Floods hit Elizabeth Colorado and surrounding crops
In Elizabeth Colorado floodwaters damaged gardens and farm buildings, washed out bridges and hindered telegraph service after heavy rains. Two feet of water covered Elizabeth before later draining.
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Newspaper
Gunnison Valley News
Location
Gunnison, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1925
Page
6
In Elizabeth Colorado floodwaters damaged gardens and farm buildings, washed out bridges and hindered telegraph service after heavy rains. Two feet of water covered Elizabeth before later draining.
In Philadelphia Benedict Arnold once led West Point and earned fame at Quebec and Saratoga. His plot with Andre to hand over West Point to British forces failed when a patrol spotted the British vessel on the Hudson. Arnold’s disgraced career ended after Treason House episodes and his death in 1801. Treason House itself is to disappear.
Daniel Frederick Bakeman of Freedom New York died in 1869 at age 109 years 6 months and 8 days and was the last survivor of the Revolutionary War serving four years under Captain Van Arno and Colonel Willett. Congress had granted a pension two years before his death. The last Revolutionary War pensioner was Mrs Phoebe M Pulmeter of Brookfield New York who died in 1911. He was the son of Jonathan Weeley who served in a News lamp sliire courting under Wrstineten.
A mob three miles from Castle Gate hanged Robert Marshall for the murder of James Milton Burns the city marshal. Marshall had shot Deputy Burns during a pursuit, marking the fifth lynching in Utah history.
Thomas Amory Lee of Topeka Kansas a veteran of French and American units in World War I leads the American Legion World Peace Committee chosen in 1924 at St Paul to review international peace plans. The 1889 Topeka native and Harvard trained lawyer has served as director of the Legion Weekly and as a delegate to the Interallied War Veterans association in London.
Frederick J. Church senior vice commander of the American Legion post in Brooklyn sailed for France to photograph graves of soldiers buried on the battlefields. He and his wife plan a three month stay and will place flowers at graves for relatives who request photos.
The American Legion's veterans mountain camp at Tupper Lake is being considered for extended activities to shelter patients beyond tuberculosis. Suffering veterans may receive treatment at Paradise Point with early steps to repurpose the camp facilities for broader medical care.
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