Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-09-04
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Aug. 2s-Farmers Fair at Fowler:
SEPT; Roekx l,t-EA5k Fo1d a nsa' Valley Fair.
Sept. 2-a-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sent, oser. sG.w,,.rn.,on nav Rochv Ford
Sept. 2-5-Farmers' ma stoclsmens
Fair. Burlington.
sept 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Mor-
Sept. 4.-Montezuma County Pioneers
Association Reunion at Dolores.
Sept i-s.-Larimer County Fair. Love
Sept; .i1-12.-sedgwick County Fair at
SEP! SEP! IKiqma County rs,, ,; a. 4, Eas: Fad
Sept; s-11-crowley Co. Fair. suga-
Sept. s-1l.-cheyenne County Fair at
Sent. lo;-.SuEar, Day. Sugar city;
Sept. 15-Is.-Lincoln Co Fair at Hugo.
The Ouray Commercial club has
been incorporated.
The Y. w. c. A. held a weeks con.
ference in Estes park.
advanced ten cents in Denver Friday.
w. H. Dillingham;, of Mead. was
killed by lightning at Estes park.
Salida was selected for the 1915
meeting Of the State Federation of
Labor. .e
Drastic orders we're issued to the
Denver police department to enforce
the police regulations concerning
women in cafes and licensed resta,i-
rants.
Mrs. Nina Kaiser, eighty-one, died
at her home In Denver. She was the
mother Of J. d. Shultz. Mrs. George
D. Smell and Charles A. Shultz, all OF
Denver.
Marjorie Hamilton Cunningham Is
going to make a second attempt to
have her marriage with Walter g.
Cunningham annulled. She filed suit
In Chicago.
A heroic attempt to save the life OF
his little girl, Emily, who died as the
results of burns Aug II, has crippled
R. F. Harris. an employS of the Dem
yer city highway department.
Injuries suffered when several
Jumps of coal fell on his head. caused
the death at st. Luke's hospital in
Denver of r. /. Bowen. a coal miner
in the employ of the Lyden Coal Com
oany.
George NJ. Hartman. who drove an
OK team from Elkhorn. Wis, to Boul-
der. in 1860. and who has resided in
Colorado ever since, died at his home
In Fort Logan at the age of eighty
eight.
An announcement has been issued
by J. Mignolet. Belgian consul at Dem
yer, that his government has offered
pardon to all deserters from the Bel
gian army who will return to the
colors.
Additional reports from bankers
made to the agricultural committee OF
the Colorado Stats Bankers Associa-
tion confirm estimates of unprece-
dented statewide prosperity among
the farmers.
The body of Harvey L. Hamilton. &c.
a laborer. was found lying in two feet
of water in a ditch under the Colorado
& Southern railroad tracks at West
Twelfth and Shoshone streets, in Den
yer. He had been dead several hours.
A test case of the Denver school
boards rule that married women shall
not be employed as teachers, may be
made by Mrs. Josephine Bardosch.
Until the middle of this summer she
did not fall under the ban OF the
board.
| John Jones, the negro who shot and
killed Geo. Heardon in a dispute over
a card game in Browns park last Sep
tember, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree in the District Court
at Craig. Judge Shumate passed the
sentence of death upon him.
George Hartman. 50 years old and
Colorado pioneer. died at Mercy hos
pital in Denver after short illness
He was well known in Arapahoe coun-
| ty. where he owned ranch, and at
Fort Logan. where his daughter. Mrs.
| Hattie Watson, is postmistress.
Bruce Ammons, Oldest son of Gov
ernor Ammons. was secretly married
| to Miss Margaret Gates, daughter of
Perle B. Gates. state representative
| from Montezuma county in the Nine
teenth General Assembly, at Castle
Rock.
Conferences looking to the signing
of contracts fixing working condi-
| tions for the coming years were be-
| gun between representatives of Dis
trict No. Is, United Mine Workers OF
America, and thirty-five Independent
coal operators of Colorado.
Government officials are making
rigid investigation of the firm or
group of firms responsible for the high
price which sugar has reached within
the last few weeks. One of the COM
panies against which the investigation
is being directed is the Great West