The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-04-27

Canon City citizens plan means OF
increasing potato crop.
Residents Of Pueblo outline plan for
nome gardens at meeting.
Voluntary poll tax for women IN
Denver womans war scheme.
Arkansas valley farmers pay fancy
prices for thoroughbred stock.
Farmers of Arkansas valley win
break farming records this year.
Denver Cigarinakers ask 81 more
Der thousand for making smokes.
Warden lyman imports Peruvian
corn seed for experiment in high alti-
tudes.
Millers announced another jump In
the price Of flour. raising the retail
figure to $5.95 and S6.05 hundred.
1t is estimated that more than TO-
900 acres Of virgin sod near Num- will
be turned over by tractor plows this
year.
The Cripple Creek district operators
have launched q campaign for explora-
ton Of the deeper mineral zone" in
the Cripple Creek district this spring.
The camping ground Of the Young
Mems Christian Association in Estes
park has been offered to the women
OF Denver for the woman's training
camp.
Homeopathic physicians of Denver
met to arrange the program for the
annual meeting Of the Colorado Home
opathic Society. which convenes
June II.
The Jane Jefferson Club at its reg.
ular meeting in Denver, Endorsed ma.
tion-wide prohibition as a war meas
ure to conserve the food grains of the
country.
Guadalupe Fernandez, a Mexican
miner employed at the Argo tunnel OF
the Moffat Coal Company in Gal;
Creek, was found dead In one of the
rooms in the mine.
A dispatch from West Point says a
Denver boy, Daniel Noce. %. is one OF
the first ten men selected for general
merit in the class which will be gradu-
ated from the military academy.
The find made in the Ontario in
Iowa gulch, Leadville district, is hold
ing up well. Three carloads of rich
ore have been sent out in as many
weeks since the big shoot was
entered.
Two strong sets of resolutions, call
ing upon Colorado's congressman to
swing into line and give up their op-
position to the President in his ef-
forts toward preparedness were
passed in Denver.
Denver national banks, members Of
the Clearing House Association, SUBJ
scribed to approximately $1,000, 900 Of
the $200,O00,00O short-term notes to be
issued by the government to meet its
temporary financial needs.
Persons who have recently filed on
homestead land or who have not yet
obtained a patent to it, may be free
to Join some branch Of military serv-
ice without fear Of losing ownership
through absence therefrom.
Members of the Sigma Epsilon Sor-
GRITTY Of the State feachers College at
Greeley voted to abandon all social &C
tivities until after the war was fin
ished and devote their energies
toward assisting in Red Cross work.
An eugenic baby show, exhibits of
infants clothing, homemade toys and
baby furnishings. lectures on baby
health and welfare and exhibitions
and demonstrations dealing with ev-
cry phase of the babys existence, will
be features of Baby Week." which
will be observed in Denver beginning
Adjt. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin and his
military staff have accepted an invi-
tation to be present at the ball to be
given by the Jane Jefferson Club at
Ell Jebel temple in Denver May for
the ben eft of the women's volunteer
fund for the assistance of Colorado
National Guard recruits.
George Britton's place in Denver,
where James E. Tressel was killed a
month ago. received its second visit
from the police when detectives OF
the bootlegging squad descended on
the house and removed Britton, four
barrels of beer and trunk of whis-
key. Britton was released under bond.
Death in environments of AFFECT
poverty came to Mrs. Isabella Patter-
son Springer, one-time noted beauty
of Denver, for a number Of years an
international social favorite, the di-
vorced wife of John w. Springer, mil
lionaire. The end came in an open
ward of Blackwelps Island hospital,
New York.
April pay. checks for the yard men
and other men who are paid on an
hourly basis by the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad hereafter will contain
extra compensation due under the
agreement reached recently between
officials of the company and the en-
ployes.