The Holly chieftain., 1909-02-05
COLORADO NEWS

The Denver Motor Club will hold an
18th.
The dead body of A. johnson was
found in ditch near Firestone We'd
nesday.
F. w. Schroeder. a druggist at Wind
sor, was fined 5000 and costs for sell
it, too
The Bobbie Burns anniversary was
appropriately observed by the Scots of
Denver, Leadville and Colorado
Springs on Monday.
Seven Slav societies at Pueblo will
take part in the Lincoln centennial
February 18th. They expect to turn
out nearly 1000 strong.
Kansas day was observed at Pueblo
January 29th by native Kansans with
big banquet. This will probably be
made an annual affair
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
annex of the Centennial high school
at Pueblo was laid with appropriate
ceremonies Monday.
On Wednesday Congressman Bon.
ynge recommended to the President
the appointment of Marshall Moore
as postmaster at Fort Collins.
Thomas F. Mahoney, former secre-
tary of the Longmont Commercial AS
sociation, is to be secretary of the
chamber OF commerce at Rocky Ford.
The State University Young Wom-
ems Christian Association is making
plans to erect a handsome association
house on or near the university cam.
pus at Boulder
The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com
merce will try to secure the location
in that city by the Legislature of the
proposed new home for the feeble
minded.
The Colorado Springs & Interurban
Railroad Company will build a $4,000
extension to the Union Printers Home
and new Protestant hospital in the
same vicinity.
The Eastern Colorado Power Com
pany is continuing to add from 10 to
so men daily to its forces engaged in
building Its big conduit on Middle
Boulder creek.
Permits for 234 new buildings, to
cost $694,475, were issued in Denver
during the month of January. This
is az increase of $294,75O over the
same month last year.
Gov. Shafroth has issued proclama.
ton setting apart February 12 as a
holiday, to be observed throughout the
state in commemoration of the CEN
tennary of the birth OF Abraham Lin.
coin.
1t is said to be the opinion of the
secretary of the Denver Real Estate
exchange that the most valuable lots
in Denver are those situated at the in
tersection of California and Sixteenth
streets.
To make the state bear the expense
of political campaigns and stop private
contributions to campaign funds is the
F. Shafroth in person, which will be
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Campbell.
At mass meeting held by the Grand
Junction Chamber of Commerce to
consider the disposal of the Teller In
dian school buildings, a resolution was
passed asking that the buildings be
decided to the Western University, and
an effort will be made to get Congress
to take this action.
Carnation day was well observed in
Pueblo January 29th. Almost every
person in the downtown section wore
one of McKinley's favorite flowers. So
ciety ladies and girls sold carnations
on the street for the benefit of the Nc
Clelland orphanage. About $500 was
realized.
John B. Driskell, a well-known resi-
dent of Black Hawk for forty-three
years, died on the 29th ult. of dropsy,
aged sixty-eight. He was a member of
the First Virginia cavalry and claimed
to have been paroled in the Shenan-
doah valley when General Lee surrend-
cred, and that he was never released
from parole He had rich relatives in
Virginia.
At meeting in Pueblo the Elks'
Reunion Association of Colorado Sc
lected as the date for the annual
gathering next October 18th. 18th and
14th, in Pueblo. The committee
changed custom which has hither
to been followed in having the state
gatherings before the national conyen-
tions of the lodge and the one this
year will be in the fall some time
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