The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-09-28

Oct. l7.-Annual convention Of RsA
Cross, at Denver.
Oct. l520.-Annual meeting. GrAnA
Rodies. l. o. o. F.. at Pueblo
Nov. s-s-Lvs Stock Show 1t Grand
Nov. l7-ls-Automobils show at Den.
yer.
Lake county has q home guard
Statistics show juvenile delinquency
On increase in Pueblo
Third son of Puebloaa to Join army
presented fifth gold medal
The county treasury Of Otero county
netted $500 In booze fines In two days.
Construction work has started on
the new factory for the plow company
at Craig.
It is estimated that 10000 people
visited the Switzerland Trail above
Boulder In August.
The Arvada creamery has been
turning out about 7S0 pounds Of Log
Cabin butter daily.
The Colorado troops stationed ut
Fort Logan will go to the army camp
at Linda Vista. Cal
Superintendent Adams fixed the age
larry from rs to As years.
All Colorado infantrymen stationed
at Fort Logan will leave for Linda Wis
Ia, Cal, according to reports At tho
post
Save for the Second Liberty Loan
Bond" is the motto placed on the en-
velopes Of the Pueblo Commerce
Club.
Residents of Twenty Mile Park in
Routt county are considering the mat
ter Of organizing a 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 .
we'll 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, DR.. 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 wonderful fodder crop.
w. P. Hobbs Of Delta county re-
ceived $615 for the wheat crop on his
5h acres Of land. or an average of
STA per acre at $31s 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
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,
we're taken to the county hospital.
The American Association of Uni.
versity Professors wired DR.. o. G.
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 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, &C.
cordinK to a letter receivod in naryor