The Holly chieftain., 1915-07-16
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.

SoMtNu EbENIs.
Aug. 12-l4.-Frontier Days and Wild
West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. 13.-Pickle Day at PlattevilIe.
aug. 81 Sept 2.-Grand Lodge. K OF r.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flaglsr.
Sept 27-oct. s--Meeting international
Oct. 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting at
The canning season at Loveland has
opened
Chief of Police Felix o'Neil. of Den
yer has resigned.
Dr. William II. Smiley was appoint
ed supervisor of the Denver high
schools
Thousands of people saw the Lib
erty Bell during its five-hour stay in
Denver.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles is
making preparations to organize an
other aerie in Denver.
Denver Elks Of Lodge No. II, 200
strong, left for Los Angeles, where
the annual national convention will be
held July - to Is.
Orlo G. B. Hoyt. 26, a Santa F6
switchman, was cut in two when he
fell under string OF cars at the Mar
tin street crossing in Pueblo.
For the second time in four months,
Mrs Belle Hall Sartelli, 23 years old,
Of Denver, an Oriental dancer, at
tempted to end her life by poison.
With the motive of his act hidden
from the eyes of the authorities, Al
bert Groves, 27 years old, ended his
life in Denver by hanging himself
A unique feature of Denver's recep-
tion Of the Liberty bell was the pres
ence of Charles s. Thompson, 96.
year-old veteran of the Mexican and
Civil wars
The board of trustees of the Colo
RADIO School of Mines at Golden unani-
mously elected as president of that
institution Prof. William Battle Phil
lips of Austin, Tex.
The new Denver civil service board
organized by electing Charles L. Kirk
president and Charles w. Varnum
secretary. Miss Helen Noonan was
eppolutCo 5lCuO6t oPACAs
Suicide was responsible for eight |
deaths in Denver during June. This
is the largest number Of suicides for
any one month this year. Seven deaths
were due to accidents.
June broke all records in calls for
DR.. Stork in Colorado Springs. The
health departments report shows to-
tai of fifty-four births, including thir.
ty-eight boys and sixteen girls.
A formal demand for possession of
the office of state bank commissioner
was made by Grant McFerson of Boul
der upon E. E. Drach, the present
commissioner. The demand was de-
MED.
With day brimful of gayety and
iollification, all French residents of
Denver and vicinity gathered July IA,
to celebrate the natal day of French
independence, the anniversary of the
fall of the Bastile.
A $1,000,000 powder plant contem.
plating the manufacture of munitions
for the European war, according to an
authoritative report in Denver, is to
be constructed near Sedalia, within
the next few months.
Juan j. Romero A, beet laborer,
was shot in the back at ranch near
Longmont where w. ]. Collier was
killed by Lem Mayhew. in 1909, and
died. Two Mexicans who were work.
ing for him have disappeared.
With the departure Of the Denver
Shriners the movement of members
of this famous organization and the
Elks both organizations moving
through Denver to thteir respective
conventions, practically ended.
Misses Marjorie Perry and Char.
lotte Perry of Denver, Portia Mans
field Sweet of Chicago, and Miss
Clara Savage of New York, left Den
yer for the dancing colony which they
have organized at Lake Eldora. The
party will look over the camp and pre-
pare for the coming of the dancers,
July II, the official opening for the
camp.
According to information filed In
the District Court of Arapahoe county,
Lulu Kehoe, proprietor of the Wayside
Inn at Petersburg and Max Klein, a
bartender, are charged with selling
liquor to minors. The charges, the
outgrowth of the recently reported
kidnapping of Margaret Much by seven
Fort Logan soldiers, were filed by
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