The Colorado statesman., 1917-07-14

Pueblo is to have new theater build
ing.
Japanese Y. NJ. C. A. leaders visit
Pueblo to obtain pointers.
Two battalions of second infantry
to be stationed in Pueblo.
Colorado National Guards will en-
ter federal service on Aug. 5th.
The special session of the COLORADO
General Assembly will convene
July IS.
There are now II persons furnish
ing milk daily to the new condensing
mill at La Junta.
The marriage of Eva Dutton to H.
L. Goldsmith, of Denver. it is said'
will be annulled.
A destructive hail storm swept the
south part of Morgan county, doing
injury to crops in its path.
A total of 29 men enlisted at the
army recruiting station in La Junta
during the month of June.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford may be
elected president of National Educa-
tors Association at Portland, Ore.
The National League OIL and Gas
Company of Pueblo, with a capital
stock of $4,000, was incorporated.
At the request of Secretary of State
Noland bill is being drawn which
will impose a war tax on all corpora
tions in the state.
Four men and two women were ar
rested in Denver in a raid on an al
legged society bootlegging joint" at
POSI- Glenarm place.
Colorado's winter wheat crop will
total 7,258,000 bushels. This is the
estimate made by the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Practically every man enlisted in
the Colorado National Guard reported
to his respective division preparatory
to the mobilization call.
A three-mile anti-vice ring may be
established around Fort Logan, as the
result of a movement set on foot by
the Denver branch of the Mothers
congress.
| A fourth-class postoffice has been
established at Mindeman, in Otero
County near Rocky Ford and Adina
Mindeman was commissioned post.
master.
Citizens of Aurora have established
branch of the American Red Cross
and will begin relief work as soon as
tablshed'
While playing soldier with a loaded
revolver, Fred Knill, IL, shot and
killed his 10-year-old brother, Neal
Knill at the home of their grand
mother in Denver.
Ignacio is now a postoffice of the
third class. The rural route from
that office thorugh the Spring Creek
section has been changed from a tri-
weekly to daily.
Denver will have Labor Day pa
rade this year. This was decided
upon at meeting of the building
trades council. The parade will be
followed by a picnic.
Under the direction of G. S. Bilhei-
mer, district executive secretary,
nearly one hundred war work secre-
taries of the Y. NJ C. A. will go into
training at Estes Park.
The Colorado delegation in Con-
Meyer of the miners organization to
use it's efforts in averting the
threatened strike at Leadville.
Lieut.. w. P. Brown, in charge of
the naval recruiting station in Den
yer, announced that he is authorized
by Washington to enroll men in the av-
iation reserve corps of the navy.
w. P. Sugg, %, was arrested in
Denver on telegraphic request from
the authorities of Durango, where he
is wanted on a charge of photograph
ing a 15-year-old girl in the nude.
Colorado's drive on the War Depart
ment for the designation in Denver Of
a military training cantonment and
government horse market, as we'll as
share of the huge war contracts, is
on.
Probable withdrawal of divorce pro-
ceedings between NJ. Allen Barth and
Mrs. Josephine Hooper Barth is seen
by Denver friends of the couple, fol-
lowing advices that the pair nave Of
fected a reconciliation and are liv-
ing together in Pueblo.
The selective draft machinery in
Colorado is ready for its work of ex-
amining and selecting the registered
young men of the state to serve in
the first national army, according to
information sent to Washington by
Mo hoJ
Denver's French society, the local
branch of the Alliance Franchise,
made preparations for an elaborate
fete to be held July 14th, the French
national celebration of the fall of the