The Holly chieftain., 1915-05-28
COLORADO
S TATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union views service.

June l9-July 2.-Colorado Fair and
Racing Association at Denyer.
Aug. 31-sept. 2.-Grand Lodge, X. of r.,
at Colorado Springs.
aug. 2G-2s--Fall Festival at Flagler.
Sept. 2l-Oct. S.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The trout season opened May %.
Wesley Foster, of Boulder, shipped
two cars of bees to Idaho.
A farm house on the Hodges farm,
near Fort Collins, was destroyed by
fire
Twelve more men have been added
to the force Of the Poudre Canon road
gang near Fort Collins.
A. r. Barbour, sixty-two, was found
dead in his bed at his home near
FruitdaIe, west of Denver.
The Salvation Army will conduct a
ten-day campaign to raise $4,000 TO
erect home in Greeley. -.
Mrs. Banta of Grand junction was
convicted on charge Of bootlegging,
and sentenced to ten days in Jail
Freddie Pellegrina, two-yearold son
of John Pellegrina of Denver, .choked
to death at his home on a prune seed.
The miners and .prospectors
throughout the west lost a mother in
the death of Mrs. Katherine O'Brien
Peit at Ouray.
One hundred candidates were mi
tiated into the Denver lodge of the
Modern Brotherhood OF America at
the L. o. T. NJ. temple. q:
Hnnfi1nrao t., ~ I
tions in Denver and throughout the
state marked the meetingeof the Den
yer Trades and Labor Assembly.
Hassan ALE, section hand living
near Hygiene, was arrested and fined
$25 and costs and sentenced to thirty
days in Jail for violating the hunting
law.
The entire estate of David s.. Leh-
man, vice president of the National
Jewish hospital at Denver, amounting
to about s50O,J00, will go to his wild
ow, Alma S. Lehman. 80.
George Matthew Wheeler, pioneer
stage coach driver and freighter of
Georgetown and Leadville, died in Den
yer of bronchial trouble which he con-
tracted while mining.
The Albuquerque district confer.
ence OF the A. M. E. churches Of
Southern Colorado and New Mexico,
held at Trinidad, was largely attended; :
and great interest manifested.
Allan D. Weitbrec, thirty years old,
son of R. F. Weitbrec, pioneer Colo.
RADIO railroad builder and contractor,
committed suicide in Central park.
New York city, by drinking poison :.
Charles NJ. Dunsmore, pioneer of
Colorado and known over the country
as horseman, died at his farm at
Redvale. Mr.. Dunsmore was seventy
five years old. Kidney trouble brought
death. ~.
Sam Bernard, an Italian, was run
over by Rio Grande train at Grand
Junction and had his left arm
crushed SO badly that amputation was
necessary. His skull was also frac-
tured.
David Starr Jordon, celebrated edu.
Gator and noted economist, will give
the opening address of the Colorado
Sociological Conference, which will
begin at the University of Colorado
at Boulder July 4.
Greeley is in deep grief because of
the serious, and what may prove the
fatal, illness of Dr. X. Snyder pres
ident of the State Teachers College,
and acknowledged one of the great
educators of the country.
A search for Ellis B. Thrush, former
peace justice and assistant secretary
of the Clayton trust fund in Denver, a :
discrepancy Of $512 in whose accounts
was recently disclosed, was dropped
when his wife made good the short
age.
The celebration of Colorado Day on
August /, which is usually one of the
largest celebrations of the year, will
be one in behalf of peace, if the Sons
of Colorado and the Daughters O.
Colorado, who have charge of the pro
gram, accept suggestion made to-
them by the Colorado branch of the
National Woman's Peace party.
To the surprise of merchants who
had regarded with skepticism the
"Pay-UpWeek" campaign launched by
the State of Colorado's Committee on
Unemployment and Relief, many old
debts were paid up in Boulder the
first day OF "Pay-Up-Week," accord
ing to reports at the office of the
Commercial Association