The Arvada enterprise., 1922-09-28
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

tatO crop showed Y condition OF ~ per
cent compared with 81 per cent
month ugO und ~ per cent y year ago
and ~ per cent the ten-yeur average
for Sept. ]. Tie crop will undouoted.
ly to the largest ever produced In the
state. unless conditions decline unusu-
ally during the next sixty days. The
state crop Is now estimated ut lS.135.-
wv bushels (produced ON approximate
ly 15O.OO acres). compared to II final
estinate OF ll,O7O.OO bushels last
year produced upon about 0U.OOO acres
Moisture has generally been deficient
In the nOn-irriguted potato sections
and there has also been some shortage
Of irrigation water In the nOrth-centrul
portion of the stute. Usually ubout ~
to Is per cent Of the state crop is con-
sidered US commercial.
Denver.-Due to beneficial showers
In many sections Of the state und TO
excellent ruins In the northeastern
counties and In some western slope
districts during August. corn Improved
about per cent during the month and
had condition Of 81 compared with
Is last year and - the ten-year aver
age. The condition Indicates crop
OF 2l,792,OOO bushels, assuming ti,lt
l.: entire corn acreage produces gruin.
Usually, only about 70 to ~ per cent
Of the acreage planted 10 harvested
for grain, the remainder being cut for
sllage, fed in the field or abandoned.
The state crop last year amounted to
15,970,OOO bushels.
Fort Collins.-After the jury had
been out for twenty minutes In the
case In which Robert Is. Nichols was
charged with killing his broti'er-in-law,
Sterling +. Bills, In quarrel over IL
gravel pit privilege. u verdict OF not
guilty was reached. Bills died March
"a ON the way to the hospital utter he
had been struck On the head In the
gravel pit. Nichols was charged with
striking him with his shovel. Nichols,
however. declared that he put up his
shovel to ward off blow of Bills
pick and he pick glanced back and
the point Of 1t struck Bills On the
head. inflicting the wound which
proved fatal.
Denver.-May 1870 are the dates set
for Denver music week for lU23, NC
cording to an announcement made by
+. II. Talbot. executive secretary to
Denver community service. Arrange
ments have been made through Com
missioner J. J. Wick Roy to reserve
the city Auditorium ON these dates for
music week activities. Out.of.tOwn
bands and choruses are being commu.
nicated with In Nm endeavor to extend
the music week Idea throughout Colv-
rado.
Denver.-Contracts have been let
for construction work on Coiorado's
newest industry-a plant for the mum.
ufacture Of carbon. black. at White Niv-
er. Rio Blanco county, ny the Rio
Blanco Carbon Company. recently or.
ganixed In Denver, now fully financed
and prepared to erect factory, &C.
cOrdlny to Thomas J. Dixon. Its prexl.
dent.
Ordway.-The first bank TO be
formed In Colorado In several months
was Incorporated und churtered by
Secretary OF State MilIiken In Denver.
Tie new institution is to be known ms
the Ordwuy Suite Bunk ut Ordwny.
Colo, und capitalized for x25.OOO. The
incorporatOrs are A. J. Luneburg, N.
r. Galley und J. X. Galley.
Colorado Srrings.-George Wash.
burn IL believed to have shot und per-
hnps fatally wounded Mrs. Laura
VOrce und to have killed himself here.
The woman ran to ii neighbours house
and notified those there OF the shoot
Ing. The two ure suld To have bud nu.
merOus IuErrels.
Fort Collins.-The sOphOmures ut
the Colorado Agricultural College won
every event In Tie annual freshman
sophomore class scrup held here un
Colorado field.
Estes Park. -Enos A. Mills, nutur.
alist, lecturer, author and proprietor
Of Longs Peak Inn, ut Estes Park,
NssN Suuusbuy mere. beutu WuS uIItlu'
uted To henrt failure arising from II
number OF complications. among lnem,
overwOrk. Mr. Mills lnd not been III
theNiny before, M he walked about his
Inn chatting with guests. lie retl,ed
apparently In usual health, and uwoke
To cnli his wife ut = 30 O'Clock and
tell her that he felt badly. She sum
nOned DR.. ID. T.. Abbott vf Chicago, a
guest AT the Inn. Mr.. Mills luIscI into
uncOnsciOusness shortly nftcrwnrd
und died ut 2 o'clock. He vas - years
old nnd hnd lived In Estes Park for
thlrty.six years.
Denver.-"AppElling situation at
smyrna las made necessary n milton.
Wide uppe... for relief" read =. part of
Y Telegram received by til. Near East
relief lust week from .Iuuie.. l.. Bar.
ton, national chairman Ut the Near
Eust relief. Following til. receipt uf
ihis telegrum, machinery Immediately
wus put In motion In uli pnrts of Colo.
rndO to collect xlUO,UUO for the Iiuln.d,.