The Colorado statesman., 1920-07-31
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


5. when SJStOOO in bonds for paving
rr to be voted on by taxpayers.
Word has been received from Los
Angeles of the death of William ii.
Nuel. formerly widely known Denver
business man and resident of Denver
Tor Inuny years. Death followed an
operation
White on fishing trip ut the head
waters of the Rio Grande, thirty-one
miles west of Creede, Mrs. George Fos-
Ter. Is, the wife of George Foster of
Pueblo. was drowned in II reservoir
The body was recovered from the deep
water below the dam.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for big picnic and barbecue 10
be- held at Eldorado Springs by the
American Legion on Saturday, Aug. 81.
According TO +. j. Huff, who has
charge of the arrangements, several
special trains will he run to accommo-
tlate the several thousand persons who
are expected to attend.
Although Denver has shown steady
Increase in population, theschool cen
slS for the current year shows II de-
crease Of 5000 as compared with that
of 1919, according to figures made pub
lie by the state superintendent or pub
lie Instruction This year the school
census returns only 12.539 as of school
age, while last year there were 6O.4o3.
A number of office buildings are to
be rented by the Boulder school board
10 take care of the overflow from the
Boulder schools this fall. The audi
forums of the Whittier and University
Hill schools will likely be converted
into classrooms. These changes are
made necessary by the prospects for
mountaineering attendance.
Weld county farmers will be paid
S13.4l6.571 for their beet crop this fall,
according to estimates made after
careful check of the sugar factories
within the county and those factories
in surrounding counties which nave
contracted acreage in Weld. Weld
county thus faces one of the most
PROSPEROUS years in IT'S history.
Work upon the compilation of the
Colorado statutes, authorized by the
Twenty-second General Assembly in IFS
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.
J. +. Vallery, assistant general
freight agent, Denver, and +. Il.
Young. superintendent at McCook, Wis
tied Akron and looked over the wheat
fields recently and expressed them
selves as surprised ut the vast area
and the quality of the grain. The crop,
which is the biggest and best III the
history of Washington county, is now
being harvested.
Archibald Chisholm, 53, of Denver,
an inmate of the State Insane Asylum
ut Pueblo, fell from 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 the institution for sew
eral years, and not being violently IN
sane. was appointed "trusty' some
limo ago. and allowed the freedom of
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 ut Milliken. The fire broke
ont during a heavy thunderstorm. The
mill was operated by electric power
and II is believed that lightning struck
the wires. The total loss is estimated
at Sl25, 900 only $4,000 of which was
covered by insurance.
Vacations for girls should be con
sidered with relation to home making,
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
Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
The road between Denver's city
limits and Arvada will be paved with
III the next few months, If project
admitted by the state to the federal
.onds bureau is approved. The pro-
iect calls for the paving, in concrete,
,f one and half miles at an esti-
q mated cost of $4,000. Twenty thou
sand dollars per mile, or 100000 in all,
is asked of Uncle Sam through the
roads bureau toward defraying the eN-
pense, the state to stand the balance.
Colorado gains the first important
railroad construction since the return
of the rail lines to private ownership,
according to word received that the
project for the construction of line
from Garden City, Kan, to Trinidad,
Colo, through Baca and Las Anlmas
counties, will be undertaken by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
this year, and that the 200 miles OF
new trackage will be completed in time
for the spring movement next year.
Registration has opened at the