Gilpin observer., 1918-07-18
COLORADO NEws NOTES.

The election Of officers of the Ma
tional Colorsd Women's Association
at the twelfth biennial meeting IN
Denver. resulted In the election Of
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, Buffalo, N. T..
president; Miss Halle Q. Brown, VII
berforce. Ohio, vice president at large;
Georgia Nugent. Louisville. KY. chair
man executive committee; Mrs. c. R.
Mcdonald. Kansas City. treasurer;
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown Of
North Carolina. corresponding score
tary; Roberta ]. Dunbar, Providence.
R. l.. recording secretary; Mrs. Alice
D. Webb. Denver. second secretary;
Mrs. Dorcas Watson, Pueblo, chaplain.
The threshermen of Boulder county
met at the Commercial Association
rooms in Longmont and formed an or
ganization to establish q standard
price for threshing and fix wage
scale. 1t is expected that considerable
difficulty will be experienced in secur-
ing labor to carry on the work and the
threshermen will cooperate in secur-
ing men and teams. each paying the
same wage. Twelve cents per bushel
was fixed a. the price for all shock
threshing. the question of stack
threshing to be decided later. Men
will be paid $3.50 day and board and
$3.50 per day for man and team.
John Beard, switchman on the San
ta Fe road. 40 years old, was killed In
lodging house In the center Of Pueb-
body. Frank Yeager, switchman on
the Rio Grande. was arrested, charged
with the killing. Yeager's story IL
that he suspected Beard Of intimacy
with his wife and went to the lodging
house to warn Beard to keep away
from his home. Beard ordered him
from the place, he says, and reached
/ for his revolver, Yeager states that he
then fired.
Seven hundred draft men from Colo
rado will be entrained for Camp Fre-
mont during the nvs-day period begin
ming Aug. s. and 1900 will be sent to
Fort Logan during the same time, ac-
cording to orders received from Wash
ington by Provost Marshal Evans. The
men are to be selected from Class 1
Of the June, 1917. registrants. Those
in the 1913 class may voluntarily en-.
list. or may be involuntarily inducted
into service II the Glass Of 1917 IL
exhausted.
Owing to lack of support the Loretto
convent at Consjos has closed and the
sisters have gone to other localities.
The convent was established at Cone
jos when that place was the hub OF
the universe" 1860. and was, no doubt,
the first convent built in the state OF
Colorado, five years after the construc-
ton of the Conejos church which is
one Of the historical figures of the
state.
Norman Lockhart, 38, lies at the
point OF death at the County hospital.
after having fallen from q swiftly NOV.
ing automobile near Riverside cems-
terry on the Brighton road, following
an alleged alteration with the driver
of the machine, Joseph Nolan.
A special committee has been ap-
pointed by the Longmont Commercial
Association to cooperate with the
highways transportation committee of
the State Council of Defense in the
matter OF utilizing motor truck trans
portation on short hauls.
Denver. Colorado Springs. Trinidad,
Pueblo and Grand Junction were
placed on q sugar ration basis Mon
day and the balance of the state will
be ON Aug. l, according to announce
msnt made by the Federal Feed Ad-
ministration for Colorado.
Tuskegee, Ala. was selected for the
silver jubilee convention of the Ma
tional Association OF Colored Women.
to be held two years hence, 1920. by
the officers of the association in sx-
ecutive session at Denver.
Aug. l. is Colorado day" and 1t will
be celebrated with an elaborate cere-
mony to be participated in by the peo-
pie of Denver at Washington park in
patriotic manner.
Twenty-Five boys have gone from
Colorado Springs to Fort Collins to re-
ceive special farm school training at
the State Agricultural College.
Production made in June by lessess
Of the United Gold Mines Company Of
Cripple Greek totaled seventy broad.
gauge cars, approximating $500 tons.
Estimating the average gold content
at one ounce to the ton, the bullion
value Of the ore was about $4,000.
Miss Mayfield Perryman of Denver
is the first woman to be appointed to
a clerkship in the United States rail-
way mail service in the West.
Five sons In service and q sixth
"5ust rarin' to 60" b the war record
Of which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hurley
of Fort Lupton. are proud.
Work will be started at once to re-
habilitate the Moffat Road from the
money made available by the govern.
ment's loan Of $1,300.O0O.
Fifty thousand of the $4,000