Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-04-17
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

May l2-4-State Council or Junior Or
der of American Mechanics. at Colo
May i4-Ys.MRace Meet. Durango.
Sn JSiy 7iiMRace lsiY Maee Mees Peei Paeblo ehVer
July 9;..Cherry Pie pay. Manzanola
= o Elks at Denver
July 22-23.-Cattlemen's Day, Gunni-
Aug. 1s-21.-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar.
Aug. -2s.-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2?,-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
Sept, l4%Ar ans sas Valley Fair
Sept 3..watermelon Day, Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-5;-Farmers' and stockmen's
Sept. i-4-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept; s-ll.-crOwiey Co Fair, Sugar
Sept. io.J;sugar Day; Sugar City;
Sept. 14-1s.-colo. State Fair, Pueblo.
Sept: 22-25.-western Slope Fair. Mont
SEPT. SEPT Efinass Psso ca EAR Fair Fl@ah eaihan
Sept. 2s.30.--Inte County Fair and
IsI5SLast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Denver wants Admiral Dewey and
Mrs. Dewey as her guests on May l.
the anniversary of the Battle of Ma
nila.
Mrs. Elizabeth Graves, for fifty-two
years a resident of Arvada, died of
pneumonia after an illness of one
week.
Her second divorce granted within
two years and her third in five years
was granted to Mrs. Adeline Bowldy
in tho County Cpurt at puphln
Thomas B. Duvall, eighty-seven,
resident of Denver for forty-nine
years, died of old age at the home
of his son, Henry E. Duvall, in Den
yer.
The visiting governors in confer
ence in Denver were the guests of the
Indiana Society of Colorado at an en-
tertainment and ball given at Ell Jebel
temple.
Governor Ammons has declared Fri
day. April II. to be Arbor Day and
urges that the day be made the com
mencement of a new and notable era"
in state Identification.
District Judge George w. Allen of
Denver appointed Page Lawrence re-
ceiver of the Columbia Savings and
Loan Association at the request of one
OF its largest stockholders.
The Denver postoffice is to be reor-
ganized and made model for the rest
of the country. according to a state
ment given out in Washington by
Postmaster General Burleson.
The funeral of w. II. Bryant. for
mer city attorney of Denver. who died
at the Johns Hopkins hospital in Bal
timore, Md, was from the Bryant resi-
dence, 1107 Pearl street, in Denver.
William Carson. youthful aeronaut"
of Edgewater. who has been trying for
the last three weeks to make balloon
flight for the benefit of the Edgewater
Baseball Club. has at last succeeded.
Jim Goodheart of the Sunshine Res
cue Mission asked the police of Den
yer to look for Jud II. Taylor of Ak
ron, who came to Denver with 800
March 10 and has not been heard from
since
Lawrence C. Phipps of Denver, for
mer vice president and treasurer of
and partner of Andrew Carnegie, pur-
chased s2,OOO.OOO apartment house
in New York
The board of directors of the DEM
ocratic Club of Denver elected the fol-
lowing officers for the year: Frank
Bishop, president; E. r. Morris. vice
president; A. d. Meyer, secretary; w.
T. Davoren, treasurer
Mrs. Ellen H. Old, a resident of
Georgetown since 1868 and the mother
of John w. Old, representative from
Clear Creek county, died at the family
home in the east part of Georgetown,
aged eighty-one.
A Denver of the Mountains" fifty
miles from the parent city is contem-
| plated by the Moffat Tunnel Commits
sion in instructions to the Denver city
attorney to Immediately file in the
name OF the city on a townsite at the
west portal of the great bore
With the announcement of the drop
in price of Louisville coal from s4.25
to S400 ton, comes the lowering of
Lafayette and Erie coal from s3.75 to
$3.50. 1t is possible, according to
dealers in Denver, that this latter
price may drop to 1925 shortly.
Six counties of Colorado-Alamosa,
Rio Grande Saguache. Costilla, Cone
jos and Mineral-through their repre-
sentatives in mass meeting at Ala
mosa. refused to accept the new sched-
ule of rates which the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany proposes to install May 1st and
by resolution adopted amidst the
greatest enthusiasm, decided to in
corporate and build an Independent
system of their own, to be known as
the San Luis Valley Cooperative Tele-