The Holly chieftain., 1921-12-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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tension Division of the Agricultural
College at Fort Collins. 1t tells how
to control and eradicate flies, ants, bed
bugs. moths, etc.
Denver's pOstoffice receipts We're
$2l4,645.49 In November, compared
with $l98, 195.48 In November last
year, Postmaster General VIII Hays
announced In Washington. Receipts
for the month just ended represent
gain Of SIS. .450.03. or 8.41 per cent over
November, 1920.
Thirty-five hundred acres of state
land was offered for sale at Denver by
George Stephan, registrar of the State
Board Of Land Commissioners. The
price ranges from SO to $24 an acre, al
though $50 an acre is asked for tract
In Rio Grande county. The land was
sold to settlers only.
{ Judge Lindsey of Denver, in an ad-
dress at Chicago, warned against bru-
tality in the handling of criminals that
Inspires hate and revenge, but assert
ed he was no sentimentalist who
wanted to defend the criminal I'VE
are entering new era," he said, "and
we should do all In our power to adj
vance It."
Newton C. Dougherty of Greeley
was reelected president of the Farm
ers' Congress at the annual election
held Mt Fort Collins. I. L. Gotthelf of
Saguache was elected first vice presi-
dent; W. 4. Lambert of Sedalia, sec
ond vice president, and Roud McCann
of Fort Collins was reelected secre-
tary and treasurer.
School District No. 1 Of jefferson
county, which is the city of Golden, has
called special bond election Dec. 20,
for the purpose of submitting the
question as to whether or not the peo-
pie shall vote 100000 In bonds for the
erection Of a new high school. The
bonds will run for twenty years with
interest at 6 per cent.
Rumors to the effect that the annual
sale of HOlstein cattle at the National
Western Stock Show would be ahan-
doned during the sixteenth annual
show in January were set at rest by
the stock show management when the
latter announced that Thursday morn
ing, Jan. 10, has been set as the sale
date. The offering of purebred milk
ers will be made In the main pavilion
beginning at 10 o'clock.
The thirtieth annual National Horse
Show, which was this year held at the
Squadron A ArmOry, New York City,
was a wonderful success and the own
ers of these horses are expecting 10
bring them to Denver in January for
the National Western Horse Show
This circumstance alone causes the
show to promise to outdistance any of
its predecessors In numbers as well as
in the quality of the horses.
The Seibert municipal light system.
white way and water works were put
In service with parade, mammoth
bonfire and old-time country dance at
tended by 1900 persons from Seibert
and surrounding towns Music was
furnished by the Seibert community
band In the last four months Seibert
has completed $25.0O0 addition to its
consolidated school. $4,000 light sys-
tenn and water works and reduced the
grade on its streets to uniformity.
During the past week the War FL
nance Corporation has approved 256
advances, aggregating $13.2SO,O0O for
agricultural and live sAOck purposes.
OF TINS amount, $5OO,OOO went to Colo
RADIO banks, which in turn will lend ii
to live stock raisers Of the state. By
these advances farmers are able to
borrow money to meet old obligations
ut their banks without having to sacii-
flee their live stock by selling ut dis
0str0us prices.
Although escaping from the Fitzsim-
ons General Hospital at Aurora, Colo,
thirteen months ago while patient at
that Institution, Robert Wright, 20
years old, has been arrested finally
and is again in the custody Of the Of
ficials. He was taken into custody by
State Ranger Julius Weinberger at
Walsenburg, Colo, and was turned
over to army officers.
Tourist travel to national parks
broke all records in 1921, and the Ma
tional Park-to-Park Highway Associa-
tion, cooperating with the Department
Of the Interior, seeks to continue it's
work In 1922 through proposed bud
get Of expenditures totaling 100000.
This amount is to be raised through
membership campaigns in Colorado
and ten other Western states.
The statewide poultry culling cam
paign to be staged in Colorado next
July, August and September will add
half million dollars in profits to the
poultry industry of the state. The
campaign which is being planned by
the Colorado Agricultural College Ex-
tension Division will be carried out
with the farmers over the entire state
In cooperation with the county agri-
cultural agents, county club leaders
and home demonstration agents.
Although the state is without suffl-
cient funds to pay its general revenue