The Elbert County tribune., 1914-07-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Date. for Coming Events

July so.-Democratic State Convention
Aug. -3-Midsummer meeting Colo
rado Editorial Association, Denver
Aug. 4-Republican Assembly at Den
aug. e-crowley Day at ordway.
Aug ass7k.o%sFs ass7k Tsns G9 aaIr; LodEe Eema and
Uniform Rank Encampment. Pueblo
Aug. 23-2s.-Bent Co. Fair. Las Aoimas.
Aug, 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler.
T Rocky kEA5 Ford s as Valley Fair.
Sept .2-3-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept. s.-watermeion Day. Rocky Ford.
SEPT 2-S;-Farmers' Stockmens
Sept. I-4.-Morgan Co. Fair, Fort Nor
Sept 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, 3,5.-sedgwick County Fair at
Sept. 7-Kiowa County Fair at Eads.
: Sept; s-11.-Crowiey Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept s.!l-Gheyenns County Fair at
Sept. 1o;-Sugar Day. Sugar City.
ssptt. lltt-lls.-colo state ate Eair: Pueblo. 1o
SEPT isaskasela isaskaes Meet e9. pehver peir ef hugo
Sept, 23-Inter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept 23-24-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
sept s2-25.-western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 2-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept. 23-2s.-El Paso Co. Fair. calhan.
Oct. 1-sIGrand County Fair at
Oct. s-s.-coio New Mex Fair at Du-
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Colorado has thirty-two Elks lodges.
Thousands in Denver were charmed
by the Elk illumination.
Denver spentsnearly s2.O0O.00O for
its schools during the closing fiscal
year
Funeral services for Mrs. Dora NJ.
O'Byrne, formerly of Denver. were
held in Ogden. Utah.
Outside of Colorado. Wyoming sent
the largest delegations to the annual
reunion of Elks in Denver.
State Treasurer M. A. Leddy an
nounced that he would appeal the
farm loan" case to the Supreme
Court.
Atlanta in 1916" is the slogan of
the Atlanta delegation of Elks in Den
yer bent on landing the convention for
the year after next.
A motion for a rehearing of the
Henwood trial, before the Supreme
Court. will be filed before the expira-
tion of the ten-day limit
dose of poison, taken by mistake
for cough medicine caused the death
at the county hospital in Denver of
Timothy Burke, thirty.five, a team
ster.
Denver women are TO deny them
selves all sorts of things August Is to
show their hearts are in the cause"
Aug. A6. let it be known, is suffrage
self-denial day."
At the request of Philip Feldhauser.
president of the Citizens Home Rule
league, the Denver Chamber of Com
nerce win take referendum vote on
statewide prohibition.
AT a special meeting of the Boulder
City CouncilSit was decided to con-
struct dam at Silver lake, the source
of Boulder's water supply. The dam
will cost about $4,000.
A reception to the women guests at
the Elks' golden jubilee opened the
official program in Denver. 1t was fol-
lowed by free auto ride tc points of
interest in and about the city.
Miss Helen Sears and Christopher ].
Abbott, both of Hyannis, Neb., chose
Denver as the ideal place for their
wedding and the Colorado mountains
as the best place for their honeymoon.
Striving to save s46 from the
flames, Mrs. Lena Franklin. 2SS7
Julian street, in Denver, risked her
life. She was burned about the hands
and face, but succeeded in saving the
money.
Blanche Karns, thirteen-year-old
daughter of ]. E. Karns, a Denver
tramway motorman. was drowned in
the lake at the McPhillips ranch,
three miles north of Mount Olivet
cemetery.
C. r. Galpin and Arthur Valley.
former timekeepers of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, charged with
payroll padding, were released from
the county Jail at Pueblo on bonds of
$1,000 each.
Does mining pay? The Portland
Gold Mining Company answers this
question by declaring It's sregular
quarterly dividend OF 2 per cent. pay
able July 20, and an extra per cent
dividend payable on the same date.
This makes the July payment 100000
and runs the total paid thus far in
1914 up to s24O,0O0. Total dividends
since 1894, upon capital stock of 3d.
100000, foot up s9,697.0s0. which is
s6.697 .osO, or 22.2 per cent in excess of
par value.