Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-12-27

The state rifle range at Golden has
been available as mobilization
ground for the Colorado state troops.
Louis schmitz, aged 20. pastry
cook living in Denver, has disappeared
and may have committed suicide In
Pueblo.
According to the official figures,
! only nine of the thirty-two amend
ments submitted at the recent election
carried.
A crowd of about sixty-five Greeks
left Denver for the old country, where
| they intend joining the army in the
! Balkans.
The golden anniversary of the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Sites.
! one of Denvers Oldest couples, was
celebrated at their home.
January 1917 inclusive, the Farm
ers' Congress- of Colorado meets at
the Agricultural College. Fort Collins,
for its fourth annual session.
A chair of insurance has been es-
tablished at Denver university by w.
d. Current, by authority of the Ma
tional Association OF Life Under
writer's.
Up goes the cost Of living another
notch. Most of the motion picture
theaters on Curtis street in Denver,
after January /, will charge 10 cents
admission.
In the last two and q half years the
public utilities commission of Denver
has cost the city s63,59640 since it's
creation, according to compilation
made by City Auditor Markey.
The alumni and faculty of the West
Denver High School presented Miss
Bertha Schmitz, q teacher of Latin
and German, with $10O in gold as
recognition of her twenty-five years
in the school.
Sixteen-year-old Violet Simmons,
who mysteriously disappeared from
her home in Colorado Springs a month
ago, was found in Denver by Juvenile
officer John Phillips, and returned to
Colorado Springs.
The grade teachers of Denver
schools, it has been announced, will
demand that the school board increase
their maximum salary from $500
year to $1,000, and their minimum
from 5000 to 800.
A Festival of Mountain and Plain,
which will rival that of four months
ago is assured for 1918. A boom for
bigger, better, grander carnival for
next year was launched at q meeting
of the festival board.
C.P. Allen, chairman; Thomas Tully
T. nfuIA Of hn GfoA oh
way Commission. completed plans for
the Improvement of 4,519 miles, the
entire system of state primary roads,
at total cost of s1.S32,5O0.
o. II. Shoup, business associate
OF Werner z. Reed for many years, has
purchased the handsome Reed resi-
dence at Colorado Springs for a con,
sideration of approximately 100000.
Mr.. Reed aud family are living in Den
yer.
Miss Helen L. Summer, Denver So
cicty girl. who has gained considerable
fame throughout the United States for
her books on suffrage. has accepted
the offer extended her by Miss Julia
Lathrop, head of the National Child
ren's bureau at Washington, to become
Miss Lathrop's chief ASSISTANT.
To lessen the burden of Denver
county taxpayers, who. he declares,
are oyertaxed, Assessor Clair ].
Pitcher has announced that unless
the tax levy of 19.1 mills recently de-
clared for 1918, is reduced. he pro-
poses to cut the assessed value of
county and city property $4,000, 900.
With few struggling shipments yet
to be reported. Mesa county has
shipped out over the Colorado Mid
land and Denver G. Rio Graude rail.
roads total of 1889 cars of stock,
worth approximately s2.0S5,500 this
year. The Rio Grande has reported
from Mesa county 664 cars Of stock
and the Midland's business IL given
as 745 cars.
Drastic measures are being taken
by the school in the latest Of a Sc
ries of pranks committed this year
by high school students at Fort Col
Inns. Wilbur King, sophomore in
the high school, placed a quantity OF
calcium carbide in an inkwel1. The
strong odor from the gas given out
by the moistened carbide drove all
from the room. King was Immediately
suspended.
There will be no 'ragging' on the
floor of the new chapel theater, when
dances are given" says Father Nc
Menamin. rector of the immaculate
Conception cathedral, of Denver. 1--WE
are united in our stand to stamp out
this vulgar type of dancing and peo-
pie who dance on the theater floor
will nave to be satisfied with the
more conventional form of the old
waltz and two-step."