The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-06-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
I. P. Beckett of Great Divide has
been appointed postmaster at Craig to
succeed v. G. Ledford, who has re-,
signed.
The alfalfa web worm has made its
appearance in the Canon City and
Penrose districts and is said to be do
ing considerable damage to vegetation
Df various kinds
Two persons were killed and several
injured in a wreck of Santa Fe pas
senger train No. near Rene, twelve
niles south of La Junta. Over thirty
passengers were injured.
Farmers throughout the state of
Colorado have had to pay enormously
high prices for feed for their livestock
during the last several winters. Now.
is the time to plan feed for next win.
ter
Charles Dickens of Manitou, an en-,
ploye Of the Colorado Springs Light,
Heat and Power Company at Manitou,l
is recovering from burns received.
when current of 5000 volts passed
through his body.
The Garmesa Farms Company, one
of the largest farming organizations in
western Colorado, is named as defend
ant in a suit filed in the District Court
at Grand Junction by II. B. Crowell of
Chicago, who seeks collection Of $780,
421.42 alleged to be due on 143 prom
issory notes.
Farm forestry properly practiced
provides fuel, posts, poles and repair
material, says w. J. Morrill, Of the
Colorado Agricultural College. The
work in thinning and harvesting Is
done in the winter when other work is
not pressing. A grove or windbreak
does wonders in improving the appear
ances Of the farm home, thus enhanc-
ing the interest in and contentment Of
farm life.
The Colorado Funeral Directors and
Embalmers' Association will hold its
twenty-third annual convention at Es-
tes Park, June % to 25. w. D. Nash
of Denver will be the toastmaster at
the opening banquet. Glen Yore will
give an official speech of welcome and
Mayor A. L. Cobb Of Estes will speak
the following morning. A dance and
picnic will be among the entertain
ment features.
Boys hunting for frogs near Craig
discovered what they believed was a
doll floating in the water. They in
vestigated and hauled the supposed
doll ashore. They were shocked to
find it was a dead infant about z
weeks old. They notified the authori-
ties and the coroner held an inquest.
Coroner J. G. Clayton said that the
baby was probably dead before being
placed in the branch Of Fortification
creek.
Berthoud pass, which Is a part of
one of the most popular tourist routes
from Denver to Steamboat Springs,
and which has been closed during the
winter months, opened for traffic June
Is, according to statements received
from the Commercial Association of
Empire, Colorado. Many motorists, it
Is said, have taken the Berthoud road
since the opening of the tourist season,
and have been forced to turn back on
account of the road over the pass hav-
ing been closed.
Mrs. Fred Dick Of the Colorado
Child Welfare Bureau, was reelected
vice president of the National Child
Welfare Conference Of Mothers Con-
gress and Parent-Teacher Associations
at the annual meeting of that body at
Madison, Wis. Eight delegates attend
ed the conference from Colorado
kI,4k tlxse kzk1 t.
one of the leaders of the nation in
child welfare work. Mrs. Milton P
Higgins of Massachusetts was elected
president of the organization.
Cecil Brown, the 14-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Brown OF
Colorado Springs, was fatally injured
when he was knocked from the run
ming board of the automobile on which
he was riding and his head crushed
against a telephone pole.
Accidentally coming into contact
with a high voltage power line carry.
ing $4,000 volts of electricity. Austin
owd, 26 years old, resident of Grip
pie Creek, and an employe of the Ar
kansas Valley Light and Power Com
pany, was instantly killed at Cripple
Creek.
Preliminary reports indicate that the
production of apples and pears in Colo
RADIO this year will be greater than fol
last year, but the production of both
peaches and cherries will be much
smaller than that for last year. The
apple crop will be one of the largest
in the history of the state If conditions
remain favorable until harvest time
the preliminary estimate being 3,2O3,
$50 bushels, compared with final esti
mate of 2,795,0OO bushels last year
The condition of the cherry crop is re
ported as only 35 per cent of normal
which is one of the lowest condition
figures for this crop in recent years.
To take the place of the recently