The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-06-07

! July 16-Rspubllcan state Conven-
! tion at Colorado Springs.
! Aug 22-24-Coiorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown
Sept. 22-2s-Colorado state Fair at
I Pueblo.
| A. creamery has been started At
Craig.
I A new flour mill is to be erected at
Longmont.
Colorado's Red Cross total has
reached $l.S83.0S7.
/ Greeley is TO have a new 100000
Presbyterian church.
/ The postoffice at Gunnson is to be
enlarged and femodeled.
An epson salt mine has been dis
covered north of Meeker.
Most OF the men in the mines at
Rico struck for higher wages.
I Commerce Club to strive TO make
Pueblo 100 per cent American.
There are stated to be 400 milk
producers now in Otero county.
The road through Red Rock park
has been opened to the public.
{ Western Colorado seems to be sure
Of a fine crop of fruit this year.
Bids for the erection of new city
hall at Olathe are being called for.
Planting OF corn in western Colo
RADIO is more extensive than ever be-
fore
/ Del Norte Shorthorn Growers Asso-
citation now consists of thirty-two
members.
/ The Pueblo Commerce Club Is con
Quoting campaign to increase It's
membership.
The Methodist church at Oak Creek
is being improved by the addition of
a roomy gallery.
The new reduction mill in St Elmo
canon, Montezuma county. is approach
ing completion.
The Colorado Springs municipal au-
thorities have passed an ordinance to
prohibit loafing.
Improvement OF the Floyd Hill road
between Denver and Idaho Springs
will begin shortly.
The Silver Bar mill at Westcliffe
udS DCch III oPtiatioh AAAeA"AAo
run on ore from the Bismuth mine.
Carl Otto Schellenberg was struck
by lightning and instantly killed while
working in the truck garden OF his
father In Denver.
Air compressors, drills and other
necessary machinery have been pur-
chased for use in the extension OF the
tunnel at Georgetown.
Patrick Tomney, superintendent of
the Blistered Horn mine high up in
Gunnison county. an old resident OF
Tin Cup district, Is dead.
The acreage of wheat in Larimer
county has been increased % per cent,
that of barley. 35 per cent; oats, 26
per cent. and pinto beans 81 per cent.
Colorado fanciers of Holsteins do
not stop at distance or cost A. o.
Talbot OF Montrose has shipped two
dozen fine ones all the way from Ari-
zona.
Many thousand of trout fry have
been sent out from the state fish
Matching ponds and placed in streams
at Westcliffe, Florence, Texas creek,
Salida, Buena Vista and Twin lakes
Orders to begin construction within
the next ten days OF a $50 900 recuper-
alton Red Cross building on the
grounds of the Denver General Hos
pital recuperation camp was received
by Merritt w. Gano OF Denver. direc-
tor OF military relief of the Western
dty{.{o~, of Tho Arnaricap ad Crosc
Boston capital is developing the Nc
Kenzie tungsten property near Neder-
land.
America First societies already
have been formed at Pueblo among
Slayonians, Croatians. Italians and
Greeks by the Americanization COM
mittee OF the State Council of De-
fense.
Nearly 400 persons have taken out
fishing licenses in Lake county, al
though fishing at Leadville altitude
will not be legal till June Is. Be-
low that level the season opened
May Is.
The State Board OF Live Stock in
spection has issued an emergency war
order that all veterinarians and
stock growers must report the exist
ence o: anthrax or other stock dis
ease at once to the state veterinarian
There will be no vacation in the
school OF medicine and the nurses
training school at the University Of
Colorado. Continuous classes will be
held In order that doctors and nurses
may be supplied to meet the army's
needs az quickly as possible. The
facilities for training nurses have
been increased two-fold.
Richard Washington, 1S years old, q
member OF the guards stationed at