The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-09-05
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

COMING EVENTS.
sept 4-5-Shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept. 3-s-A Arkansas Valley Fair at
Rocky Ford.
Sept 3-s-Frontier Days Show at Fort
Morgan.
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
sept. 2s-ss-coiOrado State Fair At
s.ER'i ERasa. a'-ss-L'"'''" County FAR A
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute At Denver.
Shipments of fruit from Palisade
are nearly 200 cars.
A steel flag pole over fifty feet high
has been donated to Genoa.
The park in Platteville has been set
aside for the use of tourists.
Limited street car service will be at
tempted At Fort Collins.
A fourteen.room high school build
ing will be erected at keenesburg.
A stucco bungalow is under con-
struction by David Holmes OF Boulder.
Many new summer cottages have
been erected in Poudre canon this sea
son.
James M. Peters of Denver was i'm
jured in an auto accident at Colorado
Springs.
Elberta peaches are plentiful at Pal
isade. and the growers are getting
good prices.
A honey plant has been installed at
Rocky Ford which extracts one ton OF
honey per day.
New school buildings will be erected
in Coalview and Bear river at cost
Of 5000 each.
A large filter has been purchased for
US in the swimming pool at the Y. NJ.
C. A. in Pueblo.
The timber survey on the Montezu-
ma national forest has been postponed
until after the war.
The big New York group of mining
claims situated on the north side Of
Bear creek is now undergoing devel-
opment.
Mrs. George Funck, aged 40. COM
miteod suicide by smothering herself
with chloroform In the office of "A
Greeley physician.
r. F. Merritt of Grand Junction has
purchased . canning outfit with which
TO preserve the twelve acres OF toma-
toes grown on his property.
A private elevator and alfalfa mill
is an improvement which w. A. Pur.
Wis IL adding to his already well equip
psd dairy farm at Johnstown.
Officials Of Steamboat Springs have
under contemplation the reconstruc
tiol Of some l,SOO feet Of the main
pipe line of the water works system.
Ranchmen near Trull and Brookston
have agreed to allow no rack Of haul
ing grain to be used until 1t has been
provided with srain-prcof bottom.
Ten nurses. all graduates of ths
1917 class At st. Joseph's hospital, left
Denver for New York to embark foI
the hospitals Of France. They will
comprise the Red Cross nurse unit
No. 6s3.
Within a month after its havinE
been reopened the Maid OF the Mist
Poughkeepsie district, went on the
shipping list with twenty-five tor
car Of hand-sorted ore that carrie,
good commercial values.
Work on the we'll OF the Allied OF
and Refining Company, near Eads. j:
nearing its final stages. Roaming
the hole from ten to twelve inches &c
a depth OF 667 feet. or to the top ol
the Greenhorn limestone, is complete
Casing then will be set, drilling con
tinued through the sand which was
encountered several weeks ago, and
the well then shot.
Guy T. Henderson will erect a tile
silo on his ranch near Wylie.
The cooties are to the soldier just
what the Germans are to the world
They must be stamped out. The Rev
Charles L. Mead, who addressed the
Ad clubs luncheon in Denver on his
experiences in France, holds just sucl.
view.
Help for the gold mines is the lead
ing topic in the Cripple Creek dis
trict. where the output of silver
ranges each year from $4,000 to $780,
000-a figure that practically means
gold alone. Under present pressing
circumstances the fact that Cripple
Creek has been able to average ST.
100000 per month in gold output
speaks volumes for the average OF the
mines.
John w. Chase of Denver. mem
Der of the 157th infantry, has been
decorated for gallantry in action and
promoted to the rank of corpd raj
He enlisted year ago and was sent
TO Camp Kearny. He has been in
the front line trenches since July Is.
and has seen some of the thickest
fighting along the battlefront. He
has gone over the top several times,
but has always come out unharmed.