Cheyenne record., 1917-10-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
Oct. 25-27-Annual Flower show Mt
AUDITORIUM In Denver.
Oct 29-s1-Educational Association
Oct. s1-Nov. 2-Educational Associa-
~ tion meeting at Pueblo.
Nov 1.a- Educational Association
Noy. e-s-Live Stock Show at Grand
Junction.
Noy. 22-24-Rural School Conference In
David F. Mckay of Debeque shot
and killed himself.
The contract was let for q new $685.
900 theater in Pueblo.
Crop conditions in Colorado are
good, according to report.
Meatless menus on Tuesday to ap-
pear at Colorado hotels in future.
Saguache county's contribution to
the American Red Cross was $500.
Attorney General Hubbard left for
Washington to file brief in water suit.
J. Vaught Sickman, Denver attor-
ney, was run down and killed by auto
list.
Youth held in jail at Pueblo because
his speeding automobile struck and
killed woman.
The golden wedding anniversary of
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah D. Lago was
celebrated in Pueblo.
Crowley county farmer demon
strates possibilities of growing pota,
toes in that section of state.
The Denver Trades and Labor As
sembly ovted to purchase a $500 Lib
erty bond at a meeting held in Dem
yer Sunday.
Colorado Springs allotment Of Lib
erty bonds, as nearly as can be de-
termined without official notification.
will be nearly $1.000.Ooo.
Ten cans of native trout from the
state hatchery at Buena Vista were
unloaded at Hillside and liberated in
the waters of Brush Creek lake.
All Colorado boys who understand
gas engines thoroughly and wish to
man submarine chasers are wanted in
the government service Immediately.
Patriotic women of Denver are de-
termined to claim the distinction OF
selling one-third of the Liberty bonds
over the state during the second big
drive.
Miss Lettie Welch of Denver a grad
uate nurse, has been appointed d.
rector of the nursing bureau Of the
mountain division Of the American
Red Cross.
Six thousand acres of land east Of
Littleton has been leased and a COM
pany known as the Fox Hill Oil De-
veloping Company has been incorpo-
rated.
Young Denver negroes, exclusively,
will make up the national quota from
district No. 8, which will leave Den
yer for the training camp at Fort Ri
ley. Kan.
The Morgan. Weld and Adams coun.
ty members o. the Omaha-Lincoln-
Denver Highway Association will eel
ebrate the completion of the highway
at Hudson Oct. goth.
Hundreds of school children of Den
yer participated in the Columbus Day
exercises, which were held in every
school in the city, depicting the early
history of America.
Twins and two other sisters are in
cluded in the class OF fifteen nurses
who received their diplomas at the
commencement exercises held at Mer-
cy hospital in Denver.
According to an edict of the Master
BARRIERS Association, Denverites will
pay 20 cents for shaves and 40 cents
for haircuts, almost twice the scale
prevailing before the war.
Two men, at the point of revolvers.
held up and robbed Mrs. Pete Zaber
of Pueblo in the store owned by Mrs.
Zaber and her husband at Blende and
made their escape in an automobile.
In conjunction with a nationwide
movement, Colorado has established
q woman's auxiliary OF the American
Institute of Mining Engineers to as
sist the organization in war work.
Mrs. M. ]. Stanton, wife of Rock
Island engineer, died at Pueblo, as a
result of injuries received when she
was knocked down and dragged thirty
feet by an automobile driven by Ray
Young Of Virgins.
Not only have the boys Of Colorado
Springs been organized into numerous
troops Of Boy Scouts, but the girls
are forming similar bands. There is
now a troop of Girl Scouts at the State
School for Deaf and Blind, with mus
ter roll of thirtytwo.
Lieut. Edward T. Taylor Jr., son OF
Congressman Edward T. Taylor OF
Colorado. and Miss Mildred Needham
of San Diego, daughter OF former Con-
gresham ]. c. Needham of California,