The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-08-14

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Aug. 2a-2S.-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas
Aug. 27-Pickle Day Mt Platteville.
A Ass +! ss Fsa Bay s Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair a. Fowler;
ss Rocky tE Ford. $50 >A"e'
Sept. 2-s-Annuai Harvest Festival at
sept. s.-watermeien Day; Rocky Ford:
Sept 2-4.-Farmers' n d stockmens
sept i-4."Mosxan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept, l-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love
Rocky Ford cantaloupes are now be-
ing marketed.
Michael A. Leddy. state treasurer,
announced his withdrawal from the
primary election race for state audi
tor.
Mrs. Mary Balm, seventy, was found
dead in her cabin at Sugar Loaf by
Miss Susie Potter and Miss Cristabel
Craig. 25
Geo. Allen Smith and Ben C. Hill
lizard were designated as Democratic
candidates for Congress in the First
Denver) congressional district.
The site OF Denver's new water
plant will be selected within two
weeks. according to the expectations
Of the utilities commission.
Florence Brown, the fourteen.year
old Denver girl who drank carbolic
acid because she was disappointed in
love, died at the county hospital.
Clarence Land. twelve-year.old son
Of Jasper Land, of Denver, broke his
arm. and the same afternoon. Eva. his
fifteen-year-old sister, was drowned.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson met Mr.. Will
son at Rome. Ca, thirty years ago,
through casual introduction by Mrs.
Harriet Woodrow Welles of Denver.
first cousin OF the President.
The Progressive and Republican
designated candidates for the princi.
pal state offices will take the lead in
making statewide campaigns for the
primary elections which the several
political parties will hold on Sept. 8.
The State Highway Commission has
apportiored $2O.600 to twelve counties
for emergency uses in completing
roads under construction and for re-
pairs to highways damaged by flood
waters
Harold Frank Henwood. under sen
tence of death for killing George E.
Copeland. was granted additional time
to file petition for = rehearing In the
State Supreme Court, which body re-
Gently upheld his death sentence.
Messages OF condolence mourning
the death Of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
were sent the President by Governor
Ammons ON behalf of the citizens Of
Colorado by city commissioners on be-
half of the people Of Denver, and by
the Colorado Womens Peace Associa-
ton.
Plans for the reorganization of the
Western Pacific railroad, in which the
Denver & Rio Grande Is taking an act
i've part, have been outlined and are
now being discussed at meetings Of
Denver & Rio Grande directors in
New York. according to Information
which reached Denver.
Friends of Mrs. Lucille Luker OF
Denver fear she may have committed
| suicide. Mrs. Luker is the woman al
legged to have accompanied Miss Flor
| ence Brown, fourteen years old, to a
/ resort near Denver, where Miss Brown
drank wine The Brown girl later end
ed her life by drinking carbolic acid
Following romance of college life.
Clifford Spencer Geitz. for several
years connected with the State Uni
versity as student and instructor,
and Miss Helen NJ. Wann. a junior in
the liberal arts college, were married
in Denver, the Rev Charles II. Mar
shall OF st. Barnabas' church officiat-
ing.
| All of the interests of Gunnison
county-mining, agricultural. stock
raising and quarry-are to be repre-
sented at a. great joint meeting of the
Gunnison County Metal Mining Asso-
citation, the Gunnison County Stock
growers Association and the Chamber
Of Commerce, which is being planned
to take place carly in September.
Denver city officials are asking
themselves whether 1t was an mad
vertence or a Joker" in the liquor IL
cerse ordinance passed last December
that left the wholesale liquor and
| bcttling goods houses free from neces-
| sity of paying license fees, incidental
ly causing the city a loss of 100000
yearly in revenues from that source.
The owners of the Baca grant, in
Colorado. have thrown the $4,000 acres
open to the prospector on a royalty
basis. The grant is situated In rich
mining section of the state and 1t is
probable that something good will be
found there. There were five float.
ing grants in the original Baca hold
ings, three OF which were finally To-
Gated in Arizona. one in Colorado and
one in New Mexico.
w. d. Current, who wm recently SEN
fenced to the state penitentiary for
obtaining money under false pretenses
and whose fondness for wives gave