The Colorado statesman., 1918-08-17
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

ence Of Colorado NJ. e. Churc" ~
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept. &c Arkansas Valley Far AT
Rocky Ford.
Sept. 1y-Beaver Park fair at Penrose'
Sept. 23-2S-Colorado state Far at
Pueblo.
Sept. 262s-Lincoin County Fair at
Hugo.
Denvers public debt is $3.50 per
capita.
August 10, Arvada will be host to
250 Fort Logan soldiers.
F. b. Schorr, a Denver carpenter,
was shot by a holdup on Stout street.
Water rates at Boulder have been
advanced 25 per cent. by the City
Council.
Hollys new Methodist Episcopal
church will be dedicated Sunday
August IS.
Colorado will get s19,273 of the fed
eral fund of $2.3O7 AGO for vocational
education 1888.
DIR. Nelson Drew Wells of Fort Nor
gan was commissioned a captain in
the medical corps.
Mrs. Katheryne Waters, deputy dis
trict clerk, died at Fort Morgan fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
There will be a convention of the
National Insurance Underwriters Com
mission in Denver from September 10
to 13.
Adjutant General Mccain conferred
upon seven Denver men and one Cen
tral City resident officers commits
sions.
Charles E. Smith, known as Booster
Smith thruout northern Colorado, and
61 years old, died of heart disease at
Longmont.
Bruce Rutherford, II years old, son
of R. C. Rutherford, survived a shock
of $500 volts from a live wire at
Cripple Creek.
Members of the International Union
of Mine, Mill and Smeltermen in ses-
sion in Denver decided to hold all OF
their conventions in the future in
Denver.
A japanese funeral service was con-
Quoted in true Oriental fashion at the
Buddhist church, in Denver. The
services were conducted for Mrs. Suoe
Jitajima, wife of Sedgwick farmer.
Albert A. Oakley, %, SON of ]. II.
Oakley, a farmer living two miles
west of Rye, died in France July 29,
from wounds received in action, ac-
cording to a telegram from Washing
ton.
The Salvation Army has been given
the hearty approval of the State Coun-
Gil OF Defense in its plans for raising
$4,000 in Colorado for the Salvation
war work among the soldiers in
France.
Camp Lewis, Washington, will re-
ceive eighty-six Denver men, who
leave Denver August 26 in the last
draft that will be made from class
AL prior to some new draft order from
Congress.
The Vernon property, Ironton dis
trict, on the equipment and develop
ment of which s250,OOO was expended
during 1916-1917, is now idle as re-
contraction.
A. E. Bauer, manager of the Walsh
Hidden Treasure group, 1mogene ba-
sin, sent out twenty-two-ton ship
ment of ore that shows an absence or
the zinc content that characterized the
early-day shipments.
Kern H. Copeland of Grand Junction
was awarded a commission as sec
ond lieutenant in the sanitary corps.
A double funeral for Mrs. George
Tush of Denver, who committed sui
eide, and for her husband, who died
following an attack of appendicitis at
La Junta, while en- route from Daw-
son. N. NJ, was held at the Globeville
hall.
Mrs. e. J. Randall sustained frac-
ture at the base of her skull and
shattered left arm as the result of an
automobile accident on the Rye road
twenty-eight miles from Pueblo. A
woman, who was driving the car, suf-
fered a broken collar bone. The driver
was trying to turn around in the road
and backed off 40-foot embankment.
All properly qualified youths of Col
orado are urged by Governor Gunter
and the State Council of Defense to go
to college this fall and enlist in the
Students Army Training Corps, organ
lied by the War Department. Then
they will be called upon to serve the
government in the capacities in which
they are the most valuable whenever
wanted by the government. While 60
ing to college they will be soldiers,
drilling daily.
With four os her sons already in the
service of their country, Mrs. Clara
Eagan of Boulder only smiled when
her remaining SON John w. Eagan.