Gilpin observer., 1918-08-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
ooMING EVENTS,

COMING EVENTS.
Aug 1a-1+colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown. es
Sept. Aiming Engineers meeting in
Sept. Fifty sixth annual confer
sncs Of Colorado M. n. Church at
Sept. 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept. 19-Bsaver Park fair at Psnross
Sept. 33-2s-Colorado State Fair 1t
Sept. 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair At
Seventy-five boys were sent to work
on farms in Ell Paso county in twelve
lays.
The condition of the sugar beet crop
best in years.
Russell H. Fish. son of Mrs. Leora
Fish of Denver, has enlisted In the
signal corps.
Edward Crawford. 8. was drowned
In the Platte river. near Fifth and
Wa1ee streets, Denver.
The school boards are being used In
Montrose county for formation of COM
munity councils OF defense.
Community councils of defense have
been organised at Baldwin and
=. 1sted Butte in Gunnison county.
Lieut.. S. E. McKeown of Fort Col
Inns is among those on the missing
ln-action men on Gen. Pershing's re-
port.
Colorado's Four Minute Men spoke
to more than $4,000 people in 134
towns and cities during the War Saw
mgs Stamp campaign.
The Gunnison Normal school u do
voting two hours every day to war
work. the boys drilling and the girls
doing Red Cross work.
lafayette M. Hughes, appointed less
than . year ago by Governor 0unter
az a member of the State Highway
Commission. has resigned.
Ruth Benson. 4. was crushed By an
auto while crossing the road In Wash
ington park, while attending the big
Colorado day celebration in Denver.
Lightless nights on Mondays and
Tuesdays have been ordered by the
Colorado fuel administration. in oom-
pliance with orders from Washington.
The harvesting Of wheat. rye. hay
and other crops il we'll under way In
all Of the agricultural communities, ac
cording to reports submitted to the
Colorado Council of Defense by coun-
ty agricultural agents.
Five America First" societies have
been organized by the Americanisation
committee Of the State Council Of De-
tense among foreigners in Pueblo, and
others have been formed in Las Ami
mas county. in Denver and In Lead
vile.
Lieut.. Col. w. G. Danks has been
ordered to Camp Devens to command
the Seventy-sixeh division, which. 1t
is understood. will see duty overseas
shortly. With the order comes pro-
motion to the rank of colonel for the
Denver officer.
A. result Of the thirty-day ticket
extension period granted by Director
General of Railroads William g. Nc
Adoo. more than twenty officials OF
the state and national Organizations
of Sons Of Confederate Veterans prom.
ised to visit Denver upon the compile
ton Of tho national convention At
Tulsa, Okla.
j. M. Collins has reported to Gov.
ernor Gunter and the State Council Of
Defense that all il being done that can
be done to aid the farmers In handling
their bumper wheat crop after harvest.
He was chairman Of q special com.
mittee appointed by the governor to
make suggestions for any additional
help that could be given the growers.
John L. Roberts Of Idaho Springs
is reported as severely wounded in
the casualty list given out Aug. 1.
To increase motor truck freight
service as a relief for railroad con.
gestion, the highways transport com.
mittee osthe State Council of Defense
has established return loads bureaus
at Lamar, Las Animas, La Junta.
Rocky Ford. Pueblo, Colorado Springs.
Denver, Loveland. Berthoud and Long.
mont. Others will soon be established
In eastern counties and on the west
ern slope.
Five Colorado men were awarded
commissions by the War Department.
according to the announcement re-
ceived In Denver. They are Locke N.
Lemert Of Golden. second lieutenant:
Rudolph Sigmund Winer. Lafayette.
second lieutenant. both In the engin-
Ger corps; Emerson Lincoln Ais.
worth, Ordway. second lieutenant in
the Quartermaster's corps; William
Kelly Harding. Denver, second lieu
tenant in the flying section Of the
aviation service. and Edward Thomp-
son. Lowstutter. second lieutenant in
TIE flying section Of the aviation