Cheyenne record., 1918-08-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EvFNrS.
Sept. 4-S-shos Dsalsrs Association
meeting In Denver.
SEPT; gs.l s-s@ "a Ark.n.as Valley Fair At
Sept. s-s-Frontisr Days show At Fort
Sept. 1s-Bsavsr Park fair At Psnross.
sept. .s-.s-colorado state Fair At
sept. .s-2s-Linooln County Fair At
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute At Denver.
A hospital u to be established at
Nucla.
A new coal mine has been opened
up in Mesa county.
The dehydration plant at Fort Col
Inns has been completed.
A local telephone company ut Eads
has applied for a franchise.
New floors have been put in the
grade school building ut Rifle.
A bean elevator and sacking plant
are under construction at Rocky
Ford.
j. ]. Missemsr has been reappointed
receiver and John r. Beavers register
of the land office at Hugo.
John b. McGauran of Denver has
been reappointed surveyor general Of
Colorado by President Wilson.
Members of the American Institute
Of Mining Engineers will meet in Colo
RADIO the week commencing Sept. :.
John Adair of Hayden has pur-
chased two ranches Of the late J. v.
Soldant estate, the price paid being
10000.
Eleven people were injured. some of
them seriously. as the result OF two
automobile accidents at Colorado
Springs.
Included in the casualty list 10 the
name of Private Harion A. Vescovi,
Denver boy reported to be wounded
severely.
Sinking and development work u
under way at the Rooney coal mine
near Morrison and . large output ID
expected.
Word was received at Boulder that
Ralph Kennicott of q company. 18th
infantry, now in France. was missing
In action.
the list of casualties of Americans in
the Canadian forces. He was wounded
In action.
Through the efforts of the Ladies'
Club of Ward, q fish pond II under
construction on the triangle above the
postoffice.
Psrly Briddle. youth Of 10, was ar
rested in Denver, and the police be-
lieve that he has committed twenty
burglaries.
Plans for an allied war exposition in
Denver from Nov. a to Dec. /, are
now being considered by the Denver
Civic Association.
Senator Shafroth took steps to OBJ
tain for Colorado one of the several
nitrate plants which the government
is preparing to build in the West.
Carl Koebel, farmer of southern
Morgan county. was seriously injured
when in helping to fill silo he fell
into 1t, suffering fractured hip.
Mrs. W. J.. Smith has been appoint
cd carrier on a rural mail route in
Salida formerly handled by Mr.. Smith,
who is training for military service.
A butterfly collection valued at $780,
900 has been presented to the city OF
Denver. The collection will be in
stalled in the museum at City Park.
Denver will contribute 101 men to
the draft calls of Sept. 8. one Of which
IL for limited service at Fort Riley,
Kan, the other for general military
service at Camp Funston.
Holders of tax titles will come into
possession of some $4,000 acres of Or
chard Mesa land this fall. which will
result in the immediate cultivation of
the land, some Of which has already
been put into crops.
The Last Dollar and the Aodoo
mining properties in the Cripple
Greek district have been consolidated.
A new two-compartment shaft is be-
ing constructed on the Modoc prop
erty, which will be sunk to the 1000
foot level.
q. C. Chamberlain, the young Amer
loan aviator mentioned a. having won
honors and promotion ~ result OF
having brought down five enemy
planes while making one flight IN
France, IL = Boulder product, and his
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
win @. Chamberlain, are living there.
The strike Of Denver Gas Company
smployts was satisfactorily settled
largely through the efforts Of Thomas
o. Spacsy, special mediator appointed
BY the Denver Trades and Labor As
sembly, who induced the men to waive
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