The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-07-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Another municipal election has been
called ut Colorado Springs September
8, when $5S4,OOO 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
q boy and u girl each.
Word has been received from Los
Angeles OF the death Of William II.
Noel, formerly IL widely known Denver
business man and 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 Huckins, II Fort Nor
gan man, who was driving the cur, was
uninjured.
While on Il fishing trip ut the head
waters of the Rio Grlnde, thirty-One
miles west of Creole, Mrs. George Fos-
ter, 40, the wife of George Foster Of
Pueblo, was drowned in II 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, 1,254 callers and &C., visit
ing tourists during the month. Forty
two letters of inquiry concerning Fort
Collins were answered.
Preliminary arrangements are being
be held at EldOradO Springs by the
American Legion on Saturday, Aug. p.
According to E. J. Huff, 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, thesch0Ol CEN
sus for the current year shows q de-
crease Of 5000 as compared with that
Of 1919. according to figures made pub
lie by the state superintendent Of pub
census returns only $3.50 as Of school
age. while last year there were O.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
forums Of the Whittier and University
Hill schools will likely be converted
into classrOOms. 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 a
state where the revision commission ID
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
ut Pueblo. fell from thlrd.story win
dow Of the institution. His neck wns
broken, and he was dead when attend.
ants reached him. Chisholm had been
an inmate OF the institution for sev-
eral years, and not being violently in
sane, was appointed "trusty" some
time 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 at MilIiken. The fire broke
out during heavy thunderstorm. The
mill was operated by electric power
and 1t 10 believed that lightning struck
the wires. The total loss IL estimated
at $4,000. only $4,000 Of which was
covered by insurance.
Vacations for girls should be con.
xidered with relation to home making,
said Prof. J. Adams Puffer. field sec.
rotary 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.
In the next few months, II \ project
submitted by the state to the federal
roads bureau II approved. The pro.
jsct calls for the paving. 10 concrete.
Of one and Z half miles ut an est.
mated cost Of $4,000. Twenty thou.
sand dollars per mile. or $4,000 In oil,
10 asked Of Uncle Sam through the
roads bureau toward defraying the ex.
psnse, the state 70 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 AnInas
counties. will he undertaken by the
Atchison. Topeka h Santa F6 railroad
this year. and TINT the 200 miles Of
new trackaRe will be completed In time
for the spring movement next year.
Registration has opened ct the
Young W0men's Christian Association,