The Ordway new era., 1918-08-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News service
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. mining Engineers meeting i"
Sept. 1-Fifty-sixth annual confer,
encs of Colorado M. e. Church at
Delta.
Sept. 4-s-shoe Dealers Association
Sept .3-s- Arkansas Valley FAR Al
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days Show at Fort
Morgan.
Sept. Is-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
'ePP Pueblo. 0'''A'' ~
Sept. 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
A bank is to be opened in Mayoeii.
The Bird saw mill has been moved
from Crosho Lake to Newton Gulch,
near Yampa.
The commissioners OF Washington
county will employ a paid secretary
for the county council of defense.
Seventy thousand dollars in loans
have been obtained for farmers by
land bank association in Washington
county.
A handsome memorial tablet has
been completed for the Alamosa Elks
Lodge. which contains the names OF
all deceased members. r
Commissioners OF Alamosa county
are planning to cover all stagnant wa
ter of that county with crude oil in
order to exterminate mosquitoes.
Lieut.. Harold F. Maxson, a former
student at the Colorado School of
Mines at Golden. was killed in an air
plane accident at Brinkley Field, N. Y.
The Rt. Rev. Irving p. Johnson.
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese OF
| Colorado, has written a prayer for
American soldiers for use at noon
each day.
| The State Council of Defense will
distribute 10000 pamphlets giving au-
thoritative advice on social diseases
to Colorado men who may be called
for army service.
The Gold King group of famous old
producers in the San Juan basin have
been taken over by a new company
| formed to purchase and operate the
mines on large scale.
Thru the efforts of the recently Or
ganized Steamboat Sportsmen's Asso-
citation, at Steamboat Springs. the
streams and lakes in Routt county are
being restocked with trout.
Frank Osgood and Charles Shaw are
developing some mining claims in the
Twin Mountain section in the San
Juan Basin. which show indications
of a good body Of manganese ore..
| A bonus system has been inaugu.
| rated at the Durango smelter by the
A. S. & R. Company. in which all en-
ployes working twenty-eight days Q
month will be given bonus OF twen-
ty cents per day.
There were 100000 bushels OF
grain lost in 1917 in Colorado because
of preventable diseases. That is why
the Agricultural College. and the State
Council of Defense urge all farmers
to test their seed this winter.
The Colorado Council of Defense
has passed a resolution appealing to
the farmers to test, clean and treat
their seed in cooperation with the
Agricultural College and to seed men
to observe strictly the state seed law.
| There are fourteen women now en-
ployed in the Santa Fe shops at La
Junta, eight of whom are machine
shop helpers and are claimed to be
doing good work. The balance Of the
female help is in the car and coach
cleaning department.
Colorado's coal output for the first
seven months of the current year will
show a substantial increase over the
same period in 1917, according to ad.
vance reports on the July production
received by James Dalrymple. State
Coal Mine Inspector.
During the month of July the Ala.
mosa postoffice sold $4,000 worth Of
War Savings Certificates.
Farmers in various parts of the
state are doing everything possible
to help win the war thru increased
crop production. Evidence Of this is
seen in the reports of agricultural
agents submitted to the Colorado
Council of Defense.
Ninety per cent OF Colorado's
bumper 1917 potato crop had been
marketed by the first of July. far
more than in any other potato grow
ing state. Michigan had marketed
only one-third of its crop, according
to DIR. Charles A. Lory.
Three calls, ordering into military
service S43 Colorado registrants. were
received by Provost Marshal John
Evans. The calls are: Entrain 500
white men in four-day period begin
ming Sept. 8 for Camp Funston, Fort
Riley, for general military service.
Entrain 800 white men in four-day pc
riod beginning Sept. 3 for Fort Riley,
Kan, including limited service men
in group C, for special service. En-
train forty-three negroes Sept 1 for