Elbert County tribune., 1921-10-07
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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F. c. 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.
| Each day the United States Veterans
Bureau. new name for the war risk.
sends compensation and insurance
checks aggregating S17,21o1G to Colo
RADIO disabled soldiers of the recent
war aud their dependents.
w. ]. Carnine, "A years old, veteran
of the Civil war, jumped from the
bridge into the Colorado river at
Grand Junction. A reward of 500 was
offered for the recovery of the body
Carnine has resided at Grand Junction
and at Paonia for the last eighteen
years.
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.
Twenty-one nursing certificates were
presented at the annual graduation
exercises OF the Boulder Sanltarium
Training School for Nurses 1t was
the largest class In the history of the
institution, which has sent out more
than 200 men and women into the
nursing field.
An automobile driven by George
Bennefiel, Walsenburg undertaken,
was caught and overturned by whiri-
wind. Benefiel with his wife and son,
Warren, was on the way to Pueblo to
attend the state fair. Warren Benne-
fiel was critically hurt and his father
suffered serious injuries.
The will of the late William Balla-
troll, an italian of Ouray, provided that
band play at his funeral and that
each of his pallbearers be provided
with jug Of liquor. The provisions
of the will were carried out to the let
ter when the funeral was held, accord
ing TO reports.
Claude Sharrar, carpenter, 3S
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 a
baby only a year and a half old, were
thes ole witness to the double shoot
ing.
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 cnses 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.
From Moab, Utah, comes word that
probably the richest shipment of car
notite ore ever mined was recently
sold to buyers at Montrose, Colo, by
| Andrew Nyand of Grand Junction.
The shipment consisted of forty tons
and brought $4,000. The ore was
mined in the Gateway district and was
the last of the output of Mr.. Nylund's
mine there.
| S. w. Stedman, Denver & Rio
|
alive and well in spite of the fact that
three freight cars passed over his
| PROSTATE body. Stedman fell from the
top of car to the track below and
directly between two cars. His SEEM
ingly miraculous escape was due to
the fact that his body struck the
| ground in such position as to per-
NIT the cars to pass over without
harming him.
Plans for six-day extension drive
| by the Denver Boy Scouts were laid at
| meeting of the scout committee
| chairmen 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
25,000. 1t also is planned to broaden
the efficiency and the benefits to both
new and old members. .
| C. II. Lawrence, formerly 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. %, is in the Pueblo
| city jail awaiting investigation. Law
renee was arrested at the Union sta
ton in Pueblo after he had been rec
| ognized by a Fowler resident. He was
| known to have left Fowler with Long
Aug. 20, and that night. the night of
| the murder, 1t is charged, he returned
to Fowler and occupied Longs room
At 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
just been released from Minnequa hos
pital in Pueblo, but hospital authori-
ties deny that such is the case.