The Keota news., 1918-07-19
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

Uenver. resulted In the election OF
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert. Buffalo, N. Y.
president: Miss Halle Q. Brown. vii.
berforce. Ohio. vice president at large:
Georgia Nusent. Louisville. KY. chair
man executive committee: Mrs. c. r.
Mcdonald. Kansas City. treasurer:
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown Of
North Carolina. corresponding secre-
tary: Roberta J. Dunbar. Providence.
r. l.. recording secretary: Mrs. Alice
d. Webb. Denver. second secretary:
Mrs. Dorcas Watson, Pueblo. chaplain.
The threshermen Of Boulder county
met at the Commercial Association
rooms in Longmont and formed an or
ganization to establish a standard
price for threshing and fix q 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, the question Of stack
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.
ta Fe road. 40 years old. was killed in
. lodging house In the center Of Pueb-
10. Five shots were fired into bis
body. Frank Yeager. switchman ON
the Rio Grande. was arrested. charged
with the killing. Yeager's story II
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 Fre-
mont during the five-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 1
Of the June, 1917. registrants. Those
in the 1918 class may voluntarily en-
list. or may be involuntarily inducted
into service II the Class I Of 1917 10
exhausted.
Owing to lack Of support the Loretto
convent At Conejos 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" 1850. and was, NO doubt.
the first convent built In the state OF
Colorado. five years after the construc-
tion Of the Conejos church which II
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 ceme-
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 Longmont Commercial
Association to cooperate with the
highways transportation committee Of
the State Council Of Defense in the
matter Of utilizing motor truck trans
| portation on short hauls.
Denver. Colorado Springs. Trinidad,
Pueblo and Grand Junction were
placed on q sugar ration basis Mon.
day and the balance of the state will
be on Aug. 1, according to announce
| ment made by the Federal Feed Ad-
ministration for Colorado.
Tuskegee. Ala, was selected for the
silver jubilee convention Of the Ma