The Glenwood post., 1908-10-31
COLORADO NEWS

The grand lodge of Odd Fellows at
Greeley voted to hold its next annual
session at Pueblo.
The Rev. NJ. B. Williams of Chicago,
noted evangelist, is to head a four
weeks series of revival meetings in
Denver.
Miss Adele Fowle, Denver stenog-
rapher, was sixth in the international
and third in the amateur typewriting
contest held recently in New York.
The sample ballots for Weld county
for the general election have been
prepared in the English, Swedish, Rus
sian, Spanish and Italian languages.
On the 21st inst, for the first time
in the history of Pueblo, there was not
a case of contagion registered with the
board of health, nor was there case
in quarantine.
According to Prof C. E. Chadsey,
city superintendent of schools in Den
yer, it is necessary for Denver, in or
der to keep pace with the growth OF
school population, to spend about
$1,O0O,000 every five years for school
buildings.
Florian Cajori, head professor of
mathematics in Colorado college, and
dean of the engineering school, has
reconsidered his decision made last
term that he would resign as dean of
the school, and will again take up his
work
The Kansas-Colorado Electric Rail
road Company Friday commenced con-
demnation proceedings against eighty
tour property owners in Pueblo county
to complete its right of way. The
court issued an order giving the road
immediate possession.
The Colorado State Prison Assoca-
| tion is preparing statistics to be used
in support of bill permitting adult
first offenders to be paroled by the
courts in cases where such action
seems desirable. Good results have
followed this practice elsewhere.
Stricken suddenly with pneumonia,
Capt. John L. Armit, for many years
prominent attorney and social leader
of Colorado Springs, died in Butte,
Montana, hospital on the 22nd inst,
after only few days illness. For the
past year Captain Armit had been
manager of the Montana Consolidated
Mines Company, one of the big copper
producers of that state.
In notices sent around to nearly ev-
cry business man in Denver, Secret
Service Agent Goddard warns all
against two men who are reported to
be examining cash drawers under pre-
tense of belonging TO the secret SER
vice. The men have been caught, it
is said, in the act of removing money
several times, but have each time es-
capped.
c. S. Morey, president of the Great
Western Sugar Company, is reported
as saying that sugar in Colorado beets
this year is two per cent. below the
average. The best crop in Colorado
averages from fourteen to fifteen per
cent, sugar, but the percentage this
year will be from twelve to fourteen,
which means loss of two per cent. to
the farmers.
Denver will have venison for
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Years feasts, judging from the num-
ber of storage permits being taken
out in the office Of the state game and
fish commission Over 200 permits
have already been issued and many
hundred deer are being stored in the
cold storage rooms of various ice
companies in this city.
Without exception the bids sub
mited to the county commissioners of
Pueblo county for the erection of the
new court house exceeded the esti-
mates of both architects and the board
Five bids were presented, the lowest
being that o! Frank Taylor of Pueblo
$44S,30S. Taylor contracts to use Tur-
key Creek stone and to complete the
structure within two years.
Charles H. Mcclure, engineer at the
Denver mint, stood highest in the ex-
animation given by the United States
civil service commission to applicants
for the position of inspector of me-
chanical and electrical engineering in
the supervising architects office in
Washington. He has been ordered to
report at Washington to assume the
position.
A. E. Williams, blacksmith work
ing for the Stratton-Granite company.
sixteen miles north of SalidA, was evil
IDENTIFY victim of the heavy snow
storm that ragged in that vicinity Sun
day. He was last seen at the camp
of the company and his frozen body
was found beside the trail short
distance from the cabin. He had a
brother in Aspen and sister in Den
yer.
Sixty young women of Colorado ex-
ecuted one Of the most complicated and
best managed drills ever attempted by
women on the stage of the auditorium
in Denver Saturday night, when the
drlll team of the Denver Young
Women's Christian Temperance Union
formed the letters Y w. C. T. u. while