Gilpin observer., 1917-06-21

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Life convict at Canon City purchase.
500 Liberty bond from savings.
Governor Gunter issued proclama
tion urging funds for Red Cross.
Denver political leaders of opposite
faith working together in Red Cross
campaign.
Over $4,000 was raised in Denver
for the Red Cross on the opening day
OF Red Cross week.
Several thousand sweet potato
plants are to be again tried this sea
son in the Palisade section.
Saturday was a gala day at Glen.
wood Springs in celebration of the
annual Strawberry Day festivities.
The new dairy at the naval sani-
tarium at Fort Lyon has been COM
pleted and will soon be in operation
All miners must show their regis
tration cards at Frederick, If they
want to continue work in the mines.
The volunteer fire department of
Georgetown will give on the Fourth
of July an old-fashioned firemen's
tournament.
The Colorado & Southern earned
$2S8,9S5 in June, an increase of $31,
G96. From January 1 earnings total
$7,316,419, an increase of $843,652.
A late recruit for the American
ambulance service in France is Thorn
as c. Mcconnell, the 19-year-old son
of Bishop F. ]. Mcconnell of Denver
Sarah B. Hilton, rs years old, died
at her home at Greeley, after lin
gering illness of several weeks. She
went to Greeley thirty-two years ago
from Pittsburg.
Because of the slow maturity of pea
vines, the pea canning campaign at
the Greeley, Loveland and Longmont
factories will not start before July l.,
according to H. C. CAMS.
With the exception of 700 train
men, the 1900 employees of the Den
yer Tramway Company have accepted
nounced by the management Of the
company.
Denver has the opportunity of OBJ
tanning branch federal reserve bank
as the result of the passage by Con-
gress of amendments to the original
law creating the system throughout
the country.
A serious labor shortage is being
faced on the Western slope of the
Rockies, according to James r. No
land, secretary Of state, who returned
to Denver from the strawberry festival
at Glenwood Springs.
Bishop Irving P. Johnson and Mrs
Johnson will be absent from Denver
for the remainder of June They are
visiting their soldier sons in the East
Stanley H.. who is at Plattsburg,
and Norman p, at Cambridge.
Mrs. Laura Reynolds Hazeltine
Campbell Hazen Hughes was arrested
in the county courtroom in Denver
by Bailiff Rueve as she stepped from
the witness stand. where she had lust
admitted that she had contracted a
bigamous marriage.
The Red Cross campaign was
started at Colorado Springs at ban
quet, when subscriptions amounting
to $51 200 were announced The meet
ing was presided over by Spencer Pen
rose, and the few speeches made
evoked enthusiasm.
The marble to be used in the statue
to be erected by the Buffalo Bill Me
mortal Association over the grave OF
William F. Cody on Lookout Mountain
Will come from Colorado quarries. The
Lions club of Pueblo, through one OF
its members, interested in one of Col
orado's quarries, has donated all the
marble that will be needed for the
statue.
Pending final returns now being
compiled by the federal reserve bank
at Kansas City, the total amount sub.
scribed for Liberty loan bonds by
Denver and the state OF Colorado will
not be definitely known. There is,
however, information that justifies
the belief that the complete figures
will bring the total for Denver up
to $13.00O,00O and the total for the
state to more than $17.00O,0Oo.
Men and women wept for the sor-
rows of France, and Kissed their hat.
red of an enemy's inhuman methods
OF war, at the auditorium In Denver
when the Right Rev. Charles Henry
Brent, bishop OF the Philippines, told
OF his experiences on the bleeding bat.
tlefields of Europe. and pleaded for
aid of the American Red Cross in its
campaign for funds to carry on mis-.
sions of mercy, 5000 Americans alter.
nately cried and cheered
Complaining that his mind comes
and goes" John Peter Whitson. sen.
fenced few days ago to life impris.
onment for the murder OF his wife,
whom he killed with a claw hammer
\ in her home at Logantown, March
14th. attempted suicide by hanging
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