The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-12-26

STOuuu lCF Tue SoioIduo 3CS'tiooPp's
Louis schinitz, aged 2d ,a.s pastry
cook living in Denver. hasidisappeared
and may have committed suicide in
Pueblo.
According to the official figures,
only nine of the thirty-two amend
ments submitted at the recent election
carried.
A crowd of about sixty-five Greeks
left Denver for the old country, where
they intend joining the army in the
Balkans.
The golden anniversary Of the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Sites.
one of Denver's oldest couples, was
celebrated at their home.
January 1917 inclusive. the Farm
ers' Congress Of Colorado meets at
the Agricultural College, Fort Collins.
for its fourth annual session.
A chair of insurance has been 'es-
tabIHhed at Denver university by w.
d. Current. by authority of tho Ma
tional Association of Life Under
writer's.
Up goes the cost OF living another
notch. Most of the motion picture.
theaters on Curtis street in Denver
after January /. will charge 10 cents
admission.
In the last two and half years the
public utilities commission of Denver
has cost the city $63.596.4O since its
creation, according to compilation
made by City Auditor 'Markey.,
The alumni and faculty of the West
Denver High School presented. Miss
Bertha Schmitz. teacher of Latin
and German, with 500 in gold as
recognition of her Twenty-Five years
in the school. -
Sixteen-year-old Violet Simmons.
who mysteriously disappeared from
her home in Colorado Springs month
ago, was found in Denver by Juvenile
Officer John Phillips, and returned TO
Colorado Springs. -
The grade teachers OF Denver
schools. 1t has been announced, will
demand that the school board increase
their maximum salary from 1850
year to $1,000. and their minimum
from 5000 to s700.H
A Festival of Mountain and Plain,
which will rival that. OF four monthi
ago is assured for 1913. boom for a
bigger, better. 'Erander carnival -for
next year was launched at a. meeting
of the festival board.
C.P. Allen. chairman: Thomas Tvily
and ]. f.. Mploncy of,.the State: High
way Commission. completed plans for
the Improvement Of 1919 miles. the
entire system OF state. primary roads,
at. n total cost of sl.ss2.50o.
o. H. Shoup, a business associate
OF Werner H. Reed tor many years, has
purchased the handsome Reed resi-
dence at Colorado Springs forth CON
sideration of pppEoximately 10000,
Mr.. Reed and family, are living in Den
yer. - -.
Miss Helen l.. Summer, DeaYer So;
ciety girl. who has gained considerable
fame throughout the United States for
her books on suffrage, has accepted
the Offer extended her by Miss Julia
Lathrop. head OF the National Child
,ren's bureau at Washtnetn ton $ to become
'4Miss Lathrop's chief assistant,
To lessen the burden OF ".Dcnvsr
county taxpayers, :'who. he :. declares.
are overtaxcd, Assessor. Clair j.
Pitcher has announced thata unless
the tax levy OF 1874 mills recently dei
clared for 1913. is reduced, he pro-
poses to cut the assessed ya1Nei Of
county and city property $4,000. 900.
( With few struggling shipments yet
to be reported. Mesa county has
shipped out: over the Colorado MID.
land and DenvfE &tRio Grande rail.
roads total Sf:a.ssA cars Of stock,
worth approximately $2,Qs5,oOo this
year. The iRio Gtande has 'repopted
from Mesa county ss4 ,oars .of stock
and the Midland's business is given
as 745 cars.
Drastic measures are being taken
by the school in the latest of Sc
ries of pranks committed this yeas
by high school Students at Fort Col
Inns. Wilbur King. a sophomore IN
the high school, placed a quantity of
calcium carbide in an inkwell The
strong ODD Y from the gas given out
by the m6istened carbide drove all
from the roorhs. Ing was ,impediattely
| suspended.
There will bS no 'raggingS on the
floor of the new chapel theater, when
dances are given,' says Father Nc
Menamin, rector of the Immaculate
Conception cathedral, of Denver. I'VE
are united in onr stand to stamp out
this vulgar type. of dancing and Poo
pie who dance on the theater floor
VIII nave to be satisfied with the
more conventional form of the old
waltz and two-step." -- - ?
The marriage@of Miss Gladys Hart
] of. Council Bluffs. Iowa, and Lawrence