The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-01-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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! yer during the past year and 5SS di
vorces.
Merry Christmas" in Denver re
suited In forty-six cases on the Police
| Court docket the next day.
At The starch factory in Greeley, B
ID. Fisher fell head first into a big
vat of ice-cold potato juice and mar.
rowly escaped drowning.
The State Board of Health will con
duct :ts semi-annual examination for
embaimers at the State house in Den
YER Friday, January Sth, at 100 p. m
The football team of the Longmont
hisA school defeated the Englewood
! high school team of Chicago at Den
yer on Christmas Day by score of
Is to O
syndicate of eastern capitalists
has taken $17,50O,O0O of the new issue
of Denver & Rio Grande railway bonds.
| The proceeds were used to retire $751;
100000 short time notes.
In his county poor report to the sec
rotary of state Clerk Knkel of Baca
county fills out the blank as follows:
we nave TloW many
! counties can say as much?"
A. A. Peralta of the Greeley sugar
factory. has just prepared and pre-
sented to the Commercial club of Gree
ley eighteen glass jars whose contents
show the different processes in sugar
making, from sliced beets to pure white
sugar.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver is
the one person from Colorado whom
President Roosevelt has invited to at
tend the conference concerning the
care of the dependent children which
he has called to meet at the White
house on January 25th.
Local telephone wires have reached
Lay. in Routt county, and Lay can now
communicate with Denver within an
hour, having telephone connection with
Yampa. where the Western Union
Telegraph Company has it's Routt
county terminus.
At the December meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Modern
Woodmen of America, it was decided
to admit free of charge to the recently
established sanitarium in Colorado
Springs all members afflicted with tu-
berculosis whose cases are durable.
The Rogers Canning Company of
Rogers, Ark has offered to establish
canning factory at Fort Morgan. If
vegetables suitable for canning. the
city to donate a site of two or three
acres and give bonus of $4,000.
Arrangements have been about COM
pleted by Secretary Watrous of the
Boulder Commercial Association, with
Springfield, ILL.,, parties to bring col
ony from that section to settle on
small farms and fruit tracts near Boul-
der and along the Interurban and I'm
ion Pacific lines
A grand celebration for the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln next February is be-
ing planned in Denver to be held at
the auditorium. All patriotic and mill
tary societies in the city will take part,
led by the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie.
The theater at Manhattan Beach in
Denver was entirely destroyed by fire
on the night of December 26th. 1t was
the property Of the Southern Invest
ment Company, who, it is stated will
build new theater in its place. The
old building cost 100000 and was par
TALLY insured.
The town of Kersey held its first
municipal election December 22nd,
with only one ticket in the field,
named by the Boosters" club. Fred
James was elected mayor and Len
Flint, w. F. Spaulding, w. r. Morti-
mer, ]. H. Howe, B. P. Brooks and c.
S. Gardner, trustees.
PREPARATIONS have been completed
for the biggest short course in domes-
| tic science at the Agricultural College,
Fort Collins. ever held in the history
| of the institution. The course will be-
| gin Jan. 18th and run until Jan. 18th.
Applications have come in from all
over the state for enrolment.
At a mass meeting at Pierce under
| the auspices of the Commercial Club
the proposition of the officers of the
| Burlington Interurban Railway Com
| pany to build into Pierce on condition
that $4,000 worth of stock be sub
scribed for and terminal sites provided
| was accepted.
Arrangements are being made to use
the new Nationa. amphitheatre at the
Denver stock yards for the first time
on January 9th. when Denver school
| children will give song concert. More
than 200 children are expected to
| take art in the exercises The new
amph'theatre is now practically COM
plete, and is the largest of it's kind in
the country. 1t will seat 5000.
Examinations have been announced
to be held for the positions of printer.
pressman and press feeder in the gov
eminent printing office by United
States civil service commission. Per.
sons desiring to take these examina.