Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-08-14

Aug. 20 Elk of p. Grand Lodge and
Uniform Rank Encampment. puep,o'
Aug. 27.-Pickle Day at Platteviile.
Aug. 7-2s:-Fan Festival at Flagier:
Aug 2s.-Farmers' Fair at EowieE:
SEPT, Rochx hhIEEA5k Eo.5 nsas 'aheS fA''
Sept. 23-Annuai Harvest Festival at
Sept. s.-watermeIon Day: Rocky Ford
SEPT 2-5@Farmers an d Stoekmeh'
Sept. i-+.NMorsan Co Fair. Fort Mor-
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.
Geo Allen Smith and Ben c. Hill
lard 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 fourteenyear
old Denver girl who drank carbolic
acid because she was disappointed in
love, died ut the county hospital.
Clarence Land. twelve-yenr-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, Ga. thirty years ago.
through "A 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
apportioned $20.600 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 Il.
Copeland. WAS granted additional time
to file a petition for a rehearing in the
State Supreme Court. which body re-
Gently upheld his death sentence.
Messages of coincidence 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 Women's Peace Associa-
ton.
Plans for the reorganization of the
Western Pacific railroad, In which the
Denver q Rio Grande is taking an act
i've part, have been outlined and are
now being discussed at meetings of
Denver d 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 Il romance OF college life,
Clifford Spencer Geitz, for several
years connected with the State Uni,
versity as a student and instructor
and Miss Helen NJ. Wann, a Junior in
the liberal arts college. were married
In Denver. the Rev. Charles H. Mar.
shall OF St. Barnabas' church officiat'
ing.
All OF the interests OF Gunnison
county-minins, agricultural, stock
raising and quarry-are to be repre-
scented at 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 ii was an mad
vertence or Il "joker" in the liquor Ii,
cense ordinance passed last December
that left the wholesale liquor ami
bcttling goods houses free from neceS
sity of paying license fees, incidental
~ causin. the city loss of S20,OuG
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 a rich
mining section of the state and it is
probable that something good will he
found there. There were five float
ing grants in the original Baca hold
GoE I..
Gated in Arizona. one in Colorado and
one in New Mexico.
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