The Holly chieftain., 1914-08-21
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Eve.ts.


A%E Ssn; is-Farmers Fair a, Fowler;
ROCKY Ford. 'a"'' f
Sept. s-s-Annusi Harvest Festival at
Sept s-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-6.-Farmers' n d Stockmen's
EAR. Burlington.
Sept i-s.-Larimsr County Fair. Love-
Sept, I.1a;-sedgwiek County Fair ss
Sept esIk s.@KIewa County Fair a, Ead..
sept; s-l1.-Routt County Fair at Hay
Sept; s-1l.-crowIey Co. Fair. suga.
The fall term OF the Denver public
school will open Aug. 81.
Denver and Colorado. persons now
marooned abroad are reported for the
most part to be safe and well.
About 300 delegates attended the
opening meeting of the annual conven-
tion of the State Federation of Labor
at Pueblo.
Denver horse dealers may shortly
be called upon to furnish 10000
mounts for the use Of English cavalry
In the European war.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Electric Light. Power and Railway AS
sociation will be held at Glenwood
Springs. Sept. 3. and s.
The centenary Of the adoption of tho
stars and stripes will be made the
occasion for special exercises Sept.
IA In all public schools in Colorado.
Albert Bryan, former Denver archi-
tect. died in Pittsburg. He was
member of the Colorado National
guard and had many friends in Den
yer.
J. L. Houghton. . restaurant pro-
prietor at Trinidad. was arrested by
the federal army authorities charged
with purchasing government property
from soldiers.
The open season for doves was
heralded with enthusiasm in Pueblo
and fifty-two nimrods swarmed into
the office of the county clerk to Sc
cure hunting licenses.
A thorn which penetrated w. J.
Adams brain when he fell thirty feet
from a roof into berry bush at 935
South Grant street in Denver, caused
his death at the County hospital.
Basis for possible appeal to tho
United States Supreme Court In be-
ialf of Harold F.. Henwood, sentenced
to death. was laid In a brief for a re-
hearing of the case, filed with the
State Supreme Court.
The Colorado artist who designs the
best poster for announcing the United
Fashion shows, to be held in Denver.
Sept. 25, 26 and 27. under the auspices
of the Denver Retail Association, will
receive prize Of SIS.
Mrs. Mary A. Perry. resident Of
Denver for more than fifty years. died
at the home of her son, District Judge
John A. Perry. in Denver. Her death
was due to heart disease, from which
she suffered since May.
The United Mine Workers Of Ameri-
ca, through committee, district is,
have under consideration a new wage
and working agreement with the mine
owners Of the district. The present
agreement expires on Sept 1.
Representative Keating OF Colorado
reported from the pension committee
Of the House of Representatives
bill to place on the pension rolls at
$40 month all survivors who served
ninety days or longer in the Indian
wars from 1865 to 1891 and who are
over sixty-two years old.
A postoffice is to be established at
Crowley within the next few days, &C.
fording to message received from
Congressman Edward Keating The
town was Incorporated year ago and
has had considerable growth. 1t Is
located in a thickly settled district be-
tween Ordway and olney Springs.
Not satisfied with the explanation
OF the shooting affray at 1912 Stout
street in Denver in which b. c. Nc
Ham is alleged to have shot Mrs.
Lottie Rinear and then killed himself,
Mrs. Bertha McHam. widow OF the
dead man, requested the district at.
torney to thoroughly investigate the
shooting.
That Armageddon, the world battle
prophesied by the Bible as immediate
ly preceding the second coming OF
Christ, is at hand. was the statement
Of Elder George B. Thompson, inter-
national secretary Of the North Amer
lean Adventists, In his sermon
preached before the Colorado confor-
ence at Rocky Mountain lake. near
Denver.