The Ordway new era., 1919-01-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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| COMING EVENTS.
JAM 2o-al-Mid-wints meeting o.
Colorado Editorial Association a.
Jan. si-as-westera Stock show At
Jan. n.si-si-Mseting American National
Live Stock Association At Denssr-
The Greeley postoffice was looted
Of $4,000 in stamps.
Routt county was the ninth 70 60
over In the war savings drive.
Colorado stone Is being urged for
use in the Durango public building.
Fifty cases Of influenza were re-
ported TO the reformatory at Buena
Vista.
After q vacation since Oct. 8. the
school children of Denver return 70
their studies Thursday. Jan. 2.
Oswald C. Brewster. son of Mr.. ana
Mrs. James II. Brewster of Denver
received the croix de gueTrc for brav'
cry in action.
George Knorr. driver of an automo-
bile filled with whisky. Wines and
champagne, valued at $4,000. was ar
rested in Denver.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Assoc
citation held a reception in honor OF
Mrs.. Oliver H. Shoup. wife OF the gov
ernor-elect, in Denver.
The Mt. Logan Mining and Refining
Company, seven or eight miles nortn
of DsBeque. has established camp at
the base of Mt. Logan.
The American Shale Company mas
. camp fourteen miles north OF Do
Beque, on Conn creek. an eastern
tributary Of Roam creek.
John wollum Of Evans has proved
that tobacco can be raised there. He
has 100 stalks of tobacco stored In
his home that has been grown this
year.
The Boulder County Metal Miners
Association passed resolutions favor
ing n rigid blue sky" law. and asked
the Legislature TO pass such a
measure.
Nearly $4,000 was reported on the
opening day OF the campaign OF the
Denver Federation for Charity and
Philanthropy TO raise $115,00O for Its
1919 budget.
Twenty-Five .appointive officers OF
the state house presented to Cover
nor Gunter silver centerpiece set as
token of the friendly relations en-
joyed through the administration.
The 500 crippled soldiers now fight
ing slowly back to health in the gem
teral hospital at Aurora are in need OF
music, need scarcely appreciated by
the citizen In good health whose
photograph is constantly on hand.
Shipment of seed beans from the
Eaton district is being delayed be-
cause of the impossibility to get cars.
according to one bean seed dealer.
who says he has been trying for over
. week to get . car for shipping pur-
poses.
The soldiers at the recuperation
camp at Aurora were entertained at
the Red Cross rooms in Denver by the
FL Jebel Shrine band Of forty pieces,
which rendered q concert with a pro-
gram OF patriotic and popular selec-
tons.
Denver's intensive campaign to
raise 100000, its share of the states
quota of 3260.o0O for the relief Of the
suffering Syrians and Armenians. IL
rapidly taking form. The campaign
will start Jan. IL and continue for one
week.
Three Civil Service Commissions.
instead Of one, may concern them
nelvss over the welfare of 1900 state
employees before the legal questions
arising out Of the adoption OF tho
amendmeat recsatly By the voters are
decided.
The Greeley police and postal In
spectors are stin without trace of the
person or persons who looted the
Greeley postoffice of war savings
stamps- to an amount now estimated
after careful checking As betwesn
$ss. 900 and $4,000.
Legislators to the Twenty-second
General Assembly assembled for bust
ness on New Year day. an occasion
routine OF legislatures. The Law pro-
vides that the legislature shall meet
on the first Wednesday in January.
The Colorado State Council of De
tense has taken up the advisability OF
utilizing the facilities installed at the
State University and State Agricul-
tural College for training soldiers pre-
paratory to service. and converting
them into training camps for both in
dustrial vocation and farming educa-
ton.
The Hall ranch. comprising 1.10o
acres OF land between Colorado
Springs and Fountain. has beenDsold
by David Hall. son of the original
owner, to Martin Bender. The con-
siderAtion was $4,000. A large dairy
farm Is to be conducted by Bender.