Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-07-17
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Dates for CominE Events.
July 22.-State Progressive Assembly
at Colorado Springs.
July 22-2s.-cattiemen's Day. Gunni-
July so.-Democratic State Convention
Aug, 1-s.-Midsummer meeting Colo
rado Editorial Association. Denver.
Aug. 4-RepubIican Assembly at Dem
Aug, 6.-Crowley Day at Ordway.
AAug Au 55s-Ss1-ProwoEs 60 r EAR; :: LANAI nd
Uniform Rank Encampment. Pueblo.
Aug. 25-2S.-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas
Aug 27.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
aug. 2e-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
SEPT; BIT. i,4EArk a IL 5 as Valley Fair
Sept. 2-3-AnnuaI Harvest Festival at
SEPT s5MFsrmsfs s5wPssrmsiGn PAY FSssk ssoekkmsna mems
Sept. i-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. l-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, a;5.-sedgwiek County Fair at
Sept. 7@kiowa County Fair at Eads,
sept 9-11.-Routt County Fair at Hay
Sept; s-11.-crowIey Co. Fair. suga-
Sept. s-11.-cheyenne County Fair at
Sept lo;-Sugar Day. Sugar City, ty,.,,o
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SEPT. is-!s:-Fase Meet, Denver; No.
sept; 2l-23;1Inter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept. 2s-24-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
Sept. 22-25.-western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept; 22-25.-Montezumn Co. Fair at
Sept. 2a-2s.-El Paso Co. Fair. calhan.
Sept. 29-oct. 3-Central Colorado Fair
at Colorado SPRING.. -
Oct 1-3."Grand County Fair al
Oct. s-s."coio New Mex. Fair at Du-
Is15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Denver spent nearly s2,OOO.OO0 for
its schools during the closing fiscal
year.
Outside of Colorado. Wyoming sent
the largest delegations to the annual
reunion of Elks in Denver.
State Treasurer NJ. A. Leddy an.
nounced that he would appeal the
farm loan" case to the Supreme
Court.
Six persons were burned and other.
wise injured when an auto gas tank
exploded and the car hurtled into
ditch near Brighton.
In Leadville district the Big Five
Operating Company has made rich
discovery of gold bearing ore in the
old Big Four property.
ATLANTA in 1916" is the slogan OF
the Atlanta delegation of Elks in Den
yer bent on landing the convention for
the year after next.
In Gunnison county considerable de-
velopment work is. planned for the
Sheep mountain tunnel at Crystal.
Gunnison county mining camp.
Miss Helen Sears and Christopher ].
Abbott, both of Hyannis, Neb., chose
Denver as the ideal place for their
wedding and the Colorado mountains
as the best place for their honeymoon.
Two accidents, occurring within
half hour at Victor, may cause the
deaths of John O'Rourke, forty-one, a
miner, and Frederick Murray, thirty
two, a structural steel worker. Both
men are in a precarious condition.
The ten members of the I. w. w.
army, who were sentenced for attempt
ing to derail Rock Island train in
April. have been released from the
county jail on orders from Justice Lit
Springs.
For the first time since the Supreme
Court affirmed the decision of the low
er court that he must pay the death
penalty for the murder Of George E.
Copeland, Harold +. Henwood talked
with the Rev. Dominic Pantella, his
father confessor and adviser. in his
cell at the county jail in Denver.
Denver enjoyed an unique privilege
in having the Elks' national conven-
tion for the second time in eight
years, according to prominent visiting
Elks. The selection of Denver again
so soon after 1906 is itself far great
er tribute to the Queen City of Noun
tain and Plain" than any amount of
wordy praise.
Raymond Benjamin of Napa, Cal,
lodge No. SS2, chief deputy attorney
general of the Pacific coast state. is
being doomed as the next grand exalt
ed ruler of the B. P. o. E. The poll
ticians' who are authorities on cleo
ton affairs in the order say there is
little or no opposition to Benjamin's
candidacy for the office.
With his head and body hanging
from a third-story window in a room
ing house at Fifteenth street and
Court place in Denver, Ray Dalton, an
alleged fugitive from justice. was pre-.
vented from plunging headlong to the
sidewalk when his wife and city de-
tectives grabbed him by the legs and
hauled him back to safety.
A. J. Wilcox. an old soldier who was
walking from Palmer Lake, Colo, to
Laramie, Wyo., where he expected to
enter the Old Soldiers home, was
overcome by heat at Eaton and is seri-
L.