Gilpin observer., 1918-09-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


COMING EVENTS.
Sept. II. = Adams county fair at
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
sept. 2s-2s-colorado State Fair at
Sept. ss-ss-Lincoln County Fair a,
Sept. 2s-3s.-Grand County fair and
race meeting.
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Burglars looted a hardware store at
Englewood.
A Pueblo ordinance will prohibit
the teaching of German In the public
schools.
Among those listed a. wounded Sc
yereiy IN casualty list Is Joseph Rosh-
eek of Denver.
A lighting system is being installed
on the Maxwell-Miller ranch near
Steamboat Springs.
Three sheep sold for the Red Cross
at the Denver stock yards stadium
netted the society $3.50.
Work of repairing the railroad
bridge at Puzzler which washed out
July has been completed.
The Denver City Council passed the
6-cent street car fare ordinance, and
it was signed by Mayor Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Johnston Of
Malta confirmed report that the
son, Harry F. Johnston. had been
wounded in France.
Despondent because he had been
discharged from the army. Frank e.
Knight. "a, shot and killed himself in
his room in Denver.
]. D. Hunter, a Texas man, paid a
fine of $25 and costs of $12.95 in the
justice court at Loveland for fishing
without license.
About 225 ministers of the M. E.
church attended the annual confer
ence at Delta. Bishop Thomas Mich
olson. Of Chicago. presided.
Word was received at the Denver
chapter of the American Red Cross
that Surgeon General Gorgas Of the
United States army has issued call
for 5000 additional nurses.
Stuart McKeown, the Fort Collins
aviator who made such q good record
in France and was reported missing
since July 7, has been reported as a
prisoner Of war in Germany.
The members of the Mining Engi-
neers' Institute went to Pueblo from
Colorado Springs to go through the
steel works and coke oven plant at
Minnequa. and attend q banquet.
Otto F. Thum was appointed stats
tician in the State Labor Bureau by
Secretary Of State James R. Noland.
He succeeds Clarence ]. Moorhouse,
who enlisted in the Quartermasters
division.
George A. RAIDER Of West Cliff Is
reported severely wounded in the cas-
ualty list from France. In the list
Francis D. Harvey Of Brush and Harry
T. johnson of Malta are reported miss.
ing in action.
Three thousand babies have been
registered and between 1000 and
5000 are still to be registered,
weighed and measured before Dem
ver's part in the national baby census
will be complete.
A convention which will have a roll
call of $500 delegates will be that
of the Colorado grand chapter Of the
Eastern Star. which will convene in
the Denver Auditorium Sept. IS for a
two days session.
Cleworth e. Glasco, private, New
Mexico Military Institute. Of Grand
Junction. and Paul H. Grunig. corporal.
Company e, Thirty-sixth infantry,
Fort Smelling, Of Hotchkiss, were
given commissions as second lieuten-
ants at Camp Grant, Ill.
In the fourteen divisions of the
American Red Cross, the mountain
division ranks second in the number
of graduate nurses enrolled for SER
vice. The Pacific division holds the
place Of honor as first on the list.
Ralph Wilkins of Idaho Springs is
reported killed in action at the front
in France in the casualty list pub
lished Sept. 8. His nearest relative
is Mrs. ]. T. Wilkins of Idaho Springs.
In the list of those missing in action
Is Joseph A. Watts of Norwood.
The $500 memorial gateway to
the recuperation hospital at Aurora.
plans for which were drawn, but for
which no appropriation was made by
the federal government. will be erect
ed. The Building Trades Council of
Denver voted unanimously that the
gateway should be built.
A committee representing the Colo.
RADIO Federation Of Labor called on
Governor Gunter to obtain his ap-
proval Of plan whereby commits
sion representing the labor interests
and the interests Of business shall
be appointed to consider proposed
changes In laws affecting the indus.