Gilpin observer., 1918-12-19

COMING EVENTS.
Dec. 2o-21-Mid- winter meeting o
Colorado Editorial Association a
Jan. 21-2s-western Stock Show =
| .Denver
Much encouragement is found b,
health officials in the small number
of new cases of influenza.
William Hubbard, "a, of Denver
had his right arm cut off above the
wrist while oiling a cracker machine
The first half dozen of Colorado sol
diers to return from the fighting front
are at Fort Logan, awaiting their dis
charge.
Thirty wounded American soldiers
veterans from the battlefields of Eu-
rope, arrived at the recuperation camp
near Aurora
An estate appraised at about $4,000
was left by Mrs Florence Loughridge
French, prominent in Denver society,
whose death occurred Oct. 80
Judge Robert G. Strong of the Dis
trict Court at Boulder recently de-
teated for reelection, will resign his
office on Jan. 1, he announced.
| Christmas boxes may be shipped to
civilians in France. England, Italy and
Belgium, according TO government
order issued under date of Nov %.
Fire, believed of incendiary origin,
was discovered in the old Laramie de-
pot at Greeley. and extinguished be-
fore it did great deal of damage.
Wives and mothers of members of
:he Navy and Marine Corps met in
Denver and effected permanent or
sanization of the Bob Evans Navy and
Marine Club
Over 100000 persons visited Rocky
Mountain National Park in the year
ending June 80, 1918, according to
Stephen T. Mather, director Of the ma
tional park service.
Miss Ida Margaret Best, daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs J. E. Best of Palisade,
lied at ST. Joseph's hospital in Dem
yer following a weeks illness with in
luenza and pneumonia.
Ex-Gov. James Bradley Orman. ~
ceiver of the United States Land Of
flee at Pueblo, suffered a stroke of
paralysis at his home in that city and
his condition is critical
The death of the first Denver avia-
ton office who started home from Eu-
rope after the armistice was declared
was that of Lieut.. Charles B. Murray
which occurred in Chicago.
Uncle Sam has bought almost one
half Of the pinto bean crop Of Colo
rado. paying into the hands of the
pinto bean industry Of the state 81
63S,5SO for pinto beans for export.
The closing ban which has been in
effect IN Longmont for nine weeks and
three days, as part OF the fight the
city has been waging against the in
fluenza epidemic, was lifted Saturday.
Girl members of the junior and
senior classes at the University OF
Colorado have enlisted as four-minute
speakers and have begun a series of
short addresses at the Boulder thea
ter.
The board of directors of the Am
Bulkeley Wells. president of the Or
ganization, according to word from
Washington, where the session was
held.
An official appeal to make Colo
radios war work record 100 per cent
by investing in war savings stamps
the remaining $7.000,O00 required TO
complete the states quota of s20,2S3,-
$50, was issued bp Gov. julius C. Gun
ter. Returns thus far received by the
Colorado war savings committee show
total stamp sales of $13,34G,S6S.
Isaac Howell Hildreth. pioneer of
1859. and one of the best known men
in the Longmont section, died at the
age of 70 years, death resulting from
an attack of acute Brights disease fol-
lowed by pneumonia.
The State Land Board granted the
Great Northern Irrigation and Power
Company an extension of two years un.
der their contract to complete certain
irrigation projects in Moffat county
under the provisions OF the Carey act.
Union with Great Britain! Union
in spirit If not organic union, is ac-
claimed in Colorado's greeting to the
mother country in honor of Britain
Day." which could not be formally eel
ebrated in Denver because Of the in
fluenza epidemic.
w. Pyke johnson, editor of the Colo
RADIO Highways Bulletin, was called to
Washington to attend conference OF
officials of the national highways
transport committee and state public.
ity representatives.
william Fox. 4S, engineer at tho
state hospital at Pueblo, took carbolic
acid in the presence of his wife, He
died Immediately. He had been suf.
ferer from cancer for more than a