Cheyenne record., 1915-05-06
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COMING EvEACs.
June s-1i-G. A. X. encampment at La
Sept. s7-oct. s.-Meetins international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Limon is to have sewer system.
The Fort Morgan Chautauqua will
open June 21.
Denver's cleanup and paint-up cam
paign started Monday.
May 9 is Mothers day and go-to-
church Sunday in Denver.
Wellington. citizens contemplate
building another schoolhouse.
A midnight blaze at Grand Junction
destroyed three D. & R. G. cabooses.
Walter E. Lowey, a Boulder cab
driver, was run over and badly in
jured.
Fire completely destroyed the home
Of M. B. Thorp in Grand Junction and
all its contents.
The flour mill at Steamboat Springs
has resumed operations with day
and night force.
A protest has been filed by the
Women's Club of Victor against the
five-cent dance halls.
The fourteenth annual Sunday
School convention of Morgan county
was held at Fort Morgan.
George Washington Post, G. A. R.,
of Denver has asked that ban be
placed on sports on Memorial day.
The State Utilities Commission is
considering mileage book rights and
lower rates on the mountain railroads.
Francis M. Redington, pioneer
resident Of Denver for the last thirty
years, died from nervous prostration.
The estimated sugar beet acreage
in the Arkansas valley this year is
twenty per cent greater than year
ago.
Placer gold, which is said to run IS
to the yard is being washed from the
earth on the Miers Fisher ranch in
North Denver.
The portrait of Edwin A. Brown of
Denver will be one of the thousand
hung in the National Memorial gallery
at Washington.
The will of the late philanthropist
and business man, David S. Lehman,
leaves all his property to his wife,
who is also sole executor.
U. S. Marion of Denver was elected
president of the Fourteenth division
of Railway Mail Clerks at the annual
meeting held in Denver.
An unidentified man about forty
years old believed to be Mike Curry,
laborer, shot himself through the
head on the steps of a Denver room
ing house.
Clayton Pattison, recently acquitted
of the murder of r. E. Showalter, was
arrested in Denver on complaint of
his daughter, Mrs. Quinn, on a
charge of disturbance.
Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, twen-
ty-four, the youngest woman labor
leader in the United States, was in
Denver to deliver a lecture on "War
Can Labor Be Neutral?"
Governor Carlson will be one of the
leading speakers against the proposed
amendment to give Denver home rule
on the liquor question in the cam
paign for the city election.
Mrs. Berta Wright, who shot her
husband, John Wright, at their home
in Denver, was released from the
Denver county Jail, under $4,000
bond to appear for trial May II.
William Flick has put $50 teams
and $50 men at work on the construc.
ton of the Pixies peak automobile
road. 1t is believed that the work
can be completed for an opening on
July Is.
A party of 140 grocers from Ohio
spent two days in Denver en- route to
the California expositions. The visi,
tors engaged automobiles and drove
to many of the scenic points in the
city and vicinity.
Members of Cooks drum corps
have launched a personal campaign
to raise the bulk of the $4,000 needed
to take the organization to San Fran.
cisco to advertise Denver and Colo.
RADIO at the fair.
The Rev. P. U. Sasse Of Sterling
was arrested in that city upon infor.
nations alleging bootlegging and
other offenses, which were filed by
Deputy District Attorney Redmond.
He was released upon bonds Of $2,.
600. .s