Gilpin observer., 1917-09-06
COLORADO
STATE NEW
Newspaper Union New. Service.

| oept. if-zl-Masonic meeting at Dem
Nov. 12-1s-Automobile Show at Dem
yer.
County FaIrs.
sept. II I!-Logan County at Sterling.
@epa. ~ 2l~Cheyenne County at Chey-
Sept. 1s-21.-Western slope at Mont
Sept. 2o-22-1ndian Fair at 1gnacio.
Sept. 2o-22-Phillips County at Hol-
Sept s5-2s-colorado New Mexico at
Sept. 25;2s-Las Animas County at
Sept. 2s-2s-El Paso County at calhan.
sept. 27-29-Lincoln County at Hugo.
sept. 27-2s-Grand County at Kremm-
Oct. 25-Kit Carson County at Bur-
! Lou D. Sweat has been appointed
Hoover's vegetable aid.
Canon City will have new smelter
erected in that city.
Burglars robbed the home of q
former Pueblo minister.
Farmers of the Highland district
are planning a community fair.
The first per cent of Colorados
draft quota. 23s men. left for Fort
Riley.
One thousand soldiers acted as an
escort in the Pueblo Labor Day
parade.
E. ]. Wolmagood of Colorado City
has raised large amount OF broom
corn This year.
Crowley county will ship 400 car
loads of pink meat and honey dew
melons this year.
John, 2-year-old son of Lee Croddy,
a Salida miner, was fatally shot in
a room in his homo.
Thrift study will be undertaken in
the public schools of Denver for the
first time this winter
Output of Cripple Creek mines in
August totaled 102,26S tons, with
gross value of $1,137,32396.
An explosion, caused by prank
of boys. shook residences and stores
and frightened residents of Denver.
Twenty patriotic women of Byers,
have banded themselves into local
chaper of the American Red Cross So
ciety.
Frank Adams, of Denver, has been
appointed by Governor Gunter as SUI
of Safety.
Sixty commissioned officers, from
cities of Colorado, left Denver for
Fort Riley, Kan, to train detachments
of the national army,
The Shriners Labor Day picnic was
at Bowles Park, near Littleton, under
the auspices of Ell Jebel Shrine band,
patrol and glee club of Denver.
Hawkeyes living in Colorado will
have number of extra features Sept.
s, for their annual Iowa day celebra.
tion, at Washington Park, Denver.
Edward S. Roller, vice president
and general manager of the Colorado
& Southern Railway, died at his home
in Denver, following an illness of less
than ten days.
A new oil company was added to
the many already Incorporated in Pu.
eblo when the Great Mutual Oil, Gas
and Land Company filed its incorpor-
alton papers.
Five hundred coal miners met at
Louisville to lay plans for organizing
the miners of the northern field, the
only district in Colorado that is not
SO organized.
The planters of Denver's 10000 war
gardens have finished with their flarv.
est. No garden among the 10000 was
a total failure. A yield estimated at
s2,000,0Oo has been gathered in.
Mrs. A. G. MINER owner of the Lit,
tie Giant group of mines at Lawson,
north of Georgetown, is finishing a
large mill which will be equipped with
flotation units.
number of Colorado men who re-
Gently received commissions at Fort
Riley were ordered to report immedi
ately for duty at Camp Cody. near
Deming, N. NJ.
With indications pointing to a
bumper crop of potatoes in all parts
of the United States, consumers may
expect relatively low prices during
the coming winter.
There are $4,000 acres of alfalfa in
the Arkansas valley, and If each acre
produces only one ton of hay on the
second cutting. and is sold for $lS per
ton. this crop will bring in the neigh.
borhood of s2,500,000.
Leading the farmers of the state In
officially indorsing the fight for an
army recuperation camp in Colorado,
the Glendale chapter of the Colorado
Grange has passed resolution com.
mending the efforts being made, and
calling upon all farmers to stand back
of the plan.