The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-16
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

May S'.-LoG -RolllnS contest, WV
June 16-1S.-state Sunday School Con-
vention at Denver.
June 13-July 4.-Race Meet Denver
July 7-11.-Race Meet. Pueblo.
July s-Cherry Pie Day. Manzanola
July yIS,1s.-Grand Lodge Session. b. p
July 22-23.-Cattlemens Day. Gunni-
| Aug. 20 2S-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 29.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler.
sept IA r * an as Valley FAIR
Sept. S;-watermelon Day; Rocky Ford;
Sept Farmers and Stockmens
Fair, Burlington.
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-4.-Larimer Co; Fair. Lovsland:
Sept; S-11.-Crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept. 9-11.-Cheyenne County Fair at
Sept, 14-1s,-Colo. State Fair. Pueblo;
| Sept 15-1S.-Lincoln County Fair at
Sept. 1s-2s.-Race Meet. Denver.
Sept 21-23. II Inter County Fair ano
:, Race Meet at Limon.
Sept 90 25.-Montezuma County Fair
at Cortez.
Sept. 50 2e-El Paso lao Co. Fair. Caihan:.
Oct. 6-9-ColoradoN New Mexico Far at
l9i5-i.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Clean up! Paint! Keep it up! is
the watchword in many towns.
After June 1st, Craig and Hayden
are to have daily train and mail SER
vice.
The Denver National has been
named as one of the reserve banks un-
der the new law.
Sunshine Inn," the Cheyenne noun
tain tourist resort at Colorado Springs,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Following an illness of two days,
Mrs. Armenian E. Epley, pioneer OF
Denver, died at her home, 2S45 How
ard Place. Death was caused by
pneumonia.
Ardourel's bill for the levying of an
income tax to pay military ex-
penses was killed by the House of
Representatives by vote of % to IS,
many members refraining from voting.
Jacob Schmidt, a pioneer saloonman
of Colorado City, committed suicide by
shooting on his ranch near Canon
City His dependency dates from the
time that the "old town" went dry,
two years ago.
Two thousand persons assembled on
the campus of the University of Colo
rado at Boulder to witness the annual
| May Festival and the coronation of
Miss Lille johnson of Longmont as
Queen of the May.
The real estate section of the Cham
ber of Commerce of Colorado Springs
appointed a committee to confer with
the directors of the organization in
an effort to devise some means for
settling the coal strike in Colorado.
friend of Colorado college at Colo
RADIO Springs, whose name is not made
known by President Slocum, has pur
chased what is known as the Mont
gomery House." one of the handsom-
est homes in the city, and presented
it to Colorado college for use as an
administration building.
Users of lump coal in Greeley will
be saved 20 cents a ton after June TO-
or total of $3,S41 a year, the state
railroad commission, in decision hav.
and Union Pacific to reduce their
freight rates in the sum mentioned
above on or before that date.
Adjutant General Chase declared at
reception at Boulder attended by
Boulder militia troop returning from
the strike field. that unless the courts
and the district attorneys of the state
/ ad f,.ait tn hn ste ta 40
men who had led the strikers it would
again be necessary for the militia to
take the field when the federal troops
leave.
Greeley junk dealers are adding
boilers, tubs and other washing para
phernalia to their places of business,
following an edict by the State Board
of Health to the effect that all rags
must be washed and disinfected before
being sent out of town. Housewives,
too, are warned that they must not
sell old rags which have not been
washed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Daily, the Oldest liv.
ing resident of Boulder county, died
four miles west of jamestown, at the
age of 100 years and s months. Mrs.
Daily was born in Toronto, Can, Aug.
5, 1918, and came to Colorado more
than fifty years ago She is survived
by three sons, Joseph, John and Mark
Daily, all well-Rnown miners of Boul-
der county.
Charles Dennison Cobb, for fifty-one
years resident of Denver and sew.
eral years ago Democratic candidate
for mayor, died at his home. 1l44 Pearl
street He was one of the oldest pio-
neers in the city, coming to Denver in
1863. For several years he was post
trader in Wyoming and was the hero
of number of Indian fights in the
early days of the West.