The Colorado statesman., 1918-05-25

ton at COloTauO GplAhbes
Sept. 2s-2S-Colorado state Fair at
Pueblo.
Arvada raised $3.50 at Red Cross
dance.
Englewood gave $1,000 on the first
day OF the Red Cross drive.
Ten thousand paraders opened the
Red Cross drive for 100000 in Den
yer.
Logan county went "over the top"
in the first days drive for the lieu
Cross.
Eads oversubscribed its quota for
the Red Cross on the opening day OF
the drive.
The Four-Minute-Men of Colorado
planned greater work for this year at
a state conference in Denver.
Daughters of the American Revolu'
ton of the state of Colorado have pur-
chased a car for the use of Base Hos
pital No. 20.
Lieut.. T. S. Abbot, formerly of Tel
luride, member of the American expe'
dictionary force in France, is in Ger
man army prison.
The LeadvilIe debating team won
the championship of the COLORADO
High School Debating league at the
contest held at Boulder.
Enrolment of the Colorado junior
reserves, to be composed OF boys De-
tween the ages of 16 and lS years.
will continue for ten days.
service flag, bearing twenty-one
stars, one of them representing Father
Donovan, the former pastor, was raised
at st. Philomena's church in Denver.
The Table Mountain Red Cross re-
allied 1868 from a combined auction
sale and chicken dinner at Altoona
grange hall ten miles northwest OF Nj
wot.
Great crowds of relatives and friends
gave a "Good-by and God bless you
to 437 draft men from Denver as they
left for the Fort Logan receiving de-
pot.
Word of the safe arrival in France
of Miss Agnes Vale, a Denver girl
who will do canteen work with the Red
Cross overseas, was received in ca
blegram.
The town of Bristol in Prowers coun-
ty has marked up record of 7O0
per cent over subscription in the Third
Liberty loan campaign, or eight times
its allotment.
The body of Sergeant Robert Ford
son of ]. e. Ford of Grand Junction,
was brought back from Fort Sill where
he died of burns caused by an explo-
sion of gasoline.
A man or mine is not to be ignored
or condemned merely because of age.
In the Dante, one of the first mines
opened on Bull hill thirty years ago,
twenty-ounce ore is now being tapped
at 600 feet.
Immediately after w. F. R. Mills
was sworn in as mayor of Denver to
succeed the late Robert w. Speer, he
appointed James A. Burnett as man.
ager of the department of parks and
improvements.
Following three-day conference be-
tween employers and union officials,
under the supervision of the state util-
tiles commission, the striking Denver
teamsters, who had been out two
weeks, went back to work.
There are fourteen employees at the
Denver postoffice who served under
Robert w. Speer when he was post
master from 1885 to 1889, according
to Isaac p Kelley, superintendent OF
carriers, who is one of the twelve.
Colorado women sold $5,126,350
worth of Third Liberty Loan bonds.
Suits involving the title to large
areas of ground in the Climax molyb-
denite field, which are TO be heard be-
fore the state Supreme Court in June,
have held up work of the Pingrey
Mines company, the third big operator
that has entered the molybdenite area.
An innovation has been introduced
by the Portland Gold Mining company
in the employment of women chemists
at both the independence and Victor
mills, to take the place of the younger
men, former employees of the company,
who have been called into the service
of the United States by the draft.
In accordance with resolution
passed at the recent meeting of the
Republican state central committee, a
committee was appointed by w. A.
Dollison, chairman of Denver county,
to draft platform for the guidance of
candidates and voters in the state
election. Members of the committee
are Judge Julian H. Moore of the Dis
trict Court, chairman; Charles W. Wa
terman, William V. Hodges, Judge
George w. Allen of the Supreme
Court, Henry ]. Hersey, E. M. Grams
ton and Wilbur F. Cannon.
A verdict of s2S,5O0 was returned
against the Denver & Rio Grande