The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-04-16
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

$124,976.46 will be paid by the govern
msnt If approval Ia made by District
Engineer J. S. Bright. One and three
tentlIs miles of concrete rond betwets'
Fort Collins and Lovelnnd constitutes
one OF the projects, to cost S5I,O032i.
One and one-tenths miles In Boulder
county, running south from LonginOnt.
will cost 47,3SlO7, the road also to
be Of concrete; while third concrete
-Ohd project embraces four md four
tenths miles between Brighton and
Denver. In Adams county, the estlmat-
ed cost of which is S151, 859.72.
Richard Winnerah, 12-year-old
schoolboy Of Ouhiy county, is the
champion tnlker of Colorado. He was
awarded first prize In the annual ora-
torical contest conducted by the Colo
RADIO Association OF County Supcrin-
tcndents and Institute Workers Mt
Corona school in Denver. Eighth grade
pupils from every county In the state
competed. At the same time Mildred
Akey, pretty little 13-yenr-old miss of
Wray, Colo, WINS declared the cham
pion eighth grade word speller of the
state.
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Cody's grave, Is rapidly nearing COM
plction and 1t Is expected 1t will be
city NJ nenycr 1. erectinr tho hu,,dInr
In c,,in,c,;,, ,y,,h p,SSn,o p,,I,s ros.
ter son, Johnny Baker, who has been
granted the concession, and will con-
duct first-clnss restaurant md pm
vilion In the building for the conven-
fence Of tourists.
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serve this sentence unless the appeal
which will he tnken to the Supreme
Court reverses Judge L. j. Black, who
ruled that Willard had been erroneous
Iy convicted. The peculiar quirk of
the law has cained CONSERVATION In
Grand Junction.
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Salt Lake rnilroad till May I has been
granted by the Colorado Utilities Serv.
ice. The order was issued on applica-
tion of Receiver W. X. Freeman, who
declared that the passenger traffic
was insufficient TO warrant the re-
sumption Of daily passenger service at
this time.
Thu s,o,. t.x ~ cso, . r,,,on n,
gasoline and oils has been declared
constitutional In a decision rendered
by Judge Charles c. Butler Of the Dis.
trict Court ut Denver. The validity Of
the tax hns been In issue for several
months. A number Of oil companies
have paid the tax into the state treas
ury, others have resisted pnyment.
wil,inm w Prnntz. former convict
Mt the Colorado pcnitentIary, is In jail
in Littleton. charged with the robbery
OF the strasburR bank ana the depot
at b!ers. both crimes were com.
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$500, a., ..,i.r,o,or, chm, IN. cn,r,y
have con,r.c,.d IN mo-.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,h,r,v NOR. mon u,h.,
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Mt Relaford and three At Schmid, all
taking effect.