The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-13
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO

ticket for the coming city election at
Rocky Ford.
Warwick NJ Downing is now presi-
dent of the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold
Mining Company.
Ten thousand dollars will be spent
by the Denver park department during
1915 for improvement work.
OF total of 314 deaths in Denver
during February, there were suicides,
caused by accidents and homicide.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Sherick, IS, pioneer
settler of Colorado, died in Golden.
She and her husband came to this
state in 1862.
Colorado men gained full control of the
Gold Sovereign Gold Mining and Tun-
mel Company at the annual meeting in
Cripple Creek.
DIR. G. C. Lamb, who bought ranch
at Ordway last spring and farmed it
last season, has sold the place to ]. w.
Ray of Canon City.
A committee of Denver Germans
raised over $4,000 for the relief of the
widows and orphans of German SOL
diers who have fallen in the European
war.
Miss Aurelia Blair, At years old,
died in the home of her brother, John
A. Blair, in Pueblo, after long period
of illness. She came 20 Pueblo eigh-
teen months ago from her home in
Denmark.
Olney springs water, which was
piped into Ordway about two years
ago. is to be piped over the city, as
many property owners are desirous of
putting it into their residences for
domestic use.
John w. Wingate, grand commander
of the Knights Templar of Colorado,
arrived in Denver Monday from Duran
go to inspect local chapters of this
lodge The 47Oth state conclave opened
Tuesday evening.
The affairs of the Denver postoffice
will be turned over by Postmaster Har-
rison April l to the newly-appointed
postmaster, Benjamin F. Stapleton.
Harrison left for San Francisco on
two weeks vacation.
It is now proposed by a certain
group to so modify the charter of
Colorado Springs that commissioner
for the city will not have to give all
his time to the position but may en-
gage in other business.
Petitions are being circulated in
Fort Collins asking for the submission
of a proposition to bond the school
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building and equipping an addition to
the high school building.
J. u. Miller, chairman of the board
of directors of the federal reserve
bank for the Tenth district, told the
bankers of Denver that it ia Dracti-
cally certain the first branch reserve
will be located at Denver
When Thomas Farrell, roomer at
a Market street lodging house, died at
the county hospital in Denver, it was
supposed he was penniless, but sewed
TO the lining of his ragged coat was
found handbook which showed 81, 500
on deposit to his credit at a savings
institution.
Michael Soden, Colorado pioneer,
celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday an
niversary at his home in Denver. AL.
though within five years of the CEN
tury mark, Mr.. Soden is hale and
hearty, and helped to entertain com
pany of 100 relatives and friends at
his birthday party.
AT the End of the Rainbow"
three-act drama with a cast of twenty
characters, will be the annual play to
be presented by the members of the
Junior class of the Central High school
at Pueblo under the direction of E. r.
Birk, teacher of expression, in the
Auditorium the latter part of March
Senator Hasty, chairman of the fl
nance committee of the Senate, went
over to the House Monday and asked
Chairman Puffer of the Hous4 appro-
priations committee to make the
rounds Jointly of the various state de-
partments and state institutions, with
view of making further cut where
the situation may justify.
Vigorous protests against the pro
posed omission of Denver on the trans
continental auto route of the Lincoln
National Highway association. are be-
ing framed by scores of autoists of the
state, following the receipt of official
maps of the association in which
Cheyenne is placed at the northern
extremity of the big highway
More than six hundred Irish resi-
dents of Denver who attended the
meetins of the Irish-American Pro.
sressire society in the knights of
Columbus hall in Denver to celebrate
the one hundred and thirty.seventh
birthday anniversary of Robert En-.
met declared for "A free Ireland" and
advocated seeking the armed assist.
ance of England's enemies" to gain
Erin's political independence.
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