Cheyenne record., 1917-10-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
cos,iNc EVENTS.
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sOMtNG EvENVS. Z
Oct. 2s-s1-Educational Association
Oct. si"Nov. a. aHS sHEdueasionai % Associa-
Nov. IS Educational Association
Nov. s-s-Live Stock Show at Grand
Nov. ia-is-Automobile show at Dem
Noy. 22-24-Rural School Conference In
Help is needed to harvest crops OF
the state.
A $4,000 school building Is to be
erected at Grover.
Better houses and barns are appar-
rent all around Brandon
Ortner divorce suit transferred from
Denver to Pueblo courts.
The Axial Basin district below Craig
is to be prospected for oil.
Huge amount of money being spent
in Pueblo for construction work.
Industrial Commission recommended
raising Canon City miners wages.
A new school house is under con-
struction at Bell Springs, near Holly.
Good progress is reported in sinking
the main shaft on the Sheriff mine on
Raven hill.
Secretary McAdoo visited Denver
Friday and urged the purchase of Lib
erty bonds.
Efforts being made to locate mater
ials in Colorado from which to make
sulphuric acid.
The Akron Oil Company, at Akron,
reports discovery of oil sand at a
depth of 1870 feet.
A new steel bridge across the Roar
ing Fork below Stapleton's in Pitkin
county has been opened.
Cucumber seed growers in the vicin-
ity OF La Junta are holding out for
price of 80 cents per pound.
The list of new corporations in Col
orado for the past week records the
formation Of two dozen oil companies.
Vice President Marshall will speak
in Denver Oct. 2Sth; at Ault, Oct.
29th, and at Grand Junction, Oct. 31st.
It is estimated that more than 1000
automobile parties visited the summit
of Pixies Peak during the past sum-
mer.
The 100000 high school building
now under construction at Rocky Ford
will have gymnasium and auditor
ium.
Three additional motor mail routes
have been approved for Prowers coun-
tn to run from Lamar, Granada and
Bristol.
Potatoes in the Mesita section are
yielding 200 sacks to the acre, and it
is estimated that fifty cars will be
shipped this season.
The Central Presbyterian church OF
Denver entertained 200 soldiers from
Fort Logan at dinner in the dining
room of the church.
1t is estimated that there are 5000
carloads of potatoes in the Greeley
district ready for market with no cars
available to ship them in.
Jack Standard, SO, a chauffeur, was
fined 5000 and costs by Magistrate
Bray in Police Court in Denver for
violating the prohibition laws.
Four thousand individual families
have received city coal in the four
| weeks that the Denver municipal coal
| department has been in operation.
Pueblo hospitality is to be put to
| the test in entertaining the hosts of
| teachers who will be in the city Oct.
31st to Nov. End. to attend the State
Teachers Convention.
Tourists visiting the Denver noun
tain parks in June, July and August
! numbered 3O3,882 and the number that
camped in Denver City park for the
same period was 12.065.
| The maids and matrons of Troop E,
One Hundred and Fifteenth United
States engineers, will give card par
ty and dance on the evening of Dec.
Sth at Ell Jebel temple, in Denver.
Secretary Of State James R. No
land and his wife left for Topeka.
'Kan., where Mr.. holland will attend
of state. to which he will deliver an
| address.
Despite the high cost OF living and
the increased cost of all commodities,
Mayor r. w. Speer promises a sur.
plus for the year 1917 and further
chop in the cost Of operation of the
City of Denver for 1918.
The residents of Denver's Italian
colony are doing their bit. San Mi
chele. society composed OF seventy
five men, voted to purchase $500
worth of Liberty bonds and give 500
to the Italian Red Cross.
A scheduled meeting Of the board ol
trustees of the Colorado State School
of Mines at Golden to ratify formally
the election Of DR.. Victor C. Anderson
as president Of the institution was
postponed to Oct. 25th. 4