The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-04-06
NeWSy Notes From the
Georgetown District

last Sunday on business.
j. E. Burkholder was pass
enger to Denver last Monday.
Otto Pliz is home from Fort
Collins on visit with his parents.
Miss Pansy Robinson visited
during the past week with H. L.
Roberts.
Judge R r. Graham was in
Idaho Springs on Monday morn
ing, transacting business.
Misses Alice ID. Mason and
Lillian Catren departed for Dem
yer on Saturday of last week,
where they will spend their spring
vacation.
Miss Ruth Copeland, primary
teacher in the public school, is
spending her spring vacation with
friends in Denver.
Attorney Monson of Denver
transacted legal business IN the
county seat on Tuesday of this
week.
Editor A. G. Dobbins, of the
Idaho Springs Mining Gazette,
was in Georgetown and Silver
Plume during the fore part of the
week.
Misses E. Palmer and A. Tisch-
sic, two of the grade teachers in
the local public school, are spend
ing their spring vacation in the
valley.
Edwin A. Roberts and Miss
Mabel B. Beard, both of Silver
Plume, took out a marriage license
on Monday of this week, and
were married in Idaho Springs the
same day.
The Board of County Com
missioners convened on Monday
for their regular monthly session
and quarterly audit of the books
and accounts of the various county
officers.
Harry Morris, who has been in
the employee of George A. Pease
for. several years, severed his re-
lations with that establishment on
Saturday last, and departed on
Sunday for the Waldorf mine,
where he has accepted position
in the mill.
Messrs. A. Humid, Ed Perry,
VIM. Holcombe and Fred Swanson
motored to Idaho Springs last
Saturday night to participate in
the dance at that city. Judging
from the numerous trips to Idaho
Springs made by this certain party
there must be some attraction there
for the interested gentlemen.
While overhauling and repair
ing the pipe organ at the Episcopal
church this week, George B..
McFadden CHANGED to find hidden
away in the organ, program of
of the Christmas services held in
that church in 1873. The paper
is as well preserved as though it
had been carefully stored away in
some vault or safe, and Mr.. Nc
Fadden cherishes the find as a
relic and souvenier.
Rev. Father Boyle was called to
Denver on Monday by the claim
agent of the Colorado and South
ern Railway company with view
to adjusting the claim for the de-
struction of the Catholic church
here by the FIRE of january, 1917,
which was started by a spark from
the train. Nothing definite has
been settled as yet, though the
fact seems certainly established
that new church will be erected.
The site, however, has not rs yet
been selected.
L. P. Hayes of Fall River was
Georgetown on Monday trans
acting automobile business, he
being the Ford agent for this
territory. One day last week the
Ford people in Denver refused to
sell a certain party machine,
saying that they had been in
structed to observe the rules
governing the local agencies on
all cars, that they could no longer
sell the machine, and that the
purchase must be made through
the dealers in the locality in which
the prospective buyer resides.
J X. Campbell has been forced
to close down his boarding house
at the Santiago mine and lay off
the crew of men whom he had
employed, due to the inability of
the teams to make the trip to the
mine with supplies. The snow in