The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-03-18


at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs.
May 2.-RepubIican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May lS-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Fort Morgan Elks held a three-day
tsir
The Maccabees' lodge at Frederick
is growing rapidly.
Work on Delta's sugar factory is
expected to start soon.
Plans for Loveland's new high
school are about completed.
A stay of execution was granted
James c. Bulger until May 81.
The Laramie County Milk Conden
sary received an order for 6,6oO
cases.
s. A. Matthews is to have 200.
acre melon patch at Rocky Ford this
season.
Contracts have been made at Fort
Collins to raise over $4,000 acres OF
sugar beets.
Sugar beet acreage In the Arkan-
sas valley is to be larger this year
than ever before.
At Trinidad the Knights of Colum-
bus initiated a class of forty-five at
a recent meeting.
About 125 business and professional
men and farmers attended boost"
banquet at La Junta.
At the annual meeting in Greeley,
]. f. Fezer was elected president of
the Union Colony Pioneers Associa-
ton.
The public spirited farmers of
Olathe. are putting in dollar for dollar
with the county commissioners to get
good roads.
The United British Society, com
posed Of subjects of Great Britain in
Colorado was launched at a meeting
held in Denver.
Robert M. Jones, well-known Den
yer civil engineer died at Carlsbad,
N. NJ. His death was the result of
overwork. according to physicians.
Discoveries of rich tungsten ore
was reported by Fred Gcble. state
highway commissioner. who returned
to Durango from the Silverton dis
trict.
Mrs. Amelie Gehrung Brocker, one
OF Denver's Oldest pioneers ant
wealthiest citizens. died of old age
She would have been 81 years old or
April 81.
Denver machine shop owners indi
Gated that they will follow the ad
vice of their attorney and decline t1
recognize Jurisdiction of the State In
dustrial Commission.
Denver's camp for training men in
military tactics and life is to be open
from July 13 to Aug. 30. If plans now
being made by a committee Of bust
ness and professional men are carried
out.
The State Highway Advisory
Board determined that the money re
ce!ved from the new half-mill road
tax levy shall be expended in the
counties in which the money is raised
| excepting Denver.
Miss Elsie Ulrich, a member of tn,
| sophomore class of the West Denve
High School,, won the prize of th'
twenty-sixth annual Mary Louis'
White oratorical contest. held in tn,
auditorium of that school.
Joseph Smitham, rs years old. &
resident of Denver for more thar
thirty-five years, died in Santa Fe, N
| M, of a complication of diseases fol
lowing an attack of grip. He wa.
born in Cornwall. England. in 1910.
Daniel X. Wolfe, sophomore at tn,
University of Denver and gradual,
of West Denver High School, ha.
been awarded the Earl Montgomer!
Cranston prize in the annual fresh
man-sophomore oratorical contest
Two snowslides are reported aloni
railroads in tie mountains and. n
far as heard from, no lives were lost
| One of the slides WAS near Shoshoni
in the Glenwood Springs district. TIL,
other was at Kildare, near Leadville
The Denham Theater building an,
the n.nety-nine years lease of the lot
on which it stands were sold in from
of the courthouse in Denver by Alex
ander Nisbet, commissioner OF safety
who acted as sheriff. The propert.
brought $236.32I.22.
There were~only fifty one vacancie
Monday in the working force of tn
| Leadyille Nsmelter of the America,
Smelling & Refining Company. accort
ing to word received by the State Ir
dustrial Commission from the sherii
of Lake county.
From the estate of Col Geo.
Newman, owner of the famous Mac