The Dolores star., 1918-08-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western S-~spspsr Union News service.

"esNeta -N~SspApst Union NrSb
COMING EVENTS.
sept. mining Engineers meeting In
Sept. Fifty sixth annual confer.
enee os Colorado II. f Church al
Sept. t-s--shoe Dealers Association
sept s-s-Ark.nsas Valley Fair at
sept s-s-Frontisr Days show At Fort
Aorgan.
Sept. ls-Bsavsr Park fair at Psnross.
sept, ,n-as-c0'orado state Fair At
SEPT, ss-ss-Lineola County Fair at
Fire destroyed the Gill garage at
Gil.
A recruiting office for student
nurses has been opened In Fort Col
Inns.
Irwin L. Sears, a former Kersey
boy. is named in the casualty list from
the French. front.
Marion Ssick Of Craig shot himself
in the hand with a .22-caliber rifle
while hunting rabbits.
Dr. +. H. Harrison OF Grand county
has been commissioned a captain and
left for Fort Riley, Kan.
A Red Cross sale on Aug. 80 is to be
one of the big features OF the Larimer
county fair at Loveland.
The road from Craig to Blue noun
tain is open for travel and is said to
be in the best OF condition.
Fire destroyed the Denver 4 Salt
Lake depot at Fraser. formerly the
Colorado terminal Of the road.
Another rich strike Of silver ore is
reported to have been made In the
Ward district in Boulder county.
Six months In jail was the sentence
pronounced upon Frank Mondragon At
Fort Collins. convicted OF bootlsgging.
During last month the Hayden aux.
iliary of the Red Cross shipped to the
steamboat chapter l.747 Eause Arti-
clss.
The grandstand at the AlamosA fair
grounds was destroyed by fire. The
blaze is believed to have been incen.
diary.
NJ. o. Smith OF Evans 10 suffering
from fractured skull as . result Of
an auto accident that occurred near
Denver.
J. +. Welborn of Denver has received
"A federal appointment as production
manager of the fuel administration for
Colorado.
The John G. Anderson farm east Of
Mead. a non-irrigated tract, was sold
TO Walter l.. McCaslin of I-ongmont
for $4,000.
One of the worst storms that ever
visited northern Colorado struck Ly.
ons and its environs Sunday evening
and caused considerable damage
Funeral services over the body Of
Lieut.. Henry Winters were held in
Fort Collins. He was killed in an
asroplane accident In Texas.
Forty acres of oats on the Ralston
ranch on Twelyemile mesa. forty
miles west OF Craig. it is stated will
make sixty bushels to the acre.
Peter Engle is the first Grand coun.
a Red Cross herd. He will start the
herd by branding two heifer calves.
More than 800 babies have been
weighed. measured and tested In the
city of Boulder. which is making
splendid progress in the child welfare
work.
service flag OF 100 stars, repre-
senting the boys from GiobevilIe who
are in the service. was presented to
Manager OF Parks and Improvements
j. A. Burnett at dedication exercises at
Globeville park.
Ninety per cent OF the bumper 1917
potato crop had been marketed by
July 1 Of this year. according to sta.
tistics compiled by the Colorado Coun
Gil of Defense.
Mrs. w. b. Weatherford, a formey
Milliken woman, attempted suicide in
Denver by cutting her throat with a
pocket-knife. She was married and
her husband is a soldier stationed at
Camp Cody, N. NJ.
The special committee of the State
in the students army training corps
will try to induce every boy who
graduated from high school last June
to join the corps and go to college.
Three hundred excursionists on
their way to the G. A. r. reunion at
Portland, Ore, stopped at Denver and
were given a motor ride about the city
and later were guests of the Denver
Rcd Crors at a luncheon in the station
John Lawson. president of the Inde-
pendent Union of Mine Workers, has
been employed as an associate direc-
tor by the Americanization committee
Of the State Council of Defense and is
doing Americanization work in the
southern coal fields.
The accomplishment of the food ad-
mtnistration In obtaining loans on na.