The Colorado statesman., 1918-08-24
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS


Barney, commanding officer OF the
local recruiting station. The COM
munication states that men between
the ages OF 4G and 56 may enlist ia
the ordnance corps or quartermasters'
corps, provided they are able-bodied,
of good character, Engl!sh-apeakine
and not allen enemies. Men between
the same ages and governed by the
same restrictions may also enlist i'll
| stated branches OF the signal corps,
IL qualified by occupation, as cooks,
clerks, photographers. chauffeurs and
telephone or telegraph operators. Men
who are skilled in trades are desired.
Names OF candidates for the Repub.
lican and Democratic primaries to be
held Sept 10 were sent to county
clerks by the secretary of states of
flee. The certification in Denver went
to the city elections commission.
There are fifty-one state and county
candidate among the Republicans in
Denver, and forty-one Democrats, ac-
cording to the certlfication sheets.
Thrift Stamps to the total value OF
$1,000 900 have been sold outright in
the state since Jan. / last. or pledged
to prospective purchasers under prom
Use to buy according to statement
at War Savings headquarters The
statement was supplemented with a re-
quest that those who have promised to
buy make good the pledge at the ear.
l!est opportunity.
Mrs. Kate Christie was killed. Mrs
Albert Jones sustained broken arm
and other injuries, and her 3-year-old
son Harold was internally injured
when the automobile driven by Albert
Jones left the road in Cliff Dwellers'
canon, near Manitou, and rolled down
a forty-foot embankmeat. crushing
Mrs. Christie and the Jones boy under
the car.
Sheriff John ]. Marty raided the
town residence of Tony Leverich at
Trinidad, where he reported finding
considerable liquor, and evidence that
led to a further raid. He followed up
the clews given and returned with
1000 pints. found about twelve miles
out, and said to be the property OF
Frank Boccaccio.
The lumber mill and plant at Mon
arch, which has been idle for seven
years, will again be in operation, &C
cording to David Schupbach of Column
bus, Neb, who, with his associates,
has purchased the plant from A. II.
kadelsky of Denver for 100000. The
mill was constructed eight years ago
at cost of more than Sl.O00,000.
ing his funeral and carefully laying
out the clothes he wished to be buried
in, A. C. Lowell, 35 a carpenter, shot
himself thru the head in his room at
1916 Cleveland place, in Denver. He
died at the county hospital twenty
minutes later.
John Lawson, president of the hide
pendent Union of Mine Workers. has
been employed as an associate direc-
tor by the Americanization committee
OF the State Council OF Defense and is
doing Americanization work in the
southern coal fields.
The Denver Tramway Company sub
mitted to Charles A. hammers, City
and County Clerk and Recorder, its
petitions to be sent to the Denver
city council asking for rate Of
cents on the street cars. The peti
tions are alleged to have 1892 names.
j. N. Bundick, chairman of the su-
gar division of the federal food admin
istration for Colorado. announced
there was plenty of sugar for canning
and that twenty-five pounds could be
obtained by any housewife for canning
purposes.
A city-wide search was made by
the police for Arthur Lockwood,
years old, who disappeared while his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lock
wood, of Pueblo. Colo. We're waiting
for a train in the Union Station in
Denver.
Colorado's firefighters met in annual
convention in Georgetown.
The town board of Flagler has is
sued an order that the German Ian
guage shall not be spoken within the
town limits. The order concludes: "If
you can't talk American, make signs"
Homer McCullah, graduate of the
Agricultural College at Fort Collins,
has been promoted to a captaincy in
the army camp to which he is at
tached in California.
Permission from the Federal Oil
Administration, urgently requested by
the city of Denver. has been granted
for the use of $4,000 gallons of oil for
Denver streets.
Her throat cut and her head COW
cred with bruises. woman about %
years old, believed to be Betty Ramey,
was found dead in room of Den
yer hotel
More than 500 babies have been
weighed, measured and tested in the