Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1916-10-19

oct. 2s-Buy at Home parade in Ben Den.
Oct 3o-Nov. Injecting Colo. state
Teachers Association.
Jan. 1-6-Poultry Show at Denver.
Jan; 2O-27-Annual Western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. M. c. A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs.
Over $4,000 Denver voters are reg
istered.
The state tax levy was fixed by the
Board Of Equalization at 2.07 mills.
Work on the construction of the
new depot at Craig will be started at
cnce.
A. j. Eaton sold a section of land
three miles northeast of Ault' at 500
an acre.
The Colorado Baptists held three
day state convention at Colorado
Springs.
The first days slicing at the Love-
land sugar beet factory amounted to
1895 tons.
The carnival given by the boys and
girls of the Kersey schools netted
over $40.
Grazing sheep on the Flat Tops of
Routt county has proven very success
full this season.
Tag day for the Swedish National
Sanatorium for tuberculosis in Den
yer netted $4,000.
AT Fort Collins the hauling of beet
of
streets has been forbidden.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Burns cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at their home in Denver.
At the funeral of Sister Ludmilla,
held at Pueblo, Father Cyril Lupan,
her brother, was the celebrant.
The Colorado Synod of the Presby-
terrain church held it's forty-fifth an
nual session at Grand Junction.
julius and William Reynolds, broth
ers, were drowned while duck hunting
in Bowles lake west of Littleton.
Plans are being made at Colorado
Springs for combining all war relief
work under one general committee.
The first contingent of Colorado
troops to reach the Mexican border
was Company A of the Signal Corps
An effort will be made to obtain
daily mail service throughout the
year between Loveland and Estes
Park.
AT Leadville the hex is again loom
ing up with a greater tonnage of ore
being extracted than at any time in
its history.
Next month Loveland expects to
pay 100000 on the electric bonds,
which will leave $4,000 still out
standing.
The first checks for this season
beet crop were mailed out to growers
in Weld county Oct Is, and amounted
to about $4,000.
Despite the loss of $275,OOO from
liquor licenses, it is estimated that
Denver will have a surplus of $780,
900 at the end of the year.
A standard loaf of bread, the size
OF which will be fixed by city ordi-
Lance, is likely to be the next move
in the bread problem of Denver.
Silas Johnson. for eighteen years
captain Of No. engine company of
the De.ver fire department, died at
his tome from dropsy of the heart.
The annual meeting of the Denver
branch of the Needlework Guild of
America will be held Nov. I in the
T. "a nj OF of Inb =,
Mrs. Aurilla Baxter, 50, wife of j.
IL. Baxter, died at her home near
Sligo Mrs. Baxter had been a resi-
dent of Weld county for forty-three
years.
August Gaer, special deputy game
warden near Clyde, reports the deer
increasing rapidly in that section. He
discovered a doe and fawn feeding
With his cattle.
The Colorado cavalry contingent,
composed of troops A, b. and c, which
left the rifle range at Golden for the
border, have detrained and gone into
camp at Brownsville. Tex.
a gain of 80 per cent over Septem-
Der, 1915, in the building permits TAX
EN- out in Denver, was made during
September, 1916, according to figures
compiled by the American Contractor,
! Chicago.
The Hitchings ranch and stock
farm, one of the largest nonirrigated
farms in the state, sixty miles from
Denver, and containing 5000 acres,
has been sold to Frank NJ. Smith of
Chicago for $4,000.
This year has been the most pros
porous in Denver since 1910 as shown
by the collection of taxes. c. j.
Pitcher, manager of revenue. said that
94.1 per cent of the taxes payable
this year have so far been collected.