The Dolores star., 1918-05-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
sstsrn Newspaper Union News Services
COMING EVENTS.

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COMING EVENTS.
June Race meeting at Denver.
July s-l3-Mseting National Associa-
tlon of Colorsd Women In Denver.
,ion % Z, 0ei colorsSo SPRING.. ~
Sept. 5s-2s-colorado state Fair At
Weld county will fr-nish 13S men
ON the draft call for May Is.
Morgan county's quota Of ten sol
diers left for Camp Funston.
Five hundred wAE workers regis
tered at the Stats War Conference in
Denver.
Saturday, June /. in tine date set for
the opening Of the horse racing sea
son In Denver.
Tho Burlington depot at Hillrose,- In
northeastern Morgan county. was de-
stroyed by fire.
A total OF iS7 selective service men
from Colorado counties outside OF
Denver reached Fort Logan Saturday.
Dewitt NJ. Warren. 81. well known
early-day mining man, who came to
Colorado in 1860, died at his home In
Denver.
County records show that already
903 automobile licenses have been is
sued In MNnizose county. This beats
all former records.
A Rcd Cross sale was held at Fort
! Norgsa. One thoroughbred hog sold
Tor $i5 and 1t Is estimated the sale
raised more than $4,000.
The Larimer and Prowers county
councils of defense are carrying on
energetic campaigns for the forma-
tion OF community councils Of defense.
One of Huerfano county's numerous
coal camps sails under the name OF
Ideal, and its people bought Liberty
bonds to the amount Of $4,000.
Morris Emmerson OF Fort Collins
and Roy Ray of Windsor, split fifty
fifty for the 500 Liberty bond Of
fered for the best article ON Liberty
Bonds
City park lake in Denver claimed its
first victim of the summer season
| out of boat after q collision and was
| drowned.
With promise of aid from the fuel
administration in financing the pro-
posed Moffat tunnel under James
peak. much encouragement was felt
among Denver boosters.
The location OF the Red Cross build
camp in Aurora was staksd out prac-
tically In the center Of the sites, The
structure will be 100x125 feet.
The woman's division Of the Colo
rado conference of war workers held
a two-day session in the house Of rep
resentatives of the Capitol, Mrs. w. H.
Kistler, president of the WomaA's
Council of Defense. presiding.
The garden grounds at the State
Soldiers home, Monte Vista, have
been cleaned up. plowed and planted
and water turned into the irrigation
ditch. The new cottages being built
are approaching completion.
A two-foot streak Of $92 ore, which
widens into eight feet of SOL values.
has been disclosed in the seventh
level on the Cresson mine by diamond
drilling, according to the monthly re-
port Of the consulting engineer Of the
company.
Dsnverites who have been objecting
recently over having to carry 10 many
pennies around and tradesmen who
have found their cash registers too
small to hold the days accumulation
Of "coppers" are in for another Jolt.
Beginning June the Denver mint is
going to begin turning out the 1-cent
pieces at the rate Of about SOC, 900 ev-
cry twenty-four hours, working three
shifts of coiners.
| President Wilson sent the following
message to the State War Conference:
May not express to the war work.
ers OF Colorado my profound apprecia-
ton of the public spirit that has led
you to call a war conference at Den.
yer? In our fight for the rights of
free men the world over, your efforte
and the efforts Of your fellow citizens
are vital factor. Your determination
to perform the necessary labor and ac-
cept the necessary sacrifice and the
like spirit which has now become man.
ifest throughout the nation, reassure
q stricken world that our ideals of JUS
tice and humanity and liberty shall in
the end prevail"
Denver chapter contributed 1886, 900
surgical dressings to the mountain
division warehouse during April. The
following other articles were contrib
uted: 1915 hospital garments, 41S
hospital supplies, 6.16O knitted articles
and 3s4 refuge garments. The total
output from the chapters of the noun.
tain division during the month of
Arpil was 3,0s3,532 articles. The num-
Der was divided as follows: Surgical
dressings, 1,093.577; hospital gar
msnts, 49.725; hospital supplies, U.s.
s61; knitted articles, 31,467; refugee
garments, 3,462. -
J. Arthur Montague, curio dealer.
sentenced from Denver in 1916 to a fif