Gilpin observer., 1916-06-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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aug; iECelebration Col9rado's Forti-
Aug. a&National Convention of Rep.
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly At
Aug. ls-is-Pickle Day and Fair ar
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. OF p. at Greeley.
sept rcat r5s|Erontier Days celebration
Sept 81 -29-State Convention B. P.o. E.
at Trinidad
Battery C, of Colorado springs re.
ported at Golden Tuesday.
One of the biggest parades ever
held in Rocky Ford was held when
the citizens turned out in honor OF
the militia.
Emmett O'Connor, graduate of the
Salida High School, has been ap-
pointed to West Point by Senator
John Shafroth.
The next convention of the West
ern division of the American Union
of Swedish Singers will be held in
Denver in 1920.
Maj. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, U. S.
event was celebrated quietly at his
home in Denver.
Denver girls, sisters, sweethearts
and friends of the men enlisted for
service are filing applications for
positions as Red Cross nurses.
The sum of $3,OO2.55 was the result
of the generous response with which
the tag day for the Adult Blind was
greeted by citizens of Denver.
The body of Martin w. Whatley,
killed by his son, District Attorney
Barney l.. Whatley, was buried at the
farm three miles from Breckenridge.
John McLennan, president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor,
is being suggested as the commander
of militia company of union labor
men.
Denver merchants and business in
terests have subscribed $67,759. so
toward the work of the Denver Tour.
ist and Publicity Bureau for the cur.
rent year.
The Colorado Springs branch OF
the Red Cross Association, has under
taken contract for furnish 500 COM
fort bags for the men in the Colorado
National guard.
| Word has reached Colorado
Springs of the suicide at Flagler of
James Madole. 27, son of Samuel Ma
dole, one of the wealthiest residents
of eastern Colorado.
Twenty-three flags of the state of
Colorado and two service flags were
presented formally by committee of
the Sons of Colorado to the different
units of Colorado's National Guard.
The Christian Endeavor convention
in session at Greeley, selected Salids
for the next meeting place. At the
election of officers Dr. w. C. Smo
lenske was elected president.
Denver women are anxious to "go
to the front with the boys" as nurses.
The applications of five women and
two men for volunteer service in the
American Red Cross Society have
been filed with the Denver chapter.
In the capture of Elmer Johnson,
who was arrested in Walsenburg on
a charge of stealing an automobile
from George Accord of Pueblo, the
sheriff's office believes that a profes
sional auto thief has been bagged.
Miss Margaret Hope McClanahan
of Delta, has been granted her de-
cree as Bachelor of Arts at the
forty-eighth annual commencement
exercises of Cornell University.
There were S26 graduates in the
class, of which Miss McClanahan was
the only representative from Colo.
rado.
During the ten days his wife, the
Denver police and the sheriff of Lin.
coin county were hunting for Alfred
7. Browns, Denver attorney and real
estate man, he was lying dead by his
own hand. His body was found in an
abandoned corral one and a half
miles north of Golden by party of
workmen.
Colorado troops of the National
Guard are to be rushed TO the border
for service as quickly as possible. I'm
der urgent orders issued by the War
Department the Colorado troops are
to be entrained by battalion and
squadron, no unit waiting for others.
Just as quickly as that battalion or
regiment or squadron is recruited to
minimum strength
With the expedtionary force OF
United States marines recently rushed
to Santo Domingo for protection oil
the American legation during the cur
rent revolt against President Jimines
is Denver youth. Kleme Miles,
son of Mrs. Lima Miles. Letters from
there indicate that he was among the
first American fighting men who
landed on the island after the insur
rection broke out.
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