The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
COMING EVENT
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

COMING EVENTS.
May 14-16-Colorado Sunday School
Association annual convention at
July e"sels5 "ss,eils5-Meoting National Associa-
Sept. 2s-ssWcoiorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Loyalty to his country and a desire
to do his part in spite of his advanced
years were the direct cause of the
death of James Barton Adams, one of
the earliest and best known newspa-
per men Denver has known and a
western poet whose work has been
read from coast to coast, who died in
Vancouver, Wash. Mr.. Adams oele-
brated his seventy-fifth birthday on
April IT,. A widow and son survive.
THE world needs boys more just at
present than 1t does girls. Give us
soldiers" is the cry of the allies" This
opinion recently has been often ex-
pressed by T. H. Walker, correspond
ent in Denver for the Associated
Press. Proof that Mr.. Walker believes
in the opinions he expresses was given
when an eight-pound boy was born to
Mrs. Walker. The count now is two
boys and two girls.
Nickels and dimes the boys and
girls are saving for July fireworks
and crackers are to go toward thrift
war stamps, if the plan of Capt. John
Evans, director of the stamp savings
program in Colorado, is carried to
conclusion.
Colorado people on April 23rd had
invested more than $21,000,00O in
United States bonds of the Third Lib
erty loan-both Denver and the state
exceeding their quotas.
Word has been received of the death
of Jacob Schueler, SO, pioneer Of Colo
rado, at his home in Colorado Springs.
He had lived in Colorado fifty-seven
years.
Hosa lodge, Denver's new pavilion
on Genesee mountain in the mountain
parks will be open May Is, and the
formal opening will be Decoration day.
A veritable plague of epidemics has
spread over Brighton. Many children
are ill with whooping cough, measles,
scarlet fever and pneumonia.
Costilla county's quota was S27, 100,
total subscriptions exceeded Sal, 900
during the first week of the campaign
and are still coming in.
Federal approval of eight post road
projects in the state has been an
nounced, the work entailing an ex-
penditure of s556.OOO.
Women of Montrose are exhibiting
1900 garments which they have made
for shipment to the destitute children
of France and Belgium.
The finding of ten-foot vein Of
potash on the old Lykins ranch in the
foothills near Longmont has caused
considerable interest.
Edgar ]. Bancroft has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Palisade, sue
ceeding w. D. Newton, who died
several months ago.
Many Colorado women will attend
the General Federation of Women's
Club meetings at Hot Springs, Ark,
April 20 to May 10.
The Fall river road in Grand county
will be improved and worked with
steam shovel, and five miles of new
road will be built.
Nearly every county in the state had
oversubscribed its quota for Third
Liberty Loan bonds week before the
campaign closed.
Ornamental metal posts are being
distributed on streets of Grand juno
tion in preparation for a white way"
Beet growers of the Loveland dis
trict voted to urge the planting of
more beets for the present season.
P.L. Balfe, Jr., convicted in the Dis
trict Court at Littleton, Feb. A, 1917,
of unlawfully handling intoxicating
liquors, has appealed the case to the
Supreme Court.
The bridge across Wolf creek has
been completed. The bridge is just
east of Mount Harris, and has span
of fifty-four feet.
Mineral water, highly acid in quality,
was discovered at depth of over g.
200 feet in the Columbine oil we'll near
Pueblo.
The Mountain Top Mining Company
of Telluride shipped a carload of ore
to the Salida smelter which netted $5,-
230.77
Nine million dollars has been loaned
to farmers residing in the territory
covered by the Wichita, Kan, land
bank.
Fremont county has to its credit
in the third Liberty loan the sum of
s525,OOO. The quota fixed was $751;
500.
DR.. Ranulph Hudston left Denver
for Camp Cody, N. M, to resume
active duty with Base Hospital No.