The Colorado statesman., 1921-09-17
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

| ly nOtnhle one ana tnut III ne ullllIeu
| in the words of Manager !. L. Benman
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
rnngements are being made for the ac-
commodntlon OF a full train load of
slghtseers ana the State Fair manage
ment will make verybody welcome.
Work has recently been started on
the erection of Flagler's third elevator,
on site previously occupied by coal
bins belonging to the Colorado Lumber
and Coal Company. The new elevator
is being built by recently organized
firm, the Flagler Grain and Elevator
Company, and will be of 10000 bushel
capacity The new elevator comes nj
an opportune time. when the grain
crop in the Flaglcr territory will be of
record size. Flagler elevators will no
doubt handle n large portion of eastern
Colorados grain this year.
A bicycle speed test, undertaken by
Leonard Brown, II moving picture oper-
ator, on one of the paved streets of
Fort Morgan, cost him three teeth,
severe shaking and II 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 hurtled through
the air. He landed on the pavement
| 1t l-nn.ls.
| ing out three teeth.
Formation oI branches of the Colo
rado-Made Goods Club Is to he 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 16j,O0U
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-irrigatcd |
land as well as the irrigated districts |
There are $4,000 acres of wheat on the
irrigated farms and about 100000 OF
the dr~ land.
Pueblo merchants will be given d
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 cothier, who adj |
dressed the meeting of the Rocky |
Mountain Retail Merchants Associa-
tion in convention at Colorado Springs. |
Decision to hold the next semi-annual |
meeting in Denver was reached at the |
close of the meeting.
The fi-e and police departments |
were called out at Colorado Springs |
to extract from an elevator Floyd |
Bailey, an employe of a transfer COM
pany, who was caught between a piano |
and the elevator shaft. Bailey, with |
an assistant, was engaged in moving |
Il 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 |
shows from the unofficial figures an |
increase of S117,211.22 over the gross |
output during the month of July. To |
tai production during the month OF
August was Sill, ,192. For the eight |
months of the present year, January to !
August, inclusive, the production Is
given at $3,649, ,4T1.9S.
]. b. Madrill has been arrested and |
charged with attempting TO defraud the
United States government through the |
cushing of war savings stamps not be |
longing to him. Madrill, it 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
ver
The Delta Chamber of Commerce, !
with like bodies of Della county CO.
operating, will send 200 boxes of choic-
est peaches from Paonia and North
Fork valleys to the Pueblo fair fol
| 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 a com
| plaint was sworn out against him,
| charging the embeZZlement or 81, 12O,