The Colorado statesman., 1917-05-05

May I7-20-Convention Colorado Sum
day School Association at Colorado
June 21-22-Christian Endeavor Con-
vention at Salida.
Aug. National Convention of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
Sept; 17-22-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Denver will soon have a new Scot
tish Rite consistory.
Twenty-Five new residences were
started in Pueblo during the month Of
April.
The Silverton Commercial Club is
now comfortably located in new head
quarters.
The City Council of Salida has ap-
propriated 5000 year for the support
of municipal band.
A new high school building is in
course of construction at Burlington,
at cost of 100000.
Denver postoffice receipts for April
of this year over those of April last
year amounted to $13,336.67.
For the first time the mining towns
of Tin Cup and ST. Elmo have been
given rapid transit and are conven-
iently reached.
At the close of its fiscal year the
town of La Junta had $28,S65 on hand,
which sum included $4,000 in the wa
ter bond fund.
A movement started through the La
mar Rifle Club has resulted in the en-
listment in the army, navy and
marines of fifty men.
James A. Mckee, formerly pastor of
the First Methodist Episcopal church
South, has assumed his duties as boys
secretary of the Pueblo Y M. C. A.
The President has nominated Onias
G. Skinner to be register of the land
office at Montrose. He has just COM
pleted his first term in that position.
At meeting held in Erglewood $50
women formed a branch of the Denver
chapter of the Red Cross Society and
elected officers of their organization.
Another of Longmont's wealthy pio-
neers passed away when John Dawson,
ST., 76 years old, dropped dead on the
porch of his shop while unroping a
trunk.
Funeral ceremonies at the burial of
Col. W. F. Cody buffalo Bid, which
will take place June 3rd on Lookout
mountain, will be conducted by the
Masons.
Grazing permits for $4,000 sheep and
10000 head of cattle have been grant
ed for the Montezuma national forest.
Mancos will be the distributing point
for the stock.
Thirteen physicians of Denver are to
be on the firing line in France within
three months. DR.. Cuthbert Powell of
the Denver County Medical Associa-
ton announced.
Although he has served his country
in two previous wars, John G. Fleming,
civil war veteran and Denver pioneer,
has again rendered his services to the
nation He is 70 years old.
Governor Gunter has received de-
tails of the plans for registering male
citizens of Colorado subject to military
duty under the selective draft system,
in telegram from Secretary of War
Baker.
Inspired by a patriotic motive to
serve their country, twelve women
stepped forward at a mass meeting
held in Denver and enrolled their
names as recruits in the first woman
regiment in America.
Eben G. Fine, president of the Boul-
der Park Board, and President Living
ston Farrand walked over the trail to
Royal Arch and the Flatirons and were
enthusiastice over the road work done
by the Boy Scouts.
Representative of thirteen farmers
oranges in La Plata county met at
Durango and perfected central organ
ization under the name of the La Plata
County Farm Bureau, the organization
having membership of over 1000.
Charles l.. Mason, of South Denver,
will depart for Anchorage, Alaska, to
assume his new duties as secretary to
the chairman of the commission con-
structing and operating the govern
ment railroad to the Matnauska coal
fields.
In party of thirty-tYo recruits
passing through Leadville, bound for
San Francisco bay, three were from
Leadville itself, and one of these was
Earl M. Anderson, 6 feet inches. He
attracts attention wherever he goes
and his shorter mates allege that his
job will be to watch enemy airplanes.
The body of every Greek miner
killed in the disaster at Hastings has,
upon search, yielded substantial sum-
On the leg of one was discovered, Sc
curely tied, a portion of a girls stock
ing, in which was S1,70O in currency.
Most of the Greek miners carry on
their own persons, in that fashion, all
| their mobile wealth