Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17

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May l7-2o-convention Colorado sun
snsinsa si uno'i Associoh ~ eouo
June ls.-Annual Strawberry Festival
and Carnival at Glenwood Springs.
June 21-22-Christian Endeavor Con-
vention at SalidA.
Aug. 1-National Convention Of Afri-
Sept 17ssco,oraSo ZEE e Dsnssf stat. Fair a. pu
eblo. - N m
Denver flour prices have advanced
to $6.95@705.
Denver restaurants are to advance
pie to 10 cents.
Colorado will furnish 109.5OO men
under the selective draft act.
Pueblo Serbs got big sendoff' at Pu-
eblo before starting for the war.
It is believed that Colorado's army
quota will be raised within month.
May goth has been designated by
Governor Gunter as Y. M. c. A. Sun
day.
William A. Maxwell has been re-
appointed receiver Of the Denver land
office.
At Pueblo $1,000 was raised through
the sale of tags for the McClelland
orphanage.
Decoration day in Denver this year
is to be the most momentous In the
city's history.
There is marked activity among the
tungsten mines in the Feberite section
of Boulder county.
fNfo ~ 1e tou
were shipped from the Telluride camp
during the month of April.
Four men and three women were
arrested at Greeley, charged with car
thefts, and returned to Denver.
San Miguel county has about 500
Finnish people, who took part in the
big Scandinavian May day celebration
at Telluride.
More than 200 volunteers enlisted
from the Denver recruiting stations
last week for service in the army, ma
rines and navy.
The payment of $500 for an oil lease
on 100 acres in Wild Horse park in
Pueblo county, sets a new high price
for leases in that district.
The Running Lode mine at Black
Hawk, which paid dividends of $4,000
per month when operated by Denver
owners, is about to resume.
The Summit Copper Mining and
Milling Company Carbon lake-Kholer
| tunneD at Red mountain has now a
force Of eighteen men employed.
Coffee and pie have Joined the avia-
tion corps and will make trial flights
in Denver restaurants before June 1st
The general altitude will be 10 cents
Pueblo's summer Fairgrounds will
be opened to the children Of the city
| on the afternoon of June 18th, the
first Monday following the dismissal
| of school.
The Peoples Oil and Gas Company
has been organized to develop oil
lands embraced in the 100,000-acre
tract lying in Alamosa and Saguache
counties
Growers of lambs at Fort Collins
were astonished at the price of $17.S5
for lambs, but still more so when news
came of SIS being paid at Missouri
river markets.
A call has come for twenty-five Den
yer girls to enlist under the Red Cross
as nurses aids and to prepare to go
to the front when the Denver base
hospital military unit mobilizes.
Mrs. J. M. Thompson, wife of a
farmer living east Of Longmont,
missed death by a scant foot when a
Burlington freight engine killed the
horse she was driving and wrecked
the buggy.
Farr Crozier of Lucerne we're paid
$1S.60 per hundred for shipment OF
lambs to Omaha, which is the highest
price ever paid on any market for
lambs. The same day Nelse Martin
Of the Johnstown district received
$11.90 for a shipment of steers at the
Denver yards.
In order that Colorado may do its
will be used by the Young Mems Chris
tian Association in work in army and
navy posts, Gov. julius C. Gunter has
proclaimed Sunday, May goth, as
Young Mems Christian Association
War Work Sunday. and has requested
pastors to urge contributions to the
fund on that day.
Facing the prospect OF spending his
honeymoon in jail. J. w. Price, 76, a
wealthy rancher of Shawnee. stole out
Of the court house in Denver while
awaiting a further hearing of the case
against him and married his 16year-
old adopted daughter. Judge Rice mar
ried the oddly matched pair at his
home. Another singular feature of the
case was that Price. as father and
guardian Of his daughter. had to give
his consent In writing to her marriage