Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-06-03
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

luiiy Us ldF-e I'm arreaSe TO crops tnls
year As they did In 1920 Reports so
far received show that the cultivated
area this year will be but little short
of 6,0OO,OOO acres. County assessors
reported on 49,l1I farms In the state
last year Reports have beer tabu-
lated up to date this yeur on 11,624
farms. These farms. for eleven of the
Leading crops, report an acreage this
year of 1.1050l3, or little more than
1o2 acres per farm The entire acre
age reported for these crops last year
was 4,192,512. or little more than
eighty acres per farm. If all farms
this year should report these crops in
the same ratio as those already In. the
total acreage would be above 5000 900.
The crops included in the figures given
above are corn, oats. barley, winter
wheat. spring wheat. rye, potatoes,
grain sorghums, sweet sorghums, beans
and alfalfa.
w. l.. Burnett, in charge OF rodent
control OF the state. and his assistant,
c. l.. Corkins, with the local county
agent. Waldo Kidder have completed
check OF the work done in pest eradi-
cation in Adams county. County farm
ers have been saved from S175,00o to
100000, Mr.. Burnett says by the ex-
termination work thus far completed.
More than 125,000 acres have been
baited to date, and. with the territory
now under poisoning 100000 will have
been treated.
Joseph Nitchen, 73 years old. pio-
neer resident of Canon City and Colo
RADIO, is dead after an illness OF several
weeks. Nitchen was pioneer railroad
builder. He had chnrge of the gang of
men that laid the first rails for the
Denver & Rio Grande In the Royal
Gorge in the early sos, during the time
of the bitter contest for the possession
of the Grand Canon of the Arkansas
between the Rio Grande and Santa Fe
ltailroad companies.
Partial reports from county asses
sors received by the State Immigra-
ton Department indicate that the
acreage of winter wheat in Colorado
this year is fully as large as that last
year and perhaps slightly larger Par
tial reports to date have been received
from twenty-five counties, several of
which already have reported more win
ter wheat than their complete reports
showed for last year.
Out of total of 81, 700. .O33 .Os cabled
to China to date thru the American
committee for China famine fund for
the relief of the famine victims of the
northern provinces, Denver has con-
tributed S4,6S431, according to re-
port made public by Vernon Munroe,
treasurer, American committee for
China famine fund.
Donald Fitch, s-year-old son of Prof.
George Fitch, superintendent of the
Golden public schools, was crushed to
death at Golden when he attempted to
climb onto a moving wagon loaded
with sand, missed his footing on the
side brake rod and fell under one OF
the rear wheels.
The bond issue of $4,000 for the
construction of water and light sys-
TENS, carried by vote of 43 to at
Seibert. The council Will proceed at
once to the sale of the bonds and It is
the plan to have the systems installed
before snow flies.
James WINNER. a business man, in
Cured eight broken ribs. IA dlsocated
collarbone and severe bruises at Boul-
der, when he was pinned under his
automobile after 1t had been hit and
turned over by n machine driven by
| another man.
Curtis Haupt, senior in the Colorado
Springs High School, was awarded a
| four-year scholarship in Colorado Col
lege by the local Kiwanis Club. The
| scholarship goes to Haupt as the most
proficient student in physics in class
| of 1872.
One woman is dead and heavy dam
age is reported to buildings and fences
as the result of high wind north OF
Seibert. Mrs. Frank Robinson, q
farmers wife, was killed when the
wind blew down IA chicken house Mrs
Robinson, according to reports, had
rushed out of the house to try to pro
tect her chickens from the storm.
Colorado and the West will have the
greatest tourist travel in the history
of railroad transportation this sum
mer, according to statement made
by II. I. Cornell, division passenger
agent of the American Express Com
pany travel department for the terri
tory between Denver and the Pacific
coast, with headquarters in San Fran
| cisco.
New York.-At luncheon given by
q SgfTt--
dore Roosevelt, to large number OF
prominent club women, II was deter
mined to make concentrated effort