The Arvada enterprise., 1912-11-21

Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems Associa-
tion was held in Denver.
A fall of two stories to the ground
did not iniure little Dorothy Allen Da,
vas, daughter of Walter C. Davis of
Colorado Springs.
Bertwell Tregureha, known in both
Greeley and Denver, was killed at
| ong Beach, Calf, when struck by a
street car, while riding a bicycle.
The Colorado Congress of Mothers
and Teachers Association will hold its
first state meeting in Denver, Novem-
Der % and &c at the Wolcott school.
| Miss Margaret Baylor of Cincinnati,
arti"rag" dancing crusader, is in Den
yer prepared to launch a movement
against grotesque ballroom dances.
| Mrs. Riddle was elected as a mem
ber of the Legislature. by a majority
OF nearly 1000, instead Of j. n. Coun-
| ter, as was announced in the early re-
ports.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail
road composed of $500 miles of
track and belonging TO the so-called
Hawley system, is seeking an en-
| trance into Denver.
The 300 employees of the City Of
| Denver highway department have or
sanized a mutual benefit insurance
company for protection against sick
ress or injury.
Seized with an attack of heart fail
IRE. d. C. Hermes, proprietor of the
| cigar stand in the Railway Exchange
building, dropped dead on Welton
street in Denver.
The United States government has
| filed suit in the Federal District Court
against the Telluride Power Company
asking s3,575.75 damages for loss of
timber on government land in Idaho.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has let a contract to the Utah Con
struction Company, of Ogden, Utah, to
make the grade for its double track
detour line around Soldier Summit,
Utah, for s1,5OO,OOO.
Thrty-four persons who were found
IN easements and other improvised
barrooms Sunday were given heavy
fines in Municipal Court at Pueblo aft
er a raid inspired against blind tig-
crs" by saloonkeepers.
Mrs Mary c. C. Bradford, state su-
perintendent of public instruction
elect, has appointed as her deputy
Mrs. Alice B. Clark of Garfield county.
Mrs. Clark has had eighteen years ex-
| rerience in the sChooroom.
| In addition to its projects to reduce
grades on Soldier Summit and Mar
shall Pass at 4 cost of $5,500,000, the
Denver & Rio Grande will proceed at
orce to electrify the Salt Lake division
al cost of about s3,000,000
The mystery surrounding the shoot.
ing of Myron A. Root at his home in
Denver, has been solved to the salts
faction of the police. He shot himself
while laborng under the delusion of a
terrible nightmare, they believe.
In the University of Colorado inter.
class cross-country run of five miles
at Boulder, Short for the seniors fin
! ished first in the remarkable time of
80 minutes 81 40 seconds, only q sec
onds under Jimmy Barretts record.
Woodrow Wilson is gwen plurality
| cf 42,29S votes over Theodore Roose-
welt, by complete returns from fifty
six counties in the state and incom-
| rlete returns from the other six.
Roosevelt led Taft by 1920 by the
same returns.
Major General Henry Clay Merriam,
| hero of a hundred battles both of the
! Civil War and against the Indians of
! the Southwest, and father of Mrs.
! George Berger Of Denver, finished a
life of military activity at his home
| in Portland, Me. His death was due
to old age.
Twenty new nurses are to be added
TO the present staff of forty-five at the
Denver county hospital. This increase
| is made necessary Immediately, ac'
cording to, Dr. Rose Kidd Beere, su,
| perintendent Of the hospital, because
of the heavy increase in the number OF
| patients.
The orchardists in the Grand val
| ley, by their greed for profit, have
caused a loss of thousands Of dollars
| to honest orchardists this year, &C
cording to the Grand Junction Fruit
! Growers Association, the charge being
based upon reports sent from Eastern
buyers and representatives.
The lecture room of the First Bap
| tist church of Denver was the scene oi
the annual banquet of the Brotherhood
OF that society, 1t was probably the
| largest gathering OF church men in
Denver this year, over 200 being seat
! cd at the five long tables twenty
young men actively engaged in Sunday
school work occupying u table Of thelr
own in the center.
Newman Erb proposed to the city Of
Denver that It pay two-thirds OF the
cost OF driving a tunnel through he
backbone OF the continent in order
that the Moffat road may the better
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