The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-08-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. sesy!se

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COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 1-Mining Engineers meeting IN
Denver.
Sept. l-Fifty-sixth annual confer
ence of Colorado 81. l. Church al
Delta.
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept 3-6- Arkansas Valley Fair al
Sept 3-s-Frontier Days Show at Fort
Morgan.
Sept ls-Beaver Park fair at Penrose-
sept 23-2s-Coiorado state Fair al
'sR,i Rus5 ss-s'-Line''H County Fair Al
A bank is to be opened in Maybeil.
The Bird saw mill has been moved
from Crosho Lake to Newton Gulch'
scar Yampa.
The commissioners OF Washington
county will employ a paid secretary
Tor the county council OF defense.
Seventy thousand dollars in loans
have been obtained for farmers by
land bank association In Washington
county.
A handsome memorial tablet has
been completed for the AlAmosa Elks
Lodge. which contains the names OF
all deceased members.
Commissioners of Alamosa county
are planning to cover all stagnant wa
ter of that county with crude oil in
order to exterminate mosquitoes.
Lieut.. Harold F. Maxson. a former
student at the Colorado School OF
Mines at Golden, was killed in an air
plane accident at Brinklsy Field, \. Y.
The Rt Rev. Irving P. Johnson.
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese OF
Colorado, has written a prayer for
American soldiers for use at noon
each day.
The State Council OF Defense will
distribute 10000 pamphlets giving au.
thoritativs advice on social diseases
to Colorado men who may be called
for army service.
The Gold King group Of famous old
producers In the San Juan basin have
been taken over by \ new company
formed to purchase and operate the
mines on q large scale.
Thru the efforts Of the recently or.
ganized Steamboat Sportsmen's Asso
citation. at Steamboat Springs. the
streams and lakes in Routt county are
being restocked with trout.
Frank Osgood and Charles Shaw are
developing some mining claims in the
Twin Mountain section in the San
Juan Basin, which show indications
OF a good body OF manganese ore.
A bonus system has been inaugu
rated at the Durango smelter by ths
A. S. & R. Company. in which, all EN-
ployes working twenty-eight days .
month win be given a bonus of TWEEN
ty cents per day
There were 100000 bushels ot
grain lost in 1917 in Colorado because
of preventable diseases. That is why
the Agricultural College and the State
Council OF Defense urge all farmer
to test their seed this winter
The Colorado Council of Defense
has passed a resolution appealing te
the farmers to test. clean and treat
their seed in cooperation with the
Agricultural College and to seed mer
to observe strictly the state seed law
There are fourteen women now EN-
ployed in the Santa Fe shops at Ls
Junta, eight of whom are machine
shop helpers and are claimed to be
doing good work. The balance OF the
female help is in the car and coach
cleaning department
Colorado's coal output for the first
seven months Of the current year viii
ah0 hot ;,l h<
same period in 1917, according to ad
vance reports on the July production
received by James Dalrymple, State
Coal Mine Inspector.
During the month of July the Ala
mosa postoffice sold $4,000 worth OF
War Savings Certificates.
Farmers in various parts of the
state are doing everything possible
to help win the war thru increased
crop production. Evidence of this Is
seen in the reports of agricultural
agents submitted to the Colorado
Council of Defense
Ninety per cent of Colorado's
bumper 1917 potato crop had been
marketed by the first of July, far
more than in any other potato grow
ing state Michigan had marketed
only one-third OF its crop, according
to DR.. Charles A. LorN
Three calls. ordering into military
service S43 Colorado registrants, were
received by Provost Marshal John
Evans. The calls are: Entrain 500
white men in four-day period begin
ming Sept. 3 for Camp Funston, Fort
Riley. for general military service.
Entrain 500 white men In four-day Pc
rfod beginning Sept for Fort Riley,
Kan, including limited service men
In group c. for special service. En-
train forty-three negroes Sept l for
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