The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-21
Pithy News Notes
From AUParts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Cast Oh Olney mas DeSun.
Mrs. Ella Altvater, 28, wife of Coun-
ty Treasurer Henry P. Altvater, died
in Central City.
Logan county with production and
sale, of 1.795.22O pounds of beans
claims the pennant.
Brick are being hauled from Monte
Vista to the State Soldiers home, to
be used in building new cottages.
A seven-foot vein of coal has been
opened on the Roubideau about two
miles above the Nucla-Delta road
crossing.
Charles Robertson, aged 80, died at
the county hospital in Denver as a re-
suit of shock caused by fall through
a fire escape.
Mrs. Kate Rice, widow of the late
Rufus Rice, who came to Colorado IN
1860, died at her home near Longmont
at the age of rs.
The price of lump coal was cut 25
cents ton at Pueblo under the gov
ernment order reducing the price of
coal at the mine.
Within few weeks all fire insur.
subject to 10 per cent increase over
the customary rate.
The Denver Rotary Club voted unan-
imously to send Jim Goodheart to
France to serve as a chaplain in the
trenches six months.
Jim Goodheart, Denver's city chap
lain, applied to Mayor Speer for six
N a no wi cto orf
for France soon as the spiritual envoy
of the Rotary Club.
One hundred draft registrants, who
have been drafted as chauffeurs and
mechanics, left Denver for the aero
station OF the signal corps at San An
tonic. Texas.
Farm laborers of northern and north
eastern Colorado are to be offered ev-
cry inducement by farmers this spring
to remain in those sections and stimu-
late increased crop production.
Women of Denver made 17S,645 sur
gical dressings, 5,516 hospital gar
ments and 9,305 knitted garments in
February. according to the official re-
port OF the Denver chapter of the Red
Cross.
Howard Holiday of Denver, a fly
ing cadet at Kelly field at San Anto-
nio. Tex. was killed. when his aero
plane fell 1000 feet. He was return
ing from a cross-country flight. His
mother Is Mrs. Duncan A. Holiday of
Denver.
The Colorado Land Board adopted 4
standard house to be erected on the
$500 school tracts that are under lease
with the idea Of avoiding confusion in
appraising property classed as i'm
provements.. The frame cottage to be
erected by the tenant contains four
rooms. has most of the modern con-
veniences and will cost about $1,000.
Five heirs to the estate OF the late
John F. Richter, who reside in Ger
many, will have a special interest in
the conclusion of the war. BY order
Of Judge Ira C. Rothgerber. in the Den
yer County Court, the beQuests which
they were allowed by the terms OF the
will, are not to be paid until ordered
by the court-which means until after
the war.
According to an estimate made by
Elmer e. Lucas, chairman of the hotel
and restaurant division of the Colo
RADIO food administration, Colorado res
taurants have saved within the past
three months 305,323 pounds of meat.
200.822 pounds of wheat flour. and 84.-
983 pounds of sugar. The savings for
February are 40 per cent higher than
those for December or January
Immediately following the war boys
will be born in greater proportion to
girls than ever before in history, ac-
cording to Miss Lydia Meeker. head of
the Meeker School for Detectives in
Denver and recognized among sociolo-
gists as an authority on the care and
education of defective children. She
addressed the Mothers Congress at
meeting in the Womans Club build
ing in Denver.
The report of the special beet sugar
commission appointed by Herbert
Hoover was made public by the food
administration. According to w. D.
Hoover of the Great Western Sugar
Company, the terms granted to far
mers are more liberal than the sugar
companies have been paying. The
commission places 50 a ton as a min
imum price for beets with IL to IA per
cent sugar content, but adds that q
minimum Of $40 probably will be found
necessary to get the production to a
full normal acreage.
Cars are In great demand by the op-
orators holding contracts for removal
of the dumps on properties of the
Stratton estate.
The trial of Philip Cohen. charged