The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-13
COLORADO
STATE NEW S


Oct; l5-2o.-Annual meeting. Grand
BODIES !. Q. o. F.. at Pueblo;
Auditorium in Denver.
Oct. 29-31-Educational Association
meeting at Grand Junction.
Oct. 31-Nov. 2-Educational Associa'
:, tion meeting at Pueblo.
Nov. la = Educational Association
meeting at Denver.
Nov. 6-S-Live Stock Show at Grand
Nov. 12-1s-Automobile Show at Dem
ver.
Nov. 22-24-Rural School Conference in
A $4,000 dam is to be erected at
Windsor.
Many cattle shipped from Pueblo to
Montana.
Flagler has an aeroplane factory in
prospect.
A 120-foot square reservoir is to be
built at Meade.
New chemical plant soon to be
erected in Pueblo.
Hayden ranchmen have begun to
harvest their spuds.
La Junta's big new milk condensery
is well under way.
A concentration plant is to be
erected at Georgetown.
A Boulder county grand jury has de-
clared that the county needs a new
Jail.
The erection of a 100000 theater
building in Grand Junction is being
considered.
This has been the greatest year for
corn ever known in the Arkansas val
ley and in the state.
Arapahoe county is to have an oil
field. The Fox Hill Oil Developing
Company has been incorporated.
1t is estimated that nearly $4,000
900 will be paid San Luis valley
stockmen for fat hogs this year.
The Morgan County Oil G Gas Com
pany has begun the erection of der
rick on land which it will drill near
Fort Morgan.
The Greeley postoffice has been des-
ignated by the Postal Department as
the distributing office for Sc other Of
fices in Weld county.
The Rocky Mountain Health Asso-
citation at Denver pledged itself to CO.
operate with the National Association
for the prevention of tuberculosis.
A. P. Stallings, resident of New
Mexico, was killed in Denver when a
demonstrating motor car in which he
was riding skidded and turned turtle.
The Denver Manufacturer asserts
that thirty thousand gardens yielded
produce in Denver this year. These
tracts produced foodstuffs valued at
100000.
The first snow of the season fell in
northern Colorado and southeastern
Wyoming Oct. 7. In Denver the snow
turned into rain.
Crinkly new Liberty bonds of the
first government issue arrived in Den
yer in great bundles for distribution
by the various banks to those who sub
Bcribed for them.
The Morgan, Weld and Adams coun-
ty members o, the Omaha-Lincoln-
Denver Highway Association will cell
ebrate the completion of the highway
at Hudson Oct goth.
The 210 policemen of Denver will be
given $10,500 by the city, representing
the bonus recently voted them of $50
each as an aid to help them in the
present high cost Of living.
Denver members of the Junior Or
der of United American Mechanics
adopted resolutions requesting the ex-
pulsion of Robert M. La Toilette from
the United States Senate.
To carry on the work of the organ
ization for three months period,
made necessary by the extending of
the fiscal year, the Denver Federation
for Charity is asking for $25,000.
Two Colorado men left for Philadel-
phia on the first lap of their trip east
ward to help "strafe" German subma-
rines. They are H. E. Wheatley OF
Meeker and Ebert johnson of Pueblo,
gas engine mechanics, both of whom
will probably be assigned to service
on submarine chasers.
AS soon as the officers of the Colo
raoo National Guard now at canton
ment camps return the certified pay
rolls, the state will pay the men for
the twenty-day period which elapsed
between the time they were called to
the colors and that when they were
into the federal service.
Suit asking $225,00O damages from
Newton. Denver society man
and capitalist, and his son, Wilbur,
was instituted in the District Court in
Denver by George T. Kearns and o.
s. Galbreath, Jr., who allege fraud on
the part of the Newtons in the pooling
of lumber interests of both parties in
southern Colorado.
Sought as an army deserter by the