Gilpin observer., 1917-05-10

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June 16.-Annual Strawberry Festival
and Carnival at Glenwood Springs.
| June 21-22-Christian Endeavor Con-
| vention mt Salida.
| Aug. National Convention of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
Sept; 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
Site selected by Missouri Pacific
officials for new depot at Sugar City.
Town of San Luis has contracted
for installation of electric lighting sys-
tenn.
Hallett, Schenck and Taylor were
elected members of the Denver school
board
Governor Gunter issued an appeal
to people to give greater support to
the Red Cross.
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.
Fire prevention day was inaugur-
ated by two incipient blazes in the
Capitol Hill district in Denver.
Plans have been made to water
thousands of arid acres west Of Pu-
| eblo through use of artesian wells.
An association has been formed in
Boulder county for protection of auto
mobiles and capture of auto thieves.
| Of, u1o oh ho q
been raging all over the southern part
of Colorado seems to have worn itself
out.
People of Rye are collecting old pa
per In every form and proceeds OF Its
sale are to buy new song books for the
church.
The postoffice at Colorado City has
been made sub-station, the town
having consolidated with Colorado
Springs.
Mrs. George Redden. who was acci-
dentally shot with revolver by her
husband in their home at Trinidad,
died at hospital.
Railroads are doing their share to
assist in the campaign for a larger
production of food throughout the
United States this year.
The state board of smelter investi-
cation has begun actual work on the
investigation provided for in the bill
passed by the last Legislature.
AS result of recent order issued
to division commanders Of the regular
army, 200 acres of land will be put
under cultivation at Fort Logan.
General orders were issued by the
War Department at Washington that
no more militia organizations will be
called into service before July 1.
Military examinations prove that
more applicants for the government
service are rejected because of FLAT
feet" than for any other objection.
The body of John Moran, known as
Suffering jack was found in the
Platte river at the foot of Tenth
street in Denver by Michael Patch.
A number of landslides along the
Moffat road have so blocked traffic
that heroic eXpedients have had to be
adopted to care for the passengers.
The war cross awarded by the
French nation for bravery, has been
conferred upon George B. Struby, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. f. Struby of Den
yer.
William Ryan, 10, who escaped
from the county hospital on July 81,
1916. while awaiting trial on charge
of burglary. is under arrest in Los
Angeles.
The mobilization camp for men re-
cruited for the regular army under the
selective service measure from Colo
rado, Kansas and Missouri, may be
located in Colorado.
The Quadricentennial of Protestant
Reformation was celebrated in Den.
yer with the laying of the cornerstone
o. the Martin Luther memorial chapel
at East Colfax avenue and Elizabeth
street.
The directors of the Pueblo County
Farm Bureau Association have called
a meeting at the offices of the county
commissioners to form farm loaI
association for territory contiguous tc
Pueblo.
Harold Shoup, oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs Oliver II. Shoup of Colorado
Springs, with fifty other Dartmouth
students, has joined the American
ambulance corps and will sail fol
France.
In Gunnison county, n move is or
foot to put auto trucks on the wagor
road from Glazier to the Star mine OF
Italian mountain. to be used In NOV
ing the large bodies of low-grade lead
silver ore Of these mines to the rail
road.