Cheyenne Wells record., 1922-01-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'Wesisrn Newspaper Union News s.r,,re !,

rndo Retail Merchants Associntion nj
'he concluding session of the conven.
tloh at Greeley. 1t was voted TO hold
the next convention at Boulder.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of new
colorado postmastcrs have been sent
10 Inc Senate as follows: Francis NJ
Wheeler, at Campo, and Lorun G. Den
ison, AT Telluride. John f. Gilmore
was named to be postmaster at Grey.
bull, Wyo.
Loveland-Jean V. Knapp. a gradu-
ate OF the LOvcland high school, and
son OF Under Sheriff l. o. Knapp Of
Larllner county, who has been in Geor-
gia Tor some months, has been appoInt-
ed as state veterinarian of the state of
Floridn. He is II graduate of the ami
mai husbandry department of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College.
Loveland.-Clyde Walters, Pat Cliff
ford, +. Owen Brown. +. c. Clemens,
James {. Christensen and George W.
Lind of the state engineering DEPART
ment, recently began survey to deter
mine the route of the new prOpOsed
paved state highway, leading from
Fort Collins through Loveland and OH
toward Denver.
Pueblo.-ltoy and Claude Monr0ney,
sons of Il. +. 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 local
barber shop. According to local ad-
vices the slain son and daughter of Il.
+. Monroney were half-sister and half
brother of the Pueblo men. us the
woman slain was their stcpmOther.
Walsenburg.-EX- X-Service men are
given homestead preference rights to
| the ), 100 acres of public lands, twenty
| five miles northeast of Wnlsenburg,
Colo, which have just been thrown
open to entry, according to word re-
ceired by NJ. ID. McEniry, chief of the
Denver field division of the United
States general land office. Homestead
tracts on this land nrc limited to 800
acres each. After Feb. 2S, the general
public may file on any remaining
lands, it was announced.
| Crank JunctiOn.-.Inmes f. ShultZ
of Grand Junction was elected presi-
dent of the Colorado Auctioneers' As
sOciatiOn at the twelfth annual conven-
ton OF the association held in Denver.
Other officers named were: Charles
W. Shook of Greeley, vice president,
and II. F.. Fly Of Rocky Ford, secre-
rary-treasurer. The proposal Of fram-
ing and presenting II bill to the Legis-
lature to regulate the practice OF auc-
tioneering in Colorado was discussed
at the meeting.
! Fort CoIlins.-lsOlated communities
In Colorado are demanding more and
rsre the services Of the extension spe-
cf;,lists from the Colorado Asricultur-
al College. Since Aug. !, 1921, the
poultry specialist alone has assisted
with meetings in twenty separated
communities. reaching over 900 farm
people. Ii Is estimated that as II re-
suit of these meetings. 800 farm flockS
have been culled at Il saving of SJO,OOo
and that better feeding and housing is
|
Pucblo.-Mrs. Hazel s. Gunby Of
Fowler has filed suit In District Court
In Pueblo asking d;nnge amounting To
S35 5,02O..tj from the Colorado \ South
tru Rnilroad Company for injuries she
sustained and for the death of her
mother. The women were driving Il
car from Denver To Fowler. March ID,
1921, and were struck by &. X 5
train at the RoSeIawn cemetery cross.
ing. the older woman being instantly
killed, the machine demolished ant:
Mrs. Gunby sustaining serious injury.
AIumos;,.-A bill introduced in the
United States Senate calls for regu'
lar yearly session Of the Federal Court
at Alumos:l, Colo. The sitting wolld
begin on the first Tuesday of each De-
iober, according To the specifications
of the bill. Hundreds in the San Luis
valley have pctitioncd for such court
Grecley.-Thc Colorado potato eN'
pertinent station is near Greeley ana
consists of forty a"res. II w;is eStnb'
Iishcd in 1919 for the improvement of
rotntocS for the good of the entire
state, ana lS HllVtT tllt ulIe'''h VI 'h'
hoard of county commissioners ol
Weld county, the State Agricultural
College and the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Every angle of
po,nto raising is studied at the station
10y experts.
Drnver.-A financial report made ny
Warden Frank J. Eratkr of the coull-
~ Jail to Mayor Dewey {. Bailey
showed that il cost the city and county
of Denver SGS, ,:lO3 TO maintain the jail
during the year 1921, as compared t"
an expense of $GO,67O during the year
1890. Bread for that institution. the
county hospital, Steele hospital, Sand
Creek hospital, the county farm ana
the City park ZOO, the report shows,
cost the city approximately $4,000. -
Las Animas.-W.th more than 20 per
cent increase In the cantaloupe acre
age signed up for the coming season
| a., ,,r,snoc,s for n hummer crop In