The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1915-12-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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WATEO 6OR COA1NG EVENT..
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Jan S-0.-FsrmarT Annual ConGresI
at Fort Collins AgTssultural College.
-Coierede kennsi Club SHOW
Ian. s-ie-s.zseea.h annual sssu 81
Colorado Pseitry Taneisrs' AssesiA-
Jan. l5-1s-Hsstine Colorado u al
Grcesrr and Dutehsrs' AssesissEsa
Jan ls.-siath Annual convsntioa 81
IA. Soi "a good Ho.ds As:.n q Dsnysr.
Feb: lsINsstieg Rspus,icsn STATE
FEB is.1sEsports Carnival At stsam-
March s6-Aprii s-coiora do Retail,
Merchants' Association's Food and
The Brighton road is being srav
eled.
A request has been made for de-
pot at Hot Springs.
Steamboat Springs is planning .
sports carnival to be held Feb. 1918.
The Camp Bird at Ouray will drive
. S.000-foot tunnel from mill to mine.
The annual show of the Pueblo
Poultry Association was largely at
tended. -
Governor Carlson and family spent
Christmas on the farm Of his father
near Greeley.
Following the usual custom Denver
banks made cash Christmas gifts to
their employee.
John Curtis, who would have beer
100 years old in February. died al
Cripple Creek Of the grip.
The Christmas business at the Pu
eblo postoffice this year was by far
the largest ever transacted.
A gasoline motor car express and
passenger service will be established
between Johnstown and Milliken.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be spent in building an add
ton to the Ford Assem- bling plant IN
Denver.
By order Of the Postoffice Depart
ment. rental Of boxes In small towr
postoffices have been raised about 3:
per cent.
Color ado has ninety.five power
laundries. The capital invested is
81, 440.ss6. against $1.270,656 five
years ego.
Miss Nettie R. Russell, 81, for TWEEN
ty-five years teacher in the Denver
schools. was hit by two automobiles
and killed.
Mrs. May Singleton of Denver dice
in st. Luke's hospital after she haG
given birth to twins by the aid Of
Caesarian operation.
The first big snowstorm Of the sea
son swept over Denver and Colorado
Sunday. More snow fell in Denver
than in any other part of the state.
The state Inheritance officers now
claim that the state will realize ap.
proximately 100000 from the estate
Of Dennis Sullivan, millionaire bank
er and pioneer miner. -.-
Colorado produces more than one.
fourth Of all the beet sugar manufac-
tured in the United States, according
to figures recently compiled by the
United States Department Of Agricul.
ture.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bostwick, % years
old, mother of two-months-old child,
cut her throat with her husbands ra-
zor at her home in Denver. The hus-
band, Iaurance c. Bostwick. was at
church.
Nearly 100 citizens of Buena Vista
held "A meeting recently to perfect ar
engagements with a manufactures
company of Oroville. Ohio. for the
construction Of a $15O.0OO smelling
and concentrating plant.
Twenty prominent Denver men
have been appointed on a committee
to represent the Navy League in Colo
RADIO. The league was formed to in.
crease interest in the need of a great.
er navy and adequate preparedness.
Dav!d Castetter. an Ss-year-old war
veteran, died at his home in Denver.
Mr.. Castetter came to Colorado in
1884 and entered tho hotel business
in Julesburg. He came to Denver
about twenty years ago and for q
number of years was care-taker Of
Chaffee Park in North Denver.
Several buildings at Sunshine and
in other mountain, towns were blown
down. telephone service was crippled
merchants signs were whirled away
and some windows were blown in nv
the windstorm that ragged with great
fury from o'clock Monday night un
til early Tuesday morning in the Boul
der section. st,s
For the twelve months ended on
Nov. 80, the Denver Cities Service
Company made net earnings Of 49,.
6s5,so1 an increase Of $26s.Sss over
the previous year, or 2.35 times the
dividend requirements for the pre-
ferred stock. The twelve months
business was the greatest in the COM
pany's history.