The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-04-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.
a Newspaper Union News service.

Western Newspaper Union News service
COMING EVENTS.
April e:-ss-Y. n C. A. Week in Colo
May l7-so-Convention Colorado sun-
day School Association at Colorado
June .l-21-Christian Endsavor Con-
vention at Salida.
Aug. National Convention of AfH-
can Race at Denver.
sept i7-2s-colorado state Fair at Pc
A patriotic meeting was held ,at
Durango.
Two men in Denver were arrested
Tor making threats.
Former Denver craftsmen charged
with stealing airplane plans.
Three hundred and fifty in Pueblo
Red Cross units are ready to serve
country.
Boy Scouts Of Denver waited ON the
governor and informed him they are
ready for work.
H. J. NuSent was fined 5000 in the
District Court for soliciting liquor
trade at Pueblo.
Town Of Creede celebrates war dec.
iaration by exploding Presidents %.
Lutte with dynamite.
Denver housewives throughout tho
city are beginning to lay In supplies
TO last over the summer.
Mrs. Stella Smith. on trial in Den.
yer for the murder of her husband,
Lawrence Smith. was acquitted.
John Golfer Of La Junta was com.
PEELED to kneel and kiss the flag he
had insulted. and then stand and a.
lutte II.
Letters going through the Denver
postoffice are now being stamped
Rocky Mountain National Park
Opens May l, 1917"
Harry B. Tedrow, United States dis.
trict attorney. issued statement ap-
pealing to the residents of Denver and
Colorado to maintain order.
Development is active in the Grip
pie Creek district. The outlook for
an Increased output of ore as the sea.
son advances is very bright.
Denver is to be a mobilization cen.
ter for the supplies of the American
Red Cross. according to an announce
ment made at national headquarters.
Gustave Dietz of Leadville COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head in a barn at the rear
Of 1926 Larimer street in Denver.
The annual report of the state in
spector of mines estimated the area
Of the coal deposits of Routt county,
the Yampa field, at 440 square miles.
A resolution has been adopted by
Denver lodge of Elks and forwarded to
President Wilson pledging loyalty to
the country and support in defending
tho flag.
Denver Veterans of Foreign Wars
are forming volunteer training corps
and are ready to offer their services
to the government at any time they
are needed.
More than hundred students of the
Colorado Woman's College in Mont
clair pledged themselves to do Red
Cross work at patriotic meeting at
the college.
President Wilson has sent a letter
OF thanks to the First District Com
mandery, Knights Of st. John, fo. their
recent message indorsing his stand in
the war crisis.
DR.. c. w. Thompson and DR.. Philip
Work of Pueblo. members of the
United States medical reserve, re-
ceived commissions as lieutenan.s in
the federal army.
Water from the River Jordan was
used on Easter in baptismal serv.
ices for the children at the Park Con.
gragational church at Greeley by the
Rev. A. E. Thompson.
The Big Eight Oil, Gas and Develop
ment company, drilling on the Rock
Canon Dome, seven miles west of Pue-
bio, are expecting to strike oil in the
second Dakota sandstone.
Cold and driving snowstorm
failed to prevent citizens in the vi
cinity of Bailey, in Platte cailon, from
expressing their patriotism at a flag
raising exercise held in the oneroom
schoolhouse there.
Predictions of an unusual food short
age. perhaps one of the greatest the
country has ever experienced, we're
made ut the meeting of farmers and
business men at the Denver Civic and
Commercial Association.
Loveland citizens gave three Love
land boys patriotic send-off when
they departed for Denver on their way
to San Francisco to join the marine
corps. The young men are Glen Pow
ers, L. c. Bengler and Bruce Hoton
The first day of war with Germany
brought promotion to Lieut.. John F.
Shafroth, Jr, U. S. N, son of the Colo.