Gilpin observer., 1918-08-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. mining Engineers meeting IL
Sept. 1-Fifty-sixth annual confer
ence of Colorado M. E. Church a
Sept. .4-6--shoe Dealers Association
Meeting in Denver.
Sept. St Arkansas Valley Fair a
Sept. S-s-Frontisr Days Show at For
Morgan.
Sept. ly-Bsaver Park fair at Psnrose
Sept. 23-2S-Colorado State Fair al
Sept. 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair Al
Fire destroyed the Gill garage a,
Gill.
A recruiting office for student
nurses has been opened in Fort Col
Inns.
Irwin L. Sears, 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. X. Harrison of Grand county
has been commissioned a captain and
left for Fort Riley, Kan.
A Red Cross sale on Aug. 30 ID to be
one Of the big features Of the Larime or
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 bootlesging.
During last month the Hayden aux
Hilary Of the Red Cross shipped to the
Steamboat chapter 1,747 Cause arti.
cles.
The grandstand at the Alamosa fair
grounds was destroyed by fire The
blaze is believed to have been incen-
diary.
M. o. Smith of Evans 10 suffering
from fractured skull a. q result Of
an auto accident that occurred near
Denver.
]. F. Welborn of Denver has received
manager of the fuel administration for
Colorado.
The John G. Anderson farm east OF
Mead, a 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
asroplane 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 fol
Red Cross herd. He will start the
herd by branding two heifer calves.
More than 500 babies have been
weighed. measured and tested in the
city Of Boulder. which is making
splendid progress in the child welfare
work.
service flag of 100 stars, repre-
senting the boys from Globeville who
are In the service, was presented to
Manager of Parks and improvements
| J. A. Burnett at dedication exercises al
Globeville park.
Ninety per cent of the bumper 1911
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 g
pocket-knife. She was married ant
her husband is soldier stationed al
Camp Cody, N. NJ.
The special committee of the State
Council Of Defense to aid enlistmentf
in the students army training corps
will try to induce every boy who
graduated from high school last June
to join the corps and go TO college.
Three hundred excursionists or
their way to the q. A. II. reunion al
Portland, Ore. stopped at Denver and
were given motor ride about the cit
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 COMMITTEES
Of the State Council Of Defense and II