The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-09-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.
/ Sept, IS 2o-Eastern Star Meeting al
Colorado Springs.
sept. l72l-AasonIc meeting at Dem
Nov. 12-ls--Automobils Show at Den
yer.
Couuty Fairn,
/ Sept. ls-2i-cheyenns County at Chey-
Sept, ls-2I-western Slope At Mont
Sept 2o-22-Pine River Valley Fair at
Sept 2o-2s-Phlilips County At Hol-
Sept IS -2s-colorado New Mexico al,
sept, 25-2s.-Meeting State womens
club Federation at Boulder.
/ sept rs 2s-Las Animas County at
Trinidad.
1 Sept 2s-2s-Annual Fair at CaIhan.
/ sept 20 -29-fum County. at Yuma
Sept. 272s-LincoIn County at Hugo
Sept u -2s-Grand County at Krsmm-
Oct. 25-Kit Carson County q. Bur
Nov. s-s-Live stock Show 1t Grand
Junction.
! An Olney farmer has a 75-acre bean
| field.
Trinidad wants an up-to-date pack
/ ing plant
Denver's vice cleanup campaign is
under way
| Sugar company commences opera
tion Of recently purchased railroad
Farmers OF Durango district appeal
to Hoover for assistance In market
ing crops
| Thieves and ''yeggmen" in Denver
in one night burglarized a home and
a jewelry shop and blew a safe.
Beaver Park now has about 75.oo5
cherry trees. OF which il is estimated
! cG,000 are in various stages OF bear.
! ing
| A sugar manufacturer declared in
Denver that by Oct. lst there will be-
a drop in price of $50 per cwt., whole
/ sale
Cornerstone of the courthouse 20
be built for Moffat county and which
/ is to cost $4,000 was laid at Craig
| by Masonic officials
| Plans for a new drive in the cru
snde against disorderly houses AMI
alleged red-light districts in Denver
( have been formulated
The Y. NJ c. A. is maintaining a
full force OF workers at Fort Logan,
Camp Baldwin. Camp Gunter and al
Golden and the rifle range.
Mrs. Tinsley Smith of Denver, has
received word that her brother, Davi1
G. Allen, surgeon in the United
States navy. has been killed.
The first shoyelful of dirt was
turned by J. H. Thatcher on the site
where the new Thatcher fountain will
be erected in Denver City Park
I The Jewish religious year opens
this season on Sept. 10. The day is
called Rosh ha Shana and is OBSERVED
not as civil but as a religious fes-
tiyal
Denver will open its departu ent for
the sale of Ignite coal at a eost to
families OF moderate means SeIt. 18th.
The sale price is to be s415 a ton
delivered
The Royal Highlanders held their
g seventh national convention a Den
Yer. More than 200 delegates from
seventeen states represented 80 900
members
The next movement to Fort Riley
OF part of Colorado's quota for the
new national army will comprise l .9O4
Men, including approximately 144
from Denver
/ Miss Prudence Sparks, l6-year-old
( Denver girl, was found bound and
gagged and lying on the floor n an
unconscious state in the home Of her
sister in Greeley.
/ The Fourth Avenue Congregational
Church in Denver has ten of its men
enlisted in the army. among whom is
DR. T. W, Hopkins, captain OF one of
the ambulance units.
/ Ambulance Company No 80. COM
posed OF five commission officers
and ll9 men, left Denver for Camp
Dodge, near Des Moines, Iowa Capt
! I NJ. Hopkins is in command
| A. Fields OF Springfield. has ninety
acres of broom corn that will make
twenty tons or more. and fifty acres
/ of maize and other stuff. That will
mean anywhere from $4,000 to $40 900.
Activity in the Routt county coal
/ fields along the line OF the Moffat
road has increased SO rapidly recent
ly that the road is now hauling over
1 $500 tons daily over the Corona hill
/ When the manufacturers convention
called by Governor Gunter conyenes
I in Denver at the state capitol on
Sept. 18th, 1t is hoped that those in
attendance will be from every nook
and Granny in the state.
A Colorado member of the Ameri-
. can Society of Civil Engineers will
be named to confer with the Denver
Motor Club committee recently an
pointed to investigate why Colorado