Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-11-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Nov. 29-Dec. 4-ElectricA Prosperity
Nov. 20 : Dec Electric Prosperity
Week at Sterling.
Dec. 6-11--Annual Exhibition Pixies
Peak Rabbit and Pet Stock Assocla-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 3-Annual convention COLORADO
Jan. s-1o-sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 16-22.-western Live Stock Show
March 2O-April 2.-Colora Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Rocky Ford Baptists will build a
new church.
Delta Masons have moved into their
new home.
The Pueblo land office has received
over 300 filings this month.
The old Swink flour mill at Rocky
Ford was destroyed by fire.
A strike of 1924 ore is reported in
the Isabella mine at Colorado Springs.
The contract has been let for $780,
600 packing house at the Denver stock
yards.
Radium ore, said to be worth a quar-
ter million dollars, is awaiting ship
ment at Idaho Springs.
John Lonergan has uncovered some
good looking lead-silver ore on his
property on Kendall mountain, oppo-
site Silyerton.
Mary Orline Ray, a bride of eight
months. shot and killed her husband,
James Ray, saloon man, at their home
at Oak Creek.
Ben Chacon. 20 years old, was
stabbed in the left side, the knife
blade barely missing the heart, in a
fight In Denver over a bowl OF chill
concarne.
Mt. Harris, coal mining camp
eighteen miles west Of Steamboat
Springs, is growing rapidly, and is re-
ported one of the best coal camp
towns in the state.
Congressman Z. 7. Taylor has rec
commended for appointment as post
masters C. S. Logan at Ruena Vista.
W. ID. Newton at Palisade, and Mrs.
Serena Z. Pollock at Rifle.
Three women, each one declaring
that Thomas Van Planck, erstwhile
movie" director, is her husband, are
now involved in the drama being en-
acted in Denver and Chicago.
The Club ranch on the San Miguel
river, near Nucla, has been sold by
Alex Calhoun to +. e. Cristy OF Tellu-
ride and r. Butterfield OF Montrose,
the price reported being close to
500, 900. p' l
A crowd of 1000 persons thronged
the Denver Auditorium, witnessed Mrs.
Crawford Hill hold court as queen of
the evening. applauded the Fashion
Show, danced and enjoyed themselves
in carnival spirit.
The nineteenth child was born to
Mrs. Flora Zamboni, 2615 West Eighth
avenue, Denver. She has been mar
ried twenty-five years. Among her
children was only one set of twins.
OF the nineteen only nine are now
living.
The University of Colorado has been
granted special use permit to oc-
cupy forty acres of land in the Colo
rado National forest as a club grounds
for recreation and for study and re-
search by students and faculty and
their friends and relatives.
The first actual step in the move
ment to make the Mount Evans region
national park was taken by the fed
eral government, when Franklin X.
Lane, secretary of the interior, issued
an order for an investigation OF the
region.
The Colorado Agricultural College
is arranging to send team of speak
ers over the plains section in eastern
Colorado to hold one-day Better Farm
ing Round-ups," at which the problems
of the settlers on non-irrigated farms
will be discussed.
The Broadway theater in Denver
was packed to overflowing by an en-
thusiastic audience, gathered to listen
to the spirited minstrel jubilee and
vaudeville performance given under
the direction of Denver lodge No. IL,
Knights of Pythias.
Taken into custody at the request of
Teller county authorities. Mrs. Laura
Meldrim Forbes, 19-year-old bride of
five weeks, faces charges of conspir-
dcS Wlth-Her husDahu, Dr- archibald
NJ. Forbes, arrested in Denver, to de-
fraud her uncle, w. II. Meldrim of
| Cripple Creek. out of $3.50
Judge Denison of the Denver Dis.
trict Court. in the court room at Cas-.
tie Rock, set the day for beginning
the trials of the members of the
| United Mine Workers of America
| charged with the alleged murdar of
Dr. p. P. Lester in the so-called Hog
back battle near Walsenburg on April
20, 1914. for Monday. Jan. 8.