The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-20
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

The cornerstone for the new M. E.
church at Montrose has been laid.
The greatest parade in Denver's his
tory inaugurated the third Liberty
loan campaign.
The Eastern Colorado Livestock AS
sociation is making vigorous cam
paign to increase its membership.
The annual farmers picnic for Lo-
gan county will be held this year on
June 26. Last year there were some
1880 people in attendance.
Salt Creek Petroleum Company,
which lost the well it has been drill
ing near Seibert, reports that its sec
ond well now is down 300 feet
Mrs. Ellen L. Dyer, aged 65, died at
Colorado Springs from injuries re-
ceived when she was struck by an au-
tomobile driven by C. r. Arnold.
William Giles, aged 20, of Fort Nor
gan, was badly injured when motor
cycle on which he was riding skidded.
He was going at high rate of speed.
A large centrifugal pump of better
than 1000 gallons per minute capacity
was received at Brandon to be used on
one of the irrigation plants on the seed
farm near town.
The farm labor problem is one of
distribution of men, not Of supply of
men. Secretaries Houston and Wilson
both assured Dr. Charles A. Lory of
this fact in Washington.
Reports of the county agricultural
agents made to the State Council of
Defense show good conditions in most
of the farming counties and that the
recent rains and SHOWS have helped
immensely.
James Drury for thirty-five years
employed as doorman at the Union
station, died at his home in Denver of
bronchitis. Mr.. Drury was born in
ireland in 1912 and has lived in Den
yer since 1874.
The Robert E. Lee chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy at Den
yer have just completed raising fund
of $500 with which to endow bed in
the American hospital No. l, the first
militarized hospital in France.
John Thomas Dennis, mentioned as
being on the collier Cyclops, now over
due at an Atlantic port, is the stepson
of E. c. Dennis of Montrose and
Olathe. He was about 22 years Of age
and enlisted since the war began.
Three more counties have obtained
agricultural agents. w. F. Droga will
work in Otero, d. C. Bascom in Lar
inner and G. P. Newson in Montezuma.
There are movements under way in
Phillips and Saguache counties for
agents.
The body of Otto Grant, Yellow
Jacket miner, credited with being the
first snowslide victim in the Ouray
district three months ago, was found
by Charley Urick, 500 feet below
Curved point on the Grizzly Bear trail,
a mile away from where it was be-
lieved he went over. The body was
covered with snow, one leg was brok-
en- and the head badly smashed. The
body was raised to the trail with
ropes.
Every federal forest service employe
in the state of Colorado is now a po-
tential spy hunter and guardian OF
government, state and private proper
ty near or in federal forests, accord
ing to an order promulgated from
Washington and which bore it's first
fruit when the Denver forestry Off
cials received word from ranger that
grocer ON the Western slope was
disregarding the Food Administration
mandates.
The Denver Board of Education rec
ommended about 1000 teachers and
other employees for appointment to po-
sitions in the schools of Denver, ef-
fective Sept 1, 1918. The board fur
ther recommended that the minimum
elementary salary be $3.50 a year,
and that the maximum element
ara salary be fixed for the year
191S-19 at s1,260, and that each
teachers salary included in this
recommendation designated at $1,000
or less be increased $50 a year. .
The State Council of Defense has
advised the Sedgwick County Council
of Defense that there Is no authority
for interference with the activities of
legally formed organizations such as
the Non-Partisan league SO long as
they conduct their operations in legal
manner. The Sedgwick council was
fearful that organization of the Non
Partisan league would interfere with
war activities in the county and de-
clared that disloyal remarks had been
made by one organizer. The State
Council advised that disloyal remarks
are individual affairs and should be
reported to the United States district
attorney for investigation and prose-
cution.