Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-12-12

Show at Denver
l9l5.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians. Denver.
Manzanola had a cherry pie festi-
val on the 10th.
Death by drowning of ]. r. Cress,
until recently resident of Rocky
Ford, was reported from Monrovia,
Cal.
The fair directors at Grand JunctioL
authorized u $1,000 purse to be Put
up for a monster wild west exhibition
at the fair this fall.
Samuel Cronice. colored, probably
was fatally shot during fight with
his step-son, John Garrett, in the fam
lily home in Denver.
Mrs. Margaret Deering Townsend,
wife of James B. Townsend, president
of the Chicago Stock exchange. died
at her Colorado Springs home.
The reception to be given to the
returning Denver delegation of Elks
who captured the 1914 convention for
Denver probably will be July %.
James Middlemist. twenty miles
north of Limon. has completed the
first cutting of 10 acres alfalfa. His
first crop aggregates about 125 tons
Charles Reeves of Canon City has
sold to parties from Cheyenne his
famous bucking horse. Peaceful,
Henry"
A municipal water system for
Denver, independent of the plant of
the Denver Union Water Company, is
promised in the action taken by the
public utilities commission.
Colorado Springs is going to make
4 determined effort to secure the Ma
tional Elks' home. decision on which
will probably come before the 1914
convention in Denver.
A requisition was issued by Cover
nor Ammons upon the governor OF
Kansas for the custody of Eldon John
son. who is accused of burglary and
Is now being held in Hays City, Kan.
Colorado will receive an inheri-
tance tax of S1G.639 from the ]. S.
Brown estate. according to compila-
ton made by Leslie Hubbard, state
inheritance. tax appraiser. The es-
tate is valued at S997,937.59.
Mrs. Harry James. postmistress at
Loveland, was selected president OF
the Colorado Postmasters' Associa-
lion at Colorado Springs meeting. She
is the first woman to hold that office.
Other officers elected are: w. l..
Williamson. Fowler. vice president;
r. L. Hanna, Windsor, secretary and
treasurer.
Filing of petitions to refer the pub
lie utilities bill. coupled with deluge
of kilograms, letters and personal
calls from citizens all over the state,
resenting this move, make the calling
of a special session of the legislature
probable, according to officials at
the state house and. members OF the
legislature.
John Leo Stack, organizer of the
National Young Mems Wilson club
in Colorado, and chairman of the
speakers bureau of the Democratic
organization, has been appointed
special agent of the Department OF
the Interior upon recommendation OF
| Congressman Edward Keating. He
will work in the Colorado district.
THE world has never seen such
wonderful meeting as the fifieth ami
versary of the battle of Gettysburg,
and never will" said Colonel Howard
c. Chaplin, OF Denver, who represented
the state of Colorado at the reunion
of veterans. at was the greatest rn-
union of war veterans in the history
of the world, and there will never be
anything like 1t again." continued the
colonel.
Hot and dusty. happy and enthusi-
astic, the ninety autoists in nineteen
Indiana-made cars making up the
tour OF the Indiana Automobile Manu-
facturers' Association. chugged into
Colorado Springs an hour ahead OF
schedule.
Victim of misfortune that swept
away 100000, shorn OF her former
beauty and social position and the
object of a love that stood the test Of
fire. Mary Middaugh, twenty-three
one-time leading belle of the younge'
society set OF Rico. died at Crane
Junction in poverty.