The Colorado statesman., 1917-05-12

aug. l-NatlOHal convention Ol <hhAA-
can Race at Denver.
Sept, 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
May lambs sold at $3.50 on the
Denver market.
Milk is to sell at 1Oc per quart after
May Is in Denver.
Thirty Pueblo men ordered to Off
GERS training camp at Fort Riley.
Hallett, Schenck and Taylor were
elected members of the Denver school
board.
Colorado has been requested to
help raise 10000 men for construction
camps in Europe.
Preliminary organization made to
provide for celebration of Fourth OF
July at La Junta.
At Colorado Springs thirty-eight re-
cruits for the army have been OBJ
tanned in two weeks.
The case over the $1,500,000 estate
of Delos A. Chappell was settled by
Denver heirs out of court.
Fire prevention day was inaugur-
ated by two incipient blazes in the
Capitol Hill district in Denver.
Large number of baby trout of un-
usual size, one to three inches, were
put into the reservoirs near Victor.
The epidemic of measles which has
been raging all over the southern part
of Colorado seems to have worn itself
out.
The postoffice at Colorado City has
been made sub-station, the town
having consolidated with Colorado
Springs
Railroads are doing their share to
assist in the campaign for larger
production of food throughout the
United States this year.
Uncle Dan" Newcomb will present
ten pounds of potatoes to each high
school girl of La lara who will agree
to plant and cultivate them.
The state board of smelter investi-
CATION has begun actual work on the
Investigation provided for in the bill
passed by the last Legislature.
Military examinations prove that
more applicants for the government
service are rejected because of FLAT
feet" than for any other objection.
Breckenridge, where $50 votes were
cast at the last election-with a pop
ulation of little more than 1000
has recruited forty-six men for a COM
pany of the Colorado National Guard.
Five thousand printers from all
parts of the United States are expect
ed to attend the sixty-third annual
convention of the International Typo
graphical Union in Colorado Springs
Aug. 18th to 18th.
Enlisted directly in the French
army, Harry F. Daily, Colorado Ma
tional guardsman, will leave Denver
for Europe. He is the first Denver
man who has enlisted directly for
service with the French army.
Another large body of manganese
ore is now being opened up by the
Julia Company in the Home Exten-
sion at Leadville. The new ore is Of
slightly better grade than that which
the mine has revealed before.
Burt Holly was arrested at Colorado
May Hogan from Los Angeles to Phoe-
nix, Ariz., and held in $1,000 bail, in
default of which he was taken to Den
'er and placed in the county Jail.
One hundred Colorado National
Guard recruits were sent to the train
ing camp near Golden to await the
call to war. Adjt. Gen. Frank d. Bald
win said that one of the nations best
training camps is at that point and
the men will be well trained and cared
for.
Frank E.. Wire and j. H. McAllister
of Denver have taken lease and op-
ton on the Iron Mask mine, situated
or Shook hill about a mile northwest
OF Breckenridge. About twelve years
ago, the Iron Mask was a large pro-
ducer of medium grade lead carbon
ate ore.
Dale NJ. Hoagland, Pueblo boy who
returned from the Colorado Agricul
tural College at Fort Collins, was or
dered to report to the military train
ing camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison,
Ind, where he will take the rank of
first lieutenant and will be engaged
in drilling rockies
Governor Gunter announced that he
has finished his appointments to the
labor board which will cooperate with
the ways and means committee in
mobilizing labor of the state for the
purpose of gaining the greatest possi-
bic efficiency in production of food
and other supplies.
The war cross awarded by the
French nation for bravery, has been
conferred upon George b. Struby, son
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