The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-06-07


Aug 22-24-Colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown
Sept zs-2s-colorado State Fair at
A creamery has been started at
Craig.
= new flour mill is to be erected at
Longmont.
Colorado's Red Cross total has
reached s1.ss3.os7.
Greeley is to have a new 100000
Presbyterian church.
The postoffice at Gunnison is to be
enlarged and remodeled.
An epson salt mine has been dis
covered north of Meeker.
Most of the men in the mines at
Rico struck for higher wages.
Commerce Club to strive to make
Pueblo 100 per ceRt 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-
ciation now consists OF thirty-two
members.
The Pueblo Commerce Club is con-
Quoting a campaign to increase its
membership.
The Methodist church at Oak Creek
is being improved by tho addition of
roomy gallery.
The new reduction mill in St. Elmo
cafion, Montezuma county, is approach
ing completion.
The Colorado Springs municipal au-
thorities have passed an ordinance to
prohibit loafinS.
Improvement Of the Floyd Hill road
between Denver and Idaho Springs
will begin shortly.
The Silver Bar mill at westcliffe
has been in operation making initial
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 Tomrey, superintendent OF
the ,Blistered Horn mine high UP in
Gunhison county. an old resident oil
Ti9 Cup district. is dead.
The acreage Of wheat in LarimeI
county has been increased 20 per cent,
that of barley, 35 per cent; oats. 20
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 Ar
IONA.
Many thousand of trout fry have
been ysent out from the state fish
Matching ponds and placed in streams
at Westcltffe, Florence, Texas creek
Salida, Buena Vista and Twin lakes.
Orders to begin construction within
the next ton days OF 100000 recuper
alton Red Croos building on the
grounds of tho Denver General Hos.
pitaI recuperation camp was received
by Merritt W. Gano Of Denver, direc.
tor of military relief Of the Western
division Of the American Red Cross.
Boston capital ia developing the Nc
Kenzie tungsten property near Neder.
land.
America First societies already
have been formed at Pueblo among
Slavonians, Croatians. Italians and
Greeks by the Americanization com.
mittee of the State Council Of De
Tense.
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 25.
The State Board of Live Stock in
spection has issued an emergency war
order that all veterinarians and
stock growers must report the exist
once OF 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 as quickly as possible. The
facilities for training nurses have
been increased twofold.
Richard Washington, Is years old, a