The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-09
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
wsstern Newspaper Union News Service.

Loveland is to have pickle factory
The La Junta Elks lodge service
flag has 1O9 stars.
Large shipments of sheep have been
made from Fort Collins.
Holly Dairy Club and business men
are planning for big dairy show
More than 500 Puebloans admitted
their liability to pay war income tax
| The town of Littleton has completed
new sewer system at cost OF $So'-
| 900.
Twenty-Five new concrete culverts
will be tried out on the roads of Mesa
county.
The fifty-fifty flour regulation has
been changed from a money basis to
the pound basis.
Mrs. Spencer Penrose will finance
the erection of a Catholic church at
Colorado Springs.
City employees of Pueblo were re-
Gently granted a wage increase OF
from so to Go cents per day. %,
Loveland Masons have postponed
building a temple, but later will ac-
quire a site and erect a fine struc-
ture.
Jesse Hallar of Cortez is endeavor-
| ing to interest Denver capital in
"Hallarite," which he claims as new
discovery.
The Boulder Commercial Club
passed a resolution asking members
OF that organization boycott German
made goods.
All booze captured by the Weld
county officials is being turned over
to the city hospital in Greeley for
medical purposes.
Contracts for the erection of a wa
ter stand-pipe at Fourteenth and Lin
coin avenue in Loveland will be
awarded early in April.
Fire, probably started from the
sparks from passing train, burned
over 500 acres of pasture and several
stacks of hay near Roggen.
Ball and banquet of the Ouray Coun-
ty Pioneers Society held at Ridgway
was varied by drawings for Red
Cross steer, hog and turkey. Net pro-
ceeds, $34S.
The 100000 issue Of the city of
Golden refunding water bonds will be
purchased by the Colorado State Land
Board for investment in the perma-
nent school fund of the state.
Five carloads of corrugated cul-
verts have been received by the La
Plata county commissioners, to be
used in road work as soon as the
weather permits.
Between 100000 and 100000 trout
will probably be placed in the streams
of the Pike National forest in the
North and South Pixies Peak districts
during the coming summer
Colorado potato growers produced
in the season just passed 100000
bushels, of which 5,O27,OO bushels are
estimated to be still in the hands of
the men who raised them.
James H. Canary of Denver went
to American Lake, Wash, Sept. IS,
1917. After being there two days he
was made corporal and six weeks
later was promoted to sergeant.
| S. E. Gatschett of Montrose is pros
pecting for the mother vein of a ma
terial known as mineral wax, small
pieces of which have been discovered
in the shale hills near that town.
An appropriation has been granted
by the Colorado Council of Defense to
the State Board of Health to enable
the health body to carry on cam
paign throughout the state for sup
preston and prevention of social dis
eases.
The work of the legal aid commit
tees of the State Council of Defense.
which will soon be appointed, and of
the home relief service of the Red
Cross will be co-ordinated in helping
and advising soldiers and their fam
| lilies
One thousand volunteer ship
builders have already been registered
in Colorado w. N w. Blayney, Colo
RADIO director of the U. S. Public Re
serve, has reported to Governor Gun
| ter
Governor Gunter delivered a series
of patriotic addresses in the San Luis
valley. He emphasized Colorado's ef-
fective war work and the states de-
termination to maintain the high
standard it has set.
The trial of Edward Allison, deputy
sheriff of Denver county, accused of
the murder of Mrs Margaret Manning
last November in the office of Den
yer creamery company on Curtis
street, opened in the West Side Court.
Coloradoans who are flocking to the
national capital to answer the call for
war emergency service have COM
pleted plans for organization of the
Colorado Society of Washington, D. C.