The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-04-04
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado

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state guard has been completed.
The postoffice at Northgate in
North Park has been discontinued.
The new postoffice building at
Craig has been opened for business.
The molybdenum concentrating
plant at Urad In Daily district is COM
Dleted.
Leven 8. Perry, q retired farmer of
Cotopaxi, died of nephritis; he was 81
years old.
E. F. Counselor of Antonita has
been appointed irrigation engineer for
District No. 3, with headquarters at
Alamosa- .Hr
More than 500 were attracted to
Grand Junction by the government
drawing for farms which was held in
the state armory.
Jim Goodheart. head Of the Sunshine
mission in Denver, left for France az
Denver Rotary Club chaplain. He will
be gone several months.
The State Council of Defense has
been told that second poultry expert
has been assigned to Colorado by the
Department of Agriculture.
Officers were elected and a general
business meeting held as the first
days program OF the Colorado &duca-
tion Association at Denver.
John Skrifvars. age "a years. died
at the ranch home near the Burnt
Mill at Pueblo, where he had resided
for the past thirty-seven years.
Loveland held its second military
20, was buried. Mosher was called in
the second draft to Camp Funston,
where he died.
Charles E. Bussey, 6S years old,
crippled and deaf, died at the county
hospital in Denver from having in
hailed gas after he had slashed his
throat with a razor.
Jacob Martin Wolaver, 80. member
of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Gener-
al Assemblies from Larimer county.
died at his home in Loveland. Mr.. Wo-
laver is survived by widow and four
children.
Word was received in Denver that
the order for the United States recu-
peration camp to be located in Den
yer had been signed and that the
camps cost had been set officially at
Q.660.00O.
The Fort Collins school board vot-
ed to eliminate the teaching Of Ger
man in the high school after the pres
ent term is ended. The board has
granted an increase of per cent in
teachers salaries.
w. F. r. Mills, Denver manager Of
parks and improvements. has COM
menced the reforestration of the
mountain parks. He has obtained 25.-
900 seeding spruce from the United
States forest reserve for this work.
A military funeral was arranged for
Lieut. Raymond J. McPhee. whose
body was taken to his home in Dem
yer following his death at Fort Riley
from pneumonia. His mother. widow
and sister returned on the same train.
There will be combined floral and
vegetable show In the Denver Audi
torium the last week in August. the
Denver Society of Ornamental Horti-
culture having charge of the floral d.
vision and the Mothers Congress Of
the vegetable division.
The heavy hand of the state food
administrator fell on two Denver men
and a third man may feel it in a few
days, The right to sell flour was
taken from two of them and the deci-
sion on the other will await the out
come of an investigation.
Guy N. Gardner. secretary to the
United States Fuel Administration
for Colorado. has received notification
from the War Department that he has
been accepted for service in the avia-
ton section of the army and left Den
yer for Boston to enter training.
Governor Gunter and Adjt. Gen.
Frank d. Baldwin left Denver for
Camp Funston to attend a review OF
troops. Many of the Colorado boys
who formerly belonged to the Nation
al Guard are stationed temporarily at
the camp. Miss Margaret Wilson, who
is raising money for the Red Cross,
was a member of the party. She sang
for the soldiers and the governor ad-
dressed the men in the Y. M. c. A.
Colorado farmers may. be given as
sistance by the government in the in
itial costs of wheat, oats and barley
seed, in order to stimulate crop pro-
duction this year. James r. Noland,
secretary of state, received word from
Washington that legislation pending
IN Congress seeks to assure Increased
production over the entire country.
Officials of the Department of Agrl-
culture are endeavoring to obtain sta
tistics regarding the acreage requiring
government aid.
One of the most encouraging devel-
opments in federal post aid construc-