Gilpin observer., 1917-04-26

day. School Association at Colorado
June 2l-22.Christian Endeavor Con-
Aug. National Convention Of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
sept ssio. i7-aa-colorad0' state Fair at pa-
The canning factory at Cafion City
is being enlarged.
Cafion City citizens plan means of
increasing potato crop.
Women Of Woodcraft will hold a
convention at Fountain in June.
Arkansas valley farmers pay fancy
prices for thoroughbred stock.
Farmers of Arkansas valley will
break farming records this year.
British officer at Canon City be-
lieves Lord Kitchener is still alive.
John r. White is organizing a vol
unteer infantry company at Lamar.
Warden lyman imports Peruvian
corn seed for experiment. in high alti
tudes.
The Poudre Valley Odd Fellows AS
sociation held their annual meeting
in Greeley.
Seventy-five thousand brook trout
have been placed in Saguache creek
and tributaries.
Woman's Relief Corps of Boulder
will make 216 comfort quilts for Troop
D and Company B.
Rocky Ford will vote May 7th on
the question of bonds of 100000 for
school improvements.
Miss Mae Everitt of Berthoud has
enlisted as an army nurse and will be
stationed at the Presidio.
Armed guards are keeping a con-
slant watch on the Nederland dam,
eighteen miles up Boulder canon.
Fifty Elks attended the Western
Slope celebration at Montrose. The
banquet was patriotic in character.
Durango is to have a Boy Scout
movement this spring that will help
in several ways to attain good results.
Over LOO applications were made
by Denver people for lots and tracts
on which to plant gardens and grain.
600 acres of virgin sod near Num- will
be turned over by tractor plows this
year.
South Altman, the highest incorpor-
ated town in the United States, now
boasts of the biggest flag in the gold
district
State supervision of all relief and
local preparedness work was advocat-
ed In formal statement by Governor
Julius G. Gunter.
Governor Gunter signed the Horton
prohibition bill on the 23d, the last
day for action on measures passed by
the Twenty-first General Assembly.
The Cripple Creek district operators
have launched campaign for explora-
tion of the deeper mineral zone in
the Cripple Greek district this spring.
Victor Chapman. the American avia-
tor who plunged to his death near
Verdun, France, on June 23d last, left
property worth 100000 at Colorado
Springs.
Former Mayor Henry J. Arnold of
Denver has bought 100 acres of the
Green Mountain ranch for the pur-
pose of establishing dairy. He will
stock it with Ayrshires.
For the purpose of raising $4,000 to
be used in reorganizing the Colorado
Springs Boy Scouts. and placing the
organization on a permanent and ef-
ficient basis, three-day campaign
will be instituted May Sth.
Two to three hundred acres of land
are being put under cultivation at
Fort Logan to increase the food sup
ply of the nation as the result OF an
order issued to all division command
ers OF the United States regular army.
The recruits are plowing ground as
well as drilling.
Adjt. Gen. Frank ID. Baldwin and his
military staff have accepted an invi-
tation to be present at the ball to be
given by the Jane Jefferson Club ut
El Jebel temple in Denver May 1 for
the benefit of the women's volunteer
fund for the assistance Of Colorado
National Guard recruits.
George Britton's place in Denver.
where James e. Tressel was killed a
month ago. received its second visit
from the police when detectives OF
the bootlegging squad descended on
the house and removed Britton, four
barrels OF beer and a trunk of whis.
key. Britton was released under bond
Death in environments of abject
poverty came to Mrs. Isabella Patter.
son Springer. one-time noted beauty
OF Denver, for n number OF years an
international social favorite, the di.
vorced wife Of John w. Springer, mil
lionaire. The end came in an open
ward of Blackwell's Island hospital
New York.
April pay checks for the yard men
and other men who are paid on an
hourly basis by the Denver & Rio