The Ordway new era., 1915-05-28
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COMING EyENrs.
June s-ll-G. a. X. encampment at La
June IS-19.-strawberry Days. Glen
June isstuis a.colorado Fair and
Aug, 3iesept s.-Grand Lodge. X. of r..
at Colorado Springs
Sept. 2.-oct. s"Maieeting Intern.1ional
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
| Wesley Foster. OF Boulder, shipped
two cars OF bees to Idaho.
The Columbus mine, In the Silverton
district, will start work soon.
A farm house on the Hodges farm,
near Fort Collins, was destroyed BY
fire.
The series OF revival meetings which
came to close in Fort Collins netted
DIR. Z. J. Bugin $i.S0s.
C. E. Moore sold his 320-acre farm
seven miles east OF Loveland to Con-
rad Wacker for $4,000.
te 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
Fruitdale. west of Denver.
The Salvation Army will conduct
ten-day campaign to raise $1,000 to
erect home in Greeley.
Mrs. Banta of Grand Junction was
convicted on charge Of bootlegging.
and sentenced to ten days in Jail.
The $4,000 bond proposition for an
addition to the Fort Morgan high
school. carried by vote of 50 to 25.
Mrs. Geo. P. Avery. for two years
president of the Fort Collins school
board, has resigned as a member OF
the board.
| The miners and prospectors
throughout the west lost a mother in
the death of Mrs. Katherine O'Brien
Peit at Ouray.
With the mercury down to 25 de-
grees Tuesday night. all records for
low temperatures ir mid-May were
| broken by 10 degrees.
The Delta High School track team
won the eighth annual track meet in
which eight high schools Of the West
tern slope participated.
Twenty thousand dollars in premi-
ums will be offered at the Information
al Soil-Products exposition to be held
in Denver Sept. u to Oct. 3.
Hassan ALE, section hand living
near Hygiene, was arrested and fined
SIS and costs and sentenced to thirty
days in jail for violating the hunting
law.
| The Albuquerque district confer
ence of the A.. NJ. 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.
Grover II. Hicks, who was injured
/, In fall of rock at the Boulder county
tunnel on April 90, filed suit for $lO.-
600 in the District Court at Boulder
against the Cariman Mining Company.
Charles NJ. Dunsmore, pioneer OF
I, 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 3rande 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. z. X. Snyder. pres.
ident Of the State Teachers College,
and acknowledged one of the great
educators of the country.
Bids for the construction OF the
| first, three miles of the Fall River
road. for the building of which ST..
| 600 has been transferred from the
| capitol board fund to the highway
fund, were advertised and will be let
| on June /. s
The Agricultural College at Fort
Collins will observe Memorial day this
year in a manner which has not been
touched on in previous years. Patri,
otic exercises will supplant the usual
baccalaureate exercises for the gradu
ates OF this years class.
A sncwstorn that assumed blizzard
like proportions shortly before noon
enshrouded Denver Tuesday and
threatened all FORMER snow records
for the month OF May with oblitera.
ton. The thermometer registered 80
degrees at noon, the record tempera.