The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-04-17
COLORADO ITEMS

SOsSNoNS
A large delegation from Colorado
will attend the convention of the Ma
tional Retail Grocers, to be held in
Portland, Ore, June End to 18th.
St. PauPs M. e. church (South) of
Denver has raised the $4,000 building
fund required for the erection of new
institutional church.
Over 10000 apple, peach and plum
trees have been planted this spring in
the new Beaver Park section of Ere
mont county, or nearly twice as many
as last year.
The National Safety Vault Company
has let a contract for the erection of
$4,000 building in Denver, inside of
which will be constructed vaults cost
ing $4,000.
The new Christian Science church at
Florence was dedicated on Easter Sun
day. 1t is one of the finest church
buildings In the city and is entirely
free from debt.
The fifth annual exhibition of the
Colorado Kennel Club will be held at
the Auditorium in Denver April 29th
to May LIST. 1t is expected that as
many as 400 dogs will be exhibited.
Mrs. Curfman, wife of DR.. G. w.
Curfman, past department commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
died at their home in Denver Easter
morning, after an illness of three
years.
Jesse L. Nusbaum, Greeley boy
twenty-one years old, supervisor of the
manual training department in the Las
Vegas Normal school, has been APP
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.. Boulder city
marshal to succeed Luke Egan, w. o.
Nichols auditor to succeed H. E. Null
nix of Denver, and John Nigro chief
of the fire department, vice Robert
Dougherty, resigned.
The application of George E. Ber
mont, ]. o. Vandeherger, G. E. Cow
ger, J. H. Lipseick, E. E. 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.
j. F. Blalack was killed at the Cook
mine, Gilpin county, on the night of
the 18th inst. by fall of rock. He was
| working alone and the accident was
not discovered for some time. He was
thirty-eight years old, and leaves a
widow and two children at Dacona,
Colo. He had worked in Cripple Creek
and Telluride.
At a postponed annual election of
the Society of Union Colony Pioneers,
held at Greeley, Henry T. West was
elected president for the fifteenth con-
secutive time; Mrs. Sophia Thomas
made secretary and j. A. Woodbury.
was made secretary and ]. A. Wood
| bury treasurer. The ten vice presidents
were reelected. There are about 200
members.
The directors of the newly-organize
Country Club of Fort Collins have de-
cided to purchase a tract of 256 acres
of state land two and a half miles
north of town for club purposes, If the
State Land Board appraises the tract
at a satisfactory figure. Golf links
and tennis courts are to be laid out
at once and bids will be received for
the erection of club building.
Robert E. Winbourn of Fort Lupton,
who for the last three years has been
secretary for Congressman Bonynge,
has been appointed special agent in
the general land office and detailed to
make special reports in land contest
cases in Colorado, a position paying
$4,000 yearly. Mr.. Winbourn is grad
uate Of George Washington University
and member of the Colorado bar.
! Group No. 1 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: S 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 were induced to try the ex-
PSiiiieht NY ZIG SucCeSS VI tHe Stdle
in using convicts in construction of the
state highway. If the experiment
proves a success, a 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 RaDtist
church, and while engaged in the es-
Enlistment of mission at Grand
Junction, Rev. Theodore A. Lemen,