The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-08

Sept. 23-2S-Colorado state Fair at
, Pueblo.
A creamery has been started at
Craig.
Fort Collins will soon have nearly
a mile of concrete paving.
Most of the men in the mines at
Rico struck for higher wages.
Commerce Club to strive to make
Pueblo 100 per cent American.
Pueblo turned out in grand fashion
to bid farewell to drafted men.
There are stated to be 400 milk
producers now in Otero county.
The road through Red Rock park
has been opened to the public.
Western Colorado seems to be sure
of a fine crop of fruit this year.
The Methodist church at Oak Creek
is being improved by the addition of
a roomy gallery.
The Silver Bar mill at Westcliffe
has been in operation making initial
run on ore from the Bismuth mine.
The trial of William Campbell, who
was accused by Mrs. Mary Griffith,
at Oak Creek, resulted in his ac-
quittal.
Dr. Livingston Farrand, president Of
the University of Colorado at Boulder,
has returned from the war zone in
France.
At the commencement exercises at
Of al
thirteen students were given their di-
plomas.
The tractors committee of the State
Council of Defense has listed 2,256
tractors for information of the
farmers.
In a telegram from Madame Schu-
mann-Heink 10 Mayor W. F. r. Mills,
she expresses her sorrow over the
death of Robert w. Speer.
Colorado fanciers of Holsteins do
not stop at distance or cost. A. o.
Talbot of Montrose has shipped two
dozen fine ones all the way from Ari-
Zona.
Mis- Hanson, Lake City junk deal
my, is under arrest charged with
stealing $500 pounds of giant powder
from the Hidden Treasure mines mag
aZine
America First societies already
have been formed at Pueblo among
Slavonians, Croatians, Italians and
Greeks by the Americanization COM
mittee of the State Council of De-
fense.
Nearly 400 persons have taken out
fishing licenses in Lake county, al
though fishing at Leadville altitude
will not be legal till June Is. Be-
low that level the season opened
May %.
After forty years of married life and
the rearing of a family of ten children,
a cloud has darkened the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Begio Perry, gardeners, liv-
ing near Denver, and a divorce suit
is pending.
Enough wheat is wasted through
careless threshing and handling every
season to feed an army of 100000
men, according to Howard Crocker, an
official of the Colorado State Food
Administration.
Capt. Morrison Shafroth, en- route
to France, reached Washington to
visit his mother and father a few days
before embarking for the other side.
Senator and Mrs. Shafroth entertained
in honor of their soldier son.
Reports of the county agricultural
agents for the third week in May
showed an increasing demand for
farm help, good crop prospects gen
orally throughout the state and ade-
quate transportation facilities.
Five men were killed, four others
were badly injured, one perhaps fatal
ly, and dozen others were more or
less shocked and burned at Campo,
twenty-five miles south OF Springfield,
during a violent rain and electrical
storm.
There will be no vacation in the
school of medicine and the nurses
training school at the University of
Colorado. Continuous classes will be
held in order that doctors and nurses
may be supplied to meet the armys
needs as quickly as possible. The
facilities for training nurses have
been increased two-fold.
T. r. Malone and wife of Denver
probably will die as a result of in
juries received when the car in which
they were riding with their three
children was struck by a Burlington
train. 1t was feared at first that the
daughter would live but short time,
but it is now believed she will re-
cover.
Machinists, blacksmiths, boilermak-
ers, firemen and mechanics drafted
for service in the United States were
sent to Washington by the Denver Ii