Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-24
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO

held in Durango.
Miss Lutte NJ. Hart will go to Wash
ington as stenographer for Senator
John F. Shafroth.
Miss Clara B. Dorrington has beer
appointed private stenographer for
Governor Elias NJ. Ammons.
w. NJ. Tidwell of Denver was elected
secretary of the Western Fruit job
bers Association at its meeting in New
Orleans.
Representatives from every part of
Larimer county met in Loveland and
planned a campaign for a good roads
movement.
Mrs. Mary Huston of Axial, aged
eighty-four, one of the best known
pioneers of northwestern Colorado,
died of inflammatory rheumatism.
A potato banquet, in which practical
ly the whole menu was composed Of po-
tatoes in some form. was feature Of
the potatoe growers convention in
Denver.
1t is estimated that the estate left
by j. s. Brown, the pioneer Denver
merchant who died suddenly, will
prove to be of value not less than ST.
100000.
January %. when the eight-hour law
for women become effective, the large
mercantile establishments of Denver
will open each morning at $50 and
will close at $50, Saturdays included.
w. T. Wallace and and Robert Will
son, well known business men and
orchard owners of Grand Junction,
have announced that they will build a
plant for the manufacture of denatured
alcohol.
Thomas X. Prout, for two years
sought by the police of Billings, Mont
tor embezzlement, has been arrested in
Pueblo. where he has been living with
his wife and two children as R. e.
Chapman.
Train service on the branch of the
Colorado & Southern between Como
and Breckenridge, abandoned more
than a year ago and ordered restored
by the state railroad commission, has
been resumed.
Denver's parcel post trade has
passed the $4,000 mark. A report is
sued by Assistant Postmaster Henry
". Hannum shows that 56.1S3 parcels
were sent through the postoffice from
January 1 to Is.
At one OF the largest public gath
erings ever held there. Mesker placed
itself on record as determined at any
cost to secure through that section the
routing Of the transcontinental auto
mobile highway.
The funeral services for the late ].
S. Brown were held in Denver from
the Brown home at 800 Grant street.
The Rev. B. 7. Vincent officiated, as
sisted by the Rev. DR.. Hitchings and
the Rev. A. A. Tanner.
Three hundred Democrats were the
guests of the Democratic Club and the
Democratic State and County commit
tees at a dinner given in Denver, at
which Governor Elias NJ. -Ammons was
the guest of honor.
The refusal of whitmore & Gill Of
Denver, sub-contractors on the new
Thatcher bank building at Pueblo. to
recognize the Structural Iron Workers
union resulted in strike of all the
members Of that union.
The new telephone company. which
is expected to compete with the
Mountain States Telephone Company
on this side of the range, has been
organized at Clifton and given a char
ter by Secretary Pearce.
Elated over the success of the Gap
pie Shop" in Denver in the first
month of its existence, Delta county
fruit growers are now planning to
open similar establishments in Pueblo
and Colorado Springs.
William H. Hoewig. a Denver paint
er. secretary of the Columbia Court,
No. IA, Foresters of America, was ar
rested in Albuquerque, N. NJ, at tho
request of the Denver police. He is
charged with embezzling funds thought
to be between $3.50 and $400 from his
order.
After evading the officers since Sep
tember on murder charge, c. C. CALI
son has been brought back to Greeley
from Akron, Ohio, where he was arrest
ed by the police on a descriptive pos
tai card sent out by the sheriff's office.
Callison left a few days before Miss
Hazel Leek, young telephone girl
here. died from the effects of an oper-
alton.
The first of the cases against the
173 physicians and midwives who were
arrested two months ago by federal OF
ficers in a countrywide raid conduct
ed simultaneously In seventy-two
cities, was tried in Denver and decided
in favor of the government. DR.. J. E.
Thompson was found guilty under the
Indictment charging him with using
the mails for giving Information in re-
gard to unlawful operations on