Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-08-28
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

sept 1o-lS.-Lincoln Co. Fair at hugo.
Johnston will have electric lights in
September.
The Del Norte fair will be held Sep
tember 10. II and -.
Work on the new telephone system
for Brush has been started.
New machinery has been. put in the
milk condensory at Johnston.
John Kimmons of Fort Collins was
kicked to death in North Park.
A state employment bureau has
been established at Grand Junction.
The Virginia Dale Grange Will have
a picnic at the Moen ranch on Au-
gust 26.
Mothers Day of the Denver Play
grounds Association was observed at
Daily Park.
The cantaloupe crop in the vicinity
of Swink is the largest and best ever
raised there.
A Chicago concern has made a prop
osition to build and operate a cream
cry in Brush.
The Montezuma County Pioneers
Association will hold its annual re-
union at Dolores, Sept 4.
Work on the new road to shorten
the distance between Johnston and
Milliken is now under way.
The Jane jefferson Democratic
Club will give its third annual BAN
quet on the fourteenth anniversary of
the association.
Emma B. Rupp was appointed post
master at Buckingham, Weld county.
She takes the place of Edna A. Nc
Kee. who resigned.
The annual camp meeting and con-
ference of the Seventh Day Adventist
Conference of Western Colorado is to
be held in Montrose Sept. 15 to 22.
A congress Of hotel men, represent
ing the entire South and West to be
held in Denver in September. is pro-
posed by the Denver Convention AS
sociation.
Miss Marjorie Reed and Joseph
Reed. the children of Werner z. Reed,
and Mrs. Townsend Burden are among
the Denver people who have had au-
diences with the Pope.
Prominent Jews in Denver discred-
tied the telegraphic report that the
czar of Russia had, by proclamation
granted the Russian Jews full politi
car rights in the empire.
A pardon assured him for his deser.
tion from the French army two years
ago has led Marcel Berth. French
cook of Denver, to respond to the call
of France for volunteers.
Salida was chosen as the next meet
ing place of the Colorado State FEEDER
alton of Labor at the closing session
of the nineteenth annual convention.
held in Pueblo. the place Of the birth
of the organization.
Efforts probably will be made soon
by the state government to recover
100000 acres Of coal and grazing lands
in Routt and Grand counties, which
Fclney T. Hoggatt believes were i'm
properly released in the past.
That a second coming of Christ and
the beginning of the millennium is
close at hand is the belief expressed
by Elder r. l.. Benton of the Seventh
Day Adventist church who is holding
a series of meetings in Montrose.
In her own little home in Denver
with her son her only living relative,
Mrs. Hannah Duncan celebrated her
ninety-second birthday. She was
most charming hostess to her many
guests, who came to wish her happy
returns of the day.
In order to present concerted oppo-
sition to a movement by the railroads
to obtain higher inter-mountain freight
rates. a meeting of the railroad and
public utilities commissions of the in
ter-mountain states will be held in
Denver on August 28 at the offices of
the Colorado public utilities commits
sion.
Properties valued at S3,OO0,0OO,
owned heretofore by the Pueblo-Rocky
Ford Irrigation Company, passed into
the hands of the Chicago Title and
Trust Company as trustees for own
ers of bonds issued in 1912 by the is.
suance of decree by Federal Judge
Robert Z. Lewis, dated August 10. de-
claring the mortgage mature, and the
property forfeited.
The trouble with young folks is that
they have an automobile taste with a
bicycle income. according to Mr.. and
Mrs. w. P. Bond, who celebrated the
golden anniversary of their wedding at
their home in Denver Mr.. and Mrs.
Bond were married in Lee county, Ia.
and came to Denver twenty-five years
ago. ...
approximately 14.500 acres were
added to Denver's mountain park sys-
TEN, when the House of Representa-
tives passed unanimously the two
Senate bills affecting the mountain
parks.