The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-12-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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DATES +'Oa COMING EVENTS.

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DATES f'OR COMING ESENTs.
| Jan 3-Annual convention Colorad.
Farmers Congress al Fort Collins
| Jan. I-S-s'otorado Kennel Club show
| at Denver
Jan. 3-10-SiNteenih annual show oi
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
Jan. i7-ls.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Gr"cers and Bu'chers' Association
Jan. Ice Western Live Stock show
March 2o-Aprn s-colorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
industrial Exposition at Denver.
Alexander Nisbet, commissioner oi
safety. was attacked by five youths
on a Denver street.
| Breweries of Denver and Golden are
preparing to turn their plants into new
uses after Jan I.
| number of Colorado people attend.
ed the third annual conference OF
marketing and rural credits at Chi.
cago
A total appropriation of $5,s4o.o63
for city. county. school and state pur.
poses in 1916 was formally submitted
to the Denver council.
Conclusion OF the brain sustained
In fall caused the death of Miss
Annie Griffiths. daughter Of Mr. and
| Mrs. J. c. Griffiths OF Boulder.
Mrs. Frederick NJ. Schaffer, SO years
old, for thirty-five years proprietor OF
the famous Schaffer ranch at Hudson,
died at Mercy hospital in Denver.
Shares of the Golden Cycle Redlc.
tion Company touched 81 Friday on
the Colorado Springs Mining Stock EN-
change, the highest they have ever
been.
The death of Capt William Hamil-
ton Green, who helped lay out Pueblo
| and Canon City. makes William H.
Clark of Denver, Colorado's Oldest pio-
neer resident.
In the death at Fort Collins of Will
lam Mason Post, 90. Northern Colo
RADIO lost one of its Oldest residents as
well as one of its most picturesque
characters.
Under the auspices of the Federation
of Agricultural Clubs of Morgan coun-
ty, series of farmers institutes will
be held on the circuit plan during the
week of Jan. 1915.
According to the November report
Of the department of public health,
Colorado Springs had an exceptionally
low death rate for the month. The re-
port gives percentage of "a.
Herbert Allen, the 1s-year-old boy
who shot his sister. Estelle, mistaking
her for burglar at their home in
Denver, was completely exonerated by
the girl Of all blame in the matter.
Electrical Prosperity Week in Den.
yer came to a close with grand it,,
Elimination at the Auditorium, when
the largest crowd that has attended
the celebration gathered to witness
the closing events
The annual memorial service of the
Elks was held Sunday at the home OF
the Denver lodge The largest number
Of deceased members during any one
year will be eulogized, the eulogy
being delivered by John F. Enright.
John G. Cook, champion rifle shot of
the Colorado National Guard, holder of
forty-five medals and trophies for his
| skill as marksman, and several
times representative of Colorado at
national target practice, now ranks as
a second lieutenant.
Licenses covering a period of TWEEN.
| ty days, or from Dec. II to Jan, 1,
1916, will probably be granted by the
Denver city council as solution of
the problem to be brought before
them on the former date, when 125 sa.
loon permits expire.
Chief of Police Glenn S. Duffield of
| Denver returned from Longmont,
where he aided in efforts to solve the
| William H. Dickens murder case. de-
claring the evidence against Rienzi
G. Dickens, accused of Staying his
eliminating
At meeting of the board of direct
crs Of the Denver & Salt Lake rail
road in Denver. Lawrence c. Phipps
was elected chairman OF the board;
Charles Boettches, president; Gerald
| Aiu6hSS, sVSiStdiy, "dIu r. fearSOn-
treasurer. and Fred G. Moffat. assist
ant treasurer.
| Announcement was made that the
International Farm Congress and the
Soil Products Exposition would main
tain an office in the Chamber of Com
merce building in Denver until after
tie Ell Paso meeting next year. when
the selection of a permanent horne
fer the two big events will be taken
up.
With his friends and family a unity
working for his defense, Rienzi C.
Dickens, charged with the murder of
his father, w. H. Dickens, pioneer
Longmont banker, is in the Boulder
county jail while officers are working
to build up their chain of evidence
and family members are working with