The Ordway new era., 1918-05-17

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| Association annual convention at
Denver.
July s-ls.Meeting National aa nasssr Assoria-
July 16-Repub.Ican State Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs. ,,,. -,
Pueblo.
Women carried flags in draft pa
rade at Pueblo
T. ]. Ladd, near Stonington, is to
plant eighty acres in beans.
Ordway sent east five carloads OF
beans and seven cars of alfalfa meal
in April.
Finishing work is being done on
new hospital for contagious diseases
at Colorado Springs.
The orchards in Canon City district
| now present a scene OF beauty, anu
those of Otero are not far behind.
Delta will be host 10 $50 Methodist
preachers who will hold their state
conference there the last week OF
August.
Many thousand of baby trout from
the state fish Matching tanks at Pit
kin We're placed in upper branches OF
| Gunnison river.
Puebloans spent $4,000 last month
for the erection of new residences.
| The city is said to be without va
cant residence.
The funeral services of Maj. Will
liam Cooke Daniels were held in New
York, according to dispatches re-
ceived in Denver.
Fowler made application for city
mail delivery and the postmaster has
notified that free delivery will begin
the first of next month.
The naval appropriation bill in
cludes funds for another enlargement
of the National Naval Hospital at Fort
Lyon, near Las Animas.
The Red Cross will benefit to the
extent of 100000 if the plans of the
directors of the National Western
Stock Show Association are carried
out.
The road from Fort Lupton through
Hudson to Virgins and Fort Morgan
has been graded and partially sur
| faced in Weld and Fort Morgan coun-
| ties.
| Three hundred workmen begal the
excavations for the administration
building and the permanent storage
building for the recuperation camp
near Denver.
In Morgan county the Platte river
road has been grayeled from the
Weld county line through Fort Nor
gan to Brush and to the Washington
| county line.
Washington, Yuma, Phillips, Logan
and Sedgwick counties have graded
and opened new north and south roads
connecting with the main east and
west highways. /.
Donald ]. Mcdonald, 5S. pioneer of
! Clear Creek county and former mem
ber of the Colorado Legislature, died
at Idaho Springs from asthma. He is
survived by his widow.
Ten thousand Denver people heard
Paul Perfgord, French hero. tell in viv-
i'd story. of bleeding France, and part
America is playing in war trenches at
the Denver Auditorium.
Sixty-five candidates took the super
excellent masters degree at stated
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Denver Council No. /. Royal and Sc
lect Masters. York Rite Masons.
Roosevelt tunne. at Cripple Creek
advanced $40 feet in April and the
flow of water is 5000 gallons a min
ute. The tunnel made 212 feet in the
Cresson drift and 1876 in Portland lat
eral.
In Logan county the Platte river
rad has been graded and graveled
throughout the entire county.
The Hayes and Company ore body
at the 1.1OO-foot level of the Vindica
tor Consolidated main shaft is now in
excess of rs feet in length and the
vein varies from IL to 80 feet in
width.
A total of 1898 women in Colorado
have registered for definite service
aud preparatory training necessary tc
insure efficiency in industrial, profes
sional, public and social service Incl
! dent to the demands of the war condi
tons.
World wide plans for world wide
Methodism in connection with the cen
tenary celebration of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will be laid before
Colorado Methodists by team o.
prominent Methodist missionaries ant
speakers.
Farmers living within twenty-foul
hours Of a military post who desire
the services of soldiers in farming
may secure furloughs for the number
of men they desire, according to the
provisions of general orders No. 81 o
the War Department.
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