The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-09-06

COMING EVENTS.
Sept. lS-Bsaver Park fair At Psnroos
sept. 2s-ss-coiorado state Fair es
SEP. RRuxo, ss-@'-Li'e0'" County r''' A.
Oct Fourth Red Cross homo ssrviss
institute at Denver.
Operations have commenced on the
Tlagler group 1t Georgetown under
the direction Of the Star Tunnel and
Mining Company.
The 1919 meetings Of the Colorado
Grand Lodges of the Knights of
Pythias and the Pythisn Sisters will
be held at Denver.
Probably 1000 persons visited the
Aged in Denver. and were present at
its formal opening.
The Anvil Leasing Company at Sill
verton that has been leasing the Com
ing Wonder mine on Anvil mountain
has seen fit to put on a night shift.
All prizes in the agricultural and
livestock department at the Boulder
county fair at Longmont were paid In
thrift and war savings stamps.
During the last fifteen days in Aug
ust inheritance tax ol e ct
amounted to S4.4Go.01. The current
biennial period brought = total Of
$57317371.
John Melardyich. Austrian, 80 years
old, miner at the Big Four near Wal
senburg, was arrested on the charge
of advising men not to Join the United
States army.
We Have the Hun on the Rum"
That sign. carried at the head OF =
marching labor unit. was the keynote
OF Denver's greatest Labor Day
parade.
William r. Holden. Creston. and
Ray Steen. Richards. are listed as
wounded severely in action In the cas-
ualties made public Sept l BY the
War Department.
Mrs. Blanche Warren Ksllsher. wife
OF Sergent J. p. Kelleher. former Dem
yer baseball star and now in France.
died of tuberculosis at the home Of
her father in Denver.
Advices to Mrs. Mary c. johnson.
Of Denver. from the War Department
announce the wounding OF her son.
Howard l.. johnson. He 10 II years
old and was wounded Aug. 8.
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. Is to 26 a.
representatives OF the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association.
From $4,000 to $4,000 Denver men.
IS to 46 years Of age. will register
Sept. IL, in compliance with the new
draft law. according to Henry B. Tel
Ter. chief registration officer OF
Denver
The first hospital corps of twenty
four men to be placed in charge OF
the Denver general hospital No. Il, At
Aurora, arrived in Denver from Fort
Riley, Kan. Within the next few days
$50 more men are expected.
In the Sept casualty list the fol
lowing are reported missing in action:
Alexander c. Kemp OF Keota, Hugh
Frew of Gunnison. Clarence o. Wright
of Montrose, Dean A. Afensen OF Pal
isade and Homer A. Smith Of Arvada.
cities and towns were rsappointed by
President Wilson. Only In two towns
new postmasters were appointed. At
Wellington. Adam Baxter is the new
postmaster. and at Virgins. Merrill
d. Harshman was given the job.
Walter H. Newton. Of Arvada, won
sergeant's commission at Camp
Lee, Va.
The postmasters in the following
I cities and towns were reappointed:
Colorado 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 J. Shepard has been
detailed by tho 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 Preside. Cal. will
return to Golden about Sept. Is to a.
| sist Lieutenant Shepard.
! Enos Peter Schell. IS. 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
800 by Federal Judge Robert e.
Lewis Judge Lewis denied Schell
new trial. saying that he was Clear
ly guilty