Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-07-30
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado


are to be voted on by taxpayers.
Word has been received from Los
Angeles of the death of William II.
Noel. formerly widely known Denver
business man and resident of Denver
for many years. Death followed an
operation.
While on n fishing trip at the head
waters of the Rio Grande. thirty-one
miles west of Creole, Mrs. George Fos-
ter, 10, the wife Of George Foster of
Pueblo, was drowned In reservoir.
The body was recovered from the deep
water below the dam.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for II big picnic and barbecue 10
be held at Eldorado Springs by the
American Legion on Saturday, Aug. 81.
According to l.. 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 steady
Increase in population, theschool cen
sus Tor the current year shows de
crease of 5000 as compared with that
of 1919, according to figures made pub
lie by the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction. This year the school
census returns only $3.50 as of school
age. while last year there-were go, 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
90 M y
Hill schools will likely be converted
into classrooms. These changes are
made necessary by the prospects for a
record-breaking attendance.
Weld county farmers will be paid
S13,416,5 81 for their beet crop this fall,
according to estimates made after a
careful check of the sugar factories
within the county and those factories
in surrounding counties which have
contracted acreage in Weld. Weld
county thus faces one of the most
prosperous years in Its history.
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 is
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.
freight agent, Denver, and e. e.
Young, superintendent at McCook, WIS.,
tied Akron and looked over the wheat
fields recently and expressed them
selves as surprised at the vast area
and the quality of the grain. The crop,
which is the biggest and best in the
history of Washington county, is now
being harvested.
Archibald Chisholm, So, of Denver,
an inmate of the State Insane Asylum
at Pueblo, fell from a third-story win
dow of the institution. His neck was
broken, and he was dead when attend
ants reached him. Chisholm had been
an inmate of the institution for sew
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 MT Milliken. The fire broke
out during heavy thunderstorm. The
mill was operated by electric power
and it is believed that lightning struck
| the wires. The total loss is estimated
at S125, 900, only S87 .0OG of which was
covered by insurance.
Vacations for girls should be con-
sidered with relation to home making,
said Prof. ]. 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 is approved. The pro
ject calls for the paving, in concrete,
of one and half miles at an est.
mated cost of $4,000. Twenty thou
sand dollars per mile, or $4,000 in all,
is asked of Uncle Sam through the
roads bureau toward defraying the ex-
pense, the state to 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 Animas
counties. will be undertaken by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
this year, and that the 200 miles OF
new trackage will be completed in time
for the spring movement next year.
Registration has opened at the
Young Women's Christian Association
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