The Ordway new era., 1917-07-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS,
western Newspaper Union New. service.

| COMING BVENTDs
July lo-aood Roads meeting on SUM
Aug. iNNationai Convention OF Afri.
s.essi, ss,a ,i.ss-ea'of.ss f Stat. Fair at ra'
Dry farm crops in Colorado in need
OF rain.
A new brick school building is to be
erected at Kuner.
Colorado Springs is planning new
hospital for contagious diseases.
Colorado railroads withdrew appli-
cations for increased freight rates.
Wooden water mains at Greeley
are all to be replaced with new pipe.
Fair Loretto Heights rockies" had
a vacation from drill to celebrate July
4th
The special session of the Colorado
General Assembly will convene
July IS.
Fowler is to vote July l6 on the
question OF issuing $4,000 bonds for
constructing a new school building.
Increased business has made neces-
sary the installation OF eighty new
lock boxes at the Craig postoffice.
DR.. Curtis E. Mogge of Greeley. has
been appointed superintendent OF
BETHEL Hospital at Colorado Springs.
The stock shipping yards Of the
Great Western Railroad Company at
Mead are to be rebuilt and greatly
| enlarged.
The postmasters' convention, slated
| for Pueblo. will probably be post
in the department
Mrs. Julia Fraser OF Arvada Is the
victim OF a seK-inflicted bullet wound.
which, she says, was fired while she
was asleep in her room.
Adj. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin ordered
panies of the Colorado National Guard
in their respective armories.
A new dam, 300 feet long and con-
structed of reinforced concrete, is to
| be built across the Picket Wire river,
twenty-five miles south of La Junta.
Matt Edwards and E. G. Fink Of
Victor, have secured a lease on the
Ramona, on Bull Hill, and are figur.
ing on a mill and mining machinery.
A three-mile anti-vice ring may be
established around Fort Logan, as the
| result of a movement set on foot by
the Denver branch Of the Mothers
congress.
Damage caused by q recent fire at
the Sunnyside group, near Silverton,
has been repaired, and the develop
ment OF the ore veins is making rap
i'd progress.
Maj. Patrick Hamrock of the First
Colorado Infantry will lead Ibis boys"
IN France when they are called to the
trenches. He is colonel of the organ.
ixation now.
Denver camps of the Modern Wood
men of America rendered a reception
to Frank B. Easterly in honor Of his
recent selection as a member of the
national board Of directors.
Col. John Conkie of Trinidad has
ben chosen commander of the Sol
diers' Home at Monte Vista to replace
Col. A. w. Hogle of Denver, who has
been director Of the home for the last
three years.
Company A of the Colorado National
Guards which was recruited In the
southern counties Of the San Luis val
ley, by Ivan w. Rockhill. was mus
tered in at Antonito by Lieutenant
Jones of the adjutant generals office.
With the work Of opening and re-
timbering the Grey Eagle shaft at
Leadville to the bottom level at .
depth Of 500 feet Just completed, the
lessees expect to have the property
producing steadily before the end Of
the month.
| Greeley celebrated the greatest
Fourth of July In its history. From
early morning until late at night there
was something doing to amuse and
entertain the thousands Of visitors
who made that city their headquarters
for the day.
At the fourteenth level Of the Cres.
son mine fresh body Of ore eight
feet in width and yielding $50 per
ton 10 reported. The Cresson Com.
pany has over 100000 in bank and
has paid $5,075,162.56 in dividends on
a present capital Of 31.122,000.
The Vindicator Consolidated Gold
Mining Company declared dividend
of 3 cents per share. amounting to
$4,000. The dividend is payable on
July 25th to stockholders of record
July 18th. There are 100000 shares
of Vindicator stock outstanding.
Denver's citizens, singly and collect
lively, celebrated the first Fourth OF
July since the country's entry into the
world war in the latest approved
safety first manner. Only five per
sons were injured by fireworks
though sixteen were hurt in accidents
II il estimated that the first cut