The Elbert County tribune., 1916-10-20
COLORADO
. STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
over $4,000 Denver voters are reg.
istered.
Over 11.6OO automobiles are owned
in Denver.
The Colorado Baptists held three
day state convention at Colorado
Springs.
The carnival given by the boys and
girls of the Kersey schools netted
over $40.
A four-year-old son of Nick Baron
of Lafayette lost three fingers in a
dynamite cap explosion.
AT the funeral of Sister Ludmilla,
held at Pueblo. Father Cyril Lupan.
her brother, was the celebrant
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. ]. Burns cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at their home In Denver
The Colorado Synod of the Presby-
terian church held its forty-fitth an.
nual session at Grand Junction.
Julius and William Reynolds. broth
ers. were drowned while duck hunting
in Bowles lake west of Littleton.
The first checks for this seasons 8
beet crop were mailed out to growers
in Weld county Oct. Is, and amounted
to about $4,000.
Despite the loss of s275,O0O from
liquor licenses. it is estimated that
Denver will have a surplus of $780,.
600 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.
A fault in the earth's crust which
occurred in the mountains near Boul-
der was registered on the seismo-
graph of the Sacred Heart College in
Denver.
The Public Utilities Commission
suspended the schedules of the street
car service in Colorado Springs until
Oct. 20, and called hearing at Colo
RADIO Springs.
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.
Fifty floats will parade during the
Home Products festival Oct. %. ac-
cording to reports made at a meeting
of the general committee of the Man
ufacturers' Bureau held in Denver.
Word was received in Denver from
the Episcopalian house OF bishops that
the Rev. Irving P. Johnson of Fair
bishop of Colorado in Denver, Jan. 1,
1917.
A gain of 92 per cent over Septem.
Der. 1915, in the building permits TAX
en- cut in Denver, was made during
September 1916, according to figures
compiled by the American Contractor.
Chicago.
From freighting in the old days to
prominence in politics was the career
of Christopher c. Gird. 80 years old,
a Colorado pioneer. who died in Den
ver. Death was due to old age. He
had been ailing for five years.
A report just made by the Postof-
flee Department shows that. there are
now 902 postoffices in Colorado,
which are divided into classes rs fol-
lows: First class. 5; second class,
%; third class. SO; fourth class, 7S0
A thorough and far-reaching probe
into the Illegal traffic of liquor in
Denver and into the methods en-
ployed by the various authorities
charged with the enforcement of the
law, was begun by the Denver county
grand jury.
Merchants and manufacturers Of
Denver and the Denver Manufactnr-
ers' Association will spend approx
mately $4,000 in preparing for the
monster industrial parade which will
pass through the streets Oct. 2s, pa
rade day of "Buy-at-Home" Week.
The forty-fourth annual session of
the grand encampment, Colorado jur-
isdiction. odd Fellows, and the forty.
ninth annual session of the grand
lodge of the order opened In Denver
on the 10th for five-day session.
About 1,500 persons were present,
representing every part of the state.
Reports received from all over the
country and from various parts of the
state of Colorado indicate that a Sc
rious car shortage" exists on all lines
of railroad throughout the country. In
Colorado this shortage is caused by
an exceptional demand for cars for
the movement of banner crops of
grain, fruit. potatoes and other farm
products.
Amid impressive services. Colorado
Odd Fellows in Denver conferred up
on Frank C. Goudy OF Denver. grand
sire of the order, the grand decora-