The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-01-18


Jan. 2224-Annual meeting Colorado
Metal Mining Association at State
Capitol building in Denver.
Pueblo bank deposits show nearly
five million increase during 1917.
The Manzanola High school build
ing was damaged by fire.
Former Governor Ammons suggests
that Coloradoans have a pinto bean
day
Striking Denver elevator pilots
were given a raise from $40 to SIS
per week.
Denver went over the top in its
Red Cross drive-securing over 10000
members
Colorado Springs has passed the
100000 mark in the sales of war saw
ings stamps.
The Denver branch OF the federal
reserve bank of Kansas City has been
formally opened
Denver's new municipal organ. now
being installed in the Auditorium will
be finished Feb. /.
Jan. found the Colorado Springs
banking institutions with total of
sl4,494.14 on deposit
Mrs. Dorothy Webb Leavitt will be
one of the expert horsewomen in the
show at Denver. Jan. 1926.
The oil section of the Colorado
chapter of the American Mining Con
gress met in Denver and organized.
The mineral output of Custer county
for the year past is given at $l69 900
in gold, silver, copper, lead and spell
ter.
The Colorado Stock Growers Asso-
nual meeting Jan 20 and % in Den
yer.
Three hundred and fifty delegates.
representing 1900 grangers OF Colo
rado, opened the forty-fourth annual
convention of the Colorado Grange at
Denver.
On the banqueting table of the I'm
compahgre Cattle and Horse Growers
Association at Montrose were placed
300 pounds of roast turkey, 15d
pounds of beef and IS pounds of hams
Women of Denver are registering
for war service with such determine
tion that the 10000 cards allotted to
the city as the opening drive in the
weeks campaign already have been
exhausted
George Kenneth Thomas. son of
Senator Charles S. Thomas of Denver.
received telegram to start immedi-
ately for Columbus, Ohio. to join the
United States signal corps. in which
he recently enlisted.
The farmers of Crowley county last
season received $4,000 from the
sale of alfalfa hay which was sold to
the alfalfa meal mills at Ordway and
Crowley. This amount is from the
sale Of approximately II 900 tons of
hay.
A telegram was received in Denver
by attaches of the labor commission
ers office containing information of
the death at Bloomington. Ill, of Mrs.
John Morrissey, So years OF age. moth
er of William L. Morrissey, state Ia
Dor commissioner
A telegram was received in Denver
from Congressman f. T Taylor by
Governor Gunter. conveying the infor-
nation that Herbert c. Hoover. ma
tional food administrator. will not be
able to visit Denver during the Ma
tional Western Livestock show.
Denver was one of the twenty-nine
cities in list of 173 of the largest in
the United States to show a gain in
building permits for 1917 over 1916.
There were 1850 permits for build.
ings whose cost totaled s4.292 900, a
gain OF per cent over 1916
Ernest A. Wright, according to
Thera X. Wright of Denver, had at
least forty-one women ION the string"
She named but one-Margaret Mccoy
but volunteered to furnish the court
with the names of others. if necessary.
She was awarded divorce on the
ground of misconduct.
Jack Garrett Scott. % years old, the
youngest deputy United States mar
shall in the Colorado district, rendered
his resignation to United States Mar
shal Samuel J. Burris and left for
naval training station near San Pedro,
Cal, where he has been ordered to re.
port by the navy department
The American farmer has done
more for his share of the war than
has been done by any other class,
President Charles A. Lory of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College told dele,
gates to the ninth annual convention
of the Colorado Farmers. and Farm
Womens Congress at Fort Collins.
During the tourist season, beginning
May and ending Oct. 81, 1917, a total
Of approximately 853.3O7 persons Wis
tied national forests of Colorado, &C
cording to an annual report issued by