The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-09-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


brought to a close with the election OF
the officers OF the grand commandery'
Knights Templar OF Ancient Free ana
Accepted Masons. The officers OF the
commandery for the year 191S-l9l9 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 H. 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
Five Colorado boys missing and two
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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. Wasen-
burg.
approximately fifteen men out of
the Montana draft contingent, which
arrived at Boulder, are confined in the
Sigma Chi fraternity house under quar-
antine until diagnosis of the malady
rom which they are suffering can be
made. 1t is reported that the men are
suffering from Spanish influenza.
which made its appearance at several
army camps throughout the country.
OF two Colorado men reported miss
ing in action one has returned 10 duty
and the other is in the hospital. Claude
l.. Mccoy of Olney Springs, missing
for several days, returned TO his com
pany and is on the fighting line Rich
ard n. Nickerson of Grand Junction
was gassed slightly. He is doing fine
be with his regiment.
Two Colorado boys are reported
missing in action in the casualty lists
made public Sept. 10. They are: Al
hort Toll nd ri i,,
Krasevich, Pueblo Anthony Prill
Simla, is reported wounded severely.
The United States Railroad Admin
istration consolidated ticket offices
opened in Denver at Seventeenth and
Welton streets. in quarters said to be
among the finest occupied by railroad
ticket offices anywhere in America
Forty-five candidates who made the
race for state and national offices in
the recent primary election spent Il to
tai of $S.S26. according to their ex-
pense accounts filed with James r. No
land, secretary of state.
Republican county committeeman
and committeewomen, in state confer
cnce in Denver, selected Rush l.. Hol-
land of Colorado Springs chairman OF
the Colorado central committee for the
ensuing two years.
The city and county of Denver
ended the first six months of the year
$31S,1I4.44 to the good That sum is
the surplus of the revenue over the
expenses for the first half of 1918.
drum corps of Colorado veter-
ans of the Civil war was organized at
meeting of veteran musicians at
Denver 1t will be known as the Colo
RADIO Veterans Guard drum corps.
Lieut.. Will Shafroth has been pro-
NOTED to captaincy on the fighting
front in France, according to Il cable
gram received in Washington by his
father, Senator John F. Shafroth.
The keoughan-Hurst Drilling Com
pany, which holds leases upon $500
acres near Boulder, has an oil we'll
down 1,6O0 feet and expects to com
plete it at about 1900 feet.
Curtis II. Betty of Timpas is re-
ported III German prison camp He
is % years old. the son of Thomas
Betty, entered the service in April
last and arrived in France last June.
Peter Courtney of Leadville. re-
ported wounded, enlisted at Bingham
City, Utah. where he had been en-
ployed by the Bingham Copper Com
pany. He was born in Leadville.
The appointment of Edward P. Cos
tigan of Denver on the United States
tariff commission. made by the Presi-
dent several months ago, was con.
firmed by the Senate.
The first real war baby" in Denver
has made his appearance. He is the
son of David A. Livingston, born Sent
IL, and he bears the name Jack Perish.
ing Livingston.
Joe Prince, an alleged "moonshiner"
with headquarters at Workman in Lake
county. was arrested at that place by
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