The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-07
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Mea-ern y. N.nnner I nLon NeAs serNlce.

stIA. ~ sthNfI l'dIh lAli at
SEPT. 23-2s-coIorudo state Fair at
Pueblo.
sept ?6-2S-Linculn County Fair at
Hugo.
oct Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Strasburg held a patriotic demon
stration in preparation for the COM
ing Liberty Loan drive.
The Larimer County Council of De
lense has sent Il warning TO one man
to stay away from the families of soi-
diers at the front,
The 1919 meetings of the Colorado
Grand Lodges of the Knights OF
Pythias and the Pythian Sisters will
be held at Denver.
/ Probably 1000 persons visited the
j. X. Mullen Home for the Destitute
Aged in Denver, and we're present at
it's formal opening.
! All prizes in the agricultural and
| livestock department at the Boulder
3 county fair at Longmont were paid in
thrift and war savings stamps.
I'VE Have the Hun on the Rum"
That sign, carried at the head of
marching labor unit, was the keynote
of Denvers greatest Labor Day
parade.
Helen Grimm, 43 years old, COM
mitted suicide at Edgewater by shoot
ing herself through the head. Des-
pondency over i'll health was given BY
her father and mother as the motive.
Five delegates from Denver are to
attend the International Farm Con
gress in Kansas City Oct. 16 to 26 as
representatives of the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association.
Damages in the sum of $4,000 for
the alienation of her husbands af-
| fections are asked in a district court
suit filed by Mrs. Estella May Rose,
Denver bride of a few months, against
George w. Rose, her husbands
| brother.
| Beginning Monday, Sept. .. wheat
flour purchasers will be obliged to
buy only one pound of substitutes for
| each four pounds of flour. Prices are
unchanged, and in the case of wheat
flour are lower in Colorado than in
any other part of the country.
The first meeting of the American
! Institute of Mining Engineers held in
! Colorado for twenty-five years opened
| its six days session in Denver. The
conference will be devoted to many
war measures with special attention
paid to the employment of soldier
cripples in preference to anyone else.
The colleges of Colorado virtually
will be turned into army camps with
| barracks TO house the soldiers who
will be under regular military disci-
pline and undergo training of an in
tensive military character, according
to an official communication from
Charles A Lory, representing Colo
RADIO at military conference at Pre-
/ sidio, Cal.
The postmasters in the following
cities and towns were reappointed:
/ Cole crado Springs, Fort Collins, Glen
wood Springs, Grand Junction, Lamar
Idaho Springs, Platteville, Seibert,
Pagosa Springs, Goldfield Manitou,
Montrose, Monte Vista, Manzanola,
Edgewater. Easton, Del Norte, Brush
and Arvada.
Lieut.. Henry ]. Shepard has been
detailed by the War Department as
military instructor at the Colorado
State School of Mines. Professor n.
c. Morrisey and four students who
have been attending the officers
training school at Presidio, Cal, will
return to Golden about Sept. 10 TO as
sist Lieutenant Shepard
Ten Colorado men have been given
commissions in the army, according
to announcement made in Wash
ington.
Enos Peter Schell, 65. former
weight clerk In the Denver mint, who
was charged in April, 1917, with the
embezzlement of 5000 of freshly-coined
half dollars, was sentenced to three
years and six months in Jail and fined
$1O0 by Federal Judge Robert e
Lewis Judge Lewis denied Schell
new trial, saying that he was clear.
ly guilty"
/ At the Pueblo meeting, the Colorado
Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Grand chancellor
Omar c. Hickman, Windsor; grand
vice chancellor, w. e. Smith, Brush;
| grand prelate. C. S. Reed. Pueblo;
( grand keeper of record and seals, w
/ S. O'Brien, Denver; grand master oi
| exchequer, G. H. Winchell, La Junta:
! grand master-at-arms, H. C. Morse
Rocky Ford; grand inner guard, FRANK
m Canon Citu. oil
| guard, August Fox, Del Norte; granc
trustee, Frank Parker, Colorado
Springs.