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    --The polls of Camp Weld precinct are open to-day at the Sutler's-Store. Let every officer and brave soldier of the Colorado Regiments come out and show his hand in favor of Union and Country, and against sneaking snakes and contemptible copperheads.

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    MUSTERED IN.--The entire troops at Camp Weld were mustered in yesterday, the last day of the month, by the proper officers. Several of our citizens were down at Camp to witness the interesting performances. The Major Commanding, E. W. Wynkoop, went through his duties with dispatch and accustomed credit to his position.

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    HOME INDUSTRY.--While at Camp Weld yesterday, we saw a sight worthy of newspaper note, for this kind of a country, and for this kind of an era, in our country's success. It was no more nor less than that of a gallant Captain's interesting wife busily at work knitting a pair of worsted socks for her husband, now absent on the Republican Fork. Talk about your style, your trim calesthenics, your household industry, your nick-named social advancements, and all that,--but, to our thinking, there seemed to be more of substantial act of Mrs. Capt. S. than in that of many of your misnamed mesdames of ton and talents the city over. Verily, a Yankee girl generally understands the wants of the household as well as the warfare of fashionable and foolish life, and oftentimes exemplifies the fact inaugurated by her New England poet,

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Unknown, "Local Matters," Daily Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Tuesday, 1 September, 1863, Page 3.

    The "Capt. S." mentioned in the final article above is probably Captain Richard Sopris.

    Chris