Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-06-11
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS

upon partial return from county as
SCISSORS and upon percentage estimates
from reporters. Present Indications
point to very much increased acre
age of spring wheat and TO only sligh
changes from last year in the acreagrs
devoted to oats. barley and alfalfn.
More conplete estimates OF the acre
ages devoted 20 all crops win be pub
lished in August. based upon pr;icii-
cally complete returns from county as
SCISSORS.
A schedule of seventeen trips, six OF
them for three days each. has been
arranged 10y the Officers Of the Rocky
Mountain Climbers Club for the 1920
season. Tie first trip will he takeh
.Iune 18th to Green canon, near Bout
der and will be followed week later
by an all-night trip on Flagstaff noun
tain. The first three-duy trip will he
conducted July "a to DEVILS Thumb
and Jasper lake. The club is starting
its activities three weeks earlier than
usual AT the request of out-of-stat
members, who already are beginning
TO arrive in Boulder
Grand valley fruit growers have
learned sad but nevertheless true news
about the 1920 fruit crop. II was be-
lieved that the apples had escaped
damage from the winter Geld, and all
varieties but one did escape, but the
popular Winesap suffered almost com
plete extinction in that valley, II is
declared, so far as the 1920 crop Is
a 4. a
the buds so that they had no vitality,
and although they bloomed as usual
the blooms fell off and the trees will
be bare of fruit
Ranchmen along Muddy creek in
Grand county have bought the tee-
phone lines of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company in
that district and have organized the
Muddy Creek Telephone Association.
They will extend the lines from
Kremmling, twenty-three miles north,
to the Martin postoffice at Whitley's
peak. Fifteen phones will be connect
ed with the new lines.
A. Power, farmer of Youghnl, was
drowned In the Yampa river while
wading to the stake fastening of the
boat used for crossing The river is
higher than usual and the boat moor
ing is considerable distance from the
shore 1t is thought the swift current
in the new channel swept Mr.. Power
off his feet.
Carlos NJ. Cole, superintendent %
Denver's public schools since 1915.
died at St Lukcs hospital in that city
His death, which came unexpectedly
was due to Influenza, his attending
physicians declared, contracted while
he was in weakened condition fol
lowing an operation Cor appendicitis
The proposed new highway over Ber-
thoud Pass. between Empire and Fra
izer, Colo, distance of twenty-seven
miles, will cost about 100000, accord
ing TO the survey made by crews WORK
ing under the direction of A. E. Palen,
senior highway engineer of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads.
The whole town of FOsston, on the
branch line of the Union Pacific rail-
road to Briggsdale, was totally de-
stroyed by fire The town consists OF
one large building, which includes the
postoffice, public hall, church, teie-
phone exchange and general store The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Senate has doubled the appro-
pration for the Rocky Mountain Ma
tional park, according to dispatches
from Washington. Senator Phipps'
amendment increasing the appropria-
tion from $4,000 to $4,000 was adopt
ed by the Senate.
James F. Creel, father of Charles A
Creel of Arriba, is dead at the age of
SS years Creel was born in Virginia
and came to Colorado nearly forty
years ago. He made his residence in
the northern part of Lincoln county.
The state school fund was enriched
by S149,4S0 as the result of the June
sale of state school land. The State
Board of Land Commissioners sold o.
$40 acres for that sum. The average
price per acre, $3.50, is the highest
obtained by the board for months Con-
siderable rivalry developed in the bid
ding for certain parcels of land The
highest price was realized for tract
of irrigated land in Weld county. For
this the board obtained $1T0 an acre
A ten-pound son was born to Mayor
and Mrs. F. w. Stover at their nome
in Fort Collins. In addition to being
born the son of the mayor of Fort Col
lins, the new arrival has been named
William Charles-William for his pa
ternal grandfather, pioneer and the
first president of the Poudre Valley
Bank of that city, and Charles for his
maternal grandfather, Congressman
Charles B. Timberlake.
Building permits for the first five