Gilpin observer., 1918-08-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 22-24--Colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. 1--Fifty-sixth annual confer.
ence Of Colorado M. Il. Church at
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
sept. 2a-2s-Colorado state Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept. 2e-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
A home for working girls il being
erected in Denver.
Many new storage pits have been
built this year by the farmers Of Ala
mosa county for storage Of their po-
tatoes.
Hotels, clubs and restaurants in
Colorado have been released from
their pledge not to use any wheat I'M
til the 1918 harvest.
The Federal Trade Commission will
meet in Denver for several weeks be-
ginning Sept. s. according to word re-
ceived from Washington.
More than twenty relatives and .
few friends are named as heirs to the
$4,000 estate left by Ella B. Jerome.
who died July 10 in Denver.
But for the daring rescue Of an EN-.
ploye. Jack Milton, Morgan county
rancher, would have been killed at his
home when attacked by q vicious stall
lion.
The organization in Colorado of the
governments new plan to take con.
troll of all unskilled labor August is
now being worked out. 1t will not af-
feet farm labor.
Frederick ]. Chamberlin. prominent
In charitable and war work, has been
elected chairman Of the Denver Red
Cross, to succeed Lawrence G. Phipps,
who resigned.
The Pueblo County Women's Coun-
Gil of Defense has received high
praise for the progressive and thoro
child welfare work being done both
in the city and county.
1t is said that heavy whitish sand
found in cleaning up the rifles of the
sluices of the Banner placer, near
Breckenridge, when assayed, showed
q considerable platinum content.
Several hundred delegates from five
Rocky Mountain states will be in Den
yer Sept. 4 and for the first conven-
ton Of the recently organized Noun
tain States Shoe Retailers Associa-
ton.
The Molly B.. situated on Yuba Dam
Oats, about mile and a half north
Of Breckenridge. has opened blanket
vein of copper-silver- bismUth ore with
two tunnels which are about 125 feet
apart.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Gideons, the Christian CONNER
DIAL Travellers Association Of America,
opened at the Central Christian church
in Denver with reception. religious
and memorial services and luncheon.
Guy, U. Hardy of Canon City was
named in the Republican assembly az
candidate for the congressional NOM
nation in the Third district. This
district comprises twenty-three coun-
ties, and the present representative is
Edward Heating, Democrat
More than $50 from all over Sa-
guache county attended the first an
nual farm bureau picnic held at Cres-
tone. The residents of Crestone,
thru the local farm bureau organiza-
ton, furnished an excellent picnic
ground and amusementa
The rainbelt district around Ebert
has its usual big crop of everything.
with larger acreage Of all crops than
ever before The winter wheat is be-
ing harvested, and 1t is estimated that
the yield will run about twenty-five
bushels to the acre
The State Board Of immigration, in
connection with its work to aid men
called into military service to close
up their affairs before entering train.
ing camps, is looking for purchasers
for a number of good business proper
ties in various parts of the state.
Special boards to instruct all Class
men In the state upon subjects with
which they should be familiar before
entrance into military service, will be
formed soon by the local draft boards,
which will be aided by the county
councils Of defense in the work.
An increase of 500 applications for
free wood for ranch improvements and
cording from the national forests of
Colorado has been made this year but
the applicatiOna called for SO0 nm foot
OF wood less than last year, reports
now being gathered from this forest
service district show.
Red Mountain district continues to
send down an occasional IS. o. s."
call for miners and tho the magnet.
like wage Of five bucks day" is of.
fered there is seldom response and
as a consequence there are only two
mon working at present in the raise"