The Springfield herald., 1909-04-23
COLORADO news

cottages at Coal Creek.
A large delegation from Colorado
will attend the convention of the Ma
tional Retail Grocers, to be held in
Portland, Ore, June End to 7th.
st. Paul's NJ. E. church (South) of
Denver has raised the $4,000 building
fund required for the erection of new
institutional church.
Leadville bakers held a conference
and decided to raise the price of bread
from four loaves for quarter to three
loaves for quarter, owing to the in
creased price of flour.
The National Safety Vault Company
has let contract for the erection of
$4,000 building In Denver, inside of
which will be constructed vaults cost
ing $4,000.
The fifth annual exhibition OF the
Colorado Kennel Club will be held at
the Auditorium in Denver April 29th
to May 1st. 1t is expected that as
many as 400 dogs will be exhibited.
Jesse l.. Nusbaum, Greeley boy
twenty-one years old, supervisor of the
manual training department in the Las
Vegas Normal school, has been ap-
pointed first assistant in the govern
ment archaeological museum and school
at Santa Fe, N. NJ.
The new city administration of Trim
idad has appointed j. l.. Boulden city
marshal to succeed Luke Egan, w. o.
Nichols auditor to succeed II. Il. Null
nix of Denver and John Nigro chief
of the fire department vice Robert
Dougherty, resigned.
The application of George e. Ber-
mont, j. o. Vandeherger, G. L. Cow
ger, J. II. Lipseick, E. L. Beckett and
Samuel Erich to organize the First
National Bank of Louisville, Colo,
with $4,000 capital, has been ap-
proved by teh comptrolled of the cur
rency.
The national pure food convention
will be held in Denver August oath to
9th. Many prominent national and
state officials will attend the meetings
of the convention and it is certain
that DR.. Wiley. father of the pure food
laws, will be present and deliver an
address.
A civil service examination for the
positions of food and drug inspectors
will be held at the federal building in
Denver on May 5th and 9th by the
Civil Service Commission. Questions
as to experience and practical points
will be asked. The salaries of the
inspectors range from $1,000 to $500.
j. F. Blalack was killed at the Cook
mine, Gilpin county, on the night of
a., r,Il % o1-
working alone and the accident was
not discovered for some time. He vas
thirty-eight years old. and leaves
widow and two children at Dacona,
Colo. He had worked in Cripple Creek
and Telluride.
JarGine, who holds the state record
for the half-mile run, won the 1Oh
mile trial heat at Colorado Springs
for the Marathon" to be run Memo
rial Day at Denver. He made the dis
tance in 1:12:14. Jamison was sec
flied, since they came in within fif-
teen minutes of Jardine.
Group No. l of the Arkansas Valley
Bankers Association has been organ
lied at Rocky Ford, thirteen banks out
of twenty being represented The fol-
lowing officers were elected: G..
Scott of Las Animas, president; Chas.
w. Beerbohm of La Junta, secretary,
and Jno. r. Cunningham of Rocky Ford
treasurer. The association will decide
on the character of chattel mortgages
to be taken on growing beet crops.
Las Animas county prisoners have
been set to work repairing roads in
Trinidad and Garcia plaza. The COM
missioners We're induced to try the en-
pertinent by the success of the state
in using convicts in construction of the
state highway. If the experiment
proves a success, camp will prob
ably be established and extensive work
carried on under direction of the sher-
iff and road supervisors.
After twenty years of almost con-
tinuous travelling in the South and
West as an evangelist of the Baptist
church, and while engaged in the es-
tablshment OF a mission at Grand
Junction, Rev. Theodore A. Lemen,
brother of DR.. l.. e. Lemen of Denver,
died in Grand Junction of pneumonia
on Monday, the 18th inst The Rev.
Mr.. Lemen had recently been doing
home missionary work in Denver,
where he resided He leaves a widow
and five children.
The Colorado Prison Association has
authorized Secretary William E. Col
Inns to visit the state penitentiary of
California to investigate employment
given the convicts there despite the
fact that legislative committee will
do the same. The association wants
representative of its own to make
investigations on the matter. The
secretary before visiting the California
penitentiary will attend the National
Prison Congress at Seattle during the
summer. The specific kinds of en-
ployment to be investigated by Secre-
tary Collett are the manufactures of
jute and binding twine.
At Pueblo on the 18th inst. shade
trees were placed on sale by the Pueb-
10 Real Estate exchange in four sec
tions of the city and hundreds We're
distributed to property owners at cost.
The exchange has initiated a move
ment for the beautifyiny and imnroye-