-
serve the water supply in the bitches
and not run any more than is absolute
ly 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
ingly less than for many seasons at
this time. and unless heavy rains Oc-
cur within the next few weeks draw
ing on the reservoir water will have
start about Il month earlier than usual,
which will mean Il scarcity of irriga-
tion water in the late summer and con-
aauueDt 1OSS tn many formarS
The price being paid for sugar beets
this season, $40 ton flat, has stimu-
lated the interest of farmers in this