The Dolores star., 1918-10-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Fourth Liberty Loan quota Oci. T..
Roy Manson Chapman OF Grand
Junction is included in the list of Sc.
verely wounded.
Among the survivors of the British
armed mercantile cruiser Otranto is
Lieut.. II. NJ. Conwell of Lamar.
Ranchers of the Spring Creek neigh
borhood near Craig held venison
barbecue and dance al the grange
hall.
Private Roy NJ. White, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Silas Wright of jefferson,
died at Fort Benjamin Harrison o.
pneumonia.
Robert Wharton of .tceker. and Har-
old Shaver of AXial, hoth members of
the S. A. T. c. at Boulder, are dead
from Spanish influenza.
Eleven Colorado men were given
commissions as lieutenants at the fifth
coast artillery officers training camp
at Fortress Monroe, Va
Sergt. Lawrence Ross Peyton was
killed in action in France Sept 5, ac-
cording TO word received by his moth
er. Mrs. Antha Peyton OF Denver.
The sales of the United States post
office in Denver for the month of Sep
tember showed an increase of S22 ,9S5
over the business OF September. 1917.
Capt Willis L. Comfort of Kit Car
son, who was killed in action during
the July offensive of the Germans. has
been awarded the distinguished serv-
ice cross.
Every ablc-bodied man between the
ages of IS and 50 will have to work at
east thirty-siX hours week If he
stays around Sterling or anywhere in
Logan county.
Three men were killed and one M
seriously injured Saturday night when
an automobile in which they were rid
ing plunged off a bridge at Abbey,
near Pueblo.
Denver and Colorado will help sup
ply Uncle Sans army with raincoats
as result of an urgent appeal for
these health protectors from the army
supply depot at Omaha.
h' r an llloulll cemetery ASSOCla-
ton proffered to Mayor w. F. r. Mills
a plot of ground in Fairmount for the
burial of Denver soldiers, and the of
fer was accepted by the mayor.
Mrs. Eva Hill Edwards. wife of Am
brose X. Edwards, rancher residing
three miles southeast of Parker, died
a: the hospital in Littleton of pneu-
monia superinduced by influenza.
The Colorado officials in charge of
the selective service have been highly
comDlimented by Provost Marshal
Crowder for the efficient manner in
which they have conducted their work.
Word has been received at Boulder
of the death at Fort Sill of Paul Lang
ly of Boulder. Lee Tillman of Las Ami
mas. formerly of the training school,
is reported dead from influenza at
Camp Grant.
Union Pacific officials accompany
ing the Liberty Loan special an
nounced Saturday morning, before the
train left for Julesburg, that employees
Of the company in Denver had su.
'N' 'bNt Il 'oAti Vi S-iD,tNN.
Governor J. c. Gunter has issued a
statement and appeal to assist the
Red Cross in the collection of fruit
pits and nut shells, so greatly needed
by the government for the making of
carbon to be used in gas masks.
Baily Shumate of Glenwood Springs
has been named by Senator John W.
Shafroth for an appointment to West
Point. Thomas j. Thorne of Lyons
was made first alternate. and Fred
Mendenhall of Montrose, alternate.
Three more deaths were reported
by the health board at Colorado
Springs, bringing the total fatalities
rom Spanish influenza up to thirteen.
The woman's committee in charge
of Summit countys Liberty Loan com
paign announced through Mrs. Ellen
N. Theobald, chairman, that the town
of breckenridge alone had taken the
entire county over the top without re.
gard to three other districts yet to be
heard from.
All motor truck transportation com.
panies desiring exemption for their
drivers from other war work, must
obtain certificate OF approval from the
Highways Transport Committee of the
Colorado State Council of Defense.
Room 23S Capitol building, Denver
according to new ruling just issued
by that body.
Fastening toward her home with
medicine for her 17-yearold daughter
victim of the Spanish influenza.
Mrs. Margaret Osborne, a widow of
Denver, was run down by an automo.
bile driven by A. w Sanders of Love.
land, and so seriously injured that sh..
died half an hour later at the county
hospital.
Two Denver boys and two from 9th.
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