The Springfield herald., 1913-08-01

can 1fididns,' at Denver
Oct; 21.-Colorado State Baptist ,Asso-
Oct: .ae.-NoM colorado Kepnsl Club
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Four clerks in the Rocky ,Ford post.
office have received notice Of a 500
per year iicrease in salary -
James Bruce, the son of,John Bruce
of Boulder. was drowned while canoe
Ing in a lake near Tacoma. Wash.i
- .Tha> GaloEadn, Kansas &. Oklahoma
railroad has been Incorporated al To-
peka, Ken.,and Denver isreported to
be It's Western terminus. IL !.
After twenty-year fight for q new
depot the iIopes of Fort Lupton are
about to be realized. Actual work was
begun on . new structure.
Lillian aud. Georgia Lee. ,twelvo apd
ZEN years old, respectively. deserted by
.hefr mother. MRS. Rose Bellew Of Den.
yer. are now under ths- care Of the
State Humane Society. 80.
A murder mystery may develop
rom the finding in the r1vefnear Gun
nison. of the body of Q man believed
10 be a homesteader named O'Bannon,
who has been missing for several days.
William, Lewis, s,-seyenty;seyen. pion-
.eer prospector and veteran of the Civif
War, died at Empire. Mr.. Lewis had
been resident of Colorado thirty-sey-
en- years, thirty-six years .of, which he
lived at Idaho Springs.
Il The laws of the ,NineteeAfh General
Assembly will probably be. printed and
ready for distribution about Septem-
Der 1st. The volume win be one Of
The largest of its kind ever Issued in
Colorado. 1t will contain about 1000
pages.
There were 1873 deaths in Denver
from January 1st to June 30th, the
tirst six months of 1918. according to
the statistics submitted to Health Com
missioner Hayes by Miss Zelda sher-
man, head OF the, bureau Of vital sta
tistics.
The order OF Commercial Travellers
Of America was made defendant in a
suit brought in Denver by Margaret
Heiskel Boaz, widow of William M.
Boaz, who asks $1,000 life insurance
Tor the death of her husband. who was
a member of the order.
One hundred and twenty-five dele
gates and officers of the head camp
and members Of Colorado lodges.
Woodmen of the World, with their
friends and families. were guests Of
Denver Saturday before going to Colo
RADIO Springs, where. their triennial
session convened Monday.
Forgetting divorce suit, his losses
Of several thousand dollars, Frank
Kasmodel Of Pueblo answered the call
of love over long-distance telephone
wire and hastened to the side of his
wife. who has figured In many es-
capades which have kept the couple
In the limelight for months.
For four hours A. L. Ingram OF
Platteville lay under two tons of hay
near the twin bridges southeast OF
Milliken. His cries for help; were
heard by occupants of buggy which
was passing, who came to his rescue.
The wagon struck soft place In the
road and toppled over.
Denver will lose the opportunity to
get an additional $5s.o0O.oOo in as
sessed valuation during 1913 II the
opinion of Attorney General Farrar,
that the assessment on railroads shall
lie distributed equally over only their
main lines, holds according to Com
missioner Of Finance Clair J. Pitcher.
The Rock Island railroad will OPP
crate special train over its eastern
Colorado territory, leaving Colorado
Springs July 31st, for the purpose of
demonstrating the value OF silos, or
cattle-food canneries, to the farmers
en- route. She train will be known as
the "silage special"
Mrs. John Shafroth, Mrs. Edward
Keating and Mrs. Edward T. Taylor
have been selected as delegates to rep
resent Colorado at the National Suf-
frage convention, which opens In
Washington August 18th.
Prospects for big melon crop in
the lower Arkansas valley were never
better. 1t is estimated by railroad
agents who have recently covered the
district that eighty cars OF melons
VIII be shipped from Rocky Ford each
day when the shipping season begins.
A bolt of lightning ripped the plas-
ter from the dining room OF the
Charles Myers farm house near Ault,
sent pictures crashing to the lloor
and broke dishes at the table, where
five persons were seated. MRS Myers
was struck by piece Of falling pias-
ter.