The Ordway new era., 1918-08-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 2s-2<-Coiorado State Firemen'i
Convention at Georgetown,
Sept. Mining Engineers meeting In
Denver.
Sept. 1-Fifty-si.th annual confer.
ence of Colorado NJ. f. Church al
Delta.
Sept. 4-5-shoe DeaIers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept ST. Arkansas Valley Fair at
Rocky Ford.
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
Sept. 23-2s-Coiorado State Fair at
Sept 2e-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
Denvers' public debt is s1.5O per
capita.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are now be-
ing marketed.
Ore shipments in July from the Sill
verton district totaled 240 cars.
Lieut.. Leo p. Kelly of Pueblo is
among those reported as wounded in
action in France.
Harry Edward Marsh, 23 years old,
of Pueblo was killed at the open
hearth plant at Bessemer.
The Fort Collins Agricultural Col
lege has qualified for q unit OF the
student army training corps.
I The Routt County Packing Com
pany plant at Oak Creek. recently de-
stroyed by fire, is being rebuilt.
A choral club will be organized at
Oak Creek, according to plans of the
members of the Episcopal church.
Mrs. Katheryne. Waters. deputy dis
trict clerk, died at Fort Morgan fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
There will be a convention OF the
National Insurance Underwriters Com
mission in Denver from September 10
, TO 13.
! Adjutant General Mccain conferred
upon seven Denver men and one Cen
tral City resident officers commits
sions.
1t is reported that 100000 more
will be expended in doubling the ca
pacity of the Aurora general hospital
near Denver.
Charles E. Smith, known as Booster
Smith thruout northern Colorado, and
G1 years old, died of heart disease at
Longmont
| Bruce Rutherford, II years old, son
, OF r. C. Rutherford, survived shock
of $500 volts from live wire at
Cripple Creek.
An increase in cattle and sheep
grazing in the Denver district of the
forest service for this year over 1917
| l. uk.n ol ,ta ttottr rnl
port for the district
Japanese funeral service was con-
| Quoted in true Oriental fashion at the
Buddhist church, in Denver. The
services were conducted for Mrs. Suoe
Jitajima. wife of Sedgwick farmer.
A rate of one and one-third fares
for>the round trip to the state fair at
Pueblo Sept. 23 to Sept. 2S will be
granted by all railroads serving this
point that are under federal control.
Albert A. Oakley. %. son of ]. H.
Oakley. farmer living two miles
west of Rye, died in France July 20,
from wounds received in action, ac-
cording to telegram from Washing
ton.
Camp Lewis, Washington. will re-
ceive eighty-six Denver men, who
leave Denver August 26 in the last
draft that will be made from class
AL prior to some new draft order from
Congress.
An oil stock salesman was run out
of Larimer county by the sheriff. The
salesman. it was alleged, was offering
oil stock of doubtful value to Love-
land people in exchange for Liberty
bonds.
Nine yearling steers which had
been fed on beet pulp, cottonseed
cake, sugar beet molasses. and alfalfa
at the Colorado Experiment Station at
Fort Collins, sold for $17.25 per hun
dred on the Denver market.
The grain corporation of the United
States food administration has fixed
the price of flour at Denver mills at
| 1929 barrel, or $3.50 for two 9S-pound
sacks at the mill, and also has fixed
prices at the mills in towns tfruout
| Colorado.
With patriotic exercises attended by
Gov. and Mrs. julius c. Gunter Gen.
and Mrs. Frank D. Baldwin and other
state and city officials, service flag
bearing forty-six stars was blessed at
the IL o'clock mass at st. Philamena's
church in Denver Aug. II.
Curtis Simpson, member of the
Colorado College basketball and track
teams. and one of the most promising
athletes enrolled at Colorado College
in number of years, was seriously,
II not fatally. injured at Colorado
! Springs when the automobile in which
he was driving struck tree, hurling