The Dolores star., 1920-12-24
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

l STOCK SNOW week, toNUos ''t''"
| pedc." Extensive preparation Is being
made for one of the biggest times ever
| pulled off in the West. Excellent Nnu-
| ieyille acts for an hour and It half Will
| entertain the crowd, after which the
| great Auditorium floor will be given
over to dancing. The Editorial Asso-
/ ciatIon holds its annual gathering In
Denver. Jan. 81 and 30, and this Splen-
| did feature Is booked to close the Ses-
sion. Held as it will be during the
week of Denver'S big Stock Show, the
attendance will be large. II is expect
| ed that every publisher in Colorado
will attend.
| A general order issued by the State
| Public Utilities Commission, effective
Dec. II, requires all electric. gas, wa.
ter and telephone public utilities in
| Colorado 10 give direct notice to pa
| irons before changes in rates or regu-
lations effccting service can legally be
made. Under the public utilities law
| notice Is deemed to have been given
the public when the public utility posts
copy of the new rate schedule in its
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state commission, at least thirty days
before the effective date of the pro
posed new rates. The commission has,
however, decided that each consumer
or user of public utility service must
| have direct notfse of rate changes. The
order effects 332 public utilities in the
state
Grant McFerson, state bank conlm:s-
si0ncr, sen. examiners to Timnath and
Kirk to take charge of the Farmers
Bank of Timnath and the State Bank
at Kirk. which have closed their doors
The bank commissioners records Show
that the Farmers Bank of Timnath
had capitalization of $4,000, surplus
of $4,000, undivided profits of $40,
600. and deposits of S20J,OO0. The Kirk
State Bank had a capital of $4,000
surplus of $1,000, undivided profits of
5000, and deposits of SG6.0oO.
Plans for n big pageant to celebrate
the fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of Colorado Springs, July 81, 1921,
are now being made by the Pioneer So
cicty and Chamber of Commerce com
mittecs. 1t is proposed to hold the af-
fair in the Garden of the Gods, with
scenes representing various points in
the development from the little log
shack town and Indian fighting days to
the present.
The Pueblo Commerce Club is to
have II new home. Already an option
has been secured on site of siXty-siX
feet frontage on Fourth street and
just west of the alley between Main
and Court streets n most central loca.
tion. A campaign has begun among
the members of the association to oh.
tain funds to finance the building,
construction to begin rs soon as pos.
sible.
Beet growers of Colorado, Wyoming,
Nebraska and Montana in January will
present TO the sugar manufacturers a
contract calling for fifty-fifty divi-
sion, the growers to be paid half of
whatever sugar may bring on the mar
ket. This is the decision of the an
nual convention of the Mountain
States Beet Growers Association which
was held in Denver.
Fire, of unknown origin, in the Bon
Ton bakery, driven by high wind,
endangered the entire northern part of
Colorado Springs. Firemen battling
the flames in the bakery were forced
to wade knce-deep in bread dough.
The bakery was damaged to the extent
of $1,000, and the roofs of several
residences in the neighborhood were
burned
The razing of the old church cdifice
at the corner of Santa Fe avenue and
Seventh street, is destroying another
of Pueblo's land marks The building
was put up in 1868, when st. Peters
Episcopal church was organized, the
first church of that denomination to
be established in the state south of
Denver.
Enlargement OF operations at the
LOveland plant of the Empson Pack
ing Company to an extent which will
triple the annual payroll of the local
plant is planned by the management
of the company, according to state.
ments of Il. II. Oviatt, manager Mt
Loveland.
Students of the Agricultural College
at Fort Collins who are members of
the II. o. T. c. will be Obliged to at
tend four-day spring encampment
aext May, according to Major Harri.
son, commandant of the college mill
tary. This includes all the men of
the freshmen and sophomore classes.
The bushel of red winter wheat ey-
hibited In Chicago's great grain ex-
hibit by }. j. Skinner of Fruita took
second prize, being only fraction of
score behind the first prize bushel
grown by John Howell of Montrose.
The city of Fort Collins is expending
$4,000 for tile work this winter and
the work has now reached stage
where its completion is looked forward
to at an early date.
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