The Arvada enterprise., 1918-07-18
COLORADO news NOTES.

UonVer, resulted In the election OF
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert. Buffalo, N. T..
president; Miss Halle Q. Brown. VIII
berforce. Ohio. vice president at large;
Georgia Nugent, Louisville. KY. chair
man executive committee: Mrs. G. r.
Mcdonald. Kansas City. treasurer:
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown of
North Carolina, corresponding score
tafy: Roberta ]. Dunbar. Providence,
r. L., recording secretary; Mrs. Alice
D. Webb. Denver, second secretary:
Mrs. Dorcas Watson, Pueblo. chaplain.
The threshermsn Of Boulder county
met at the Commercial Association
rooms in Longmont and formed an or.
gsnization to establish standard
price for threshing and fix wage
scale. It 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 ~ the price for all shock
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
t. Fe road. 40 years old, was killed in
. lodging house in the center Of Pueb-
10. Five shots were fired into his
body. Frank Yeager. switchman ON
the Rio Grande. was arrested, charged
with the killing. Yeager's story 10
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
RADIO will be entrained for Camp Free
mont during the fvs-day period begin
ming Aug. s. and 1900 will be sent to
Fort Logan during the same time. &C.
cording to orders received from Wash
ington by Provost Marshal Evans. The
men are to be selected from Class l
Of the June, 1917. resistrants. Those
in the 1918 class may voluntarily en-
list. or may be involuntarily indicted
into service IL the Class Of 1917 10
exhausted.
Owing to lack Of support the Loretto
convent at COnej0s 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 IL
one Of the historical figures OF the
state.
Norman LOckhart. 80, lies at the
point OF death At the County hospital.
after having fallen from = swiftly NOV.
ing automobile near Riverside csms-
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 L0ngmont Commercial
Association to cooperate with The
highways transportation committee Of
the State Council Of Defense In the
matter Of utilizing motor truck trans.
portatt0n on short hauls.
Denver, Colorado Springs. Trinidad,
Pueblo and Grand Junction were
placed on . sugar ration basis Mon.
day and the balance Of the state will
BE- on Aug. /. according to announce.
msnt made by the Federal Fed Ad.
ministration for Colorado.
Tuskeges. Ala. was selected for the
silver jubilee convention Of the Ma.
tioaal Association Of Colored Women,
to be held two years hence. 1920, by
the officers OF the association In *.
ecutive session at Denver.
Aug. I. IL Colorado day" and It will
b celebrated with an elaborate core.
mony TO be participated In by the pso.
pie Of Denver at Washington park In
patriotic manner.
Twenty-Five boys have gone fro0
Colorado Springs TO Fort Collins To re-
csive special farm school training at
the State Agricultural College.
Production made In June by lessees
Of the United Gold Mines Company OF
Cripple Greek totsled seventy broad.
gauge cars. approximating $500 tons.
Estimating tho average gold content
ut one ounce 10 the ton. the bullion
value OF the ore was about $4,000.
Miss Mayfield Perryman OF Denver
Ia the first woman to be appointed 70
\ clerkship In the United States rail.
way mail service In the West.
Five sons In service and . sixth
lust rarin' to 20" n the war record
Of which Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hurley
Of Fort Lupton. are proud.
Work will be- started At once TO re-.
habilitste the Moffat Road from the
money made available by the govern.
msnt's loan OF 1l.3OO.000.
Fifty thousand of the $3.50. 900
pledged by tn. W0mnn's War Savings
Stamp army TO complete Denver's quo.
u has been raised.
First regiment Of mining engineers
with headquarters NJ Golden In
planned by the trustees Of tho Colo.
RADIO School OF Mines.
The high schools Of Denver will b.
equipped by the United States govern.