Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-21
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
fw..t.rn y.r.pap.r Union New. serIe..l J


in session in Denver Jan. 1920.
The Stockmen's and Merchants
Bank of Pagosa Springs, Colo, has
ceased to function through dissolution,
according to notice filed with the sec
retary of state.
o. d. Neil prominent lumberman of
Greeley, was elected president of the
Mountain States Lumber Dealers AS
sociation at the fourth session of the
eighteenth annual convention held In
Denver.
Mrs. A A. Splitter was strangled to
death at Sterling when her hair and
shawl around her neck became caught
in an electric wringer connected TO a
washtub over which she was bending
I'm the back yard of her home.
William NJ Kincaid of La Veta, Colo,
will carry the vote of the Colorado
electors to Washington, d. C. The six
electors, meeting at the state house in
Denver, cast their ballots for Harding
and Coolidge.
The Pharmacy building, on the uni
versity campus, has been ordered torn
down by the regents at Boulder. 1t
stands in front of the new Liberal Arts
building. 1t is an old landmark on the
campus, having been one of the first
buildings constructed.
The Silverton Northern Railway
Company, San Juan valley road,
seven and one-half miles long, run
ming from Silverton, Colo, to Eureka,
has asked permission of the Colorado
Public Utilities Commission to cease
operation of the road until July 1.
Colorado's coal production during
1920 exceeded that of the preceding
year by nearly 100000 tons and fell
only about quarter of million tons
short of the 1918 output when the
twenty one coal-produclng counties of
the state established high production
record of 12,65S,o55 tons
The "high cost of overproduction"
was given as the cause of wage re-
duction of 20 per cent announced by
the Denver Rock Drill Company. The
reductions affect 325 men. Everyone
in the plant was affected by the reduc-
ton. A few of the foundrymen, mold
ers and coremakers were reduced %
per cent.
The drive to help the starving mil
lions of China was started in Denver
with n sermon on the situation in that
country by the Rev. L. r. Dickerson
of Colorado Springs. The Rev. Mr..
Dickerson has just returned from the
stricken portion of China, where he
was sent by his church to make re
port on conditions. "Over 45,000,0OO
people are suffering at the present
time, said Mr.. Dickerson.
C. w. Johnson of Manzanola, Colo,
has presented bill for S400 to the
sheriff of Utah county, Utah, for ex-
penses in connection with the burial
of BILLY" Johnson, whom he thought
was his son. "Billy" Johnson commit
ted suicide at Payson, Utah. The body
was sent to his supposed father at
Manzanola. Mr.. Johnson buried the
body, but later he heard from his son
at Denver.
The Rev. ]. II. Skeen, pastor of the
Baptist church, in an address to young
people at Boulder, advocated the con-
struction of churches with gymna-
Sums, swimming pools and billiard
rooms. He declared that too many
churches were built only to the spir-
itual side of young people, and that it
was time for religious workers to take
into consideration the physical, intel
lectual and social requirements of
young people.
The new Methodist church at Mont
rose, built at cost of S65,000, was
dedicated with Bishop Charles l.. Mead
in the pulpit
Drives for outside funds among
the students of Colorado College are to
be curbed in the future, following ac-
ton by the student commission, which
reported that there had been too many
and some of those had been neglected
by students who failed to make the
payments pledged. Hereafter all ap-
peals will first go to the president of
the college, and then to n referendum
of students. Pledge cards are to be
discouraged.
With hundreds of cars of apples,
vegetables and other farm products
being withheld from market on ac-
count of prohibitive freight and ex-
press rates, meeting of shippers,
producers and members of the Canon
City Chamber of Commerce was held
and resolutions of protest were
adopted with the hope that either the
railroad companies or the Interstate
Commerce Commission would take up
the matter and devise some means of
| relieving the situation
| Henry f. Southard, who was in Jail
in Durango on charge of obtaining
S11,T roo from the Durango Trust Com
pany under false pretenses, is out on
| bond awaiting trial. In our former