Gilpin observer., 1914-12-24
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. -1..-Meeting State Assn of
County Commissioners. in Denver.
Jan. 21.--Colorado Good Roads AS
sociation Meeting. in Denver.
Meade is to have new bank, hotel
and garage.
A Farmers Union will be organized
in the Grand Valley on Jan. Z at
mass meeting to be held in Grand
Junction.
A package of valuable flower seeds
which was shipped from the growers
in Germany last July, has been re-
ceived at Boulder
Thomas O'Brien, a pioneer who
made his first trip to Colorado in 1853
died at Mercy hospital in Denver. after
a brief illness of dropsy.
Prof. ]. H. Matthews, one of the
best known of Colorado educators,
died at his home in Denver, as re-
suit of stroke of apoplexy.
There is little work for the grand
jury to do this year, according to Dis
trict Judge j. w. Sheafor, who swore
in the panel at Colorado Springs.
Pueblo was the coldest place in the
state as well as on the country's map
Monday morning wheu the tempera-
ture at seven O'Clock fell to -16.
Weld county has one automobile to
every nine families, or one for every
thirty-six residents of the county, ac-
cording to the report of the county
clerk
The Evans Commercial Club and the
town board are planning to get the
creamery plant that is to be estab-
lished some place along the Union Pa
cific railroad
After Timothy Readon, &c years old,
had attempted to wreck his home in
Denver his wife tied him to the bed,
where she kept him several hours be-
fore she called the police.
While whiting on piece of pine
board, Edward Cunningham of Milli-
ken allowed the knife to slip and cut
off the entire fleshy part of his hand
alongside the little finger.
The coolest weather Denver has ex-
perienced since 1897 at this date,
when the temperature was below,
struck the city Monday night. The
| mercury dropped to below.
Popcorn and peanuts raised by the
children in their own garden decorat-
ed Christmas tree that was the cen
ter of attraction at a party at the
Minnequa kindergarten at Pueblo.
A cold storage plant where parcel
post packages containing perishable
foods may be kept until they can be
| sent to their destinations seems as
sured for Denver's new federal build
| ing.
The Christmas offering of the Great
Western Sugar Company to the farm
ers Of Colorado in the form of pay
ment for beets delivered to the facto-
ries of the state, amounted to S2,165,-
900.
A physical examination of the school
children of Greeley discloses the fact
that 209o Of the LOO students of the
public schools are afflicted with some
physical defect that interferes with
their studies.
| Funeral services over the remains
of Oliver Howard, seventy-four, pio-
neer resident and the first school
teacher of Greeley, were attended by
funeral there
| The death of Miss Emma McCallen
in Denver, following an attack of pneu-
monia, is the fourth that has come to
the McCallen home within two years.
During this time four of the five Nc
| Callen sisters have died
North Lincoln park, in the heart Of
the business district of Greeley, has
been flooded and municipal skating
pond established to save the children
the inconvenience and danger of skat-
ing on the river bed
Masquerading in mems clothing,
pretty eighteen-year-old Mollie Ullery,
formerly waitress in an Alamosa ho-
tel, was arrested at Trinidad when
she arrived with ]. w. Trent, former
| ly clerk at the same hotel.
| Alleged gamblers and violators OF
the Sunday saloon closing law fell
in groups, in Denver, as the result OF
another cleanup order, issued by Chief
of Police O'Neill. Forty-four men
l were diitSttu dS pllu'lDdis anu VIII
nesses.
Arthur (Dutch) Gross, cowpuncher,
who was shot through the head by
Sam Moore of the n Bar ranch 75
miles north of Grand Junction In the
Book Cliff mountains, was brought to
the valley and placed in the Glover
Lawn hospital at Fruita.
Two more Denverites added their
testimony to that already given in the
efforts of Mrs. Arthur Little of De.
troit to prove that she was born OF
white parents and was adopted by
negro family in Denver In 1856. Mrs.
L. w. Turner and w. McGinnis. living
at 2314 Arapahoe street, remember the