The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-08-20

Tor the DullulnR Ot lily nOusth, WHICH
are to be sold at cost and on ensy
payments to employees Of the company
who lost their homes In the flood. The
total sum to he expended viii be close
to $4,000. and the houses will be OF
three, four, five and six rooms. all
thoroughly smodern. They will be
built near the old c. +. & l. hospital.
work to begin at once
Hereafter Montrose fIrcmen will not
be In danger of being run over BY auto
lists following them to q fire The
City Council has passed an ordnance
fOrbitlding any automobile to he with
in 200 feet of fire apparatus going to
fire. Complaint has been filed fire.
quently with the council that when
ever the companies turn out they are
followed by stream of autos racing
after them, and when the men spring
to make coupling they are In danger
of being run down.
Two bandits with ropes let third
down the side Of Pullman car on
Denver I Rio Grande train No. 2 be-
tween Grand Valley and Rife. and he
cut the screens In the windows and
robbed three hammocks in the berths.
One woman reported the loss Of 500
In travellers checks and SO In cash.
and two other passengers reported
Losses, but the amount was not made
public. So far as Is known only the
three hammOcks were robbed.
The federal census bureau has
placed an average of &3122 on farm
lands In Colorado. This 10 nearly twice
the figure fixed by the county asses
sors, which WAS $16.45 In 1870. An In
crease OF 1O.OOO,OOO acres Of farm land
in the state is shown by the report
The average increase In value has been
1921 m acre. Nearly 2s,0OO,OW acres
of farm land liz reported by the county
assessors tax rolls.
Howard Penn, negro, enraged be-
cause he had been elected from Mex
lean restaurant In Eaton, kicked In
the window Of hardware store,
helped himself to a rifle and ammuni-
tion, and returning 10 the restaurant
proceeded to lombard 1t. The Mexi-
cans ran through the rear door. and
Penn was arrested By the town mar:
shal and placed In the Greeley jail
Colorado Springs may be immediate
" chosen as q site for vocational
training center for disabled soldiers,
according to q statement made by H.
Allen Nye Of Denver, who has been
looking ever the situation. Under
present plans the new building will be
large enough to accommodate ct least
800 soldiers. The proposed site con-
tains about 800 acres In the foothills.
An Increase In attendance 10 re
ported by the university summer
school ut Boulder. The total for the
second term Is 1926 as against S74 q
year ago. During the first term the
registration was 1851 compared with
1907 In 1870. The total for the sum-
mer is 3,197 as against 2,1al In 1920.
Richard Hart. q years old. son Of
4 prominent mining man Of Red Cliff,
was killed and five others narrowly
escaped death when an automobile In
| which the party WAS returning TO Red
Cliff from I.endville, plunged down u
thirty-foot ,embnnkment four miles
west of Tennessee pass.
School expenses In Colorado have in
creased about &3,5OO,O00 In the last two
years, according to figures nude pub
lie by the State Immigration Depart
ment. Tie statistics are complied from
records Of the state superintendent OF
schools.
| Business men Of GRIND Junction are
giving their enthusiastic support to
the project Of the Western Concrete
Products Company, who IRE planning
the erection of a $4,000 plant in the
city in the near future.
| George Washington Musser. former
chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme
Court, and for more than thirty years
u resident OF Colorado. died ut his
home In Denver, following henri AT
tuck.
One man was blinded for life and
as the result Of nm explosion In lime
stone quarry at lngleside. nenr Fort
Collins. The men, Lee Chavez ana
| Frank Florez, were lowering keg Of
black powder Into shaft when the
key struck rock. The explosion
blew the eyes Of Florez almost entirely
from his head. All the skin was blown
from Chavez face, but physicians said
his sight might be saved.
| The city Of Lovelsnd faces dam.
aEe suit for $500 to he started l'y j.
8. Bainbridge for damages because Of
injuries received by slipping on an icy
sidewalk and breaking his leg Inst De.
cember. cambridge presented the
bill some months ago, and after ne
gotiations offered to compromise. The
finance committee Of the council re-.
fused the offer.
Announcement has been made that
the state firemen's meeting to be held
In Loveland, September 8. 9. and 8
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