The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-08-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Rocky Ford.
Sept 3-s-Frontisr Days Show at Fort
Morgan.
Sept. Is-Beaver Park fair At Psnrose
sept ?a-2s-coiorado State Fair at
Pueblo
SEPT RRuxo ss-s'-L'He0'n County Fair al
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Shipments of fruit from Palisade
are nearly 200 cars.
A steel flag pole over fifty feet high
has been donated to Genoa.
Guy T. Henderson will erect tile
silo on his ranch near Wylie.
The park in Platteville has been set
aside for the use of tourists.
A fourteen-room high school build
/ ing will be erected at Keenesburg.
| A stucco bungalow is under con-
struction by David Holmes Of Boulder.
Many new summer cottages have
1 been erected in Poudrs canon this sea
son.
A new switchboard has been in
stalled in the Arvada telephone ex-
change
! James NJ Peters of Denver was in
! jured in an auto accident at Colorado
Springs.
Elberta peaches are plentiful at Pal
isade. and the growers are getting
good prices.
A honey plant has been installed at
Rocky Ford which extracts one ton OF
honey per day.
New school buildings will be erected
in Coalview and Bear river at a cost
OF $4,000 each
A large filter has been purchased for
us in the swimming pool at the Y. M.
C. A. in Pueblo.
The timber survey on the Montezu-
ma national forest has been postponed
until after the war.
A road is being built from Williams
Fork to the Cary summer camp on the
lakes in Routt county.
An Ss5,0Oo home for Denver working
girls will be erected a. an addition to
St Rosa's home by the Sisters OF St
Francis.
Foster Carter. "a, shot himself
through the head at his homo In Val
verde and died at the Denver county
hospital
Mrs. George Funck. aged 40, com
mitted suicide by smothering herself
with chloroform In the office Of
Greeley physician.
F. F. Merritt OF Grand Junction has
purchased canning outfit with which
to preserve the twelve acres OF toma-
toes grown on his property.
A private elevator and alfalfa mill
is an Improvement which W A. Pur-
Wis IL adding to his already well equip
ped dairy farm at Johnstown.
Officials OF Steamboat Springs have
under contemplation the reconstruc-
tion of some 1,s00 feet OF the main
pipe line OF the water works system.
Ranchmen near Trull and Brookston
have agreed te allow no rack OF haul
ing grain to be used until it has been
provided with a grain-proof bottom.
John p Day, 90, of Dephune is re-
ported by the War Department as
lulSSlus III dCAibL, Ou july 0V, dC-
cording to a telegram received by his
father, John Day.
Nine. Margarete Matzenauer, the
contralto engaged to open the munich
pal concert series in the Denver Audi
torium Oct 8. is declared by the Met
ropolitan Opera Company manage
ment Of New York to be strictly loyal
10 bo Tp{t tn,
Paul E. Erb, IS, was severely
wounded In action in France, accord
ing to word received by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Erb of Englewood.
from the War Department.
cooperative store company will
be organized among ranchmen Of the
Sidney and Pleasant Valley districts.
An elevator is to be installed for the
convenience of ranchmen engaged in
grain raising.
The Englewood Garden Club held its
annual exhibit at the Lowell school.
and prizes were awarded for the best
displays. Sixty-one boys and girls en-
tered the contest with products grown
by themselves.
Word of the elimination of los, 900
acres OF land from the Routt national
forest by proclamation of President
Wilson was received by w. l. Hutchin-
son, forester examiner OF the federal
forest service in Denver.
Ernest r. Stadler. for four years a
first lieutenant in Company F of the
Colorado home guard, was awarded a
silver loving cup by the company at
Denver in appreciation Of his efforts
in behalf of the service.
Colorado hotels and restaurants
saved total Of 295. .46S pounds Of beef,
1Se.340 pounds of flour and 1o6,O5O