The Ordway new era., 1918-09-20

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Sept. Is-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
I sept. 23-2s-Colorado State Fair at
! Pueblo.
Sept 2s-2s-Lineoin County Fair at
Sept 2s- 2s-Grand County fair and
race meeting.
| Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
A camp for tourists has been estab-
ished at Monte Vista.
The Brunswick mine above James
town is being reopened.
1t is reported that a hotel will be
built at Lay. near Craig.
! The Denver & Salt Lake depot at
Fsaser was destroyed by fire.
/ A Christian Science church edifice
of $1,000
/ The Seldomridge saw mill on Black
mountain near Craig is operating with
full crew.
The Bessemer ditch syphon under
the St. Charles river near Pueblo is
being repaired.
Bandits broke into the Burlington
depot at Merino, blew the safe and es-
capped with $500
Mrs. Frances Beebe of Silver Plume
dropped dead from heart failure while
preparing "A meal.
A subway III feet long will be con
structed under the railway tracks at
Colorado Springs.
o. II. Doty of Pagoda will use
motor truck to haul the mail between
Hayden and Pagoda.
Citizens of Estes Park are planning
the erection of large log fort as an
advertising novelty.
Curtis Henry Betty of Timpas is
among those reported missing in ac-
tion in the army casualty list
The Colorado Mothers Congress
met at Boulder. with Mrs. II. T.
French, state president, presiding.
Near Westcliffe the Passiflora Min.
ing and Milling Company is sinking
its Herman shaft to the 330-foot level
Curtis Henry Betty of Timpas
Otero county, is among those reported
missing in action in the army casualty
list
A new flotation mill will soon be
erected on the property OF the Gar
field Mining Company in Taylor Gulch
near Salida.
An important strike has been made
on the Golden Mining Company's
property in the Upper Union District
near Empire.
~ nf 7 nd {- he
Larimer county jail serving a ninety.
day sentence for boot-legging. He was
also fined $3.50.
John w Grant, Frederick miner
tried in Greeley for the killing OF
Thomas Highley on Feb. 5, was con
victed of second degree murder.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the threshing outfit OF ]. r. Hooker
and about 900 bushels of grain on the
Taylor ranch south of Roggen.
The Grand county annual fair and
race meet will occur on Sept 26-2S
For the champion broncho rider a
purse of $175 is offered, and the other
prizes are in proportion.
Private Otto Arthur Schmutzler, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Emile Schmutzler. Sr.
of Denver, was wounded while fight
ing with the American expeditionary
forces in France on Aug. 3.
The State Board of Teacher Exam,
iners at the last meeting passed mo
tion insuring school teachers in the
state against the loss of their certifi
Gates because of entering any branch
of the army or navy.
A Grand county ranchman offers SIC
per cwt. for wild rye seed
Efforts to obtain Capt Archibald
Roosevelt as speaker in the Fourth
Liberty Loan drive, which begins
Sept. &c, are being made by the Den.
yer Liberty Loan committee.
George Fl. Swerer, 20. Denver. has
been commissioned second lieutenant
of engineers at Ellington field Hous
ton. Tex, and ordered TO hold himself
in readiness for service overseas.
Twenty-six Colorado men received
commissions as second lieutenants OF
field artillery at Camp Zachary Tay'
lor, Kentucky, according to list
made public by the War Department.
The fifty-ninth annual national con
vention of insurance commissioners
opened in Denver with an address OF
welcome from Governor Gunter Prac-
tically all of the states We're repre-
scented.
Persons in the new draft deemed
necessary in agriculture. industry and
other occupations will be put into de.
ferred classifications, according TO a
plan agreed upon by the war labor
policies board, provost marshal gen
eral. secretary of war, secretary OF ag.
riculture and secretary of labor.
William Ross had both arms broken
and sustained internal iniuries and