The Holly chieftain., 1913-12-19
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Dafes for Coming Events
Dec. 29-Mid-winter Exposition at
Jan. n.1z-15-colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Assoeiation Show at Denver.
'an; Lss!'1Nalional Western STOCK
Jan l5-16.-Meeting Colorado Good
Roads Assn at Colorado springs
sept. 1-Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
July l3-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b. =.
O e., at Denver.
:, Jan. 15.-Annuai Meeting Colorado
Farmers Congress- at Agricultural Col
Isis.-Iast Grand Council of North
American Indiana At Denver.
The wire mill at the Minnequa steel
plant at Pueblo opened with a force
of 300 men. for a run of ten days
Elizabeth Malone, lightweight, Den
yer pioneer, died at her residence,
1216 Ogden street, of arterial sorosis.
Colorado Springs lodge of Elks has
arranged to give Christmas party
to 700 children on Christmas morning.
Numerous abuses Of settlers
through fraudulent assignments of
leases on state lands have been dis
covered by the State Land Board.
The heavy sale of Red Cross Christ
mas seals is surprise to all con-
nected with the campaign being con-
Quoted by the American Red Cross So
ciety.
Louis Busher cut two acres of oats
six miles southwest of Grand juno
tion on the 18th. This breaks all
Western slope records for late har-
vesting.
A number of applications for par
don, parole and Communication of SEN
tences were heard by the State Board
of Pardons in the executive chambers
of the statehouse.
Denver is to have a Housewives
league, the first organization of the
kind in the state, which is to conduct
a systematic campaign to obtain pure
food for the households of Denver.
The man who was found cut in sew
eral pieces on the Colorado G. South.
ern railroad tracks near the Griffen
Wheel works, in Valverde, was identi
fled as Frantz Leidinger a laborer,
who lived in Valverde.
1t is estimated by the highway com.
missloner's office that the snowstorm
left 10000 wagonlogds of snow on the
business district of Denver from I'm
lou depot to Broadway and from -Four
teenth to Eighteenth streets, inclusive.
Three weeks ago James Miller thir-
ty-five, had an iron bar an inch thick
driven into his brain. A few days ago
he walked out of the Red Cross hos
pital at Victor in full possession of
his faculties and physicians, who de.
clared he could not get well, said his
recovery would be complete.
The annual report of the comp
troller Of the United States treasury
shows that Denver's national banks
stand near the top of the list OF
United States national banks in the
amount of legal reserve. Only one
city in the ry-Galveston-has a
larger reserve than Denver.
The United States deputy marshals
have seized the plant of the West
ern Oleomargarine Company of Den
yer. and arrested the proprietor, A. II.
Flood and two of his employees, Rob
ert E. Hunt and H. Musselman. Flood
was released on $4,000 bond and Hunt
and Musselman on $500 bonds each.
Sixteen gold jewels emblematic OF
the rank of past consuls in the
Woodmen of the World were received
/, by Charles B. Ritch, clerk of Book
Cliff camp at Grand Junction The
jewels are to be presented at cere-
mony on Dec. 20 at which a large
number Of the recipients will be pres
ent.
The United States civil service com
mission has named Feb. 21 and May
l6 as the time when examinations will
be held for stenographers and type
writer's in the field service. The fol-
lowing are the places for the examina.
tions in Colorado: Colorado Springs,
Denver, Durango, Grand Junction,
Greeley, Montrose and Pueblo.
Thomas R. Woodrow, cousin of
President Woodrow Wilson and for
mer assistant city attorney under the
Speer and Arnold administrations, was
elected Democratic county chairman
to succeed John B. Hunter, commits.
sioner OF improvements, at meeting
OF the executive committee of the Dem.
ocratic county organization in Denver.
California may talk all it pleases
about its $1,000-an-acre returns from
orange groves, but it has nothing on
Colorado and the Grand valley. F. S.
Carman, who has an orchard on Fruit
Ridge, near Grand Junction, has just