Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-06-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jun, 9-I1.-G. A. r. Encampment at
June i6-1S.@state Sunday School Con
yention at Denver o, p.,u
ers' Association at Colorado Springs:
June 25-2S-State Christian Endeavor
June kass At ees spr5sSv baSver
June l6-17.-.Meeting Colorado POST
July i-4.9semi Centennial Home Com
ing celebration at Fort Collins, Collins;
July is.Is.@Gfand Lodge Session. B.P.
July 9Es ss@cassis%en's at Sspssa; Day. aunni-
avs Is-s1-Prowers ir co Eair Aaimas Lamas.
Aug: 27.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
Sept; l-4.EAr rk a n as Valley Fair
Sept -watermelon Day, Rocky Ford
Sept. 2-5.-Farmers' Stockmens
Sept i-4.-Morgan Co Fair. Fort Nor
! Sept. 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, s-11.-crowiey Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept 9-1I-Cheyenne County Fair at
Sept. 1o;,Sugar Day; Sugar CITY y.,,,
Sept g-2e.-Race Meet, Denver;
Sept. 21-23;;.-Inter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept 22-25-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept 22-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept. ss-2s-El Paso Co Fair. CaIhan:
Oct. 1-3.-Grand County Fair at
Kremmling.
Oct s-9.-CoIo.- New Mex Fair at Du-
.si5..Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
10 hs. hoa IL
quarters for a big gas manufacturing
plant.
Colorado Springs people are waging
war against all dogs and cats that
run the streets.
An estate valued at $4,000 was left
by Lloyd F. Nicodemus. who was
killed by James A. Bulger in Denver.
Eight hundred chickens were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed hennery at 46O5 Boulevard
F, Denver.
The Daniel Y. Jones ranch at Lake.
three and one-half miles east of Limon.
was sold to c. w. Maynard of Elk
Point, S. d. for 100000.
Fifty thousand dollars is estimated
by the city officials and Tramway OPP
Grating heads as the damage done in
Denver by the rain and hail storm of
the 21st.
w. S. Gromm. twenty-three. was ia
tally injured in . a collision between
two motorcycles and an automobile "a
East Eighth avenue and Logan street
in Denver.
Into the flood-swollen Platte river
two men plunged and fought for
blocks against the current in a vain
attempt to save the life of Owen Lar
ry. four-year-old son of William Larry,
a Denver fireman.
Eight Denver park board employees
who took refuge from the storm in the
bandstand had narrow escapes from
death or serious injury. Lightning
struck the roof and tore a hole
through the building.
l.. Rossiter Broderick, son of Mrs.
NJ. Broderick of Denver was one' OF
the Denver boys aboard the fleet at
Vera Cruz and was a member of the
first party of sailors and marines that
landed and engaged in the street bat
tie.
this year yield per acre 40 per cent
more than the average for the United
States, according to the May crop re-
pert, issued from the office of the
United States Department of Agricul-
tu-e.
The museum at the University or
Colorado at Boulder is the recipient
OF the skins of forty species Of birds
from Guatemala collected by Earl H.
Morris of Pueblo. senior in the Col
lege of Liberal Arts at that institu-
tion.
David G. Dargin, seventy-nine, who
in 1860 built the second store in Col
den, died at his home there from an
illness following stroke of paralysis
on Feb. r. He was one of the most
prominent figures in the early history
OF this section.
The Forbes mine of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company, swept by fire
following battle between mine
guards and strikers on April 20. has
resumed operations. according to an
announcement of George F. Peart, gen
eral superintendent.
The club women of Denver are max
ing arrangements for elaborate enter
tainment of the Western delegates
who will pass through Denver en- route
to the biennial of the general fedora
tion of Woman's Clubs, which will be
held in Chicago June 9-19.
For the first time in the history of
Knights Templar of Denver, the four
Communicates met in union Ascencion
Day services, at Trinity Methodist
Episcopal church. All of the comman-
deries, with the Sir Knights in full
uniform, met at the Masonic temple
and marched to the church where Bish-
m Mcconnell nresided nver the de-