The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-02

June 16.-Annual Strawberry Festival
and Carnival at Glenwood Springs.
June 2l22-Christian Endeavor Con-
vention at Salida.
Aug. National Convention of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
Sept. 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Fort Morgan will celebrate July 4th.
Sterling Elks bought $1,000 Liber-
ty bond.
Colorado boys will harvest many
crops this year.
The ban on trading stamps becomes
effective July goth.
North and south military road to
pass through Colorado.
Eight .Austrians were given citizen
ship papers in Denver.
Colorado wheat and other grains re-
ported in good condition.
Fat lambs brought $40 per cwt. on
the Denver market Friday.
Many trained men from Colorado
are wanted for army service.
Memorial day was appropriately OBJ
served in all Colorado cities.
The membership campaign of the
Pueblo Y. NJ. c. A. netted III.
Colorado must raise a million dol
lars for Red Cross relief work.
More than 100000 has been invest
ed in Liberty loan bonds by residents
of Boulder
Switchmen on Cripple Creek lines
will receive the benefits of the Ad-
amson act.
A resolution was passed by the Den
yer Trades Assembly to contribute to
the Red Cross society.
The grand council of Colorado of
the United Commercial Travellers of
America will meet in Pueblo.
Hundred patients of county hos
pital in Denver carried down fire es-
capes when blaze is discovered
Denver Typographical Union No. 49
held its annual Memorial Day services
at Riverside cemetery Sunday.
Cornerstone laid at Boulder for new
church for Society of Friends, whose
number have grown from to 1854.
Two daylight robberies in the Cap
itol Hill district in Denver resulted in
the loss of jewelry worth $1,000.
The Cody Memorial Association has
completed arrangements for the Cody
funeral ON Lookout mountain, Sunday,
June Sd.
The camp for boys established by
the Y NJ. c. A. on Catamount creek,
near Edlowe, will be opened June 11th
and will continue for ten days
The death in st. Joseph's hospital
of Miss Mary E. Delehant- of Longmont
marked the passing of another of
Colorado's well-known women.
Senator John F. Shafroth has intro
duced bill making an appropriation
of 100000 to purchase site and pro
vide for the construction of a federal
building in Lamar.
The thirty railroads in Colorado are
asking the State Public Utilities Com
mission for a Is per cent blanket in
crease on all freight rates between
Colorado points.
Perusal of scores of newspapers
from all over southern Colorado indi-
cate that Memorial day was observed
more earnestly and more generally
than for many years.
At a special session of the District
Court at Montrose, Geo. Warner was
sentenced to eleven months in the
penitentiary on the charge of desert
ing his wife and family.
Contest proceedings against Fred D.
Stackhouse, elected auditor in the city
election May 18th, were instituted in
the County Court in Denver by can
didate who finished second in the
race.
Col ]. p. Boggs, II years old-but
talking, walking and thinking like a
man of half that age-is in Denver to
pay his last respects to Buffalo Bill,
when the body of the world-famous
scout is laid to rest on Lookout
mountain.
Escorted by the Veteran Drum corps
OF the Grand Army of the Republic.
five posts of veterans of the Civil war
marched with colors flying to the First
Baptist church in Denver to attend
Memorial day services
Mining news from Cripple Creek
brought the first information of an i'm
rortant strike made in the Gold Dol
lar property by AL Osberg, who few
weeks ago obtained a three-year lease
on that mine in the Beacon hill sec
tion.
The American Smelling and Refin-
ing Company has advanced the price
of lead in Colorado ores to $40 per 100
pounds, or $50 per cent in excess of
normal, the latter being 81 per 100
pounds in such camps at Leadville,
Silverton and Ouray.