Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-09-16
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

in the words of Manager ]. L. Beaman
of the Fair Commission, ito further
cement the friendly feeling between the
two cities that has been so successful
ly started by Denver's friendly spirit
shown in the last three months" Ar
rangements are being made for the ac-
commodatiop of q full train load Of
sightseers and the State Fair manage
ment will make verybody welcome.
Work has recently been started on
the erection of Flngler's third elevator.
on site previously occupied by coal
bins belonging to the Colorado Lumber
and Coal Company. The new elevator
IL being built by a recently organized
firm, the Flagler Grain and Elevator
Company, and will be of $4,000 bushsl
capacity. The new elevator comes at
an opportune time, when the grain
crop in the Flagler territory will be OF
record size. Flagler elevators will no
doubt handle large portion of eastern
Colorado's grain this year.
A bicycle speed test. undertaken by
Leonard Brown, moving picture oper-
ator, on one of the paved streets of
IL,
severe shaking and u bicycle. Brown
was speeding south In an effort to keep
up with an automobile. He turned
west but didn't turn soon enough and
the wheel struck the curbing. The
forks of the bicycle crumpled under
the impact and Brown hurtIed through
the air. He landed on the pavement
and his jaw struck the curbing, knock
ing out three teeth
Formation oi branches of the Colo
rado-M Made Goods Club Is to be under.
taken Immediately in all counties CT
the state along the lines upon which
the women's county councils of de
fense were organized during the war.
This is one of several important new
plans of the club in its effort to arouse
Colorado women to an increased sup
port of meritorious Colorado products
as means of advancing the prosper
ity of the state and the welfare of its
people.
Weld county will produce 100000
bushels of wheat this year, Judging
from present Indications. Figures com
piled by the field men of the county as
SCISSOR show that there are 10000
acres planted to wheat In the county
this year. Because Of the large amount
of moisture the yield VIII be from thlr-
ty to fifty bushels on the non-irrigated
land as well as the irrigated districts.
There are $1,000 acres of wheat on the
irrigated farms and about 100000 on
the drv land
Pueblo merchants Will be given a
long time loan of $4,000 from mem
bers of the National Retail Clothiers'
Association, payment without interest,
according to an address made by G. F.
Cottrell. Denver clothier, who ad-
dressed the meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Retail Merchants Associa-
ton in convention at Colorado Springs
Decision to hold the next semi-annual
meeting in Denver was reached at the
close of the meeting.
The fire and police departments
were called out at Colorado Springs
to extract from an elevator Floyd
Bailey, an employe of n transfer com
pany, who was caught between piano
and the elevator shaft. Bailey, with
an assistant, was engaged in moving
a piano. The piano tipped over as 1t
was being trucked into the elevator,
and the carriage shot upward, catch
ing the transfer man In the shaft. He
WAS not seriously injured.
The gross value of the gold produced
by the mines of the Cripple Creek dis
trict during the month of August
.l, 81,
Increase of $117,211.22 over the gross
output during the month of July. To
tai production during the month of
August was S411,792. For the eight
months Of the present year. January to
August, inclusive. the production Is
given at $3,849. .4719S.
]. b. Madrill has been arrested and
charged with attempting to defraud the
United States government through the
cnshinG of war savings stamps not be-
longing to MIN. Madrill. 1t Is said re
moved the name of the owner from the
certificate, substituting his own, and
also removed all identifying numbers
on the stamps. The Officers say he
has served two terms at Canon City.
one for burglary and one for arson.
having been sent to prison from Den
yer.
The Delta Chamber of Commerce,
with like bodies of Delta county Co
operating, will send 200 boxes of choic-
est peaches from Paonia and North
Fork valleys to the Pueblo fair for
free distribution. Western slope grow
ers gladly provided the peaches Each
peach is to be individually wrapped,
With the compliments of Delta county.
More than nine years after com
plant was sworn out against him,
charging the embezzlement OF S2,120.
w. ]. yane, 81 years old, was ar
rnigned on the charge before Justice