The Ordway new era., 1922-12-15
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

towns. A constitution will be drawn
within the next few weeks, 1t Is said
The officers elected are: tniei Ber'
| Watson, Grand Junction, president
| Roy UT, Montrose, police chiei, lirs'
| vice president; G. G. Savage, Bouiuer'
second vice president, ana Marvin
Porter, Pueblo, third vice president
| Captain George Dyon, Denver, Imam
| ciul and recording secretary l. D.
Bruce, captain of detectives, Coior'iuo
Springs, treasurer. and L. l.. Rose, La
.Junta. sergeant-nt-arms. Committees
| chosen to start the work OF oreafiiza-
| ton are: Committee on incorporation
| Charles ]. Burns, Ray Fell ana faui
Uamlin. all of Denver: committee on
bylaws, Capt. August HaneDuth' Ra!
Fell and L. f. Rose, all of Denver.
Committee on legislation. Guy kremer'
Denver; S. H. Close, Colorado Springs :
Marvin Porter, L. Il. Rose and Charles
Hensen. Sterling.
Denver.-Three executive appoint
ments, to fill vacancies in state Of
fices. have teen made by Governor
Shoup. Henry Phibbs of Craig was
appointed commissioner or Molfat
county TO fill the vacancy accustomed
by the resignation of Walter III. Duff.
Allison Stocker of Denver, former
state treasurer, was appointed to fill
Il vacancy on tie Colorado state Board
of Immi grafton, occasloned by the res
ignution of Thomas Il. Stearns. HIS
term will expire April l, 1926. Miss FL
len Perdue, 1880 Milwaukee street, was
appointed Il member of the Colorado
State Board of Nurse Examiners, to
fill vacancy on the board through
the death OF Miss Bertha Erdman. THIS
term will expire May /, 1921.
Pueblo.-W. l.. Hartman of Pueblo
has been elected to the board OF trus-
tees and chairman of the executive
committee which will be in charge OF
the establishment of a S3,0oO,oOO hos
pital plant in Colorado Springs by the
Methodist Episcopal church. First
steps toward the new hospital, which
is TO be principally for the care OF tu-
bercular persons OF any religious de
were taken in Chicago re-
Gently when the board on hospitals ana
homes of the Methodist Episcopal
church took over the Bethel General
hospital at Colorado Springs, which
has been under the supervision OF the
Woman's Home Missionary Society OF
the church.
Canon City.-Following the receipt
Of an anonymous letter threatening his
life for attempting TO thwart the rob
berry of jewelry store at Canon City.
Carl NJ Menzel, IS years old, was
slugged and seriously beaten by uni
Identified assailants Menzel is In the
Canon City hospital. The entire town
is wrought Up over the affair, which is
the elimination to a series Of robber-
les and thefts committed In the city
during the last three weeks. Several
Indignation meetings were held among
the citizens and officials in an effort
to bring to a close the reign of crimi-
nality. A reward of $1,000 was raised
for the apprehension Of the youths as
sailants.
Fort Collins.-Farmers' week at the
Agricultural College in Fort Collins,
Dec. IL to 10, will mark the thirteenth
annual session of the Colorado Farm
ers' Congress, the annual convention
of the Colorado Rural Life Association
and the annual session of the Colorado
State Farm Bureau. The State Cream
cry Mems Association also is booked
to meet during the week, which Will
witness the gathering of farmers and
their families from all parts of the
state for the purpose of gaining infor-
nation on the technical side of farm
ing, hearing addresses and participat-
ing in discussions of rural problems,
economic, political and social.
Greeley.-Dr. j. G. Crabbe, president
of the State Teachers College, has
been elected member of the national
board of directors of the Camp Fire
Girls.
Pueblo.-One of the two bandits who
held up and robbed the cashier and as
sistant cashier of the Costilla County
Bank at San AcuciO, locking the two
employees in the vault, and carried
away more than $4,000, was captured
lust across the New Mexico Colorado
state line, according to advices to the
Pueblo Chieftain. The bandit, whose
name was given as Charles Jordan
said his companion, whom he named
and he had agreed to divide the loot
and separate, as the posse was so clost
upon them, that escape together was
impossible. In dividing the money
| Jordan took what he believed was hall
but when he was captured 1t was foun'
he had 27O one-dOllar bills, only small
portion of the loot. The share the 9th
er man has, according to officers, ex
ceeds $1,000.
Moffat-The parting of drill stem
of the rotary by which the Valley Oh
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