Cheyenne record., 1918-07-18
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at ths euelfth bionniaa meetiAG h
DsnyeR. resulted n The sleetioa ;of
Ars. Mary b. Talbset. Buffalo. n. T..
president; Miss Halle Q. Brown. WI,
berforcs. Ohio. vics president 1t largss
Georgia Nugent Loaisville. Ky. chair
man executive committes: Nrs. G. R.
Mcdonald. Kansas City. treasurer;
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown Of
North Carolina, corresponding seere-
r. l.. recording secretary: Mrs. Alice
D. Webb. Denver, second secretary:
1rs. Dorcas watson, Pueblo, chaplain.
The threshsrmen Of Boulder county
, met at the Commercial Association
rooms IN Longmont and formed IN or.
ganisation to establish . standard
price for threshing and fix wage
scale. 1t ID expected that considerable
difficulty win be experienced In secur-
ing labor to carry on the work and the
threshermen will cooperate In secur.
ing men and tsamsS each paying the.
same wage. Twelve cents per bushel
was fixed ~ the price for ali shock
threshins, the question Of stack
threshing to be decided later. Men
will be paid $3.50 day, and board and
$3.50 per day for man and team.
John Beard. switchMan ON the San
tn Fe road. 40 years old, was killed in
Q lodging house in the center OF Pueb-
10. Five shots were fired into his
/ body. Frank Yeager, switchman on
the Rio Grande. was arrested. charged
with the killing. Yeaser's story -
that he suspected Beard Of Intimacy
with his wife and went to the lodging
house to warn Beard to keep away
from his home. Beard ordered him
from the place, he says, and reached
for his revolver. Yeager states that he
then fireda
Seven hundred draft men from Colo
RADIO will be entrained for Camp Fre-
mont during the dvs-day period begin
ming Aug. s, and 1900 will be sent to
Fort Logan during the same time, &C
cording to orders received from Wash
ington by Provost Marshal Evans. The
men are to be selected from Glass I
Of the June, 1917. registrants. Those
in the 1913 class may voluntarily en-
list, or may be inyoluntarily inducted
into service II the Class i Of I917 IL
exhausted.
Owing to lack of support the Loretto
convent at Conejos has closed and the
sisters have gone to other localities.
The convent was established at Cone
jos when that place was the hub OF
the universe 1860, and was, no doubt,
the first convent built In the state OF
Colorado. five years after the construc-
ton of the Conejos church which Ia
one Of the historical figures OF the
state. 2 ~ itti3 e .A.s
Norman Lockhart. 80, lies at the
point of death at the County hospital,
after having fallen from . swiftly NOV
ing automobile near Riverside ceme-
terry on the Brighton road. following
an alleged alteration with the driver
Of the machine, Joseph Nolan.
A special committee has been ap-
pointed by the Longmont Commercial
Association to cooperate with the
highways transportation committee Of
the Stats Council OF Defense in the
matter Of utilizing motor truck trans
portation on short hauls.
Denver. Colorado Springs, Trinidad,
Pueblo and Grand Junction were
placed on . sugar ration basis Nom
day and the balance of the state will
be on Aug. l. according to announce
ment made by the Federal Feed Ad-
ministration for Colorado. .a.-
Tuskegee. Ala. was selected for the
silver jubilee convention of the Ma
tional Association Of Colored Women.
to be held two years hence, 1890, BY
the officers of the association in ex.
ecutive session at Denver.
Aug. i. is Colorado day" and 1t win
be celebrated with an elaborate cere-
mony to be participated in by the peo-
pie of Denver at Washington park In
patriotic manner. aA.7
Twenty-Five boys have gone ffoa
Colorado Springs to Fort Collins to Re-
ceive special farm school training at
the State Agricultural College, :.
n Production made in June by lesssss
OF the United Gold Mines Company OF
, Cripple Creek totaled seventyi broad
gauge cars, approximating $500 tons
tBstimatins the average; gold. content
at one ounce to the ton. the bullion
value OF the ore was about 100000,
Miss Mayfield Perryman OF Denver
is the first woman to be appointed to
a clerkship In the United States rail.
way mail service in the West.
Five sons in service and sixth
"just rarin' to co. - the war; record
of which Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hurley
Of Fort Lupton, are proud.
! Work will be started at once to re-
1 habilitate the Moffat Road from the
money made q. .c!lable by the govern
ment's loan of $l,300,00O.
Fifty thousand Of the $1S0, 900
pledged by the Woman's War Savings