The Elbert County tribune., 1918-07-19
COLORADO MfWa norxa.

PRECEDENT: Miss Halle q. Brown. VIII
.berforce. Ohio. vice president at large;
Georgia Nugent. Louisville. KY. chair
man executive committee; Mrs. c. r.
Mcdonald. Kansas City. treasurer;
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown of
North Carolina. corresponding secre-
tary: Roberta ]. Dunbar. Providence,
r. l.. recording secretary; Mrs. Alice
d. Webb. Denver. second secretary:
Mrs. Dorcas Watson, Pueblo. chaplain.
The threshermen OF Boulder county
met at the Commercial Association
rooms in Longmont and formed an or
ganization to establish standard
| price for threshing and fix wage
scale. II is expected that considerable
| difficulty will be experienced in secur-
Ing labor to carry on the work and the
threshermen will cooperate in secur-
ing men and teams, each paying the
same wage. Twelve cents per bushei
was fixed as the price for all shock
threshing, the question of stack
threshing to be decided later Men
will be paid $3.50 day and board and
$3.50 per day for man and team.
! John Beard. switchman on the San
Il lodging house in the center of Pueb-
| To- Five shots we're fired into his
body. Frank Yeager. switchman on
the Rio Grande. was arrested, charged
/ with the killing Yeager's story is
that he suspected Beard of intimacy
with his wife and went to the lodging
house to warn Beard TO keep away
! from his home. Beard ordered him
! from the place, he says. and reached
! for his revolver, Yeager states that he
I then fired
I Seven hundred draft men from Colo
RADIO will be entrained for Camp Ere
mont during the five-day period begin.
4 ming Aug. 5. and 1,500 will be sent to
Fort Logan during the same time. ac-
| cording to orders received from Wash
ington by Provost Marshal Evans. The
men are to be selected from Glass 1
of tha June, 1917. registrants. Those
in the 1918 class may voluntarily en-.
list. or may be invountarily inducted
into service II the Class OF 1917 ia
exhausted.
| Owing to lack of support the Loretto
convent at Conejos has closed aud the
sisters have gone to other localities.
1 The convent was established at Cone
| JOS when that place was the hub OF
the universe 1860. and was, no doubt,
the first convent built in the state OF
Colorado. five years after the construc.
| tion OF the Conejos church which is
one of the historical figures of the
state. lslal.s.5-. al-.9rt
Norman Lockhart, 38, lies at the
| point of death at the County hospital.
after having fallen from swiftly NOV
! ing automobile near Riverside ceme-
terry on the Brighton road, following
an alleged alteration with the driver
| OF the machine, Joseph Nolan.
special committee has been ap--
pointed by the Longmont Commercial
Association to cooperate with the
highways transportation committee OF
the State Council OF Defense in the
matter Of utilizing motor truck trans
portation on short hauls.
Denver, Colorado Springs, Trinidad,
Pueblo and Grand Junction were
placed on a sugar ration basis Mon
day and the balance of the state will
be on Aug! /, according to announce
ment made by the Federal Food Ad-
ministration for Colorado.
Tuskegee. Ala. was selected for the
silver jubilee convention of the Ma
tional Association of Colored Women,
to be held two years hence, 1920, by
the officers OF the association in ex-
ecutive session at Denver.
Aug. /. Is Colorado day" and It will
| be celebrated with an elaborate cere-
mony to be participated in by the peo-
! pie of Denver. at Washington park In
| patriotic manner. t
| Twenty-Five boys have gone from
Colorado Springs to Fort Collins to re-
| ceiye special farm school training at
the State Agricultural College.
| Production made in June by Iessees
OF the United Gold Mines Company OF
Cripple Creek totaled seventy broad
gauge cars. approximating $500 tons
Estimating the average gold content
at ons ounce to the ton, the bullion
value of the ore was about $4,000.
| Miss Mayfield Perryman of Denver
is the first woman to be appointed to
clerkship in the United States rail-
way mail service in the West.
Five sons in service and a sixth
Just rarin' to gn' is the war record
OF which Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hurley
OF Fort Lupton. are proud. ~ t|
Work will be started at once to re-
habilitate the Moffat Road from the
money made available by the govern
mentis loan OF s1.300.0O0. 3D.. ff,t...i.
Fifty thousand of the 3150,O0O
pledged by the Woman's War Savings
Stamp army to complete Denver's quo.
ia has been raised.
First regiment Of mining engineers
with headquarters at Golden is