The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Mestern Newspaper Union News Service.

Mems CHRISTIAN AbbOCidliOu hhcN ASA
their thirtieth convention in Denver.
During the first day of the third
Liberty Loan drive Coloradoans sub
scribed sS90.o0O of the $2O,312'9U
quota.
Sixty members were admitted to the
Denver Council of the Knights OF Co
lumbus when three degrees were ex-
emplified.
The department of the Woman's
State Council of Defense on women
In industry has divided its work into
six divisions.
Grand Junction and Mesa county
sent away twenty-one cases of clothing
for Belgians and French, there being
300 articles.
In the newly organized Industrial
Association Rocky Ford now boasts
one of the livest commercial associa-
tions in the state.
Col. VIM. l.. Guthrie of the 309th
Engineers died at Camp Zachary Tay-
lor, KY, after a brief Illness with pneu-
monia. His home was at Rocky Ford.
Colorado apples are not to be in
cluded in the army ration, Acting Sec
retary of War Benedict Crowel hav-
ing pronounced 1t inadvisable to add
a perishable component.
The Ell Paso County Women's Coun-
| ell of Defense has made a report to
the Woman's State Council of Defense
showing many splendid accomplish
ments in war work.
James R. holland, secretary of state,
has Joined the Colorado speakers bu-
reau of the American Alliance for La
Dor and Democracy, at the request OF
President Samuel Gompers.
Harry Bowes, an alleged ex-convict.
is being held in Dalhart, Tex, where
he was arrested on March 81 on
charge of robbing several postoffice
boxes in Denver and Greeley
Including the paving of Main street
and the finishing of buildings now in
course of erection, it is calculated that
there is 5000, 900 in improvements now
authorized in the city of Montrose.
The entire wheat supply of Colo
RADIO must be turned over to the gov
ernment at the nearest mill or grain
elevator before May 1, according to
an order issued by Herbert Hoover OF
the U. s. Food Administration and ap-
proved by the Southwestern Food
zone of which Colorado is part, at
a meeting held in Kansas City April 4.
Convinced that the interests Of the
country would be better served in war
| Ioh OnUarnmaUt work
could be mobilized through one source,
the Colorado labor advisory commit
tee sent resolutions to this effect to
President Wilson, Secretary of Labor
Wilson and President Samuel Gompers
of the American Federation of Labor.
Proposed increases in rates on cleo
tricity and gas furnished by utilities
companies for power and domestic
uses show gradual growth of produc-
tion costs over year ago, according
to schedules filed with the Colorado
public utilities commission. Advances
in coke, oil, labor, coal and supplies
are given as reason for increased
rates.
Patriotic meetings were held under
defense in almost every county of
state on April 6. In some counties
there were as many as ten meetings
J that observed the first anniversary of
the United States participation in the
war and the opening of the third Ii
erty Loan drive. Several counties are
carrying on speaking campaigns that
will last ten days.
A. ]. Turner of Canon City is the
new chairman of the Fremont county
Council of Defense which now has one
of the best war organizations in the
state and is carrying on campaign of
patriotic education in all school d.
tricts of the county.
With reports pouring in to state
headquarters from all sections of Colo
RADIO showing that many counties fully
met their maximum quota, while
number oversubscribed from 300 to as
high as 600 per cent of their allotted
quota on Saturday, the first day of
the third Liberty loan drive, indica-
tions were that the people of the Cen
tennial state would far oversubscribe
the state quota of S20,312,000.
]. F. McMasters of Denver drew
the seventh best tract of land in the
government drawing at Montrose,
Samuel C. WATSON of Avondale cap
tured the first tract. Joseph Neuman
of Chicago, Edith Hazlett of Delta,
Chester Torrey of Olathe and Frank
Whitemack of Boncasbo were drawn
in the order named. There were 105
units of land offered for settlement
of which thirty were taken. There
were 154 applicants for the thirty
tracts disposed of.