Cheyenne record., 1920-07-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Judging from correspondence the en-
rollment ut the Colorado Agricultural
College will be greatly increased next
year. The call for the new catalog 10
25 per cent in excess Of any previous
year.
Marriage licenses issued in the
month of June passed the 500 mark
n Denver. This breaks all records for
the month Of June, according to statis-
tics prepared by Harry E. Dowd, mar
riage license clerk.
J. o. Ingram, the superintendent Of
the Laramie plant Of the National Sup
ply Company, whose district offices
are at Casper, has been made man
ager of the Denver office of that COM
pany, which has been opened in that
city.
G. N Stephenson, who has been
connected with the University Of
Wyoming as animal husbandman, in
the extension division, has rendered
ais resignation to accept position
with the Colorado Agricultural College
at Fort Collins.
Petitions bearing more than 22,O0O
names have been returned on the tri-
tunnel project, according to state
ment by w. G. Evans, chairman of the
State Highway Commission. The peti-
tions have been filed with the secre-
tary Of state.
A modern, 15O-rOOm hotel, and cot.
tages with nearly as extensive accom-
modations, are to be erected on the
Williams ranch at the junction Of the
Roaring Fork and the Cache la Poudre
river, fifty miles from Fort Collins, in
the Poudre canon.
Colorado bought $270.220 worth of
War Saving stamps In the five months
from Jan. 10 to May 81 of this year.
according to an announcement by the
Treasury Department. This is an av-
erage Of % cents for every man, wom-
an and child In the state.
A very severe hailstorm visited the
western end of Grand Valley, doing
$500, 900 worth of damage to the fruit
fruit and leaves were stripped from
thousands of trees. Some damage to
livestock and poultry was also done.
]. NJ. Cameron, age 81, Greeley
clothing merchant, committed suicide
by hanging himself from a water pipe
in the basement of the home Of his
daughter. Mrs. Harold yesterday. He
left note saying he had been
"troubled by i'll health and business
worries"
The Maxwell block, the largest Of
flee building in Steamboat Springs, has
been sold by Senator J. P. Maxwell OF
Boulder, to d. Chamberlain Of Des
Moines, Iowa. The purchaser is the
founder Of the Chamberlain Medicine
Company. He purchased the building
ns an investment. Il
One hundred and thirty different
varieties of wild flowers were found
by a botanical party of seventeen
members of the Mountain Club, which
made an expedition to Tolland from
Denver under the leadership of Mrs.
George A. Stahl and Miss Catherine
Bruderlin.
The hearts of forty orphan children
and eight residents of the State Odd
Fellows Home at Canon City were
made happy when over 500 representa-
tives of the triple link from all parts
of the state assembled there to cele-
brate the first annual homecoming of
the order in Colorado.
Colorado being the chief producer
of radium in the world, and the only
producer while the war was in prog
ress, 1t Is of local interest to note
A.. A. nf ysn<y yf,r,r, tn,
the world today is estimated to be four
ounces-an amount hardly sufficient
to fill coffee cup.
Clinging to their wagon rs 1t was
washed down stream on the crest Of
flood-waters near Hudson, Earl Leake,
Mrs. H. U. Tucker and the latter't
little child gained the bank and safety
a quarter OF mile below where they
drove into deep hole while trying to
ford a stream. The horses broke loose
from the wagon, but were drowned.
Henvy losses have been sustained
by the feeders this year. 1t is partly
due to the high-priced feed, according
to r. W. Clark Of the Colorado Agri
cultural College. Last winter hay sold
in most parts of the state at enormous
figures. To win next winter the feed
ers should begin to provide feed now
and keep the matter definitely in minc
all the time.
The Weld County Credit Mems As-
sociation, which was originally com
posed entirely of Greeley business men,
is rapidly extending its activities to
other counties. A branch office hni
been established at Brighton and an
other office will he opened at Fort
Morgan. At the present time the as
ISOLATION has more than 500 business