Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-07-03
COLORADO NEWS
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July ls-I9.-Grand Lodge Session. BP.
,uI. 2; Eiks at os,,s.,.. Denver nav cunn,.
July so-Democratic State Convention
Aus. IIs-sI-proweEs Co: Ea,r :, Lama5di La mad
Uniform Rank Encampment. ese rneD,e'
Aug. 27-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 29.-Farmers' Fair ut Fowler;
Sept. i-l.-A r k an 5 8 Valley Fair
Roosy Ford. ., vos,,v., a,
Sept. s.EEwatermelcn Day; RSeky ,dsy I,sn!s PsTa;
Sept. 1-t.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. i-5.-Larlmer County Fair. Love-
Sept, 3-5.-sedgwick County Fair at
Sept. 5-Kiowa County Fair, at Eads
Sept: s-11.-crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept S-11-cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells. -
Sent 1o-Sugar Day. Sugar City; y;.,,o
Sept is-is.-Lineoln Co. Fair at Hugo.
Sept. I9-2G.-Race Meet, Denver;
Sept. 21-ss;;-,Inter-co. Fair and Race
Sept. ss-25.-Western slope Fair. Mont
Sept. .s-s5.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept. ss-2s.-El Paso Co. Fair. caihan
Sept. so-oct. central Colorado Fair
Oct. 1-a.--Grnnd County Fair at
Oct, s-s."coio. New Mex. Fair n, Du-
19l5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indisns at Denver.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of Brighton lodge No. rs, A..
f. & A. NJ, was celebrated in Denver.
The nomination of Harry B. Tedrow
to be federal district attorney, for
Colorado was confirmed by the United
States Senate.
Hazel Dunn, twenty-eight years old,
of Denver was attacked by a man on
her way home and was taken to the
County hospital in "a serious condition.
Plans now under way for the drain
ing of Leadville's downtown mines
will bring about another mining boom
in the camp, according to H. d. Leon
ard.
To open up the vast inland empire
which it traverses, the Denver & Salt
Lake railroad has slashed its rates on
many commodities necessary for de.
velopment.
1t is said the railroads do not in
tend to respect the rulings of the state
railroad commission ordering them to
reduce their rates on coal from the
northern Colorado coal fields.
Sixty-eight candidates took the ex'
animation for the bar of Colorado in
the Supreme Court. and OF the embryo
lawyers none was more composed than
Miss Beryl Bonner, redhaired and de-
cidedly pretty, the only woman in the
class.
Ray Herring, twenty-five, a clerk In
the State Teachers College at Gree
ley. committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head. He left
note declaring he was tired of living.
and this is the only motive assigned
for the act.
Thomas Gabrielle of Marshall,
known as big Tom" was sentenced
to serve a term of ninety days in tn,
county Jail for violation of the liquor
embargo recently issued by Governor
Ammons in the coal strike district o
northern Colorado.
Edith and Ethel Nichols, twins, oil
their eighteenth birthday. were mar
ried at Littleton to Everett 4. New
myer and Fred C. Carson of Center,
after coming all the way to Denver
from Northwestern Canada for that
purpose.
Signalling the formal opening o
the Colorado and Utah sections of the
Pixies Peak ocean-toocean highway tc
transcontinental travel, it is proposed
to hold an endurance and reliability
run this summer from Colorado Springs
to Salt Lake City; and in a like man
ner marking the completion of the
eastern portions of this highway, in a
similar run from st. Joseph to Colo
RADIO Springs.
An evidence of the return of pros.
perity is contained in the announce
ment that the receivers of the Frisco
system have placed an order for ap,
proximately s1,000,000 worth of steel
rails and fittings with the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company. The entire
order will be filled from the big steel
mills at Pueblo. 1t is one of the larg.
est rail orders placed in the West for
some time. 1t calls for $4,000 tons ioi
steel rails and the necessary bolts and
nuts and joints for laying them.
The body of George E. Simonton,
Colorado pioneer, past grand master
of Colorado Masons and manager OF
the Rocky Mountain Fire Underwrit-
ers' Association, was found in n clump
of shrubbery south of the small lake
at Denver City park. Simonton evi
IDENTIFY was suicide. Simonton was
thirty-third degree Mason, grand mas
ter of the Second Veil of Royal Arch
Mascns. and in 1912 was grand master
of Colorado. Funeral services were
held on Sunday, and he was buried
with NocoDic hoporr