The Colorado statesman., 1914-08-08
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Aug. 27-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
Aug 2I-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 29.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
sept, l-4-A k a 4 S a Valley FAIR
Sept. 2-2-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept. 3.-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
Sept, 2.5.-Farmers' stoclSmen's
Sept. l-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-5.-Larimer County Falr. Love
"A 60,000-ton silo for the American
Beet Sugar Company at Rocky Ford
is nearing completion.
The grand lodge of Colorado
Knights of Pythias will hold its an
nual meeting at Pueblo Aug. 25.
On Sept. % Florence will hold an
election to determine whether the city
shall own its own electric light plant.
An advance of so cents a ton on
southern and Routt county bituminous
coal was announced by coal dealers.
The site of Denver's new water
plant will be selected within two
weeks, according to the expectations
of the utilities commission.
The Boulder Street Car Company
has two crews OF men at work placing
new ties, one on Walnut street and
the other in Newlands addition.
Florence Brown, the fourteen-year
old Denver girl who drank carbolic
acid because she was disappointed in
love, died at the county hospital.
Clarence Land, twelve-year-old son
of Jasper Land, of Denver, broke his
arm, and the same afternoon, Eva, his
tfifteen-year-old sister, was drowned.
A saving of about ten miles is effect
ed by change in the routing over
the Pixies Peak ocean-to-ocean high
way between Calhan and Limon.
Mrs. Jennie Vigil twenty-three OF
Fort Collins shot herself in the temple
during a fit of dependency at Raw
Inns, Wyo., dying within half an hour.
Lucille Ravenscroft twenty-five, of
Denver is believed by her father, w.
7. Ravenscroft, to be in Holland prac-
tically the only neutral state on the
continent.
Denver's new union station is as
sured through the purchase OF the 81,
improvement, by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company out of its own
funds.
A general call to Australians to
rally to the support of the fatherland
in the war which now threatens all
Europe, was issued in Pueblo by a spe.
cial agent of the Austrian consulate
in Denver.
Wilbur Samuel Raymond, for thirty
three years a resident of Colorado
and prominent in the business life Of
Denver, died at his home, 1851 York
street. Death ended four-year search
for health in many parts of the
world
Nellie TAYLOR Chinn began proceed
ings in the County Court in Denver to
have her marriage with Kay W. Chinn.
a Chinaman, annulled on the ground
that when she married him in 1912 at
Granger, Wyo., he had wife living
from whom he never had been di-
vorced.
When James C. Bulger shot and
killed Lloyd F. Nicodemus May at
insane, according to examinations
made and conclusions arrived at by
DR.. Edward w. Lazell, alienist called
to testify fer Bulger in his trial at the
West Side Court.
Formal notice has been given by
DR.. A. Bourquin, the French consul in
Denver for all Frenchmen in his CON
ctlo tria or tnhn 1io1
tary services, to go at once to New
York city. There they will be regis
tered and provided with free transpor.
tation to France.
The Misses Catherine and Mary
Gamble, sisters of Judge Harry P.
Gamble of Boulder, are among the
American travellers who are marooned
continent for almost year and had
planned to sail from Genoa Italy, on
Aug. 10 on the return trip.
Following a romance of college life,
Clifford Spencer Geitz, for several
years connected with the State Uni
versity as student and instructor,
and Miss Helen NJ. Wann, a Junior in
the liberal arts college, were married
In Denver, the Rev. Charles II. Mar
shall of St./Barnabas' church officiat-
ing.
Thomas R.. Smart. charged with
Fleeing residents of Alamosa, Colora-
dc Springs, and Oklahoma cities out of
hundreds OF dollars in fake land
scheme, was arrested at Idaho Falls
Idaho, by Postoffice Inspector Roy f..
Nelson of Denver, after search ex-
tending over half dozen states. He
will be brought back to Colorado to
stand trial.
misstep into an old ditch running
through Barr lake, twenty miles north
OF Denver, cost the life of Guy j. Nc
KnaW thirty Yanrs old liuinn Il