Gilpin observer., 1919-04-17
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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Little Deer creek, eight miles south OF
Bear creek, has been bought By the
city Of Denver for $1,000, and will be
opened to picnickers this summer. The
land Is for the most part level meadow
land covered with cottonwood trees.
Negotiations are now under way to
procure more Of the Little Deer creek
bottom for the city. 1t being recog-
nized as ideal for campers. It ID
planned to improve roads leading to
the new acquisition.
Children in the Denver public schools
bought nearly half a million dollars
worth Of thrift and war savings
stamps between Dec. 8, 1917, and
March 81, 1919, according to the re-
port of O. M. Schenck, custodian for
the stamps in school district No. 1.
During that time thrift cards have
been exchanged for war savings
stamps to the value of $89,9SO. The
total purchases by school children in
Denver of thrift and savings stamps
were $435,976.2o, the report shows.
Englewood voters adopted an 1900
bond issue for the erection of a new
high school building. The vote was ap-
proximately to 1 in favor of the
move. Work ON the new school will be
started this spring, and It Is expected
it will be ready for occupancy by the
opening Of the fall term. The struc-
ture will probably be two stories in
height, with basement. It will be
one Of the most modern school houses
in the state, according to present
plans.
Without knowing that his name was
being considered for the position, and
never making application for same.
Rev. @. w. Gray of Mead, while not
even residing in the state and having
been gone for twenty months, was ap-
pointed by the governor Of Pennsyl-
vania as chaplain Of the prison at Phil
adelphia at a salary of 81 300 a year.
He will continue his pastoral year at
Mead and return to the East in the
fall.
The Caribou district of Boulder
county is experiencing a decided re-
vival and more ore is now coming from
the camp than in many years past.
Nearly all of the famous old producers
are again active and have been
brought to fresh producrIon, or will be
by work now under way. n. G. New
ton is assembling material for an early
resumption on his group. and many
others In the field are in shape to
make the summer productive one.
The Victory Loan campaign will
formally launched in Denver at a pa
triotic rally and mass meeting to be
held in the auditorium the evening
of April 22nd, which will be addressed
by Billy Sunday in the first of Sc
ries Of speeches to be delivered by
him over the United States under the
auspices and Mt the request of the
United States treasury officials hav-
ing the national campaign in charge.
Denver architects will compete for
the honor of providing plans for the
Voorhies memorial gateway to the
Civic Center, to be constructed on the
Bates triangle at cost of 100000. A
in charge of the building of
this memorial to the late John h. P.
voorhies met in Mayor Mills office
and decided that such competition Is
according to the rules Of the
Denver architects organization.
The hunt for bootleggers in Colora-
do 10 not to be relaxed because of the
action Of the Colorado Legislature in
the closing days of the session, Colo
mel Allen, head of the department, has
Instead, the force along
the Wyoming Colorado line will be In
creased and the commander states that
the law evaders will find 1t more
difficult task to get liquor to Denver
than in the past.
The people of Logan county will be
called on to vote on another school
bond issue on May 9th. This time it
is for $65,000 for dormitory, mainly
for use of children from the country
the Logan County Industrial
Arts High School at Sterling.
James B. Ballinger is soldier from
Mead, who was In the thick Of the
In France, and was SO Sc
riously wounded and shot up that 1t
was feared for several months that he
could not recover. Ballinger was
about as near a human wreck when
the surgeons began on him as can be
Imagined, and now he is able to re-
sumo his old occupation Of automobile
mechanic.
Num- Is the first Weld county town
to set dates for its fall fair. The Num-
festival will be held Friday and Satur-
day, Sept. 10 and 20. The fairucommit-
tee will offer 5000 In cash prizes to
keep up the reputation of the festival
as the best exhibit Of dry-farming pro-
ducts In northern Colorado. The fair
Is joint enterprise of the Commercial
Club and the Farmers Union.
Under the vigorous drive for the Sal