The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-04-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Nsvsp.psf u,Ios Ns~s ssrvss&
COMING EVENfs

COMING EvENfa.
April as-:s-r. n C. A. Week In Colo.
Ny i!-.o-conv.n.ion Colorado Sun.
Juns si-is-chris,ian Endeavor Con.
Aug. I--Nationai Convention Of Afri.
sept; 17-ss-coiorado state Fair at Ps-
4. patriotic meeting was held ai
DuIh66o. -le--..,
Two men in Denver were arrested
Tor making threats.
= Former Denver draftsmen charged
with stealing airplane plans.
Three hundred and fifty in Pueblo
Red Cross units arc ready to serve
country.
Boy Scouts Of Denver waited ON the
governor and informed him they arr
ready for work.
H. J. Nusent was fined $500 in the
District Court for soliciting liquor
trade at Pueblo.
Town Of Creede celebrates war dec
isration by exploding Presidents %
lutte with dynamite.
Denver housewives throughout the
city are beginning to lay in supplies
70 last over the summer.
Mrs. Stella Smith, on trial in Den
yer for the murder of her husband
Lawrence Smith. was acquitted.
John Golfer Of La Junta was com
PEELED to kneel and kiss the flag he
had insulted. and then stand and %,
lutte It.
Letters going through the Denver
postoffice are now being stamped
Rocky Mountain National Park
Opens May 1, 1917"
Harry B. Tedrow, United States dis.
trict attorney, issued a statement ap-
pealing to the residents of Denver and
Colorado to maintain order.
Development Is active in the Grip
pie Creek district. The outlook for
an Increased output of ore as the sea.
son advances is very bright.
Denver is to be a mobilization cen.
ter Tor the supplies of the American
Red Cross, according to an announce.
ment made at national headquarters.
Gustave Dietz of Leadville COM
United suicide by shooting himself
through the head in a barn at the rear
of 1926 Larimer street in Denver.
The annual report of the state in.
spector Of mines estimated the area
of the coal deposits of Routt county,
the Yampa field. at 440 square miles.
A resolution has been adopted by
Denver lodge OF Elks and forwarded to
President Wilson pledging loyalty to
the country and support in defending
the flag. ..-.
Denver Veterans of Foreign Wars
are forming a volunteer training CORDS
and are ready to offer their services
TO the government at any time they
are needed.
More than hundred students of tho
Colorado Woman's College in Mont
clair pledged themselves to do Red
Cross work at patriotic meeting at
the college.
President Wilson has sent a letter
of thanks to the First District Com
mandery, Knights of St. John, for their
recent message indorsing his stand in
the war crisis. = :
q. DR.. C. w. Thompson and DR.. Philip
Work of Pueblo, members of the
United States medical reserve, re-
ceived commissions as lieutenan,s in
the federal army.
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Water from the River Jordan was
used on Easter in baptismal sery.
ices for the children at the Park Con.
gragational church at Greeley by the
Rev. A. E: Thompson.
The Big Eight Oil, Gas and Develop.
ment company, drilling on the Rock
Canon Dome, seven miles west of Pue-
bio, are expecting to strike oil in the
second Dakota sandstone.
Cold and driving snowstorm
: failed to prevent citizens in the VI
cinity Of Bailey, in Platte cation, from
expressing their patriotism at a flag
raising exercise held in the one-room
schoolhouse there. 49,. .-
Predictions of,an unusual food short.
age, perhaps one OF the greatest the
country has ever experienced, were
made ut the meeting Of farmers and
business men at the Denver Civic and
Commercial Association.
Loveland citizens gave three Love-
land boys patriotic send-off when
they departed for Denver on their way
to San Francisco to join the marine
corps. The young men are Glen Pow.
ers, L. G. Bengler and Bruce HoIton.
The first day of war with Germany
brought promotion to Lieut.. John F.
Shafroth. Jr.. U. 8. N, son of the Colo
RADIO senator. He telegraphed his
mother that he was Just putting out to
sea in command of the destroyer
Perry.
The first Denver girl to enroll in