The Glenwood post., 1917-03-03

which flies will be a drug on the mar
ket as well as a menace to good health
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Born, a Girl.-tMr. and Mrs. G. john
son of Craig are the proud parents Of
seven-pound baby girl, born to them
Monday night at the sanitarium. DR..
Hopkins reports mother and child doing
splendidly. Mr.. johnson and family
will go to Denver in couple of weeks
where they will reside.
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Bertram Cross took the supreme de-
gree in the Blue lodge Wednesday
evening An unusually large number
attended, about fifty members being
present. The work was put on by
past masters and at the conclusion a
banquet was spread, followed by speech
making until after midnight.
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A very exciting and hard fought
basketball game is expected tonight at
the high school gym when the local
team will contest with the Cloud City
team from Leadville. Our boys defeat
ed the Leadville team in their own
gym and should do the job much easier
tonight Let's all go out and see The
fun.
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Mrs. Place, wife of DR.. o. G. Place
of DeBeque, came over to attend thc
Colonial ball and has been visiting va
rious friends. Tuesday evening she
was the dinner guest of Mrs. L. A.
Bowker at the Williams. Mrs. Chandor
of Red Cliff joined them later for a
visit to the picture show. Mrs. Place
returned home Wednesday morning.
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Lou Sweet returned to Denver Tues
day evening after visiting Frank Sweet
of the Sweet ranch. While here he
called meeting at Carbondale relating
to the readjustment of freight rates On
potatoes and vegetables. The matter
is now before the interstate commerce
commission for hearing. 1t pertains
to equalizing rates on these commodi-
ties from the states of Michigan, Iowa,
Wisconsin and all potato and vegetable
raising states west of the Mississippi,
principally to Texas points.
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Mrs. L. G. Clark was hostess to the
Glenwood Reading club Monday even
ing. A feature of the evening was the
reading by Mrs. Leah Silver of the
prize "History of Garfield County,
written by Miss Mary McNulty about
six years ago. It was written in compc-
tition with several others for cash
prize offered by c. c. Parks for th-
best history of the county and is ve:y
interesting paper. Miss McNulty is
now teaching in the school at Cattle
creek. Mrs. Ritter gave excellent read
ings from Eugene Field.
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The Glenwood Light & Water com
pany has a very interesting machine
in operation at its power house this
week. The machine simultaneously
filters and removes all moisture from
oil, and it is being used to clean the
oil contained in the company's trans.
formers around town. This oil serves
as an insulator, and in time loses its
effectiveness on account of moisture
from rain, or condensation. When q
transformer burns out it is usually be.
cause there is an excess Of such mois-
ture in the oil in the transformer.
Formerly the old oil was discarded, but
this waste is now saved. In the filter
ing process the oil is drawn through
blotting paper by an electrically oper-
ated suction pump, working at 100 lbs.
pressure. Curiously, while the oil will
ooze through this blotting paper, and
water which has become mixed with
II will remain in the blotters. Tho
blotters are changed at intervals and
are dried out in an electric oven. It
takes about four trips through. the
filter to thoroughly cleanse and dry