The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-12-27

january 2O-2b-EiKhth Annual WoUS-
ern Stock Show-Denver.
The state rifle range at Golden has
been available as mobilization
ground for the Colorado state troops.
Louis Schmitz. aged 20. q pastry
cook living In Denver, has disappeared
and may have committed suicide In
Preblo.
According to the official figures.
only nine of the thirty-two amend
ments submitted Mt 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 Denver's 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.
4 chair Of insurance has been es-
tabHshed at Denver university by W.
D. Current, by authority OF tho Ma
tfonal 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 half years the
public utilities commission of Denver
has cost the city $63.5s6.4o since its
creation. according to compilation
made by City Auditor Marley.
The alumni and faculty of the West
Denver High School presented Miss
Bertha. Schmitz, q teacher Of Latin
and German, with 500 in gold as a
recognition of her twenty-five years
In the school.
Sixteen-year-old Violet Simmons.
who mysteriously disappeared from
her home in Colorado Springs month
ago, was found in Denver by Juvenile
Officer John Phillips, and returned to
Colorado Springs.
The grade teachers of Denver
schools, 1t has been announced, will
demand that the school board increase
their maximum salary from $3.50 a
year to $1,000, and their minimum
from $500 to 500.
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
10, 81
of the festival board.
C. p. Allen. chairman; Thomas Tully
and ]. E. Maloney of the State High
way Commission, completed plans for
the improvement of 1913 miles, the
entire system of state primary roads,
at a total cost OF s1,832,5O0.
o. H. Shoup, a 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 and family are living in Den.
yer.
Miss Helen L. Summer, a Denver so
ciety 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 overtaxcd, Assessor Clair ].
Pitcher has announced that unless
he 20 low, Nf 11e do
clared for 1913, is reduced, he pro,
poses to cut the assessed value OF
county and city property s12.000,O0O
With few struggling shipments yet
to be reported. Mesa county has
shipped out over the Colorado Mid
land and' Denver & Rio Grande rail
roads total of 1889 cars of stock
worth approximately $2.0S5,500 this
year. The Rio Grande has reported
from Mesa county 664 cars of stock
and the Midland's business Is 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 inkwell. 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 raging on the
floor of the new chapel theater, when
dances are given" says Father Nc.
Menamin, rector of the Immaculate
Conception cathedral. of Denver. I'VE
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."
The marriage of Miss Gladys Hart
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Lawrence
Phipps, Jr., of Denver. which was to
have taken place in January, will be
held in the Iowa. city December %.
The change came as result of a
death in Miss Harris family.
That he knew nothing of the death
of George Anstey, for whose killing he
is being tried for murder in the Dis
trict Court at Canon City until his
hired man told him, several hours aft