The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-13
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Me..ern n. N.nnner LnLon NeNs servlee.

July 22-Democratlc state Assembly ."
Denver.
Aug. 22-24-Colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. 23-2s-Colorado state Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept. 26-2s-LIncoln County Fair at
Hugo.
Ed Heitt. 23, cripple, was arrested
| in Denver charged with grand larceny
and passing fraudulent checks.
First and only concrete bridge IN
! San Miguel county has been complet-
ed at Placerville and is fine one.
Eighteen persons were taken INTO
custody by the state constabulary IN
the wake of the July A celebrations
The s3.5OO,OOO coke plant at Pueblo
burned its first grist of coke after
two years in the process of construc-
ton.
The convention of the National Fed
Grafton of Colored Women began in
Denver Monday and will last through
July 10.
Conferences on the farm wage prop
lem were held at Greeley and Grand
Junction by Secretary Thomas OF the
State Council OF Defense.
In the city of Las Animas girls
club has taken charge of the work OF
weighing and measuring babies in the
child welfare work.
The State Council of Defense has
suggested that boys can be used as
sheep herders to meet a shortage now
developing among herders.
Hannah w. Martin, formerly Of
Denver, is reported in the casualty list
as severely wounded in action. He
was with the 1G4th infantry.
+ Mrs. Edna o. Blades of Hugo has
been selected chairman of the Lincoln
county Women's Council of Defense
which has just been organized.
Three initiated measures and two
legislative measures for ratification.
will be presented to the voters for
their consideration in the November
election.
The county threshermen's commit
tees are now busy throughout the
state licensing threshermen in ac-
cordance with Governor Gunter's pro-
clamation.
The dirt road over Monarch pass.
last of the timberline trails to open,
will soon be passable, the deep snow
having sunk down rapidly in the past
three weeks
A $4,000 Red Cross building for
Fort Logan has been authorized by
the National Red Cross Society and
the erection of the building is to be-
gin at once.
Portland Gold Mining Company of
Cripple Creek has declared its regu-
lar quarterly dividend of per cent,
amounting to $4,000, payable July 20
to stock of record July 10.
Earl w. Davis, reported injured in
France, was shot through the leg
about a month ago. A letter to his
parents in Pueblo stated that the
wound was not serious, as no bone
was struck.
Approximately s9,000,00O in income
and excess profits taxes was collected
in the last few hours before the ex-
piration of the ten days grace, accord
ing to Mark A. Skinner collector.
Denver has been selected as one of
the cities of the country to cooperate
with the Military Training Camps AS
sociation of the United States in Sc
curing men for specialized service.
Word that the five large express
companies, which have been merged
into one concern under federal juris-
diction, will be granted a 10 per cent |
increase in rates Immediately was re-
ceived by the Colorado Public Utilities
Commission.
More nurses are needed and Colo |
RADIO has been asked by national au-
thorities to enlist 450 women who will
enter hospitals for training as nurses.
The Woman's State Council of De-
fense will assign a quota for each |
county to enlist. A nurses recruiting |
station will be held in Denver from
July 29 to August IL.
Early applications for entrance to |
the boys free training school in farm
work at the State Agricultural college |
showed that many parts of the state |
would be represented as Governor
Gunter desired. The school was
opened with forty boys and sixty |
more will enter the school this week. |
There will he vegetables on our ta-
bles next winter-not hothouse lux
uries, nor even the costly food that
canned goods must be in wartime, but
peas and beans and many other |
things bought at their summer prices,
and with color, flavor and nourish-
sent unchanged. This is made possi-
BILE by the community drier, the tech
nical name of which is dehydration
plant, just installed at Denver Thrift
House by the Womens League. for
National Service.
On the anniversary of his arrival in
France Michael Lynch, age "a, of Den