The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-16
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

numbers co members.
for a Congregational church at Red
vale.
The Miner Bank and Trust Com
pany at Steamboat Springs has been
closed.
The Longmont sugar factory closed
the most successful run in its history,
lasting 1O1 days
Mrs. Spencer Penrose will finance
the erection of a Catholic church at
Colorado Springs.
Two Denver firms nave co-operated
to build new factory to produce a
huge order of tents.
Members of the Reformed Presbyter-
ian church at Greeley will erect
$4,000 church building.
Charles H. Williams, widely known
milling man, owner of plant at
Brighton, died in Denver.
Japanese farmers in the neighbor-
hood of Rocky Ford have formed
cantaloupe growers association.
The city council of Fort Morgan has
completed arrangements to install
modern fire fighting equipment.
The effect of an order received by
the federal food administrator is to
bar potatoes as substitute for wheat
flour.
Two Puebloans, accepted for the
aviation service, left Pueblo for the
aviation training camp at San An
tonic, Tex.
The New York Company has COM
pleted a 250-ton capacity mill for the
treatment of ores at Climax near
Breckenridge.
During the past season 600 carloads
of canned goods, or 54,O00,000 pounds
of vegetables were shipped from the
Brighton and Fort Lupton canneries.
Miss Hattie E. Richardson, Denver
public school teacher, has been ap-
pointed a trustee and secretary-treas-
urer of the Colorado Audubon society.
The reduction in coal prices in Colo
rado, announced from Washington,
comes as the direct result of an in
vestigation into coal prices in this
state.
The State Woman's Council of De-
fense has urged all county women's
councils to have certain time each
week set apart for work in the thrift
campaign.
April 6, the first anniversary of the
declaration of war with Germany, has
been designated Dedication Day by
the speakers committee of the State
Council of Defense.
A jury in the Denver District Court
acquitted Deputy Sheriff Allison on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Mar
garet Manning in the office Of James
NJ. Gingrich in a creamery.
A jury at Brighton found Frank H.
Mulligan guilty of completely in the
holdup and robbery of Mrs. Harry T..
Nolan and the Rev. Father Garret j.
Burke in the Model road house, Jan. 2.
DIR. C. r. Van Hise, president or
the University of Wisconsin, will soon
make a tour of the Pacific Coast,
speaking on behalf of the third Liberty
Loan. He will be in Denver March %.
Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the en-
gineering school at the State Univer-
sity at Boulder, has been appointed as
sistant government director of the con-
struction of United States munitions
plants.
Unpatriotic evidences have been re-
ported in fourteen towns out of seven
ty-two from which the speakers COM
mittee of the State Council of Defense
has received replies in connection with
its work.
The government crop reporting bu-
reau reports the stocks of grain on
Colorado farms on March 1 as follows:
Corn, 3,724,0O0 bushels; wheat, 2,S43,-
600 bushels; oats, 3,563,000 bushels,
and barley, 1,497,000 bushels.
Clarence T. Gibbens, 35 years old,
of Pueblo, was killed and his wife and
Corporal C. S. Jones, in charge of the
United States Army recruiting sta
ton in Pueblo, and Mrs. Jones were
injured when an auto in which they
were riding struck deep sand on re-
Gently graded stretch of road, turned
over on the Canon City-Colorado
Springs road in Dead Mans canon.
The fact that enlistment by boys
in the U. S. Boys Working Reserve
for farm work is purely voluntary and
is asked of the boys merely as pat
riotic duty is being emphasized by j..
S. Jaffa, Colorado director of the re-
serve. By enrolling, the boys will be
merely placing themselves in readi-
ness to do work for food production,
if Colorado farmers ask for their help.
Miss Flora E. Stout, who has spent
ten years as a missionary to Japan,