The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-30
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

save $17.000,000 out Of their incomes
between June 28 and Dec. 81 a. war
necessity! This 10 the question that
is going to be put to them in the two
hours between and o'clock on the
afternoon of June 28. Those days Will
be known as war savings days and un-
der proclamations by President Wilson
the governor. and the mayors Of all
cities. all patriotic residents will be
called in assemblages in every school,
house in the state and there requested
to sign pledges to save as much as pos
sible between those two dates, with
$17,000,00O as the goal. The states
quota for war savings stamps and GER
tificates is $2O,00O,OO0 To date $3.000,-
900 worth have been sold.
After a big parade through Denver
streets. the Italians held a mass meet
ing in the Auditorium to celebrate the
third anniversary of their native lands
entry into the world war on the gath.
and great enthusiasm was manifested
when Giuseppe Gentle. royal consul
of Italy, read from the platform
news dispatch that Secretary Of War
Baker had announced at a patriotic
| American-Italian meeting in New York
that the American infantry and ma
chine gun and American artillery
units soon would be fighting shoulder
to shoulder with the Italian forces on
the Italian front.
Frank H. Mulligan, former Denver
city detective. and Philip Cohen. for
mer Denver commission merchant.
who have been held in the Adams
county jail in Brighton since their con-
viction two months ago in the District
Court there ON charges of having held
UP and robbed Mrs. Irene Nolan of
thousands of dollars worth of dia-
monds In the Model roadhouse last
January, were released on bonds. The
Supreme CouSt in granting their ap-
plications for supersedeas placed Null
ligan's bond at 5000 and Cohens At
$4,000.
| Mayor w. r. R. Mills received tele-
gram from Madame Ernestins Schu-
mann-Heink announcing that she will
be glad to sing in Denver on her re-
turn from France next fall. Schumann-
Heink u going to France the latter
part of July to sing for the American
soldiers behind the lines. She Is In
San Francisco.
The state of Colorado went lover
the top" in the third Liberty loan By
more than 80 per cent, 1t was learned
when It was announced by Harry l.
Morgan, state secretary, that the state
outside of Denver had subscribed .
total Of 319.817,200. The final figure
reached for the state II approximately
&s1. 100000.
David William Brunton of Denver
has been appointed chairman of the
Federal Committee on War Inventions.
He will be one Of the fifteen men COM
posing the United States War Board.
each member being an expert In some
important line germaine to the war.
Colorado il spending annually more
than Ss.60O.0o for support Of It's pub
lie school systems. or somewhat more
school age in the state. according 20
compilations completed by the State
Board Of immigration.
The action of the Colorado sugar
companies in the matter of the price
to be paid for this years beet crop Is
already producing favorable results.
and the outlook for larger acreage
than last year can be pronounced
much more encouraging.
The price of ice will not be raised
this year. A price Of so cents q hun.
dred pounds to the housewife and 9th.
er users of small quantities has been
fixed by George Fry. chairman of the
ice division Of the Colorado Federal
Food Administration.
Evan Williams. the Welsh tenor
who sang in Denver at the dedication
of the Denver municipal organ at the
Auditorium ON March 81. died at his
home in Akron. Ohio. after an illness
Of only one week. Mr.. Williams was
30 years old.
Pneumonia ended the life Of William
| 8. Adams, IS, q resident Of Colorado
since 1850. at his home near Denver.
| Mr.. Adams was one of the pioneers
who braved the desert in an ox-cart
when he made the journey from the
Middle West.
Organised labor of Denver. as rep-
resented by the Trades and Labor As
sembly. applauded the record Of tho
late Mayor Robert w. Speer as a con-
sistent friend of the toilers through
thirty-two years of official life.
Colorado has contributed to the mill.
tary service 10000 men of whom H.
500 came under the operation Of the
draft, according to q report submitted
to the Colorado Council OF Defense by
Provost Marshal John Evans
w. ]. Bona and H. A. Stern, Denver
brokers, were the first to be prosecut-
ed for selling oil ntock without IL
cense, in violation of the provisions OF
fhn rocopf ordfnonco Oovoputuu IA