The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.


al cleanup of poolrooms.
Montrose now has an up-to-date
creamery, with modern appliances of
all kinds.
Numerous inquiries regarding Colo
RADIO lands have been received by i'm
migration board
New school building at Sopris is
nearly completed and is to be ready
for use by the January term.
Mrs. Sarah Eaves Savage, Denver
society matron. is preparing a suit for
divorce from John A. Savage.
There has been a remarkable num-
ber of fatalities this year in the ranks
of old-time settlers Of southern Colo
RADIO.
The suit brought to try to oust Vic
tor Anderson from the presidency of
the School of Mines was dismissed at
Golden.
Large number of cases of chicken
pox in towns on the west slope. Nine
teen cases were found in the Carbon
dale school.
Colorado has been complimented by
Washington official on the physical
fitness of the men sent to Camp Fun
ston in the first selective draft
The city and county of Denver had
$2,295, 1869 in cash in the banks at
the end of October, according to fig
ures of F. d. Stackhouse, city auditor.
The navy is in need of more fire
men, and an appeal for more Colora-
do enlistments was issued by officers
in charge of the Denver recruiting Of
flee.
Approximately 135 Denver and other
Colorado men were given commissions
in the army upon the close of the sec
ond reserve officers training camp at
Fort Sheridan, Ill.
The knights of Pythias of Colorado
held a reception in Denver in honor
of the official visit to Colorado of
John j. Brown of Vandalia, ILL.,, su-
preme chancellor of the order.
December Is has been fixed by the
provost marshal general as the day
when exemption boards must send to
all registered men the questionairres
provided in the revised draft regula-
| tions.
F. D. Stackhouse, city auditor of
Denver, reported to Clair ]. Pitcher,
manager of finance, that the total
shortage of John H. Murray, former
cashier in the treasurers office in city
hall, was s3,7S2.35.
Denver coal retailers are preparing
cost sheets to back up a petition for
permission to increase the retail price
of coal to $S.25 and possibly $3.50,
which is to be presented to w. ]. Gal
ligan, state coal administrator.
With the packages for the Sammies
in France well on their way, the Dem
yer chapter of the Red Cross and the
other chapters of the mountain divis-
ion are turning their attention to the
Christmas boxes for the boys in the
army camps and cantonments.
Federal food administrators are eau
toned to remain outside" of political
or personal or economic prejudices in
discharging the duties of their offices,
according to a wire from Herbert G.
Hoover, federal food commissioner.
The board of directors of the Golden
session at Colorado Springs, declared
the regular 3c-a-share dividend The
directors of the Cresson declared the
regular 1Oc dividend, but took no ac-
tion on the expected special Christ
mas dividend.
Thomas B. Stearns, state food COM
missioner, notified two commission
firms handling foodstuffs out of Den
yer that if five cars of potatoes con-
signed to them and held in Denver
railroad yards were not unloaded in
one day their licenses would be re-
voked and they would not be permitted
to continue in business.
Senator Barney Napier of Glenwood
Springs visited the office of the fed |
eral food administrator as represent
ative of the farmers of Garfield coun-
ty, and made an appeal to Admins
traitor Stearns that some means be |
devised to relieve the hog raisers of |
his district, who, it is alleged, are |
compelled to feed $3-a- bushel wheat to |
their stock
Out of the 1913 Colorado men who
left Denver late in August to enter the |
second officers reserve training camp |
at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, four newly-com
missioned majors, four captains, fif
ty-four first lieutenants and fifty-six
second lieutenants, about equally di-
vided between infantry and artillery
branches, according to reports re-
ceived in Denver, will return on fur
loughs in special train.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion, in an announcement, warns
fruit and vegetable growers of the
state who are refusing to load cars
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