The Colorado statesman., 1922-01-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
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Greeley.-Winfield HartZell of Den
yer was elected president of the Colo
RADIO Retail Merchants Association at
the concluding session of the conven-
ton at Greeley. 1t was voted to hold
the next convention at Boulder.
Washington.-Nom of new
Colorado postmasters have been sent
to the Senate as follows: Francis NJ.
Wheeler, at Campo, and Loran G. Den
ison, at Telluride. John Il. Gilmore
was named to be postmaster at Grey
bull, Wyo.
Loveland.-Jean v. Knapp, gradu-
ate OF the Loveland high school, and
son of Under Sheriff l. o. Knapp of
Larimer county, who has been in Geor-
gia for some months, has been appoint
ed as state veterinarian of the state of
Florida. He is graduate of the ami
NAL husbandry department of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College.
Loveland.-Clyde Walters. Pat Cliff
ford, f. Owen Brown, T.. G. Clemens,
James G. Christensen and George W.
Lind of the state engineering depart
ment, recently began a survey to deter
mine the route of the new proposed
paved state highway, leading from
Fort Collins through Loveland and on
toward Denver.
Pueblo.-Roy and Claude Monroney,
sons of B. f. Monroney, Illinois farmer
who surrendered to the authorities and
told that he had killed his wife, daugh-
ter and sons, went East upon receiv-
ing word of the tragedy. The MonrOn-
ey brothers are proprietors of a local
barber shop. According to local ad-
vices the slain son and daughter of B.
f. MonrOney were half-sister and half
brother of the Pueblo men, as the
woman slain was their stepmother.
alsenburg.-Ex-servic men are
given homestead preference rights to
the 5,160 acres of public lands, twenty
five miles northeast of Walsenburg,
Colo, which have just been thrown
open to entry, according to word re-
ceived by NJ. d. McEniry, chief of the
Denver field division of the United
States general land office. Homestead
tracts on this land are limited to 800
acres each. After Feb. %, the general
public may file on any remaining
lands, it was announced.
Crank Junction.-James F. Shultz
of Grand Junction was elected presi-
dent of the Colorado Auctioneers' As
sociation at the twelfth annual conven-
tion of the association held in Denver.
Other officers named were: Charles
w. Shook of Greeley, vice president,
and H. K. Fly of Rocky Ford, secre-
tary-treasurer. The proposal of franz
ing and presenting bill to the Legis-
lature to regulate the practice of auc-
tioneering in Colorado was discussed
at the meeting.
Fort Collns.-Isolated communities
in Colorado are demanding more and
more the services of the extension spe-
cialsts from the Colorado Agricultur-
al College. Since Aug. 1, 1921, the
poultry specialist alone has assisted
with meetings in twenty separated
communities, reaching over 1000 farm
people. 1t is estimated that as q re-
suit of these meetings, 500 farm flocks
have been culled at saving of $4,000
and that better feeding and housing is
being practiced with all of these flocks.
Pueblo.-Mrs. Hazel S. Gunby of
Fowler has filed suit in District Court
in Pueblo asking damage amounting to
S35, ,92O55 from the Colorado & South
trn Railroad Company for injuries she
sustained and for the death of her
mother. The women were driving
car from Denver to Fowler, March 10,
1921, and were struck by C. & S
train at the Roselawn cemetery cross
ing, the older woman being instantly
killed, the machine demolished and
Mrs. Gunby sustaining serious injury.
Alamosa.-A bill introduced in the
United States Senate calls for regu-
lar yearly session of the Federal Court
at Alamosa, Colo. The sitting would
begin on the first Tuesday of each Oc-
tober, according to the specifications
of the bill. Hundreds in the San Luis
valley have petitioned for such court.
Greeley.-The Colorado potato ex-
pertinent station is near Greeley and
consists of forty acres. 1t was estab-
lished in 1915 for the improvement of
potatoes for the good of the entire
state, and is under the direction of the
board of county commissioners of
Weld county, the State Agricultural
College and the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Every angle of
potato raising is studied at the station
by experts.
Denver.-A financial report made by
Warden Frank ]. Kratke of the coun-
ty Jail to Mayor Dewey C. Bailey
showed that it cost the city and county
of Denver $685. to maintain the Jail
during the year 1921, as compared to
an expense of $60,67o during the year
1920. Bread for that institution, the
county hospital, Steele hospital, Sand
Creek hospital, the county farm and
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