Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-07-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper union News servIce.

July 2o.-Democratic State Convention
Aug. 1-3.-Midsummer meeting Colo
rado Editorial Association, Denver.
Aug. 4-Republican Assembly at Dem
Aug. 6.-Crowley Day at ordway.
1s Anss ass7kkroT,eEPs ass7-kk ", Sand Go snr Lode d and
Uniform Rank Encampment. Pueblo.
Aug. 25-2s.-Bent Co Fair. Las Animas.
Aug: 27-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. .s.--Farmers' Fair at Fowler:
SEPT; Roct. t;+EA5k ar a n s a S Valley Fair
Sept. 2-s-AnnuaI Harvest Festival at
Sept. s.-watermelon Day; Rocky Ford
sept. 2-b-Farmers' Stockmehs
Fair. Burlington.
Sept 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, a,5.-sedgwick County Fair at
ssp spD. cSq",y g,v FsI5 Fair a, 4, Fay. Fay
Sept; s-11.-crowley Co. Fair. susa-
SEPT gh.s.n.. s.II;.GhsiEsnne Wsi, County Fair at
ssp. t-1s,@ecelo' oasi state SskfE Fsir. Pueblo
Sept l5.ls..-Lincoln CO: Fair at Hugo;
sept i6-lI-conejos County iair
Sept ls;1s,Baea County fair at
Sept 2l.ssIInter-co Fair and Race
| . meet Mt Limon. ,.,
Sept ss-s5.-Wss,ern slope Fair. Mont
Sept .22-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept 2s-2s.-EI Paso Co. Fair. caihan:
Oct. i.s.@Gpand County Fair a,
Oct, s.s."coio. New Mex. Fair at Du-
1si5..Las. Grand Council of North
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Ralph E. Belding has been named
postmaster at Eagle.
Nine cents per pound was paid fol
| hogs In the Denver market.
Recall petitions against the mayor
commissioner Of public records and
commissioner of highways are being
circulated at Colorado City.
Samuel Bashor, Jr., aged twenty
five. was struck by lightning and al
most instantly killed on the Matt Nc
Caslin ranch near Hygiene.
| Mrs. Louise A. Bonney, seventy-twc
died at the home of her daughter In
Castle Rock. For the last ten years
she had made her home in Denver and
was prominent in church affairs.
Fully fifteen hundred people, most
| ly farmers. attended the annual coun
ty grange picnic at Platt's grove neal
Valmont and the program carried out
was the best one which the grange
has had in several years.
Carl Floyd, aged eleven, was
drowned while bathing in Bessemei
ditch near Blenda. The boy was the
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seven. His father is an invalid and
the other four children are younger.
The body of Miss Grace McHugh oil
Denver. leading woman for the Colo
rado Motion Picture Company, who
was drowned July l in the Arkansas
river. was recovered three miles east
of Florence by T. r. Williams, ranch
man.
The b. p. o. E. lodge OF the Philip
pine islands was represented at the
reunion in Denver by two prominent
civil service men. They were Samuel
Osborne Scudder, chief surveyor. and
Heinrich w. Gangunuss, assistant au
ditor of the Islands.
The week of Oct. 25, named by the
| Supreme Court as the time for Har-
old +. Henwood to hang, will pass
without the sentence being executed.
| Through Attorney General Farrar Hen
| wood was granted an extension Of
time for the filing of an application for
| a rehearing.
After almost a week of parades,
drills, grand lodge sessions and seeing
the town, the Elks who captured Den
| yer went out to visit and see the
state. At both the Union and Moffat
| depots Friday a constant stream OF
| humanity boarded the trains to spend
the day in the mountains.
The woman over whom DR.. Earl Nc
| Gill of wray was shot went to Denver
| to be at his bedside when an opera
tion is performed to remove the bullet
which may cost the physician his life
| She is Mrs. McGill No. 2. who married
McGill after he had been secretly di-
vorced from his first wife and she
from her first husband. Her former
husband, Daniel Funk, shot McGill to
avenge the honor of his home.
The annual report of the auditing
board of the grand lodge of Elks
shows that the Denver lodge had 49,
500 on hand at the beginning of the
fiscal year; that 1t received between
| March 81. 1913, and the same date In
1914, $54.22s: that 1t expended during
the year $54.S30. and that It has cash
on hand on March 81, 1914, $9.19s.
| The amount expended for charity dur.
ing the year was 1854 and the net
assets OF the lodge at the end of the
year were s24,531.
Charles Gassman, who stabbed
Elsie Shannon in Boulder few