The Holly chieftain., 1920-09-16
HOLLY IMPRESSES
PUEBLO BOOSTERS
Given Royal Welcome By
Commercial Club.
GREATLY IMPRESSED By
soUfHEAsTERN EMPIRE
Come to Get Acquainted With This
Country. Its Agricultural, Indus
trial and Commercial interests
and It's People at First Hand.


trial and Commercial interests
and It's People at First Hand.
Twenty-Five mechants and busi-
ness men of Pueblo, including p. A.
Gray, secretary of the Commerce
club of the steel city, arrived in
Holly at 7:3O Wednesday evening,
on a trade expansion tour of the
lower Arkansas They were all
decked in white caps and were
live bunch. They were pilOted in
from the south by members of the
reception committee from the Holly
Commercial club and after sump-
tuous evening dinner at the Hotel
Grand, repaired to the Commercial
club rooms. The bunch was headed
by Mat Jerman, with a mammoth
accordion and Johnny Russ, with a
cornet, musical combination
which was as pleasing for the oc-
casion as it was odd Both these
gentlemen are musical artists and
greatly enlivened the evenings
program.
Mayor Harry D. Steele delivered
rousing address of welcome in
which he recounted the great prog
ress and development of the south
eastern Colorado agricultural en-
pire within the past year. He de
clared this development to be 100
per cent over any previous year.
He reaffirmed our pride in our COM
munity. its present rapid growth
and our gladness to have our Pu-
eblo visitors here.
DR.. H. O. Baker, the guiding gen
ius behind the Baker steam auto
mobile now being built at Pueblo,
and being placed on the market.
was the first speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Baker was greatly surprised, he
said. at what he had seen on the
trip from Pueblo south. He felt
that the present development OF
this section of the state would play
great part in making Pueblo the
industrial center of southern Colo
RADIO, if not the entire state. He
said he had been working for IL
years on the perfection of his steam
automobile, one of which he drove
on this lower valley trip, and which
was viewed with much interest by
| the crowd.
| A. B. Pierce was the next speak
er. He said he became acquainted
with this section of the great south
western empire 40 ears ago when
he built the Santa Fe round house
at Coolidge, Kas. which has since
been moved to Syracuse. He came
from New York at that time but
has since made his home in COlOra-
do and is proud to be resident of
| the Centennial state. Mr.. Pierce
made a kindly reference to the
wonderful work done by VIM. Wi
ley in the placing of Holly and the
Holly. district on the map. He also
spoke solicitously of the San lsa-
| bel National forest which he said
would in few years be taken up
as had the Thousand Islands on the
| st. Lawrence river for summer resi-
dences of the rich, but stated that
Coloradoans now have the OppOr-
| tunity to secure permanent sum-
mer place in this great forest which
is now under the care and restric-
tions of the federal government.
Good roads, he declared, made the
park more accessible to the balance
of the country and for the tourists
who were beginning to LAY off Of
Estes Park, Colorado Springs and
other more favolably known re-
sort points on account of the ever
increasing high prices charged the
tourist. He said that man who
had gathered accurate data was au-
thority for the declaration that the
Arkansas valley from Cannon City
to the Kansas State line was more
productive than the world-famed
Valley of the Nile.
G. H. Martin, special representa-
tive of the Pueblo Star-.JOurnal on
this trip, was enthusiastic in his
praise of the reception the boosters
had received along the line and es.
pecially of the cordiality and pep"
manifested here at Holly. He pro
nounced ours royal welcome. Mr..
Martin had been for IA years on. the
'reportorial staff of the Wichita
Beacon. He knew the Kansas at
mosphere and the people of all this
section. He declared that one OF
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