The Dolores star., 1918-04-26
OoLoRADo NEWS NOTES.

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A concrete bridge will be built
across Big Greek near Collbran.
Efforts are being made at Greeley
to reorganixe o home guard company.
C. A. Gore has shipped 100000
pounds Of beans from Fountain to
Boston.
A bite Of q stray cat caused the
at st. Euke's hospital in Denver.
With the returns only half in the
auction held at Fort Collins for the
Red Cross fund has raised $1,000.
Forty thousand young men Of spirit.
health and stamina are urgently re-
quired for enlistment In the marine
corps.
A drive against German propaganda
Ii being made by the Colorado Council
Of Defense through the insurance men
Of the state.
Drive to raise $1,000 for war fund
Of Knights of Columbus at Walsen-
burg went far beyond the objective"
and reached the $4,000 trench.
Steps to insure a continuance of the
practice Of granting furioughs to Colo
RADIO men in training camps were
taken by the State Health Board.
Fire destroyed a large building for
merly the town hall at Ortiz. Conejos
county. occupied by Sefriano Ortiz.
and a boy of 4 years was burned to
death.
On the goth Colorado, outside OF
Denver, had subscribed for $500, 700
worth of Third Liberty Loan bonds
twenty-nine counties having exceeded
their quotas.
The d. L. G. w. Mining & Reduction
Company on Kendall mountain, near
Silverton, is renewing its 3,O00-foot
trsmway, which has not been used for
several years.
This is Potato week in Colorado.
and all week efforts will be made by
the State Food Administration to re-
duce the 100000 pounds OF surplus
spuds in the state.
Pueblo has earned the right to fly
the honor flag. for she reached and
passed the goal in the purchase OF
thiis Liberty Loan Bonds by sub
scribing S1,350.O00.
B. Cowtain, 50 years old, for twen-
ty years a resident Of Boulder county
and a recluse, was found dead in a
tunnel which he was excavating on
his mining claim six miles southeast
Of Nederland.
William E. Van Ettan of Boulder.
who came to Colorado in his fifty
third year for his health. has cele-
brated his 101st birthday and remarks
that the climate Of the state has GER
tainly done wonders for him.
A poultry calendar to help persons
who are raising chickens this year in
response to the governments appeal
will soon be distributed to those who
are actually raising poultry by tho
food production committee Of the
State Council Of Defense and H. w.
Sandborn, federal expert.
Construction Of the United States
recuperation camp in Denver will be-
gin this week and before two weeks
have passed an open call will be is
sued for between 1000 and 5000 Den
yer workmen to come with their
equipment ready for a six months
Job for Uncle Sam.
Two Colorado boys, one Of Denver,
the other OF Meeker, were among for
ty-two Americans cited recently by
French army commanders for bravery.
The list was given out at Washington.
Robert E. Graf. son Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Graf. is the Denver boy. and Albert L.
Strehlke the one from Meeker.
The Colorado Council of Defense
has made a monthly appropriation to
aid its committee on Americanization
Of aliens. On behalf of the committee
Governor Gunter has invited Secre-
tary of the Interior Lane to make two
addresses in Colorado. and the secre-
tary will visit the state, if he possibly
| can.
Demands of Colorado railroads for
| increased freight rates on coal on in
trastate shipments were denied by the
State Public Utilities Commission.
Land cultivated in Colorado during
1917, exclusive of that devoted to or
chards and small fruits, was 4,122,SOO
acres. according to statistics compiled
by the Colorado Board of Irrigation.
This is the frat time that such a COM
pilation has been made, since 1909,
when the acreage cultivated was
z,614,312. ~ .s
The markets committee of the Colo
| RADIO Council of Defense has been in.
structed by the council to help the
broom-corn farmers of southeastern
counties to form cooperative associa-
tions in connection with the Tri-State
Broom Corn Growers Association that
will be an aid to them in getting good
prices for their crops.
Twenty thousand dollars was the
price set upon the affections of Mrs.
JacQuemena Russum by the District