The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-25
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
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May -16.--Race Meet Durango.
Jnne 5uIw 1!ii 11Si-July - a-Race Race Meet Denver.
July 1s-14,-Grand Lodge Session. b
F. O. Ellss at Denver
july 22-2S.-Cattlemens Day. Gunni-
Aug. 1s-21.-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar
Aug. 25-2s.-Bent Co. Fair Las Animas
Aug. 21.-Santa Fe Trail Day, Las AMI
AAug ss.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
sept l-4;@Ar * a nsas Valley Fair
Sept 3; 3;--watermelon Day. Rocky Ford,
sePt. -5,-Earmers ard StocSmens
sept. l-4-Morsan Co Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-4-Larimer Co Fair Loveland.
sept S-11-Crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept p5o,:oLo Cheyenne County Fair at
Sept. 1o.--sugar Day. Sugar city.
| sept I4-19.-Colo. State Fair, Pueblo.
Sept. -26,-Race Meet. Denver,
| sept 21-23. = Inter County Fair and
6. Race Meet at Limon.
sept: 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept 22-25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept Sept Sss-Ss-- Trinidad Fair, Trinidad;
Oct 6-9-Colorado- New Mexico Fair at
SlS.--iyHst trranu COunC1l OIL
American Indians at Denver :,
The strike of oil in Dry creek basin,
San Miguel county, has caused great
excitement in that part of the state.
The Grand Junction banks agreed
to pay per cent interest on the
| $4,000.
II am confident there will be no
war between the United States and
Mexico" said ]. A. Ortiz, Mexican
consul at Denver.
st. Georges day, April %, was cele-
brated in Denver by scores of mem
bers of the order of the Sons and
Daughters of st. George, at banquet.
Harry B. Shockey a locomotive fire
man, filed suit in the District Court
in Denver to collect $26,5OO for per-
sonal injuries against the Burlington
| railroad
Robert Hess, clerk of the American
District Telegraph Company in Den
yer, suffered broken leg and other
serious injuries when he fell from his
motor cycle.
| Denver declare the fleet of battle
ships, cruisers, many destroyers and
| scout vessels are ample to patrol the
Mexican coast.
Two automobiles collided head on
on the Colorado Springs boulevard.
The occupants of both machines, num-
bering nine persons, had miraculous
| escapes from DEATH
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford is the
latest Democrat to shy bonnet into
| the political ring. Mrs. Bradford says
she will run next fall for reelection
as state superintendent of schools.
While he was attending a moving
|. picture show, the home of Fred Cole
of Colorado Springs was completely
destroyed by fire. The loss was about
| $4,000 The cause of the fire is not
known.
That at least thirty-three members
of the Ludlow tent colony perished,
either in the battle or by the fire that
/ swept the colony, is the declaration of
the local officials of the United Mine
Workers of America
Miss Cornelia Barnes, librarian of
the Sarah Platt Decker library in Den
yer. has just received an appointment
| as librarian at the congressional
library at Washington, and will ac-
cept the position.
Robert Hilliard, the actor who re-
Gently closed an engagement in Den
yer in THE Argyle Case" and Mrs.
Olga j. Williams, wealthy New York
woman, were married in Denver by
the Rev. Orrin w. Auman, pastor of
the Grant Avenue Methodist church,
in Trinity Methodist church.
Boys searching for George w.
Bruner. the aged man who had been
missing from La Junta, found his
body in an rnoccupied stone house
two miles below that city. razor
lying outside the house gave the clew
and the boys found the man lying or
the floor with his throat cut.
Marjorie Hamilton Cunningham, the
beautiful calendar girl, whose sale of
the famous quadruple combination
system for the reduction of fat and
the removal of the double chin"
brought her to trial before the United
| States District Court in Denver last
summer. is suing her husband, Walter
G. Cunningham, mail order expert, for
an annulment of their marriage in
| Chicago.
Colorado women will be first to
pledge the President and the govern
ment their support should war with
Mexico be declared. The members OF
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton and the Daughters of the Revo-
luton. and even some of the members
of the Women's Peace organization,
have already come out strong for the
support of President Wilson in what