The Elbert County tribune., 1918-01-11

Sn. @s-hansas CLUB banquet IN Den-
Feb, z2-2s-Annual winter Sports Car
nival at Steamboat Springs.
Routt and Moffat counties have. dur
ing the past year, shipped out 10000
cattle.
High food prices in Denver prob
ably will be one of the subjects for in
vestigation by the grand jury.
The county commissioners of Weld
county have arranged for an agricul-
tural agent for the coming year.
Miss Helen Thomas is now the
Western Union Telegraph manager
at Florence, succeeding Mrs. Delbert
Deter.
The Scottish heart Burns on Jan. 25
and on that day there will be musical
and social entertainments In various
villages.
A total of thirty-three men were re-
cruited in the Denver army and navy
stations Saturday. OF this number the
army received twenty-five men.
The official consolidation of three
of Denver's Pythian lodges was ceIe-
brated with the election and installa-
ton of officers of the new organiza-
ton.
Frederick j. Stanton, 90, pioneer
Denverite and past deputy grand mas
ter of the l. o. o. F., grand lodge of
Colorado, collapsed on the sidewalk in
Denver.
The shaft of the Bull Domingo mine
at hoo ada du
for operation to a depth of $50 feet
and the upper works repaired in
readiness for mining.
Delta county officers have as yet
obtained no clue to the whereabouts
of Bush. rancher wanted for mur-
dering his little son and cooking up
the flesh in lye kettle.
Clark G. Mitchell of Denver was
notified of his commission as second
lieutenant in the signal corps of the
aviation service, and for the present
will be stationed at Washington.
Following the walkout of the ele-
vator pilots in five large downtown
buildings in Denver, local union has
been formed which will be known as
the Elevator Conductor and Starters
Union
Robert j. Grant, executive manager
in the Colorado division of the United
States food administration, departed
for Washington to attend the two
days conference of state food admin
istrators.
Company No. of the state depart
ment of safety, consisting of fifty
men, left Denver for Golden under
command of Capt. w. s. Grove, where
they will take up headquarters in the
Golden armory
Word received from Little Rock,
Ark. said that two Colorado men had
been discharged for physical disabil-
ity at Camp Pike. They are Oliver M.
Osmas of Wray and Leslie ]. Parker
of Cripple Creek.
Residents of Pueblo county during
the past year received 30,51S ship
ments of liquor from outside states
for which they paid in fees of twen-
ty-five cents each. the sum of ST.
629.50 to the county and state.
Public opposition to the teaching OF
German in a parish school which the
Trinity German Lutheran church has
been conducting at Sterling caused
the official board of the school to sus-
pend its operation during the war.
Indications are that in the coming
year the Fort Collins postoffice will
be rated by the Postoffice Department
as an office of the first class. Receipts
of the office for 1917 were well past
the 100000 mark, which is the divid-
ing line.
Plans are under way to hold q con-
ference of state food administrators
from the states of Nebraska, Wyo-
ming, Utah. Arizona, Kansas. Colora-
do. Texas. Idaho and New Mexico in
Denver Jan. % and %, during the
stock show week.
Developments Monday in the rob-
berry of Mrs. Irene Nolan. wife of
Harry T. Nolan of Denver, at the
Model roadhouse resort, resulted in
the issuing of warrant charging City
Detective Frank H Mulligan with
grand larceny and his subsequent ar
rest on the charge by Sheriff George
Rucker of Brighton.
Judge William A Rill, associate
justice of the Colorado Supreme
Court. has assumed the duties of chief
justice, succeeding Judge s. Harrison
White. He will serve in that capacity
for one year until the expiration of
his term. Judge White will continue
in office one wear longer as asaoriata
Justice.
Word was received by Harold Hud-
son of Denver that his nephew, Second
Lieut.. Leslie Sidney Hudson, 20 years
old of the RoYal Ewing CORDS WAS ac-