The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-28
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

the officers OF the grand commandery'
Knights Templar of Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons. The officers OF the
commandery for the year 191S1919 are
as follows: Clarence NJ. Kellogg OF
Denver, grand commander; George A
Reese, Trinidad, deputy grand COM
mander Stanley C. Warner. Denver,
grand generalissimo; James p. Barnes,
| Colorado Springs, grand commander
general: H. w. Woodward Fort Nor
gan, grand senior warden; Charles h.
Keepers, Denver, grand junior warden;
Frank l.. Bishop, Denver grand treas
urer; Charles II. Jacobson. Denver,
grand recorder; Jim. Goodheart. Den
yer. grand prelate; Marshall H. Van
Fleet, Alamosa, grand standard bear
er; Sheridan S. Kendall, Denver grand
! standard bearer; William A. Balcom,
Pueblo, grand warder, and Henry w.
Hannum, Denver. grand commander of
the guard.
When the sos Colorado registrants
are called into the service Oct. for
! army duty five counties will be un-
able 10 send any men and nine others
VIII Stllu Ouly OHt lldu tdNH lilS 10
explained by the fact that reflections
in forrser calls and other deficiencies
have cut down the registrants of the
| Aug. "a enrolment. Denver will fur
nish 149 men. The men will go to
Camp Kearny for general service.
Cheyenne, Dolores. Gilpin. Moffatt and
Park counties will furnish no men,
and Archuleta, Custer, Hinsdale, Jack
son. Mineral, Ouray, Pitkin. San Juan
and Summit counties will furnish one
man each.
Five Colorado boys missing and two
killed in action are on the roll of the
casualty lists made public by the war
and marine departments, Sept. 20. The
missing are Alva d. Evans, Colorado
Springs; George B. Lance, Thatcher;
Claude L. Mccoy, Olney Springs
Richard n. Nickerson, Grand Junction
and George E. Taber, Manitou The
killed are Alex P. Christofferson, Pin
neo, and Anastacio Tragillo, Walsen-
burg
Beat back the Hun with Liberty
bonds" is the message carried into
Colorado and New Mexico by three
veterans who carry the mark of the
Hun upon their flesh The young men
who came from the battlefield to
preach service and self-sacrifice are
Eugene Deutsche, William Maxwell
and Serafino Gomez-men who have
given an arm each and long hours OF
dreadful agony to the cause for which
they now serve as speakers.
Major w. p Harlow, in command
of the United States Hospital No 81,
the recuperation camp at Aurora, has
appointed a welfare committee to
take charge of the relief and other
activities which will arise on the open
ing of the hospital This committee
will cooperate with the Red Cross, the
Young Mems Christian Association
and other organizations. All relief
work must be done thru this commit
tee.
Industrial enrolment in Colorado
for war production outside the state
is running about even in numbers with
the army drafts. About 5000 Zen
left for training camps during August,
and an army of similar size was re-
cruited among laborers and scattered
among the industries of Pacific and
Eastern states.
Thirteen medical corps men arrived
in Denver from Fort Riley, Kan. They
are the second contingent for the re-
cuperation hospital at Aurora, which
now has staff of sixty-eight men.
Automobiles from the National League
for Women's Service met the men at
the station and took them to Aurora.
Formal resistance to the increased
telephone rates granted recently by
the Colorado Public Utilities Commits
sion was made by the city of Denver
on behalf of patrons of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany when the city attorneys office
filed brief in the Supreme Court.
Sarah A. Champion, wife of Judge
Lee Champion, died at her home, 1896
Josephine street, Denver. Her death
was the result o; a prolonged illness,
which began with overwork and ner-
vous strain resulting from her labor
in the coal fields during the miners
strike in 1915.
Rewards totaling $4,000 for the AZ
rest of the bandits who killed Chief |
of Detectives John W. Rowan at Colo
RADIO Springs on Sept. 13, have been Of !
fered by the city, the county and /.
through popular subscription fund.
A drum corps of Colorado veter-
ans of the Civil war was organized at
a meeting of veteran musicians at
Denver. 1t will be known as the Colo
RADIO Veterans Guard drum corps.
Lieut.. VIII Shafroth has been pro-
NOTED to a captaincy on the fighting
front in France, according to a cable
In, ~. IL.