The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
Pithy News Notes
From An Parts of
Colorado
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July 16-Republican State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
July 22-Democratic state Assembly IN
Denver.
Aug, 22-24-CoIorado. State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. 23-2s-Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept. 26-2s-Llncoln County Fair at
Hugo.
Loveland is to have a new $25,Ooo
hotel.
Basalt is to have an electric light
plant.
A $4,000 dormitory will be added to
the Holyoke high school.
improvements are being made on
the canning factory at Manzanola
The Kersey school board is prepar-
ing plans for a $4,000 school building
A new $4,000 school house is to be
built in District No. 9S. In Adams
county.
Masonic fraternity owns a well i'm
proved and attractive rallying place
In the vicinity of Del Norte.
Contract for erection of the Boulder
county sanatorium at Boulder on bid
of s46,412 has been awarded.
Ernest ]. Smith of La Porte, Colo,
Is on the marine corps casualty list as
among the severely wounded.
Charles f. Condor. breckenridge
and William B. Mooney, Greeley, were
commissioned first lieutenants.
Every Colorado community in agri
cultural districts must tackle the
problem of providing labor for the
farms.
Four sons of Mrs. Robert Morrison
of Denver are in the service. All Of
the bovs enlisted soon after the dec
laration of war.
The Ell Paso county Women's Coun
Gil of Defense has finished its regis
tration of women for war service with
a total registration OF 11,541.
Until after July 16 no telephones
will be disconnected in Denver for re
fusal to pay the increased rates sane
toned by the Public Utilities Commits
sion.
One of the series of freight hear
commission will hold in cities of the
United States will be held in Denver
Sept. 5.
The cornerstone of the Queen oi
Heaven orphanage was laid in mem
ory of Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini
founder of the Missionary Sisters oi
the Sacred Heart in Denver.
The oversupply of products that ha:
been causing a hardship upon Colo
RADIO condenseries is now being slight
ly relieved. The government again /;
beginning to buy condensed milk.
For the advice of drafted men and
their dependents five thousand copies
of booklet upon the laws protecting
soldiers and sailors are being dis
tributed by the State Council Of De
fense.
Business and professional men oi
every community in or near the agri
cultural districts of Colorado will be
asked to roll up their sleeves this
summer and help harvest bumper
crops.
Edwin E. Booth, Pueblo, Spanish
war veteran and national guardsman
has been promoted from colonel in the
regular army to brigadier general. This
is the first appointment to high rank
to come to a citizen of this state since
the present war.
Application of the Tramway Com
pany for 3-cent increase in the fare
to Golden on its line by way of Berke
ley and Mount Olivet. to put that line
on an equal footing with the Denver &
Intermountain road. was denied by the
Public Utilities Commission.
old son were doing carpenter work on
their barn at South Fork, near Del
Norte, they were struck by lightning.
The boy was killed and the father
badly hurt.
E. M. Judd, 30 years old, chauffeur
for Denver omnibus and cab com
pany, died at St. Joseph's hospital in
Denver of internal injuries suffered
when an automobile he was driving
was struck by a tramway car.
The State Council of Defense is urg-
ing all county councils to hold meet.
ings for instruction of men who are
drafted or may soon be drafted. The
instruction should be given on medi'
cal, legal and military subjects.
Colorado will be placed on a sugar
permit" basis July Is. After that date,
no one in the state will be allowed to
purchase sugar without a permit from
the United States Food Administers
tion.
When the cable message came tell
ing of the death of Leo T. Leyden in
France, the first Denver boy to be
killed in action, his father lay at
deaths door and arrangements were
being completed for the funeral of the
wife of his brother, James T. Leyden.