Gilpin observer., 1914-04-02
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

at Denver.
May 12-14-state Council of Junior Or
der of American Mechanics. at Colo
rado Springs.
May 14-16.-Race Meet. Durango
July 7-11.-Race Meet. Pueblo.
July 9:-Cherry Pie Day, Manzanola.
July 1s-I4.-Grand Lodge Session. B
!. o flks at Denver.
July 22-23-Cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug. 1S-21.-Prowers Co: Fair. Lamar.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Sept Pto, 1-4;mAr kansas Valley Fair
Sept, S;Ewatermelon Day, Rocky Ford.
sept. -S-Farmers' and stockmen's
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair, Fort Nor
Sept. 1-4.,Larimer Co; Fair. Loveland
Sept, io.-sugar Day, Sugar City.
sept; l4.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
Sept. 14-19.-Colo. State Fair. Pueblo
Sept. l9-26-Race Meet. Denver.
sept: 22-25-Western slope Fair. Mont
Sept, S2225.-Trinidad Fair. Trinidad
Sept 23-26.-El Paso Co Fair. Calhan.
sept 2S-3O-l n ter- County Fair and
Race Meet. Limon.
lsl6.-i.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Otero county is going to take GER.
sus of its milk cows.
The authorities of Longmont have
declared war on joy riders.
The President nominated Edward H.
krutchen postmaster at Flagler.
Plans for three new Denver apart.
ments, to cost approximately S1O5,OOO
have been completed by Denver real
ncfa 10 4
structures has been started
Mrs. Elizabeth Mclaughlin, we'll
known resident of Lincoln, Neb., died
suddenly of pneumonia in Denver at
the home of her son, Charles E. Nc
Laughlin, whom she was visiting.
Oscar H. Hill, painter, is suing
William M. McNulty, retired ranch
man, for $4,000 damages in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs, charg-
ing alienation Of Mrs. Hills affections
Sheriff Alexander Yant left La
Junta for Durango, where he will take
charge of F. ]. Beaton, who was ar
rested there on request of the officers
of La Junta on the charge of embezzle-
ment.
A complete reorganization of the
Denver City Tramway Company and
associate corporations was announced
by Claude X. Boettcher, chairman of
the board OF directors and the execu-
tive committee
Two acceptances to the invitations
to a general freight rates conference
in Denver in April have been received
by the Denver Chamber of Commerce.
They are from st. Joseph, Mo-, and
Hutchinson. Kan.
Governor Ammons and Highway
Commissioner Ehrhart have arranged
to attend the out-of-town addresses by
d. Ward King, father of the split-iog
dirt road drag. under the auspices of
the Denver Motor Club.
Prominent educators of the state
wound up secret session at Colorado
Springs that had for it's object, it is
understood, a mutual exchange of
ideas looking to betterment of the
present educational system.
Denver received its first rain of the
year Saturday night-the earliest re-
corded in fourteen years. The fall
was general throughout the state and,
with their spring planting nearly com.
pleted, farmers are rejoicing.
En- route on a 5,O0O.mile journey,
Iowa, stopped at Grand Junction to
visit friends en- route to Australia.
where she will be married to II. F.
Bahmeier formerly Of Montrose.
The immense, beautiful and costly
Grand Opera Fashion Show. slightly
lnterfered with by the rain of Satur-
day night. but which nevertheless
pleased and repaid the $4,000 people
who came, was repeated in its entirety
Monday night in Denver.
For the double purpose of organic
ing the Prohibitionists of the state and
raising money for a s250O0O fund to
be used in a nationwide prohibition
campaign, James II. Woertendyke,' of
Los Angeles, Cal, will begin a ten
weeks speaking tour through Colora-
do April 7.
Startling statements concerning the
life and habits of Byron Howard,
wealthy cattleman, were made at
Greeley when the opening statements
of attorneys for his brother, Charles
Howard of Platteville were made to
the jury in the contest over his will
in which property valued at nearly
$4,000 was left to his brother.
A royal birth occurred in Denver. A
Alice, the big elephant out at the win
ter quarters of the Sells-Floto. Buffalo
Bill shows. A staff of seven physicians
attending the Princess announced that
Denver was the proud possessor of the
youngest baby elephant in the world.
And there was no doubling the fact
that Princess Alice was the proudest
mother in the world