Gilpin observer., 1917-10-04

convention Oh TNoN
Oct. 15-20.-Annual meeting. Grand
hodles. 1. Q. 0. F., at Pueblo
Noy 6-S-Live Stock Show at Grand
Nov. l2-1s-Automobils Show at Dem
yer.
Coloradoans will raise $4,000, 900
for the second Liberty loan.
Oct. Z will be observed in the
churches as Y. w. C. A. Sunday.
The first lap Of the proposed Mount
Evans road has been opened to the
public.
The Denver municipal coal depart
tion has sold more than $500 tons Of
coal.
The first Denver organization actu-
ally subscribing for bond in the sec
ond Liberty loan campaign was Col
fax Rebekah Lodge, No. IL, l. o. o. F.
A marriage at Brighton united the
two Whitford families of Denver,
when Greeley w. Whitford welded
Mrs. Clay B. Whitford. The bride is
the widow of Mr.. Whitfords late
brother.
A campaign to raise $4,000 has
been inaugurated by the Denver Fed
GRAFTON for charity and philanthropy
to cover the balance due on the total
budget of $s5,O0O for a period of fif-
teen months.
Peter McCourt, theatrical man, is
defendant in a suit for $4,000 dam
ages filed in the Denver court by Lu-
cile Killian, who charges that the de-
fehdant's auto struck the girl while
he was driving.
1t costs the taxpayers of Pueblo
county $726,975.95 to conduct the
schools of the county during the year
closing with June 80, according to the
annual report of Mrs. Lille O. Baker,
county superintendent.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has set
price for COAL The maximum for
bituminous in the Trinidad district is
set at $2.75 and 50 elsewhere in state.
Ignite in Northern and Ell Paso fields
to bring $2.45.
The gift Of an insurance policy for
each Of 1000 of its employees, for a
sum approximately equal to one
years salary, up to the maximum of
$4,000 was announced by the Great
Western Sugar Company.
The cornerstone of the Mission Cot
tage and Old Folks Home, which is
now being erected at cost of $4,000
by the Swedish Lutheran Augustana
Church In Denver, was laid with ap-
propriate ceremonies Sunday after
noon.
Summaries made up by bookkeepers
show that, following its record of net
earnings of $252.000 made in July. the
Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining
Company made net earnings of ap-
proximately 100000 in the month Of
August.
Preliminary work in connection
with the organization of the Colorado
chapter Of the American Mining Con-
gress is progressing rapidly and the
Indications now are that the strongest
local mining organization ever COM
pleted in the West will soon be COM
pleted and officered.
To every newspaper in Colorado has
been sent a bulletin from the agricul-
tural and livestock bureau Of the Dem
yer Civic and Commercial Association
calling attention to the grave short
age Of livestock as indicated by re-
ports from practically every market in
the country, including Denver.
Denver's sleeves were rolled up
Monday morning to lick the Kaiser
with golden stream of money in
vested in liberty bonds-money that
will be used to clothe, arm, equip and
feed the United States troops which
will soon cross the Atlantic to crush
the despotic German armies on the
front in northern France.
Ada Luella Crawford, a registered
Red Cross nurse with the Evanston,
ILL.,, unit now on duty at base hos.
pital in France, has been promoted to
a lieutenancy for conspicuous per-
formance of duty among the wounded.
Lieut.. Crawford formerly lived In
Denver at the home Of her sister, Mrs,
Jane Crawford Eller.
Charles l.. Hincke, secretary Of the
DcuNoi SiNh ocINiCc bOdTu, mas re-
ceived a special announcement from
Washington Of special examinations
for forest and field clerk. principally
for the Reclamation Service. to which
both men and women are eligible. The
salary is $1,000 to $1,000 a year. Ex.
perience in stenography and typewrit-
ing are necessary qualifications.
Harvest Home Sunday-semi-sacre
holiday set apart by thousands OF Den.
yer church men and women for the
benefit Of the city's poor - was OBJ.
served at local churches. Tons OF
vegetables, canned fruits OF every de.
scription and all things else which
generous hearts may elect to contrib
ute in the way OF foodstuffs was laid
upon the Harvest Home affairs.
Thousands of fColorado boys, snatch led
from every walk OF life, are at Camr