The Holly chieftain., 1921-10-06

XII CARSON County Fair. burlington.
Oct. 6-S: J. M. Hefner. secretary.
Ell Paso County Fair. caIhan. Oct 6-8:
ID. E. Nance. secretary.
F. G. Grower of Jacksonville, Fla,
was chosen president of the National
Association of Wholesale Druggists by
the annual convention. Colorado
Springs was selected for next years
convention.
The Alamosa Chamber of Commerce
is gathering data regarding railroad
shipments in connection with the pro-
posed construction of standard
gauge railroad between Alamosa and
Albuquerque, N. NJ.
Enrolment of students In the high
and grade schools of Grand Junction
has reached 1897, and it is expected
that this number will be increased.
The large school attendance is taken
as an Indication of the growth of the
city. All of the schools are crowded
TO, capacity
Jackson county commissioners have
prepared a budget of $4,000, which
they will request from the State High
way Commission for rondwork for one
year. The budget includes eXpendi-
lures for work on the Cameron Pass
road, Rabbit Ear road and Walden
Laramie road.
The will of the late William Balla-
troll, an Italian of Ouray, provided that
a band play at his funeral and that
each of his pallbearers be provided
with jug of liquor. The provisions
of the will We're carried OUT to the let
ter when the funeral was held, accord
ing to reports.
Claude Sharrar, Il carpenter, IS
years old, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide in the base
ment Of a partly completed house on
which he was working at Hereford,
sixty miles northeast OF Greeley. Two
small children of the Sharrars, one
baby only year and half old, were
thes ole witness to the double shoot
ing.
The Red Gross disaster relief unit
has placed more than $27 900 In the To-
cal banks mt Pueblo as maintenance
and pension funds for 1856 flood suf-
ferers. Each beneficiary will be able
to obtain stipulated sum monthly un-
til the entire fund placed to his credit
is exhausted. Similar deposits have
been placed in banks ut La Junta and
smaller towns.
An estimated expenditure of $4,000
has been recommended to the city
council of Loveland for the enlarge
ment or reconstruction of the pipe line
from the dam in the canon to the city.
Several parts of the city are now with
out water service on account of made
quate piping facilities. The recon-
mendation was made by Alderman
yiestenz of the water committee.
The states collection of leaf gold
from Breckenridge. said to be unsur-
passed in the world and valued at not
less than $1,000. was stolen from the
show cases in the state mining depart
ment on the second floor of the State
Museum building, Fourteenth avenue
and Sherman street, In Denver. The
collection, experts say, cannot be re-
placed.
Plans for six-day extension drive
by the Denver Boy Scouts were laid at
meeting of the scout committee
chalrmen held In the court house in
Denver. The dates for the drive were
set at Oct. 16 to %. The purpose of
the campaign, it was decided, will be
to triple the present membership of
25,0OO. 1t also is planned to broaden
the efficiency and the benefits to both
new and old members.
The organization of thirty piece
band and the beautiful crops of east
ern Colorado are to be Jointly cele-
brated at Seibert, Oct. IA, when the
first annual band barbecue and COM
munity fall festival will be held A
big program is being built around the
free barbecue beef feed, which will be
free to the public. An auction sale Of
donated articles, show, dance, etc, will
raise money for the band.
C. II. Lawrence, formerly a dish
washer in the restaurant Of Uriah
Long. the Fowler, Colo, man who was
murdered on the road east of Pueblo
the night of Aug. 20, is In the Pueblo
city Jail awaiting investigation. Law
renee was arrested at the Union Sta
tion in Pueblo after he had been rec
Ognized by a Fowler resident. He was
known to have left Fowler with Long
Aug. %. and that night, the night of
the murder, it is charged, he returned
to Fowler and occupied Longs room.
At 4 o'clock the next morning he dis
appeared in an automobile which
called for him. He claims to have no
knowledge of the murder and to have
pital in Pueblo, but hospital authori-
ties deny that such is the case.
The Arapahoe County Medical Soci-
ETY. was organized ut Littleton on Sept.
u. DIR. Walter G. Crysler of LIttleton
was elected president, DIR. John Simon
of Englcwood, vice president, and DR..
o. ii. Granthum of Littleton, secretary.
The membership includes all the ply
sicians in active practice in Arapahoe
county.
| The campaign of the American Beet
Sugar Compnny's factory started at
Rocky Ford with full force of men
at Work. A heavy beet crop is avail
able and ii is expected that the driy.
will last at least 100 days.
An automobile driven by Georg,
Bennefiel, Walsenburg undertaken
was caught and overturned by whirl