The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-08-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.


Sept mining Engineers meeting IN
enee OF Colorado NJ. e. Church at
Sept t-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting ia Denver.
sept as ArkanHas Valley Fair at
sept S-sEFrontisr Days show at Fort
Sept. ls-Beavcr Park fair at Penrose.
sept. :s-2s-coiorale state Fair at
Sept. ,s-ss--Liacoln County Fair at
Fire destroyed the Gill garage at
Gill.
A recruiting office for student
nurses has been opened In Fort Col
Inns.
irwin L. Sears, a former Kersey
boy. is named In the casualty list from
the French front
Marion Seick OF Craig shot himself
In the hand with a .22-caliber rifle
while hunting rabbits.
DR.. f. II. Harrison of Grand county
has been commissioned captain and
left for Fort Riley, Kan.
A Red Cross sale on Aug. 80 is to be
one of the big features of the Larimer
county fair at Loveland.
The road from Craig to Blue noun
tain is open for travel and is said to
be in the best of condition.
fire destroyed the Denver & Salt
Lake depot at Fraser, formerly the
Colorado terminal of the road.
Another rich strike of silver ore is
reported to have been made in the
Ward district. In Boulder county.
Six months in jail was the sentence
pronounced upon Frank Mondragon at
Fort Collins. convicted of bootlegging.
During last MONTH the Hayden aux
Hilary of the Red Cross shipped to the
Steamboat chapter 1,747 gauze arti-
cies.
The grandstand at the Alamosa fair
grounds WAS destroyed by fire. The
blaze il believed to have been incen-
diary.
M. o. Smith of Evans Is suffering
from fractured skull as result of
an auto accident that occurred near
Denver.
j. II. Welborn OF Denver has received
II federal appointment as production
manager OF the fuel administration for
Colorado.
The John G.. Anderson farm east of
Mead. non-irrigated tract. was sold
TO Walter l.. McCaslin of Longmont
for $4,000.
One of the worst storms that ever
visited northern Colorado struck Ly-
ons and Its environs Sunday evening
and caused considerable damage.
Funeral services over the body Of
Lieut. Henry Winters were held in
Fort Collins He was killed in an
aeroplane accident In Texas
Forty acres OF oats on the Ralston
ranch ON Twelvemile mesa. forty
miles west OF Craig. 1t is stated will
make sixty bushels to the acre.
Peter Engle Is the first Grand coun-
ty ranchman to respond to the call for
Red Cross herd He will start the
herd by branding two heller calves.
More than 800 babies have been
weighed. measured and tested in the
city of Boulder. which is making
splendid progress In the child welfare
work.
A service flag of 100 stars. repre-
sentfng the boys from Globeville who
are In the service, was presented to
Manager of Parks and improvements
j. A. Burnett at dedication exercises at
Globeville park.
Ninety per cent of the bumper 1917
potato crop had been marketed by
July / OF this year. according to sta
tistics compiled by the Colorado Coun
Gil of Defense.
Mrs. w. b. Weatherford, former
Milliken woman, attempted suicide in
Denver by cutting her throat with a
pocbet-knife. She was married and
her husband is a soldier stationed at
Camp Cody. N. M.
The special committee of the State
Council of Defense to aid enlistments
in the students army training corps
viii try to induce every boy who
graduated from high school last June
to join the corps and go to college.
Three hundred excursionists on
their way to the G. A. r. reunion at
Portland. Ore. stopped at Denver and
were given motor ride about the CITY
and later were guests of the Denver
Rod Crors at luncheon in the station
John Lawson. president of the indie
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 AUGMENTATION work In the
southern coal fields