Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-11

June l9-July 2.-colorado Fair and
Racing. Association at Denver.
al Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagler. :,
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
A petition for home rule has been
filed with the city clerk of Durango.
For the year ending March 81, the
Denver Tramway Company's earnings
totaled s3,26S,954.
The contract has been awarded to
complete three more miles of the Fall
River road for $16,255.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Crawford
celebrated their fiftieth wedding ami
versary at Steamboat Springs.
The University of Denver at its
commencement exercises at the city
Auditorium awarded degrees to 1913
graduates.
Work upon further construction of
the Fall River road, which will trav.
erse the Rocky Mountain National
park, will begin on June 10.
| The Colorado Association OF the
American Society of Civil Engineers
will hold its annual dinner and elec-
tion of officers June H.
Frank Atkins, proprietor of Denyer's
first theatre, died in Johnstown. He
was 76 years old and had been a resi-
dent of the state since 1865.
Father Donnelly, pastor of ST. Fran
els de Sales church in Denver cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary OF
his ordination in the priesthood.
As a nurse in German military
hospital in Munich, Miss Fannie r.
Moor. plucky Denver girl. has termi-
mated pleasure tour begun two years
ago.
Examiner LaRoe of the Interstate
| Commerce Commission will conduct
minor rate and freight difference
hearings in Denver June II, IL, IA
and Is.
An increase of s6,2751S in postof-
flee receipts for last month over the
same month last year is shown in the
report submitted by Postmaster
Stapleton of Denver.
The City of Fort Collins filed con-
demnation suit in which the city seeks
to obtain possession Of nearly 160
acres of land in the vicinity of the
present water supply.
Five thousand dollars Is demanded
from the City and County of Denver
for the loss of finger in suit filed
in the District Court by Michael
Henry, former city emplye.
DR.. Charles A. Lory was reelected
president of the Agricultural College
for a term of two years at the semi
annual meeting of the State Board Of
Agriculture at Fort Collins.
The site of Colorado's National Park
is praised by Mark Daniels. superin-
tendent Of national parks, who re-
turned to Denver after inspecting the
territory comprised by the park.
A patriotic parade in which Den
ver's school children will take a lead
ing part is planned as one OF the chief
features for the exhibition of the
Liberty Bell in Denver on July 10.
Depositors OF the Mercantile Ma
tional bank at Pueblo will receive a
dividend of possibly 40 per cent on
their deposits July l, according to
Temporary Receiver Francis A.
Chapman.
w. Tracey of Salina, an employe OF
the Cold Spring mine near Gold Hill.
was caught between the wall of the
mine and loaded ore car at the mine
and was severely crushed. Two ribs
were broken.
Regretting her action in permit
ting all her teeth to be extracted, Mrs.
Jennie Bingley, sixty-three years old.
attempted to commit suicide in Den
yer by drinking the carbolic acid
given her to aid in healing her mouth.
Special orders were received from
the War Department by the Colorado
National guard instructing the militia
to get its companies in the best con
dition and Immediately bring its
equipment up to the minimum stan.
dard.
Robert Boyd. seventy-eight, first
pioneer of the Poudre valley and a
resident of that community for fifty.
five years. or long before Greeley was
thought of. died at the little sod house
he built in the early months of 1860
and in which he has lived ever since
rearing his family Of five children to
manhood and womanhood Death
came from bronchitis that had af
fected him for years.
The dawn of new era in mining
expansion of irrigation projects and
the enlargement of the sugar beet in
dustry are regarded by Werner 2
Hned, capitalist, as Colorado's great
est assets and earmarks OF prosperity
the Importance of which can hardly
be measured, according to a paper
read in Denver before the fortnightly
meeting of the Ben Franklin Club. en-