The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-21
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

OF the wonderfully rupld ueNelophcht
Of agriculture In Colorado In the past
thirty yenrs and emphasize the IN
crease In agricultural production Tor
the state In the past ten years. COM
pilations from this report and from
previous reports, now being compiled
by the State Immigration Department
for publication In the Colorado year
Book, show that the value OF fnrm
property In the state at the beginning
OF 1870 was about nine times as great
as in 1890 and 1I9.1 per cent greater
than In 1910. The value OF all farm
property In the state In 1920 was Sl,-
orc, ,T94, 74e. compared with Ssei. ,sOo
in 1910 and sIiJ, ABS, ,55s In 1880. The
actunr Increase for the past decade
was greater than for any preceding
decade, and the percentage OF Increase
was greater than for any decade In the
period except that from 1900 to lelo'
Cyril +. Sterling. an electrician at
the Akron Light and Power Company,
was killed ten miles south Of Akron
when his auto turned over, pinnihg
him beneath 1t. He was found by
Charles McLaggert, passing farmer
who notified physician. but Sterling
was dead before aid arrived. Sterling,
who worked from midnight TO noon,
started late at night for Hugo, Colo,
to bring home his wife and baby who
had been living at that place. The
road was smooth but 1t Is believed
that on account of the darkness he
missed the culvert, thereby upsetting
the car,
Accused of forging the name or IL.
A. Johnson, vice president Of the Buck
ingham State bank, to checks totalling
S35, 900, Rudolph A. Nordell, cashier
of that institution, which closed Its
doors December 90, 1920, has been ar
rested at Greeley and lodged In the
county Jail there. The alleged forger-
les are said to have been started by
Nordell June 3, 1918, when check
for 81 300 is said to have gone through.
District Attorney Louis b. Reed de-
clared that more than thirty of the
alleged forgeries are in the hands or
authorities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph DEMO of Long
mont have left for France, where they
will hunt for the grave of Lieut., Eddie
Evans, who was killed in action i'll
France, and whose burial place is un-
known. Mr.. Evans was prominent
University of Colorado athlete. The
university chapter of the American
Legion bears his name. Previous eff
forts to locate the burial place of
Lieutenant Evans were unsuccessful.
Mrs. DEMO is a sister of Lieutenant
Evans.
The board of county commissioners
of Jefferson county have decided that
If an inmate of the county poor farm
is physically able to do his share of the
work at this institution he will have to
do so or else his diet will be limited
to bread and water. The action was
taken as the result of complaints
which had come to the commissioners
concerning the refusal of inmates to
do any part of the work.
Miss Maude Sheridan, leader of
boys and birls' clubs conducted by the
State Agricultural College, is one of
three club leaders in the United States
to be called to Washington, ID. C.,
where she will assist in work con-
cerned with reports from clubs all over
the country. Miss Sheridan will he in
the capital during the month of June.
Scott Jaynes, a brakeman of the
Great Western railroad, who was badly
injured by being knocked from the top
l., - # nh hn1 Nln a
at Loveland, and who 1t was thought
was fatally hurt, will recover, accord
ing to statements of his physicians.
The Woodland Park Wild West As
sociation has voted to hold the second
annual rodeo for the Ute Pass district
August 3rd, 4th and 9th. The first
event of this kind, held last year, drew
hundreds of tourists from the Pixies
Peak region.
1t was definitely determined by the
city council of Colorado Springs that
the Stratton estate is to get the con
tract for paving the four main thor
oughfares in Colorado Springs at a
maximum of 1865, 900, exclusive of the
street car company's right of way.
Work will start Immediately after May
81. All four streets are to be paved
with asphaltic concrete on concrete
hnsls.
The Woman's General Missionary
Society of the United Presbyterian
church will hold its thlrtye eighth ma
tional convention In Fort Morgan,
June 3rd to 7th. Between $50 and 300
delegates from all over the United
States will gather, besides score or
more of missionaries from Egypt, In
dia and the Sudan, who will tell of
their work in the Far and Near East
Russell and Reason Stout, boys who
assisted Theodore Knight In the res
cue of the aged insane man known as
civilian The Prophet" during the
great storm here in April, We're pre-