The Ordway new era., 1917-08-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS
Aug. s.-is.-State Federation of Labor
| meeting at Boulder.
/ Aug lS-i&.-Trap Shoot at Oak Sreeh'
Aug. s5-Pickle Day at Plattevtlls
Aug. :S-Sept. l.-Prowers County FAIR
/ at Lamar - ID
Grand Lodge. including Uniform
Rank. Pythian Sisters and Knights
OF khorsssan, at T9ioraao sbpratien
At Fort Morgan.
Sept t-7.-Arkansas Valley Fair at
Rocky Ford. .,
at Colorado Springs,
Sept. n-l4-LogaR County Fair AZ
Sept. ii-s.-coIorado state Fair a, Pu-
selo.
The Leadville strike has been set.
tied.
Colorado's quota for the first army
draft is 4.75S.
The new city jail OF Rocky Ford has
been completed.
The safe in the railroad depo, at
Newcastle was robbed OF 500
Lieut.. H. c. Byrnes has been sp-
pointed captain OF Company D.
The Legislature appropriated $40
each for Colorado soldier boys.
Assistance OF women 10 harvest
crops in state may be appealed for.
Logan county's valuation has in
creased nearly 100000 in the last
year.
Fire destroyed the cottage OF Mrs,
Ethel Clark on her homestead north
OF Boone.
Mrs. J. T. Clark of Pueblo acci-
dentally shot herself in Colorado
Springs hotel.
Fourteen men from Ault have en-
tered the different branches of the
army or navy.
4 solid train OF nine express cars
OF grapes passed through La Junta
from California
Saturday. August 25. has been Sc
lected as Pickle day by the business
men OF Platteyille.
\ long snow shed on the Silrerton
branch and about five miles from Sil-
yerton was burned.
Many railroad section foremen are
rejoicing over the recent raise in sal
aries Of SO per month.
DR.. Victor C Anderson has been ten.
dered the presidency OF the Colorado
School Of Mines at q salary OF $4,000
year.
The largest Labor day celebration
in the history of Pueblo is being
planned by the general Labor day CON-
! mittee.
Mine operators OF the Leadville dis
trict announced an increase of wages
OF so cents day, making q scale OF
81 q day.
Mrs. Frederick o. Vaille, prominent
in religious and literary circles, died
at the VaiIle ranch, near Fort Logan,
following an illness of more than a
years duration
The Oil Creek Petroleum Company
has leased 2l5 acres of land adjoining
and south Of the oil springs on -Four
I Mile or Oil Creek, about five miles
/ northeast of Canon City.
/ ]. p. McGlothlan of Berthoud sold
an eighty-acre farm in Larimer county
near Berthoud to C. A Anderson, ST.,
| OF Johnstown- The consideration was
something over 10000. over sl25 per
acre
/ So abundant is the crop of cherries
I in the Lyons district in Boulder
I county. and so short is the supply OF
labor that many ranchers are giving
away this fruit TO any who are willing
to pick it.
The sixth annual convention OF the
National Old Trails Road Association
( will convene at Pueblo Aug. 16 and
u for the purpose Of the election OF
officers and such business as may
come before the meeting
The report of Postmaster Stapleton
made to the postmaster general a,
Washington shows that the Denver
postoffice did business of 140.606. rs
for July, an increase of s23.s27.9a
over July, 1916, or 20 per cent.
Fifty-four members of the headqua-
tiers and supply section of the engineer
train, Colorado National Guard, for
merly known as Truck Supply Com
pany No. l. mobilized at Colorado
Springs, preparatory to going into
camp near Golden.
Saturday was the big day at CamI
Baldwin at Overland Park, Denver. A
great program of athletic and tracl
. events, broncho busting and the mat
, inee by the Gentlemen's Driving ant
Riding Club. made the day one of tn,
biggest Denver has ever seen.
Working on the theory that Goldi,
. Breyn, who disappeared July II, Il
, being held captive by a band of whit
slavers in some eastern city, the Den
, yer police have sent descriptions o
the MISSING girl IN Chicap on psorio