The Glenwood post., 1922-04-20
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
twcsteru Newspaper Union New. Service,

VI oieiiLl marry sStllTutNeT VI Like
county, charging malfcasance on seven
counts. has been issued.
Loveland.--Road work in this vicin
ity is well under way. and from the
present outlook tie visiting tourist will
have the use Of some model roads.
Sterling Congress amends
the appropriation bill 10 provide funds
for their support. tie land offices at
Del Norte, Sterling and Hugo, Colo,
will be closed June 30.
Sterling-With snowfall reported
on all sides. Sterling experienced
sand storm without precipitation. The
wind was estimated to be blowing
around forty-five miles an hour.
Longlnont.-John j. Griffin, 81 years
old, farmer and former banker. killed
himself at the home of his two bro
Tiers, James and William Griffin,
about ten miles northeast of Long
mont.
Mancos.-James Nash, stockmun,
was shot and killed while driving cat.
in Utah. His stepSon. Irving Dunham,
is accused of the killing, as there has
been long-standing grudge between
the two men.
Greeley.-After search lasting
more than six months, o. ID. Jordan OF
Greeley, formerly of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, has been found. He was located
at Windsor, Colo, working in shoe
shop, and authorities say he is suffer
ing peculiar form of dcmentia.
Colorado Springs.-Rescued by the
Colorado Springs fire department from
q precarious foothold on crevice 100
feet above the base OF a cliff in the
Garden Of the Gods, Donald Donald
for forty-foot fall from the rip of
the kissing Camels' rocks.
Denver.-Governor Shoups procla-
nation, calling the State Legislature
tion of the Moffat tunnel and the or
ganization Of conservancy districts ror
the prevention of floods, was sent Ia
every member of the General ASSEM-
bly,. This extra session will convene
April IS at noon.
Pueblo.-Approxima $1,000 viii
be spent during the coming summer in
building new trails in the Sansre de
Cristo mountains. Part of the fund
will be provided by the United States
Forest Service and the remainder by
the communities in the territory from
which the trails will lead through The
mountains.
Denver.-Thirty- seven hundred acres
of state lands were sold by the State
Board of Land Commissioners at n
public sale conducted here for approx
imately $9S,S29, according to figures
given out by George Stephan, regis
trar. The land ranged in price from
$3.50 to $75 an acre and is located in
Alamosa, Cheyenne. Custer, Kit Car
son, Larimer, Las Animas, Logan
Montezuma. Otcro. Rio Grandc and
Washington counties
Denver.-While Weld is Colorado's
leading agricultural county in point of
total output and perhaps in variety of
crops produced for market. ii does not
hold first place in percentage of area
under cultivatiou, in value of area un'
der cultivation, in value of crops per
acre of area. according to report OF
the State immigration Bureau Rio
Grande county held first rank iii value
Of crops grown per acre of area in
1919. according to bureau findings.
with an average of about So, and
shared first place with Delta county b
value of crops per acre under cnltiva
ton, with an average of about so
Akron.-A meeting called to discuss
ways and means of presenting the
proposition of reapportionment of sen
atorial and representative districts for
the Colorado Legislature to the people
of the state held with the Akron
Chamber of Commerce was attended
by 100 representatives from eastern
Colorado counties
Denver,-More than 200 delegates of
the American Railway Development
Association are expected 10 gather NJ
the Brown Palace hotel here May 10
for their fourteenth annual convention
The convention will he in session for
three days, and, according to Earl q.
Reed. chairman of the committee on
hotels and arrangements, an attractive
has already been arranged
Akron.--Akron was recently visited
with Il terrific gale and snow storm.
the wind varying from thirty to forty
miles an hour. About six inches OF
snow fell, but on account of the rain
and snow which preceded terrible
dirt storm, the snow was mixed with
dirt, and everything is plastered with
mud, owing to the fact that the TEN
perature was very little below freez
ing. Live stock did not suffer much.
Montrose.-The county commission
crs In special session ordered the coun
,y clerk to advertise Immediately for
bids for the construction of the $780,
700 court house, which was ordered