The Ordway new era., 1917-05-11

eblo.
Lambs sold on the Denver market
at 1850.
Canon City celebrated Blossom day
on May 6tn.
A coal survey committee was named
| by Governor Gunter.
Up to Saturday. sixty bodies mad
been taken from the Victor mine at
Hastings.
The editors will meet in Denver May
I4th TO hear the governors plans for
war publicity.
Sixteen graduates will make up the
class to graduate from the Colorado
City High school.
Rice w. Means of Denver has been
appointed lieutenant colonel of the
| Colorado state troops.
The Cripple Creek company of vol
unteers are progressing very satisfac-
torily in their drill work.
Six hundred trees have been given
out by the city commissioner of Grand
Junction to be planted along streets
Men of the Ohio and Colorado smell
ter at Salida. 275 in number, have had
wages advanced 20 cents each per
shift
The report of strike OF silver ore
at the Keystone mine near Aspen
says the vein has been opened to
width of eight feet.
Jack" Prestidge, second lieutenant
in the British army, son of Frank
| Prestidge of Denver, was killed while
fighting with the Allies.
A tour OF the United States TO be
taken in June by 100 business men of
Maine will include stop of several
days in Colorado Springs.
The complete freshman class of Ne
braska University, headed by one of
the faculty, forty-eight in all, took the
army examination in Denver.
Two bronze guns, gift from the
war department to the city of Mont
rose. have arrived there and will be
placed at a prominent site.
Albert F. Carter, librarian at the
State Teachers College at Greeley, has
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near relatives in the English army in
France.
Capt E. E. Richardson of Troop A,
Rocky Mountain Rangers. expects en-
listing to be completed and the com.
pany mustered into service in Den
yer May 10th.
Father w. NJ. Donovan, pastor of St
Philomena's church of Denver, was OF.
fered a commission as captain in the
Colorado National Guard by Adjt Gen
Frank D. Baldwin.
Fifty-four years ago last October,
the first marriage ever recorded in
Pueblo county was performed May
3rd the last marriage license issued
was number 1854.
At Leadyille the Western Zinc Oxide
company has been considering a plan
for Increasing the capacity of its plant,
and it is now reported that the work
of enlarging will be undertaken.
A number of large contributions for
the women's training camp to be cs-
tablished by Denver women at Lor-
etto Heights have been offered to the
finance committee, of which Mrs. Yer.
ner T. Reed is chairman.
What is regarded as the most sen.
sational strike of the year and one
which rivals in importance the find.
ing of the Cresson vug in November
1912, has been made at the l,2OO-foot
level of the Cresson mine.
The Mountain Top mill at Ouray is
the most unique in the world, in view
of the fact that it is 1000 feet in from
the portal of the adit and 400 feet
from the surface, the only known com
plete milling plant under ground.
In Gunnison county, a move is on
foot to put auto trucks on the wagon
road from Glazier to the Star mine on
| italian mountain, to be used in NOV.
ing the large bodies of low-grade lead
silver ore of these mines to the rail
road.
New flotation plants mark the open
ing of the spring season in Ouray dis
trict, where activity in the smaller
producers is gradually making up for
the disappearance from the shipping
list of the Camp Bird and Wanahka
| groups
Pueblo carpenters are not working
following their request for raise in
wages on May 1, which has been de
med by the contractors, and it Is ru
mored that other building crafts will
be out in sympathy with the carpen
ters.
Capt. Goddard Shackelford, Denver
real estate man, left for Seattle
Wash, where he had been ordered by
the War Department. Captain Shackel
ford received his commission as a cap
tain in the quartermasters service OF
the army December 12, 1916. He wa.
ordered to report to the chief Of the
| commissary department at Seatt1e