The Ordway new era., 1918-07-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Aug. 22-2&-Colorado State Firemsn'n
Convention at Georgetown
Sept l-Fifty-si annual contsr-
ence of Colorado NJ. Il. Chureh at
Delta
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair Mt Penrose.
sept. 23-2s-Coiorado State Fair Mt
Pueblo.
Sept. 26-2s-Lincoln County Fair ut
Harry b. Pendleton OF Denver was
killed in action In France.
Large number of sheep were sheared
at the Davis ranch near Haswell.
Colorado is asked to furnish $50
trained nurses under the recent call.
Prospecting work is being done on
the Black Raven group OF mines in
the Ward district.
Less than dozen lots that can be
watered are unoccupied by war gar
dens in Canon City.
The American marine casualty list
contained the name of George f. Duclo
The first boy workers camp at Fort
Lupton has been opened with thirty
boys. 1t will be quickly enlarged.
Community councils have been or
ganized In all communities by the
Larimer county Council of Defense.
Ten thousand pounds of meat will
be added to the meat supply by the
sixty.five boys pig clubs of Fremont
county.
Good reports come from the carno-
tite fields In western Colorado. Radi-
um ore being shipped from Naturita
right along.
The fifty-sixth annual session of the
Colorado conference OF the NJ. Z.
church will assemble in Delta the first
week in September.
Wages of 40 cents an hour were de
cided upon as the prevailing price for
workers in the fruit harvest around
Pallsade in the fall.
The old Solomon mine near Creede
viii be reopened. In former years the
mine was one OF the largest producers
in the Creede section.
David Warnock and son of Loveland
shattered all state live stock records
when their stock averaged 1875 a
cad at an auction sale.
While the output of ore from Tellur-
ide district is at the maximum the
shipments on the railroad are being
much reduced by car shortage.
There were 1853 women registered
for war service in Chaffee county and
1871 in Morgan county by the WON.
ems County Councils of Defense.
Five sticks of dynamite were found
under the dwelling of Vincent Belan-
di. miner at Valdez. some miles fro.
Trinidad. A fuse had been lighted but
had gone out.
J. l. McGinn. auditor for the Royal
mine at Aguilar. has volunteered in
the radio service and has been or
dered to the training school at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Lake county has benefited by five
miles OF newly surfaced road through
the activities OF the Derry Ranch Gold
Dredging Company and ranchmen
near its dredge southwest OF Leadville.
The greater demand for local timber
Is given as the cause for an increase
of more than $4,000 in the timber sales
this year of the Denver district of the
forest service over any preceding year.
Young men who have reached 81
years OF age since June of this year.
or who will attain their majority be-
fore June 5. 1919. will not be required
to register under the draft law until
next June, according to the latest re-
ports.
Five camps of convicts from the
state prison are working ON highways,
about $50 men being thus employed.
They are located in Larimer, Weld.
Garfield. Boulder and Pueblo coun-
ties.
AT the Republican state convention
at Colorado Springs Lawrence c.
Phipps received 46I and Charles w.
Waterman 4se votes for United States
senator. and both names will go on the
primary ballots.
Every able bodied man between the
ages OF l6 and 90 is expected to en-
gage in some useful work for six hours
a day on at least five days in the week.
according to a proclamation issued by
Gov. Julius c. Gunter.
Inheritance tax collections during
the first fifteen days OF July to,sled
sl1.seo.ss. according to the semi
monthly report These collections
brought the total for the current hien-
nfsl perio3 nm IN sSsi sol an
Twelve Denver boys day are now
being sent TO work on farms by the
state headquarters OF the L. S. BOYS
workins Reserve for Colorado. One
hundred and ninety Denver boys have
already been placed on farms.
HemorrhaSie septicenis. an old dis
ease among cattle. but which has only