The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-08-08
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMMA EyENTS

Sept. Mining Engineers meeting in
Denver.
ence of Colorado NJ. L. Church at
Delta.
Sept 4-5-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept. 19-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
Sept. z3-2s-Colorado State Fair at
SEPT &uxo. ss-s'-h'n''iA County Fair at
Hail did much damage to crops in
Morgan county.
A 243-foot well has been drilled on
the Snyder ranch at Rock Creek.
The gold dredge at Breckenridge
produced $4,000 in gold in one week.
shipping 1865 tons OF moiybdenum ore
daily.
A car OF vinegar was shipped to
Grand Junction from the Morrisania
ranch.
C. X. -Monfort sold his eightyacre
farm six miles northwest OF Greeley
for 100000.
The condition of the sugar beet crop
In the Loveland di0trict IL reported the
best in years.
Russell II. Fish. son Of Mrs. Leora
Fish of Denver, has enlisted in the
signal corps.
The city Of Greeley may build 81
900 garage and purchase a $1,000 sprin-
kler and truck.
Edward Crawford. s. was drowned
in the Platte river. near Fifth and
Waxes streets. Denver.
Full military honors were accorded
Cadet John Francis Carney OF Denver
at the funeral and burial
John l.. Roberts of Idaho Springs
is reported n severely wounded In
the casualty list given out Aug. 1.
Lieut.. 8. E. Mckeown of Fort Col
Inns is among those on the missing
in-action men ON Gen Pershing's re-
port.
VIM. Myers WAS convicted at Brock
anridgs Of dynamitlng fish. and was
fined 500 and sentenced to six months
in Jail.
Mrs. Josephine Tush of Denver
ended her life by taking poison while
in q fit of dependency over the death
of her son.
Mrs. Mabel Egender. 46. wife OF
Hugo Egender OF Denver, was shot and
probably fatally wounded by her g.
year-old son. Charles.
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.
Colorado's quota OF unskilled labor
ers for war work has been fixed at
5,175 men by the United States free
employment service at Washington.
Married forty years. Wilbur G. Nor
row has filed suit for divorce in Den
yer District Court against Mrs. Ellen
c. Morrow on the ground Of desertion.
Bean ougs, or beetles. or whatever
you choose to call them-they are just
rs destructive by one name as another
are In full attack upon Denver's war
gardens.
The plan for a reunion of the Metal
Mining association at a meeting at
Ward is meeting with hearty response
among the loyal citizens OF that camp
and of the members at Boulder.
jamestown and the Four-Mile as well.
Thomas B. Stearns. federal food ad-
ministrator for Colorado. received a
supplementary order from Washington
releasing the housewives OF Colorado
from the voluntary pledges made by
them to refrain from the use OF wheat
flour or products.
A hotel and alfalfa mill are under
construction at Cook.
Display of flags Of the allies and par
ticipation in programs Of tribute to the
soldiers of Colorado who are fighting
in France were suggested to the citi-
zens by Governor Gunter in his Colo
RADIO day proclamation.
Lieut.. Col. w. c. Danks has been
ordered to Camp Devens to command
the Sevonty-sixth division. which. it
is understood, will see duty overseas
shortly. With the order comes pro-
motion to the rank Of colonel for the
Denver officer.
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-
eer 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
the flying section of the aviation
service.
James ]. Manuel, negro messenger
in the offica of state Auditor Charles