The Ordway new era., 1914-07-31
COLORADO NEWS
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Dates for ConinE Events.
Aug. 1-3.-MIdsummer meeting Colo
Z RADIO Editorial Association; pen'S n.
Aug. A-Repubiican Assembly At
Aug. s.-crowIey Day at ordway.
x Aus i s-s7--k " r df Sc aLodss ana
Aug. Is -ss.NBsnt GO. Fair. Las animal IA.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las
Aug. .s.-Farmers Fair at Fowler;
Sept; ltEEA5k ansas 'aheS
Sept. s.s-Xnnuai Harvest Festival at
sept. s..watermeien Day, H sasL m nera;
Sept. i-t.@Morsan Co. Fair. Fort nor-
Sept l-s.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, s;s.-sedgwick county Fair at
es sns,, r Fair :. a. Fay Fay
Sept. s-11.-crowisy Co. Fair. susa-
SEPT. Count, Fair at
Sept. Ii-1s.scolo. state Fair, Pueblo Wnao
Sept: 1s-I7-conetos County fair AZ
sept is-ls-Baca County fair at
Sept. is-as.NRace Meet. Denver; -
Sept. 7l-2s,-,Intsr-co. Fair and Race
Sept. ss-s4.WAppie Pie Day at Rifle:
Sept. :2-25.-western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept as-25.-Monte.uma Co. Fair at
sept. as.as-El paso Co. Fair. caih h.a1,
Oct: l-s...Grand County, Fair at
oct s.s.mcoio.- New Mex. Fair at Du-
lsi5.4Las. Grand Council Of North
American Indians at Denver.
Individual group exhibits are to be
featured at the Prowers county fair
which is to be held at Lamar, Aug.
10. 20 and 81.
Frederick w. Leonhardt. manager OF
the Lakewood Country Club, died at
the Park Avenue hospital in Denver
after an illness Of three days.
The county commissioners at Delta
elected C. 8. Blanchard Of Cedaredge
sheriff to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation Of c. G. Sampson, ef-
fective August 1.
Reports from Altman. thirty miles
southwest OF Colorado Springs, noted
as the highest Incorporated town in
the world, indicate a heavy fall of
snow on the 22nd.
The last link in the state highway
from Cheyenne to Greeley, consisting
of a strip of road fifteen miles long
from Dover to the Wyoming state line.
has been completed.
Mrs. Jack Bell. wife Of a prominent
Denver prospector and newspaperman.
lies at the Park hotel at Ridgway In a
critical condition as the result Of being
thrown over a pony's head.
Spot, the famous Arabian horse
which was presented by the sultan Of
Turkey to Gen. Grant, is lost, and the
Denver Dumb Friends League is max
ing every effort to find him.
That age is no barrier to Cupid and
secret marriage was proved when
Thomas w. Murray, sixty-one, anc
Mrs. Anna Cabbeen, fifty-four. were
secretly married at Littleton.
Evans g. A. r. and w. R. C. socie>
ties have petitioned the school board
OF that place to have flagpole erect,
ed in the school yard for the display
Of the American flag upon patriotic
days.
Capt George Thatcher. seventy-four,
Of Aspen. one of the Oldest and mos;
prominent mining men of the state,
was knocked down in Denver by an
electric auto driven by Miss Frances
Moffat, 1871 Humboldt street.
Kay w. Chinn, said to be graduate
of the University Of Picking, member
of the Chinese aristocracy and late
scholar at some of the leading col
leges in the United States, is a federal
prisoner In the Denver county jail,
charged with white slavery.
After naming 2O3 delegates to the
state assembly In Denver on July 80,
the Democratic county assembly last
week recessed until 10 a. m. Aug. 6.
Candidates for nomination for the
state Senate and House OF Representa-,
tives at the party primary Sept. will
be designated at that time.
In Gilpin county the Homer mine
shipped lot of firstclass ore to the
sampling works, which gave values of
GOA ounces gold. $3.50 ounces silver,
and IL per cent copper. Another lot
Of second-class ore Of twelve tons re-
turned 10 ounces gold. 6.6O ounces sill
yer and 1850 per cent copper.
Thrown from binder when the
horses gave sudden lurch, Clyde
Jones, twelve-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. T. Jones Of Pierce, suffered
dangerous injury that may result in
the amputation of his arm. The boys
arm was caught in the machine and
almost severed from his body.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner of
the bureau of charities and correc-
lions for the state of Oklahoma, is in
Denver for the summer, resting after
the strenuous war she has been wag-
ing on alleged grafters OF her state.
who. she says, have looted the Indians