The Ordway new era., 1918-12-27

| COLORADO Eoltoriai Associato" -
Jan zI-zs-wes,ern Stock SHOW at
Denver.
The Federated Woman's clubs OF
Sterling started a movement for
$4,000 hospital.
The Sterling city council named a
committee to get figures on the cost
of a municipal heating and lighting
plant
Gov. j. C.. Gunter Issued an appeal
to the citizens OF Colorado to support
the Red Cross in its Christmas roll
call drive.
Retail merchants in Denver have
been permitted by the State Council
of Defense to return to their old meth
ods OF delivery.
Three Denver nurses who have been
on duty at Camp Beauregard. La. re-
turned home owing to the rapidity
with which the camp is now being
evacuated
The Empson canning plant closed at
Greeley. having made shorter run
than usual, opening as 1t did on June
25, and closing after lI2 days run.
The total output this year was small.
The ''bone-dry" bill, initiated by the
AntiSaloon League of Colorado and
adopted by majority OF nearly 10000
votes on Nov ). was proclaimed law
by the Governor Monday morning,
Dec 1s.
\ The City Council of Greeley agreed
to vaccinate't the public at large against
| - han
were treated at the city's expense. The
--fu" condition seems to be generally
improved.
Three Denver boys, names sup
pressed. were held at Kimball. Neb., on
charges of stealing car in Denver.
stocking II with liquor at Cheyenne,
and attempting a roundabout return
to this state.
B. o. Rittington OF Berthoud is in
the hospital at Fort Collins with
gaping wound through the kidneys.
caused by a shot from % rifle held
by his brother-in-law. Ira Ferguson.
while on hunting trip.
Six members OF the Third regiment,
Colorado National guard. accused of
desertion. drunkenness. stealing an au-
| tomobile and other similar offenses.
were convicted by court-martial sit
ting at the rifle range near Golden
| 1t is estimated that 9.334 ,057 bushels
i of wheat have been threshed up to
Dec l. Reports sent in later bring
the figures up 10 100000 bushels.
The wheat crop had been estimated
at 1895. 900 bushels. Oats threshed
up to Dec. 1 totaled 1,s41.35s bushels.
Thomas b. Hall. former well known
business man of Florence. died at
Fort Omaha. Neb.. from pneumonia
| following an attack of influenza. He
| enlisted in the air service of the
United States Army several months
ago and attained the rank of ser
| geant.
The working forces at the Camp
| Bird, Atlas and Mountain Top mines
have been reduced by the epidemic of
influenza. At the Camp Bird but one
shift is being worked, there being fif
ty-eight men in temporary hospital
near the mill. The two hospitals in
Ouray are. filled with patients.
i, The Jinitown boom" was hit hard
1
of mining experts was adopted at Il
meeting of the Boulder Commercial
Association. placing that body on rec
ord as fully and unqualifiedly discreet
iting the claim that billions" of dol
lars worth of uranium and radium lies
in the thin black streak reported to
have been discovered
George l.. Nye was elected presi-
dent of the Denver Bar Association.
An immediate campaign to insure
the proposed James peak tunnel for
the Moffat road by a $5,000,000 bond
issue 10 be sold in Denver, Salt Lake
City, Ogden and some OF the rich Colo
RADIO territory now reached by this
railroad, was proposed to the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association by
w. B. Dunaway.
Col. ID. c. Dodge. Colorado pioneer
and railroad builder, left an estate of
only few thousand less than a mil
lion dollars. according to the semi
monthly report on collections by the
state Inheritance tax department. His
lance tax. Total collections since Dec
!. We're $33 1852.
Denver's. battle against Spanish in
fluenza as an epidemic is being waged
with success. according to reports re-
ceived at the health office. A marked
decline in the number of new cases
is the most cheerful bit of informa-
tion that has been received at the Of
flee OF DR.. W.. ii. Sharpley. manager
OF health, since influenza first broke
out in Denver. Oct. 6.
Grain totalling 75,0OO,OO0 bushels
was raised during 1918 by the United
States Boys Working reserve for