The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-07-30

AnoIner municipal eiScsiGn haS been
called at Colorado Springs September
s, when S5S4000 in bonds for paving
are to be voted on by taxpayers.
Within the last six weeks three pairs
of twins have been born in Craig. The
first pair were girls and the others
a boy and a girl each
Word has been received from Los
Angeles of the death of William Fl.
Noel, formerly a widely known Denver
business man and a resident of Denver
for many years Death followed an
operation.
A federal cattle inspector named
Woods was killed near Fort Morgan
when an automobile in which he was
riding struck telephone pole and
overturned Roy Hucllins, Fort Nor
gan man, who was driving the car, was
uninjured.
While on a fishing trip at the head
waters of the Rio Grande, thirty-one
miles west of Creede, Mrs George Fos-
ter, 45, the wife of George Foster of
Pueblo, was drowned in a reservoir.
The body was recovered from the deep
water below the dam.
Fort Collins Commercial Club re-
ports busy month in June, figures in
dicating this having just been COM
piled The office received 1,763 tele-
phone calls, l,254 callers and 662 visit
ing tourists during the month. Forty
two letters of inquiry concerning Fort
Collins We're answered.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for big picnic and barbecue to
be held at Eldorado Springs by the
American Legion on Saturday, Aug. 81
According to e. j. Fluff, who has
charge of the arrangements, several
special trains will be run to accommo-
date the several thousand persons who
are expected to attend
Although Denver has shown a steady
increase in population, theschool CEN
sus for the current year shows a de-
crease of 5000 as compared with that
of 1919. according to figures made pub
lie by the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction. This year the school
census returns only 81, $50 as of school
age, while last year there were 60,453.
A number of office buildings are to
be rented by the Boulder school board
to take care of the overflow from the
Boulder schools this fall. The audi
toriums of the Whittier and University
Hill schools viii likely be converted
into clsssrooms. These changes are
made necessary by the prospects for
record-breaking attendance.
Work upon the compilation of the
Colorado statutes, authorized by the
Twenty-second General Assembly in its
regular session, has progressed to
state where the revision commission is
getting ready to commence printing
their report for consideration by the
next General Assembly. Contracts for
the printing will be let within the next
few days
Archibald Chisholm, 50, of Denver,
an inmate of the State Insane Asylum
at Pueblo, fell from q third-story win
dow of the institution. His neck was
broken, and he was dead when attend
ants reached him. Chisholm had been
an inmate of fhe institution for sew
eral years, and not being violently iu-
sane, was appointed "trusty' some
tliiie dso, anu iiliON tu lllt AANTNolii "a
the grounds.
One of the most disastrous fires in
the history of northern Colorado COM
pletely destroyed the plant of the
Farmers Union Milling and Elevator
Company at Milliken. The fire broke
out during heavy thunderstorm. The
mill was operated by electric power
and it is believed that lightning struck
the wires. The total loss is estimated
at $125.0o0, only S67 900 of which was
covered by insurance.
Vacations for girls should be CON
sidered with relation to home making I
said Prof J. Adams Puffer, field sec
retary of the National Welfare League,
in an address under the auspices OF
the summer school of the Colorado
as4sfIy OF ('ollfnu