Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-05-06
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

Representatives from all towns be
tween Denver and Colorado Springs
met In Limon recently to form an East
ern Colorado Commercial Club.
A. C. Parks, % years old, owner OF
ranch half mile north of the Denver
city limits near Sacred Heart College.
was beaten into insensIbility by two
men as he was leaving his ranch for
Denver recently.
Two automobile bandits secured 1926
from the cafe OF the Niles drug store
In the suburbs of Pueblo after they
had bound and gagged ]. F. Conant,
clerk. The car in which they escaped
was piloted by a woman.
Potato pickers Will be paid cents
a sack with board, or 9 cents a sack
without board in the section around
Montrose next fall, according to de-
cision reached by members OF the farm
bureau OF the Coal Creek section at
recent meeting.
The public schools of Colorado
Springs will hold big May festival at
Monument Valley park, May 20. 1t will
be an all-day affair. including music
and dances in the morning, a basket
picnic at noon and an athletic field day
in the afternoon. 1t will be the largest
affair of the kind ever attempted In
| the city.
Farmers of eastern Weld county
plan to market their own livestock and
have organized the Briggsdale Farm
ers' Union Shipping Association. OF
ficers elected for the association are
r. W. Bidwell, president H Z. Kettle
son, vice president; A. w. Woolensack.
secretary and treasurer, and ]. f. Pit
ney, manager.
The Denver Livestock Exchange has
voted to aid livestock growers by re-
ducing commission rites at the stock
yards. This was decided at long ses-
sion at which members urged that the
exchange should take the lead In help
| ing the farmer In his drive for lower
railroad rates and that reduction OH
| commission charges would show good
faith.
James T. Keeney, A. years old,
wealthy land owner of Antonito. shot
and killed his 20-year-old wife Pearl,
then committed suicide in the home of
his wifes mother in Denver. Failure
to effect reconciliation between him
self and his wife was given us the
cause b. Mrs NJ. b. Wells. mother of
the young woman. who witnessed the
tragedy.
More than POO wheat growers. repre-
senting all sections of Colorado unani-
mously adopted the Saplro marketing
plan, providing for 100 per cent pool.
of grain, at n meeting held in Akron
Resolutions were adopted pedging the
support of the Colorado Wheat Grow
ers Association in continuing the pro
| gram adopted by the national body.
and the work of signing contracts for
the pool
Julius Josephson, Denver youth CON
victed of embezzling $4,000 from the
American Bank and Trust Company,
has been paroled from the state re-
formatory ON order of Governor Shoup.
Josephson was sentenced to an indie
| terminate term. He served exactly
fifty days. Following his arrest.
Josephson declared that he lost the
money gambling in "Dago Mike" Mon
| cones club.
| Critically ill and almost pennlless,
| with four minor children and a room
ing house on her hands, Mrs. Charles
II. Sanchez, recently of Walsenburg,
Colo, is in Denver seeking for trace
of her husbands whereabouts since he
disappeared on April with the ex-
PLANTATION that he was going to TrinI-
dad for few days on business. He
has not been heard from since he
dropped from sight
Attorney General Keyes has rem.
dered an opinion that the new motor
vehicle law enacted by the Twenty
third General Assembly is eonstitu-
tional. As result of this ruling Sec
rotary of State MillilSen announced
that he will appoint eight Republican
supervisors" to replace like num-
Der of Democratic inspectors" who
were employed under the provisions of
the old law.
Joseph Burghardt of Denver appren-
tice seaman, u S. ~, has been named
in the honor roll of the United States
naval training station, San Francisco,
as being one of the eleven men who
have made the most progress In In
struction, personal appearance and at
tention to duties. The honor roll states
that Burghardt is considered one of
the most efficient men now at the
training station.
Announcement has been made by II.
A. Wadleigh, passenger traffic man
ager of the Denver & Rio Grande, that
the open top car service would be es-
tablished for the summer season May
1, through the Royal Gorge. The cars
Will run between Canon City to Tex
as Greek, on the two through daylight
passenger trains