The Glenwood post., 1922-04-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Nsvsp, , rnion News s,uiea)

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Burlington.-The Hudson garage, one
of the principal garages, was broken
into recently and about $1,000 worth
of tires were stolen
Durango.-Durango golf enthusiasts
have leased 2O0-acre tract and plans
have been launched for the organiza-
ton of big country club here.
Brush.-At one of the hottest cleo
tlons ever held in the town of Brush,
! Dr. w. r, Turner was elected mayor
over Frank Potter by majority of
| 243.
Pueblo,-One man is dead, one is
dying and three are seriously wounded
as the result of series of shooting
| and stabbing affrays among Mexicans
and negroes here.
Salida.-Traffic over Monarch pass
between Saida and Gunnison will be
possible by June 1, according to infor
nation given out by state highway of
! ficials in Denver
Florence. Guiro Moschcontonio,
Italian truck gardener, was shot and
| Slightly wounded near here by Antonio
DeDuca, a neighbor, according to re-
ports to local authorities.
Greeley The Greeley high school
basket ball team was defeated by Wat
seka. ILL.,, team, score 30 to %, in the
| first game OF the series for national
high school honors at Chicago.
Crane Junction-Miss Harriet Nor
oh,
fell thirtyfive feet down a precipice
while trying to rescue q school girl
companion Miss Luthera Wakefield.
| Denver.-Problems of Colorado edu-
Gators were discussed at the thirty
seventh annual meeting of the Colo
| RADIO Association of County School Su-
| perintendents and Institute Workers
here
Florence an advance of $3.50
100 pounds in the price OF zinc the
River Smelling and Refining Company
will reopen its Florence plant at once,
much to the benefit of the zinc-produc-
| ing miners.
Loveland Tourists visiting Love-
| land and Estes Park this season will
| have modern free camp ground near
| the Half Way place in Loveland canon.
IN addition to the camp grounds in the
city park here.
Rocky Ford. - Three elementary
schools and the Junior and Senior high
| schools of Rocky Ford have established
| the thrift plan as recommended by the
thrift committee of the Colorado Par
| ent-Teacher Association.
Red ClIff.-Wage reductions varying
from 25 to so cents daily have been
proposed by the Empire Zinc Company
for more than III employees at Gilman,
Colo. according to a thirty-day notice
served on the State Industrial Commits
| sion at Denver.
Monument.-The entire village of
Monument seemed in danger of going
| up Ii flames when fire, originating in
blacksmith shop, got beyond control
| of the volunteer fire brigade. stiff
| breeze carried sparks to the city hall,
which was saved only by the efforts
| of the entire male population Of the
| town Hundreds of buckets were
Drought MO pay.
Colorado Springs.-In the election
held recently John Paulson was elected
mayor Of Manitou without opposition,
| James NJ Hamrick defeated DR.. D. f.
Groves in. Calhan, w. A. Godbing de-
| feated w. l.. Hudson in Fountain, and
| ]. w. Worrall was reelected mayor in
| Simla, defeating DR. Housh. Charles
| Harrison was elected mayor OF Green
| Mountain Falls.
| Fort Lupton.-A rural life confer
| ence, with meetings at twelve of the
| consolidated schools of Weld county,
! is scheduled for the week of April "a.
| The conference will be attended by
| some of the countrys leading educa-
tors.
Brighton.-John A. Hicks. prominent
| Nonpartisan League leader, secretary
| of an Adams county farm body and
| former member of the State Legisla'
| ture from Weld county, was fined $500
and sentenced to sixty days in Jail in
| Justice Court here on charge of vio-
hting the prohibition law Attorneys
| TOT HICKS dDDtultu lHS SuSe " NouhtJ
| Court and he has been released on
| bond.
Trindad-The coroners jury con.
| cluding an inquest in the disaster at
| the Sopris No. 2 mine Of the Colorado
| Fuel and Iron Company, wrecked by an
explosion on March "a last with a
| death toll of seventeen, returned ver-
dict here finding that the seventeen
| men came to their deaths from the ef-
fects OF gas and dust explosion and
| that from the evidence this explosive
mixture was set off by spark or arc
| from the power service of the mine.
.Greelcy.-Weld, leading agricultural
county OF Colorado, and found by the
federal census bureau to rank among
the first forty counties of the United
States in agricultural wealth in 1920,
holds first rank among the counties of
the state in value of crops produced In