The Colorado statesman., 1918-08-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Sept. 4-5-Shoe Dealers Assocl1tlo"
meeting in Denver.
sept 1y-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
sept 23-2S-colorado state Far at
Pueblo.
Sept 26-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
Hail did much damage to crops in
Morgan county.
A hotel and alfalfa mill are under
construction at Cook.
Fifteen blocks OF cement sidewalk
will be built at Sterling.
Colorado day, Aug. l. was observed
at Washington park in Denver.
A 243-foot well has been drilled on
the Snyder ranch at Rock Creek.
Eight troops of Catholic Boy Scouts
are in camp near Eldorado Springs.
The gold dredge at Breckenridge
produced $4,000 in gold in one week.
The road over Grand Mesa to Alex
ander Lakes is practically completed.
The Big Trad mine at Empire is
r%pping 165 tons of molybdenum ore
daily.
A car of vinegar was shipped to
Grand Junction from the Morrisania
ranch.
C. X. Monfort sold his eighty-acre
farm six miles northwest of Greeley
for $4,000.
The city of Greeley may build ;4,-
600 garage and purchase $1,000 sprin-
kler and truck.
Full military honors were accorded
Cadet John Francis Carney of Denver
at the funeral and burial.
Mrs. H. f. Machol is collecting ore -.
donations at Idaho Springs for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
The United Workers of the Blind
of Colorado held picnic at Fernhill,
in jefferson county, Thursday.
Under an edict issued by Governor
Gunter, all persons engaged in thresh-
ing cereals must obtain licenses.
VIM. Myers was convicted at Breck-
enridge of dynamiting fish, and WAS
fined 500 and sentenced to six months
in jail.
Baptist church of Salida has pledged
81 200 to the Colorado Women's col
lege, which is a Baptist institution in
Denver.
Interest has been aroused thruout
the western slope by the report OF an
important gas and oil strike in the
White river well.
The weeks settlement prices for
metals In Colorado ores show a loss Of
S195 per ton in the item of spelter,
the market form of zinc
An extension has been commenced
on the local telephone system at hico
which will connect that place with
Telluride and outside points.
Married forty years, Wilbur G. Nor
row has filed suit for divorce in Den
yer District Court against Mrs. Ellen
C. Morrow on the ground of desertion.
Col. William Edgar Hughes, retired
Denver business man, widely known
stockman and national authority on
banking, died after a weeks illness.
Users of telephones in Denver will, |
under position taken by five justices |
of the Supreme Court, be obliged to |
pay the increased rates authorized by |
the Colorado Utilities Commission.
D. toltaiho' ltutioi icou "1
ministrator for Colorado, received
supplementary order from Washington
releasing the housewives of Colorado
from the voluntary pledges made by
them to refrain from the use of wheat
flour or products.
II the Arapahoe county council OF
defense has it's way, there will not be
1f mi, nffiaiDlG
November-the presnt county officers
continuing in office for the next four
years.
The killing of Ernest Simpson by |
his brother-in-law, Bert Orin, farmer
northwest OF Fort Morgan, was justi-
fled by coroner's jury. The men
uuarreled over the sale of mortgaged
property.
At a special election Aug. 6, Denver
taxpayers will express their willing
ness or their unwillingness to pay the
Denver Union Water Company S1S,-
10000 for the plant which supplies
the city with water.
Display of flags of the allies and par
t.cipation in programs of tribute to the
soldiers of Colorado who are fighting
in France were suggested to the citi
zens by Governor Gunter in his Colo
RADIO day proclamation.
Kinne Wyatt of Ault, son of Mrs.
David Wyatt of Denver, was killed
near Ault when a large machine which
he was driving turned turtle. He is
survived by a wife and child. who live
in Ault, and his mother.
Bean ougs, or beetles, or whatever
you choose to call them-they are just
as destructive by one name as another
are in full attack upon Denver's war