The Elbert County tribune., 1919-01-17
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


many years Mrs Lewis has been =
sincere admircr OF the colonel. and
Eis recent illness worried her con-
stantly When she awoke she said
that she had dreamed that the colonel
had died while asleep. She insisted
on seeing a newspaper at once. and
only after reading 1t did Mrs. Lewis
feel more confident that 1t was but
dream and not premonition. But
twenty-four hours after that premoni-
tion, however. Mrs. Lewis read in
Mondays extras that Colonel Roose
welt had died that morning just as
she had dreamed.
The midwinter session of the Colo
RADIO Editorial Association will be held
this year on January 20 and 21 at the
luncheons has been planned and "a
banquet to the State Legislature at
the Albany hotel. After the banquet
there will be an old-fashioned dance.
During the business sessions w. A.
Patterson, managing editor of the
western Newspaper Union, will speak
on "The Responsibility of the Press in
the Reconstruction Period" j. l..
Cross, head of the Federal Reserve
Bank in Kansas City, will speak on
the governments methods in raising
the four Liberty Loan quotas and the
plans for the Fifth Liberty Loan
drive
The twenty-second annual copven.
ton of the American National Live.
stock Association will be held at the
Broadway theater Jan. 21. 22 and %.
The program of speakers includes
many prominent government officials
and livestock men. The convention
will be devoted to a discussion OF
topics of vital Importance to the graz
ing industry. Among the subjects for
consideration which are of local inter-
cst is the proposed advance in grazing
fees on national forests The ad-
vances were ordered by the secretary
of agriculture early In December OF
1913, and became effective Jan. l.
Major w. ]. Cameron. in charge of
Hospital, received word from Wash
ington to build nurses' infrmary,
costing $4,000 Plans for the new
structure are now being made and the
work will begin Immediately. Nurses
who have become i'll through their
work at hospitals over seas viii be
taken care of and given an opportunity
to get well at the armys big recuper-
alton camp near Aurora.
The youngest postofiice robber ever
handled by the postoiiice inspectors of
the local jurisdiction is under arrest
at Glenwood Springs. He is only II
years old. He slipped into the Glen
wood Springs postoffice through par
eel post drop Tuesday night, gathered
up a quantity of loot and was pre-
pairing to depart when an employe
of the office, returning to attend to
some unfinished business, discovered
and captured him.
Governor Shoup's address was one
of the shortest ever delivered for
Colorado Legislature and was as fol
lows: 81 have just been getting ac-
quainted with lot OF new friends. and
am ready to become acquainted with
lot of new responsibilities and duties.
which shall endeavor with your CO.
operation. to shape into success for
Colorado"
Twelve states-California Colorado,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Montana, Nebraska, North Da-
kota, Oregon and Utah-reported
surplus of common labor to the de-
partment of labor this week, as COM
pared with seven the week previous.
In the South there is a general short
age of labor in all trades, while the
belt from Connecticut to Minneapolis
shows surpluses in special branches.
City Commissioner Andrew W.
Frandsen was the first Montrose man
to be fined for violation of the new
quarantine regulations. His children
came down town and the commission
er was at once handed request to
appear before Justice w. ii. Franklin
He was fined $6.75. A daughter of
Mr.. Frandsen is ill with influenza.
The biennial report of State Labor
Commissioner has been submitted to
the members of the General Assembly.
The commissioner was the first state
official to provide a completed report
to the Legislature. 1t covers the work
Of the various branches of the State
Labor Department mt for the biennial pc
riod and contains number of recon-
mendations for changes in the labor
laws of Colorado. The report shows
that 52.1S2 men and women were
placed in jobs free of charge to them
by the State Labor Bureau This is an
increase of more than 10000 over the
preceding biennial period.
Colorado's early days and her
growth since 1862 will be recalled to
Denver people if bill being prepared
by Representative Boon Best and
Speaker Allyn Cole of the House be-
comes law. For they propose to bring
to Denver and set up on the capitol
grounds the little cabin used by Colo
RADIO legislators as the first capitol in
territorial days.
DR.. Bennett Graft, Denver physi.