The Elbert County tribune., 1916-06-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service


reseniatives OF Negro l,ace at Den
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly a,
Aug Is-i2-Pickle Day and Fair az
Aug. 22-2b-AnnuaI Convention, Grand
Lodge X OF T.. at Greeley.
Sept 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept 27-z9-State Convention B. p. o. E
at Trinidad.
Battery C. of Colorado springs re-
ported at Golden Tuesday.
An Antonito manufacturer has Of
fered sixteen motor trucks for use Of
the army
The Pueblo recruiting station has
been O..ered the services of 130 cow
boys in the regular ufmy.
Rube Pratt, of Seibert. six feet and
nine inches is said to be the tallest
guardsman in the country.
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.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Funeral Directors
AID Embalmers' Association was held
at Colorado Springs.
A $1,000 bond issue carried by
vote of nearly three to one for the
purpose of erecting a new hign
school building at Bristol.
Daniel Dillon, an American news
paper man who was imprisoned at
Mexico by the Carranza government,
was released from custody.
Maj Gen. Frank d. Baldwin, u. s.
A. retired. is "A years of age. The
event was celebrated quietly at his
home in Denver.
John McLennan, president of the
Colorado State Federation OF Labor,
is being suggested as the commander
of militia company Of union labor
men.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory OF Fruita occurred causing loss
of at least $45,000. For a time the
entire town was threatened with de-
struction.
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
anits of Colorado's National Guard.
George W. vallery. receiver OF the
Colorado Midland Railroad Company.
was honored by the grand encamp-
nf IN nj fo nj at \
Angeles with election to the post OF
grand junior warden. Lee s. Smith
Of Pittsburg was elected grand mas
.er OF the encampment.
Following the example set by their
brothers who have enlisted in the
Colorado National Guard, nine nurses
in training at the Bethel Hospital in
Poulterer Morris OF the American
Red Cross in Denver volunteering
their services for hospital work in
Mexico.
During the ten days his wife, the
Denver police and the sheriff of Lin
coin county were hunting for Alfred
T. 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 a party OF
'vorkmen.
The Rocky Mountain Rangers, COM
posed chiefly of Colorado volunteers,
experienced in military service. re-
newed the offer OF its services to the
United States War Department. This
cavalry regiment Is said to be ranked
as highest in efficiency among the
volunteer organizations of the coun.
try and has the support of a large
group of regular army officers
A Labor Day celebration in Den
yer in which all nearby Colorado
towns have been invited to partici-
pate, to include a morning parade
with line of march SURPRISING any
thing OF its kind in past years. and
a picnic in the afternoon and even
ing. is being arranged by the Joint
Labor Day committee of the Trades
Assembly and the Building Trades
Council. Labor Day this year 10
Sept. 4.
Eighty recruits are needed at the
Golden Rifle Range. Until this num-
ber of acceptable volunteers is avail
able. the first Colorado contingent
OF guardsmen will not be entrained
for the border. TWENTY infantrymen
and sixty cavalry recruits are neces-
sary in order that the four companies
of infantry which make up the first
battalion. and the four troops of cav
airy which comprise the mounted
squadron, may take the field.
Miss Margaret Hope McClanahan