The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1917-08-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service
! COMING EvENTs.
Aug. 25-Pickle Day at Platteville.
Aug 20 3o:-Annual Convention X P.
Grand Lodge. including Uniform
OF khorassan. at Colorado Springs
sept 3-I-Frontier Day celebration Al
Fort Morgan.
Nov. 5-ll-Denver Auto Show.
County Fairs.
Aug. 2s-sept i-Prowers County At La
mar.
Aug. 2s-s1-Larimer County at Love-
Aug. 2s3l-Crowley County at Sugar
City.
Aug. sl-sep,, l-Farmer.' Fair a, Fow-
Sept 4-z-Boulder County at Lonsmont
sept 4-7-Arkansas Valley at Rocky
Sept s-s-sedgwick County at Jules
Sept Il-14-Logan County at Sterling.
Sept 1s-21-Cheyenne County at Chey-
enne Wells.
Sept 1s-2l-Western slope at Mont
rose
Sept. -22-colorado State at Pueblo.
Sept. 20-22-Phillips County at Hol-
yoke.
Sept 25-2s-CoIorado New Mexico at
Durango.
Sept % -2e-Las Animas County at
Sept 2s-2s-El Paso County at Calhan.
Sept 27-2s-Graud County at kremm-
Oct. 2-5-Kit Carson County at Bur
lington.
Aug. 81.
Flour prices dropped zoe per 100
pounds Aug. IA in Denver.
Mrs. Julia Quirk, pioneer Pueb-
loan, died at the age OF IS years.
Several Colorado men obtain Off
GERS commissions at training camps.
Fourteen Pueblo men were given
commissions at officers training
camps.
In various counties the women are
rapidly enlisting in state auxiliary
branches of the National Guard.
1t will take $4,000 refrigerator cars
to move the crops of the western slope
in 1917, according to G. S. Kelch.
Announcement was made of the call
Ing off of the Pixies peak automobile
races, scheduled to begin on Sept. s.
The movement started by the retail
clerks to have all stores in Denver
closed at O'Clock was Endorsed by
the Trades and Labor Assembly
Nineteen employees in the Denver
postoffice have already enlisted in the
regular army and the draft has taken
six more, none of whom will claim ex-
emption
The United States Department OF
Agriculture, in its report states Colo
radios sugar beet crop for this year
is considerably above the average OF
the country
Ell Paso county's crops may go to
waste for want of harvest hands.
Farmers are clamoring for men to
handle the crops, which are now ready
for harvest.
twenty-five thousand Coloradoans,
in the greatest patriotic demonstration
ever made in Denver. met the Colo
RADIO contingent from Fort Riley on its
Homecoming.
Acting under instructions of Attor-
ney General Gregory, United States
Marshal Burris revoked all commits
sions to employees of industrial con-
Germs as United States deputy mar
shals
The late Harriet Wolcott Vale left
an estate valued at approximately
5000. according to preliminary es-
Inmates embodied in a petition which
accompanied the filing of her will in
the County Court in Denver.
The officers in charge of the Arkan-
sas Valley fair, Wild West carnival
AID NNnta
pleted all arrangements for the annu-
al event at Rocky Ford which attracts
the attention of everyone in the West
The threatened strike of $50 men in
the Harris mine. twenty-five miles
west of Steamboat Springs, was avert
ed when the company met substantial
ly all the demands of the miners re-
| garding the checkweight system and
increased wages.
| Strict enforcement of the several
anti-premium ordinances was launched
by the City of Denver. and the initial
case, directed against the, United CT
gar Stores Company, was won when
$40 in Police Court.
More than 5000 acres of vacant
land adjoining the San Isobel forest
| in southern Colorado have been set
aside by the federal government as
stock driveways under the act of Dec.
Is, 1916, by Secretary Lane according
to an announcement made by M. D.
McInerny, chief Of the land office in
Denver
The formal opening of the fourth
quadrennial session of the Supreme
Camp of American Woodmen, colored,
| WAS held in the Auditorium in nonyer