The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-05-03

Association annual convention at
July s-13-Meeting National Associa-
tiqp of Colored Women IN Denver.
Sept 23-2s-Colorado State Fair at
A bean elevator is to be built at
Rocky Ford.
Bean elevators may be erected at
Holly. Las Animas and Trinidad.
Over 5000 recruits will arrive at
Fort Logan during the first half Ut
May.
One hundred and twenty-one farm
labor exchanges have been established
in Colorado.
The Nathrop flour mill at Salida has
been closed until the arrival of the
new wheat crop.
The total for the third Liberty loan
April 30 stood close to the 26,000,000
mark in Colorado.
Colorado Springs has entered the
field for the installing of a dehydra-
ton plant In that city.
The Columbia Oil and Shale Com
pany of Grand Valley will erect a
plant for the refining of it's product
1t has been announced that the Uni
versity of Denver will send twenty-five
men to the next officers training
camp.
The First Colorado Women's regi-
ment was organized by twenty-five
women and girls at meeting in Den
yer.
The Independent Union of Mine
Workers met at Walsen and organ
ICED Local No. II with about fifty
members.
There were $500 permits for liquor
Issued by the Denver county clerk in
March. and there was s2,929.50 paid
in for the permits.
Liberty bonds to the value of $685.
$50 have been subscribed for in the
Third Liberty Loan campaign by Den
yer postoffice employees.
Charles Schermer and Stanley Kol-
man of Cripple Creek and Joseph
Schrieber of Victor were arrested on
charge of sedious differences.
The Colorado Highway Commission
will begin the publication, June /, of
monthly bulletin giving information
as to disbursements and undertakings
of that department.
Members of organized labor have
begun drive on Washington officials
through petitions and letters for the
establishment of an army cantonment
at Fort Logan barracks.
William T. Clark, under indictment
in the Federal Court for impersonat-
ing an officer and violation of the
Mann white slave act, was taken to
Denver from Galveston, Tex
Several thousand signatures were
obtained by the women of the eighth
district, W. C. T. u, on the petition
to hsaxthe bone dry" amendment put
on the, ballot sheet next fall
The Hdams county commissioners
are contemplating the expenditure of
$4,000 on improving the Brighton
road; bridges will also be constructed
over Kiowa and Clear creeks.
Benjamin B. Brown, 60. for twenty
years president of the Western Nation
al bank of Pueblo, died at Pueblo
hospital Brown had just returned
AASAAA 1AiihOics WhCiC nc WCnt lOi tuS
benefit of his health.
Leslie Fraser, aged years, son of
James Fraser, feeder, was drowned
in cistern at his home five miles east
of Fort Collins. His mother, who
jumped into the cistern after him
when she saw him fall, was badly in
jured.
Twenty-three young men, compris-
ing the quota from Logan county in
the-1atest cali for the National Army.
leg Sterling for Camp Funston. A
celebration in their honor was held
in the Methodist church.
At meeting in Denver, John F.
Vivian of Golden was elected chair
man of the Republican State Central
committee to succeed Philip B. Ste
wart, who resigned to devote his time
to war work. L. e. Girard of Boulder
succeeds Vivian as secretary of the
committee.
The rear wheels of fire truck
broke at Colorado Springs when the
machine was called to fire at the
city hall. One fireman was killed and
two seriously injured w. F. Hunds-
doerfer. captain. received & fractured
skull when the truck turned over on
him and was instantly killed.
Seven hundred young American sol
diers, as husky an aggregation as has
ever been seen in Denver. arrived
from Camp Logan, Houston, Texas,
paraded in four companies up Seven
teenth street for a few blocks. and
then boarded train OF twenty-five
coaches bound for Camp Lewis, Wash.