The Colorado statesman., 1918-08-10
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
No. .ern y. Ksrnper I-nlon NeNs seryIce.

Sept. I-Fifty-sixth annual CONFER
ence OF Colorado NJ. h. Chureh ~
Delta.
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting In Denver.
Sept. l9-Beaver Park fair at Penrose'
sept. 23-2S-Colorado state Fair at
PueblD.
Sept. 26-2s-LIncoin County Fair at
Hugo.
The school boards are being used In
Moutrose county for formation OF COM
munity councils of defense.
Claude A. Jameson of Denver has
been commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the quartermaster's corps.
Community councils of defense have
been organized at Baldwin and
Crested Butte in Gunnison county.
oliver II. Shoup of Colorado Springs
will be a candidate for governor on
the Republican ticket in the primary
election.
Colorado's Four Minute Men spoke
to more than $4,000 people in l3i
towns and cities during the War Saw
ings Stamp campaign.
The Gunnison Normal school is de-
NOllhB lWO Noy ~
work, the boys drilling and the girls
doing Red Cross work.
Lafayette NJ. Hughes, appointed less
than a year ago by Governor Gunter
as a member of the State Highway
Commission, has resigned.
Lightless nights on Mondays and
Tuesdays have been ordered by the
Colorado fuel administration, in COM
pliance with orders from Washington.
The will of Mrs. Sarah E. Keener,
who died in Denver July 5, was ad-
mitted to probate, and leaves an es-
tate valued at $4,000 to her daugh-
ter.
Steps are to be taken by the Coun-
ty Council of Defense to prevent trad
ing of Liberty bonds for merchandise,
a practice which is becoming COM
mon in Denver Of late.
A Supreme Court decision ordering
that the Midland railway be kept in
working condition pending a more de-
tailed hearing on the junking order
stopped the junking work that already
had been begun.
The harvesting of wheat, rye, hay
and other crops is well under way in
| all OF the agricultural communities, &C
cording to reports submitted to the
| Colorado Council OF Defense by coun-
| ty agricultural agents.
More than 200 delegates to the BIZ
ennial convention of the International
Union OF Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers met for the opening session
in Fraternal Union hall in Denver.
There were present representatives
from Alaska, Canada and all parts OF
the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Raymond, pio-
neers of Denver since 1882, celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary by
reunion of their children, grand
children and great-grandchildren at
their old farm house, 3057 West Bos-
ler court, the first dwelling erected in
Denver north of the Platte river.
Mrs. Annie Schmidt, 30 years old,
cook in a boarding house at the Gra-
ham mine, Marshall died five min
utes after she arrived at the county
hospital in Denver from injuries suf-
fered when the motorcycle and side
car in which she was riding with John
Sanhoff, a miner in the same mine.
rolled over at West Thirty-ninth ave-
nue. and Federal boulevard when San
hoff tried 10 avoid striking an auto
which came suddenly across his path.
The mystery of the disappearance
on Dec. last, of Charles Spears, |
citizen of Breckenridge and employe |
of the Wellington mine, was solved by
the accidental finding OF his badly de-
composed body in a thick growth OF
young timber on the hillside near the |
mouth of North Barton gulch, about |
two and a half miles north of Breck-
enridge.
A large public banquet and an ova-
tion at the station by patriotic cIti- |
zens was the send-off given eighteen .
drafted men at Fort Morgan, who left |
for a period of intensive training at
Camp Fremont, Cal This is the first
contingent to leave Fort Morgan in the
draft calls for August Fifty-six men
will be sent to the national army from
Fort Morgan this month.
To increase motor truck freight
service as relief for railroad con-
gestion, the highways transport COM
mittee of the State Council of Defense
has established return loads bureaus
at Lamar, Las Animas, La Junta.
Rocky Ford, Pueblo, Colorado Springs,
Denver, Loveland, Berthoud and Long
mont. Others will soon be established
In eastern counties and on the west
eTn slope.
Taking dare" from six compan-
ions, although he could not swim.
Henry lesser. age 16 leaped from the