The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-29

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Lake county has a home guard
Statistics show juvenile delinquency
IN increase in Pueblo
Third son of Puebloan to join army
presented fifth gold medal.
The county treasury of Otero county
aetted $500 in booze fines in two days.
Construction work has started on
The new factory for the plow company
1t Craig.
1t is estimated that 10000 people
Visited the Switzerland Trail above
Boulder in August.
The Arvada creamery has been
:urning out about 750 pounds of Log
Cabin butter daily.
The Colorado troops stationed at
Fort Logan will go to the army camp
1t Linda Vista. Cal.
Superintendent Adams fixed the age
INIT for enlistment in the constabu-
ary from 25 to As years.
All Colorado infantrymen stationed
1t Fort Logan will leave for Linda Wis
"a, Cal, according to reports at the
post.
Save for the Second Liberty Loan
Bond" is the motto placed on the en-
yelopes of the Pueblo Commerce
Club.
| Residents of Twenty Mile Park in
Routt county are considering the mat
ter of organizing company to sink
an oil well.
An oil drilling outfit from Rangely
has arrived at Sinking Gulch, Moffat
county, and will be used in sinking
well at once.
Shipments of high-grade ore from
the Royal Flush mine, east of Colum-
bine, near Steamboat Springs, are
being made.
On nomination of Chancellor H. A.
Buchtel, DIR. Wilber Dwight Engle has
been elected vice chancellor of the
University of Denver.
Funeral services for James F. Burns,
wealthy mine operator, who died at
his home in Colorado Springs, were
held from the family residence.
Experiments with South American
corn at the state farm at Avondale
this year have resulted in successfully
growing a wonderful fodder crop.
w. P. Hobbs of Delta county re-
ceived $615 for the wheat crop on his
51a acres of land, or an average of
FILA per acre at S3.15 per hundred.
Kit Carson county has a Bean Club.
The county is offering prizes to the
boys and girls delivering to market
the most beans, quality considered,
from one acre.
A new drill schedule which went in
TO effect at Camp Baldwin establishes
a more varied arrangement of drilling
exercises and makes the work of the
troops less fatiguing.
Prosperity has smiled on the dry
land farmers of the Kendrick neigh
borhood, fifty miles southeast of Pu-
eblo, according to Ex-Governor James
B. Orman of the land office.
The first exhibition of the winter
season of the Colorado Springs Art
Society will be held in October when
the famous Panama canal pictures OF
Jonas Die will be displayed.
Judge Cooper of the District Court
Of Canon City, assisting Judge Butler
of the Denver District Court, took up
the controversy over the presidency
of the School of Mines at Golden.
A wage claim for $1,000 was filed
by forty-five miners, employed by the
McDonough Mining Company at Mon
arch, ten miles from Salida, with
State Labor Commissioner Morrissey.
Members of the Denver chapter of
the American Red Cross = $4,000
strong-are expected to attend the an
nual convention of that organization
to be held at the Auditorium, Wednes-
day evening, Oct. II.
Three persons were hurt in a col
lision of automobiles at the corner Of
Thirty-fifth avenue and Walnut street
in Denver. John Anderson and wife
and their grandchild, John Harvey,
were taken to the county hospital.
The American Association of Uni.
versity Professors wired DR.. o. c.
Lester of the University of Colorado
faculty his appointment as represen.
tative of the association to look into
conditions at the Colorado School of
Mines at Golden.
Robert Semple, former Denver boy,
now a member of the hospital corps
attached to the Twelfth regiment
United States engineers in France, is
in French hospital recovering from
wounds suffered through the explo-
sion of German hand grenade, ac-
cording to letter received in Denver.
Exactly four months to day since
he was held by a coroner's jury for
firing the fatal shots that sent Edward
c. Green, his superior officer in the
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