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This week in history as reported by the Summit County Journal the week of February 14, 1920.
FLU EPIDEMIC NEARING END, SCHOOLS WILL OPEN DURING NEXT FEW DAYS
Mrs. Valeet Jobe was the only case of influenza reported Friday or Saturday All pneumonia patients are reported as improving. Carl Kaiser is reported as rapidly recovering. Today the opening of schools and theaters on or before February 23 was practically assured.
FAKE DETECTIVE NOW MAKING ROUNDS OF STATE’S MINING CAMPS
The second appearance of a self-styled detective from the Burns agency to make an appearance in Colorado mining towns was at Idaho Springs according to the Sifting-News of that town.
ANN’S LOVE MISSIVE WINS WIFE’S DIVORCE
“A letter signed ‘Ann’ full of endearing words and expressions, helped to win for Mrs. Pearl Simpson a divorce from Fred Simpson, a railroad man, in the county court,” says the Rocky Mountain News.
POPULATION OF SUMMIT AND BRECKENRIDGE WILL BE MADE KNOWN NEXT APRIL
Henry R. Rhone of Grand Junction today states that the people of Summit county will be advised thru the press of the population of the various districts of the county, resulting from the 1920 census taking, in April.
GOLD BELT HAS NEW PRESIDENT
The Gold Belt Mining company, which is steadily developing its property on Brewery hill in the Farncomb hill district, has a new president in Charles Franklin of Iowa City, Ia. In Mr. Franklin is a successful business man and building contractor who has constructed a number of buildings for the state institutions of Iowa.
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