The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-03-16


day. School Association at Colorado
Springs.
Denver is to have a fine municipal
organ.
A class in citizenship for allies has
been formed at Colorado Springs.
Senator Shafroth and Congressman
B. c. Hilliard returned to Denver from
Washington.
Governor Julius c. Gunter was the
principal speaker at the luncheon of
the Manufacturers' Bureau in Denver
A rifle shoot, to rouse interest in
better preparedness along these lines,
will be held at Littleton on Memorial
Day
A dance and reception for the mem
bers of Battery b was given at FL Je-
bel temple in Denver by the Mothers
Club of Battery B.
Forty have applied for the place as
superintendent of the Pueblo public
schools made vacant by the resigna-
ton Of +. d. Slutz.
Subscriptions totaling $4,000 were
secured by the Y NJ. c. A. in their ten
day debt-lifting and improvement fund
campaign in Denver.
Loyal Irishmen throughout Denver
and the state will join in feasting and
celebration in honor OF ST. Patrick, pa
tron saint of Ireland.
Bootleg raids in North Denver re
suited in twelve persons being taken
TO jail and a large quantity Of whisky
and beer confiscated.
Word of the death OF Thomas Hale
Potter, 10. pioneer mining man and
banker Of Colorado, at Detroit, Mich,
was received in Denver.
Pueblo police have been asked to
locate man who wrote a check on
defunct bank and then had the
nerve to pass 1t in business trans.
action
April 7th has been decided upon
for the annual state meeting and cleo
ton of officers for the Colorado divi-
sion. Travellers Protective Associa-
ton.
resolution to hereafter disregard
absolutely the State Industrial Com
mission" was unanimously adopted at
a meeting of Denver Typographical
Union No. 40.
Denver will be represented by two
prominent women at the council meet
ing of the General Federation Of Wom-
ems Clubs, to be held in New Orleans,
April to l3, inclusive.
Changes are pending in the railway
mail service in and out Of Denver in
pursuance of the plan Of the Post
office Department to reorganize the
service throughout the country.
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing Colorado postmasters: Coll
bran, Alderbert E. Humeston; Grana-
da, Charles D. Baldwin: Nederland.
Ralph II. Crawford; Springfield, r. o.
Casady.
Representatives OF the various Colo
RADIO chapters OF the national society
of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution were in Denver to attend the
fourteenth annual conference of the
state chapters.
Senator Agnes Riddle entertained
the members of the Legislature and
their wives at dance at Glendale
Grange hall, at Sullivan. There was
a large attendance and the merriment
ran to the highest point.
Charles Brown of Denver was elect
ed captain of the University of Colo
RADIO baseball team at Boulder to fill
the vacancy left by Robert McGraw,
who is now in spring training with the
New York Americans in Macon, Ga.
Colorado boys and girls enrolled in
the Boys and Girls Clubs during the
year 1916 made a net profit of $5.-
so7.3s for the year, according to fig.
ures just issued from the office of the
State Leader at the Agricultural Col
lege.
A rich and otherwise important
strike has been made on the south
slope of Battle mountain by the Gran
ite Gold Mining Company in a frac-
tional claim under lease to the Gran
ite Company from the United Gold
Mines Company OF Victor.
mai al tie suit u IcSt
the right of the Mountain States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company to oc-
cupy the streets of Denver were COM
pleted before the State Supreme
Court. The case now rests in the
hands of the higher tribunal.
Protests against war and against
the high cost of living were voiced at
meeting of the Denver branch of
the International Brotherhood Welfare
Association, otherwise known as the
Migratory and Casual Workers, at
the Club building in Denver.
A number of senators expressed
their Indignation in Denver upon