The Ordway new era., 1918-09-13

Brighton
Sept. ls-Beaver Park fair at Penrose
sept. 23-2s-Coiorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Sept, 3s-ss-Lineoin County Fair at
Sept. 26-2s.-Grand County fair and
race meeting.
Oct Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
Burglars looted hardware store at
Englewood.
A heavy snow fell in the San Juan
country on the Sd.
Walter ii. Newton, of Arvada, won
sergeants commission at Camp
Lee, Va.
The Denver City Council passed the
6-cent street car fare ordinance. and
1t was signed by Mayor Mills.
Operations have commenced on the
Flagler group at Georgetown under
the direction of the Star Tunnel and
Mining Company.
A large crowd was present at the
opening of the Fort Morgan Frontier
Day celebration, notwithstanding the
rainy weather.
The Anvil Leasing Company at Sill
verton that has been leasing the Com
ing Wonder mine on Anvil mountain
has seen fit to put on night shift.
All prizes in the agricultural and
livestock department at the Boulder
county fair at Longmont were paid in
thrift and war savings stamps.
During the last fifteen days in Aug
ust inheritance tax col ect i o $
amounted to s4.4GO.O1. The current
biennial period brought a total Of
$573,173.71.
I'VE Have the Hun on the RUM"
That sign, carried at the head of a
marching labor unit, was the keynote
of Denver's greatest Labor Day
parade.
John Melardvich, Austrian, 30 years
old, miner at the Big Four near Wal
senburg, was arrested on the charge
of advising men not to join the United
States, army.
Word was received at the Denver
chapter of the American Red Cross
that Surgeon General Gorgas of the
United States army has issued a call
for 5000 additional nurses.
Helen Grimm. 43 years old, COM
mitted suicide at Edgewater by shoot
ing herself through the head. Des-
pondency over ill health was given by
her father and mother as the motive
Five delegates from Denver are to
attend the International Farm Con-
gress in Kansas City Oct. 16 to &c as
representatives of the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association.
Otto F. Thum was appointed statis-
tician in the State Labor Bureau by
Secretary of State James r. Noland.
He succeeds Clarence ]. Moorhouse.
who enlisted in the quartermasters
division.
George A. RAIDER of West Cliff is
reported severely wounded in the cas-
ualty list from France. In the list
Francis D. Harvey of Brush and Harry
T. Johnson of Malta are reported miss
ing in action.
A convention which will have a roll
call of $500 delegates will be that
of the Colorado grand chapter of the
Eastern Star, which will convene in
the Denver Auditorium Sept. is for a
two days session.
Cleworth E. Glasco, private, New
Mexico Military Institute, of Grand
Junction. and Paul H. Grunig. corporal,
Company E, Thirty-sixth infantry.
Fort Smelling, of Hotchkiss. were
given commissions as second lieuten-
ants at Camp Grant, Ill.
Three sheep sold for the Red Cross
at the Denver stock yards stadium
netted the society $3.50.
Ivan ]. Rocker of Fort Collins, in
the Sept. 4 casualty list, was an en-
ploye of the sugar factory there, en-
listing Feb. rs. 1917, and took his
Christmas dinner on board transport
while on his way to France.
The first hospital corps of twenty.
four men to be placed in charge OF
the Denver general hospital No. 81. at
Aurora, arrived in Denver from Fort
Riley, Kan. Within the next few days
$50 more men are expected.
Mrs. Oliver N. Goodson of Fort Col.
Inns was notified Sept. by the War
Department that her husband. Oliver
N. Goodson, was wounded in action
Aug. 6. He enlisted Feb. last, and
was trained at Camp Green. His wKe
waived claim of exemption.
A committee representing the Colo
RADIO Federation of Labor called on
Governor Gunter to obtain his ap'
proval of plan whereby commits
sion representing the labor interests
and the interests of business shall
be appointed to consider proposed
changes in laws affecting the indus
trial compensation act.
Russell Roberts of Loveland is re-
portad missinp in action n tqleRram IN