The Ordway new era., 1917-07-27


Rank. Pythian Sisters and knight:
OF khorassan, at Colorado Springs
sept. S-s-Firemsn's State Convention
At Colorado Springs.
sept, i'-2;-Coiorauo state Fair At Pu-
A million pounds of cherries will be
canned at Canon City.
The special session of the Legisla'
ture opened at noon on the 18th.
The 1918 convention OF the Colorado
retail coal dealers will be held in
Pueblo.
About one thousand crates of goose
berries were shipped from Olney
Springs In ten days.
Ordway Masonic lodge is planning
the erection of a new temple. A site
has been purchased.
Strike of coal miners at Oio, in
Huerfano county. was local affair
and has been settled.
The fund for the French war orphans
will be swelled by more than $4,000
from Colorado Springs.
Indications point to the uncovering
of big shipping body of ore in the
Midnight mine at Aspen.
Military camp at state fair grounds
in Pueblo has been named Camp J.
c. Gunter." in governors honor.
Leading citizens of La Veta are ad
vocating the construction of a new
or better road across the range.
The cattlemen's four-day celebra-
ton at Gunnison excelled anything OF
the kind ever before held in that part
Of the state.
1t is estimated that the three big
dredgers in streams near Breckenridge
washed out gold to the amount OF
$175,000 in June.
Hugo and Fred Schaaf. twin brothers,
expect to go to the trenches together.
Their names were among the first
drawn from Denver.
The State Compensation Insurance
fund has declared an average dividend
of per cent on the premium income
for the first half Of 1917.
Five rural school districts at Hoop
er have consolidated and bond issue
OF s25.000 made for the purpose OF con-
structing the consolidated buildings.
Only $50 OF the SIS Colorado men
who applied for admission to the sec
ond officers reserve training camp
at Fort Riley will be given person
al examination.
The city and county OF Denver
wants si,64s,3S9 taken off the valua-
ton OF the Denver Union Water Com
pany's plant as fixed by Special Mas
ter sChinn at s13,415.Ss9.
A compressor and transformer are
being installed at the Elk mine, west
of Silverton. The Elk Company owns
3e5 acres of heavily mineraIized
grout on Red mountain
After having been jailed four times
on four counts in three Colorado jails.
George Clair, alleged bigamist. re-
turned to Pueblo a free man after city
officials at Canon City had released
him.
A man giving his name as Benjamin
Patterson and his age as 55 years was
arrested at Florence on suspicion of
being the man who has been selling
tetanus tainted court plaster in
Pueblo
The Eclipse Leasing Company, op-
Grating the 10 Dandy mine. on Raven
hill, Cripple Greek. under a long time
lease. has an important ore discov-
cry. and is mining and shipping
high average grade of ore.
Pueblos hospitals can accommodate
$50 wounded soldiers without notice
and nearly $50 in an emergency, &C
ccrding to census of the three hos
"st9's h-- DR. John G. Wolf. head OF
the Pueblo healtn uer.-. t.uent
J. w. Whitehurst writes from
Creede that the recent floods there
did not injure the works of the Equity
Company. but did do considerable
damage to some OF the other mines in
the district and also to railroad and
city property.
Here is an important point in the
new army draft for more than 10000
in the state and $4,000 in Denver to
remember: The government rule
makes 1t obligatory upon married
man claiming exemption that he is the
sole support Of his wife and that he
II really supporting her.
The address of Baron Moncheur,
chief OF the Belgian special mission,
at the Denver Auditorium, was de-
voted to thanking the persons in this
country who have aided Belgium in
her distress. and to describing the
conditions which prevailed in his ma
tive country after the German inva.
sion
Denver clabmen, bankers and bak-
eru lined up with the clerks, butchers
ard candIestick makers and found