The Elbert County tribune., 1917-08-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Services.

Aug. -so.-Annuai Convention K. P.
Sssnd Sann pL,s pLodse including Hnisorm pn,ss,a
of Khorassan, at colorado Springs.
Sept, 3-I-Frontier Day celebration at
: Fort Morgan.
Nov. k-1t-Denver Auto Show
County Fairs.
Aug. 2s-sept. i-Prowers County at La
Aug: ss-si-Larimer County at Love-
Aug, as-si-crowley County at sugar
Aug. si-sept. i--Farmers' Fair at Fow-
sept. 4-z-Boulder County at Longmont.
sept. t,7-Arkansas Valley at Rocky
Sept. s-s-sedgwicis County at Jules
Sept. Ii-ii.-Lossn County at sterling.
enne Wells.
Sept. is-2f.--western slope at Mont
Sept. iI-22-coiorado State at Pueblo.
sept ao-22-Phiiiips County at Hoi-
Sept. 5-as-colorado New Mexico at
Sept 25,2s-Las Animas County at
Sept. 2e-2s-Ei Pnso County at caIhan.
Sept 2T-29-Grand County at Kremm-
Oct; s-s-Kit Carson County at Bur
The Crowley county fair will be held
Aug. 81.
Flour prices dropped zoe per 100
pounds Aug. IA In Denver.
Mrs. Julia ouirk. pioneer Pueb-
loan, died at the age OF S5 years.
Several Colorado men obtain Off
GERS commissions at training camps.
Fourteen Pueblo men were given
commissions at officers training
camps
In various counties the women are
rapidly enlisting in state auxiliary
branches of the National Guard
1t will take $1,000 refrigerator cars
to move the crops of the western slope
In 1917, according to G. s. Kelch.
Announcement was made of the call
Ing off OF the Pixies peak automobile
races. scheduled to begin on Sept. 8.
The movement started by the retail
clerks to have all stores in Denver
closed at Z o'clock was indorsed by
the Trades and Labor Assembly
Nineteen employees in the Denver
postoffice have already enlisted In the
regular army and the draft has taken
six more, none of whom will claim ex-
emption.
The United States Department OF
Agriculture, in its report states Colo
radios sugar beet crop for this year
is considerably above the average OF
the country.
| Ell Paso county's crops may go to
waste for want OF harvest hands.
Farmers are clamoring for men to
handle the crops, which are now ready
for harvest.
Twenty-Five thousand Coloradoans.
In the greatest patriotic demonstration
ever made In Denver, met the Colo
rado contingent from Fort Riley on it's
Homecoming
Acting under instructions of Attor-
ney General Gregory. United States
Marshal Burris revoked all commits
sions to employees OF Industrial con.
Germs as United States deputy mar.
shals.
The late Harriet Wolcott Vale left
an estate valued at approximately
$s5.000, according to preliminary ed.
Inmates embodied in a petition which
accompanied the filing of her will in
the County Court In Denver
The officers In charge OF the Arkan-
sas. Valley fair. Wild West carnival
and Watermelon day have about cou-
pleted all arrangements for the annu-
al event at Rocky Ford which attracts
the attention of everyone in the West.
The threatened strike of $50 men IN
the Harris mine. twenty-five miles
west of Steamboat Springs. was avert
ed when the company met substantial
ly all the demands OF the miners re-
garding the checkweight system and
increased wages.
Strict enforcement of the several
anti-premium ordinances was launched
by the City of Denver. and the initial
case, directed against the United CT
gar Stores Company. was won when
Judge Henry Bray fined that concern
$40 in Police Court
More than G.OO0 acres of vacant
land adjoining the San Isobel forest
in southern Colorado have been set
aside by the federal government as
stock driveways under the act OF Dec
Is. 1916. by Secretary Lane, according
to an announcement made by NJ. ID.
Mclnerny, chief of the land office in
Denver.
The formal opening OF the fourth
quadrennial session OF the Supreme
Camp of American Woodmen. colored,
was held in the Auditorium in Denver
with more than 1000 persons present
The delegates were welcomed on be-
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d. E. Over and on behalf of the city
nv Mayor Cnaar