Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-08-20
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Aug ca1ossgg cs11assgs; sMGrand Lodge. K. OFF.
Aug. 31-Sept. 3.-Meion Festival at
sept. iO,1i.@Fall Festival at Flagler.
sept. 4-17.-Morgan County Frontier
pays and Harvest Festival at Fort
Sept. 27-oct. s.-Meeting International
Oct. 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1S..odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Salida is planning a chautauqua
meeting for 1916.
Platteville's Pickle Day celebration
was success.
Thirteen couples were divorced in
Denver on Friday, the 18th.
La Porte avenue in Fort Collins is
20 be paved at a cost of s5,525.95.
John Moore, rs, dropped dead at his
ton of heart failure.
Albert Brewster, a prominent min
ng man of Cripple Creek. died in Den
yer following a nervous collapse.
Waunita held four-day celebration
when its new buildings were dedicated
by the Gunnison Chamber of Com.
merce.
Fred Peterson, SO years old. was
found dead on the pavement within
block Of his home at Pueblo by a
aewsboy.
Miss Eta Thomas, %, daughter OF
Charles Thomas, residing west of Fort
Collins, has disappeared. 1t is believed
she has eloped.
The total school population of Boul-
Ter county this year is S,623, as
against $3.50 in 1914. S.044 in 1918
and S.40S in 1912.
News of the marriage of Charles ].
Clayton, millionaire stockman of Den.
yer. and Mrs. Lillian Beck McManus,
was received in Denver.
Harry Martin, who was injured in
an accident at the Cokedale mine at
Trinidad, died at the San Rafael hos
pital from his injuries. He was 43
years old and leaves a mother and
two brothers in Wales.
Smashing a plate glass window with
brick. two robbers looted the win.
dow of the jewelry and curio store
Denver. The men escaped with $500
worth of jewelry in a sack.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces that an exam
nation for the position of forest and
field clerk to fill vacancies in the for
est service and other services will be
held in Denver on Sept. IL.
,;,
sioners donated to the racing associa-
tion the use of Prospect park during
the last week in August. when the
race meet will be held, and Lamb Day
will be celebrated Aug. 26.
John r. Davidson, secretary of the
State Auditing Board and the State
Board of Equalization. submitted his
resignation at a meeting of the first
named body A. B. McGaffey was ap-
pointed to succeed him Sept. l.
Preparations have been completed
for the Morgan county Frontier days
and harvest festival to be held Sept.
IA, Is, 16 and II. The program con-
tains twenty-five events each day and
$1,000 will be awarded in prizes.
Walter w. Davis. general manager
of the Yak Mining. Milling and Tunnel
Company, the largest operating con
cern in the Leadville district, has just
concluded a 100000 bond and lease
on the Alladin group of claims in the
six-metal camp.
Crushed to death beneath the
wreck of his automobile. Homer II.
Hagan. former Grand Junction man.
who married Miss Lottie Hibbs sew
eral years ago. was victim of an un-
safe bridge on the road from Glen
wood Springs south towards Carbon
dale, on road not much used.
To evade a recent order of the State
Public Utilities Commission that rail
roads must provide seats for all pas
sengers in coaches or permit them tc
ride free of charge in Pullman cars
several roads have issued orders tt
conductors not to take more passen
gers than can be seated.
George Lord, who with George As
mussen, posed as one of the "twir
bandits" and held up six persons or
Capitol hill and in East Denver before
his career as an outlaw was termi
mated by Patrolman Cook. was sen
fenced to from seven to ten years ir
the state penitentiary by Judge Perry
in the West Side Criminal Court il
Denver.
The latest railroad story comes
from Telluride, and is to the effect
that a party started from there for
Placerville and thence down the
Miguel canon to Paradox, thence
down the Dolores to Grand Junction
They are to look over the ground and
make a reconnaissance for a standard
gauge line from Placerville to White.
water