Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-10-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 27-Oct international Dry
OCT armns asFan FS1nssssds snd Rsss sayes Meeting
Oct. 1iss.Eodd Fellows. Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Red Cliff will be lighted by cleo
tricity.
An Adventist church is being built
at Klink.
The Greeley Tribune-Republican re-
ports an epidemic of hog cholera in
Weld county.
The Platteville waterworks bond
election carried for the proposition by
about 3hs to 1.
Mrs. VIM. Bevar of Fort Collins
was kicked by wild horse and seri-
ously injured.
Thirteen Denver boys. aged II to
22, were arrested on a charge of rob
bing drug stores.
Twenty-one cars of grain and six
cars of potatoes were shipped from
Center last week.
The body of Harry Wilcox. aged 20.
drowned in Morton's lake, near Ster
ling. was found by searchers.
Water was drained from the draw
west OF Crook in a search for the
body of Harry Wilcox of Sterling.
Secretary of State Ramer has au
thorized the opening Of state EN-
ployment bureau in Grand Junction.
The State Land Board held a spe
cial sale of public land at the State
Capitol. More than 5000 acres were
sold.
John Wolf, one of the Oldest oi
Mesa county pioneers, aged SS years
and 1 month, died at his home near
Molina.
NiWot's ghost mystery has beer
solved. Scientists find marsh gas is
cause Of lights that have scared the
villagers.
A. P. Smithers of Denver, who was
injured when pinned under an auto
mobile on the Morrison road. died Of
his injuries.
:eiver OF the Elitch-Long Gardens
Company by Judge Allen of the Den
yer District Court.
The state of Colorado, by the end o!
this month, will have paid off all In
debtedness on the state capitol build
ing and the state museum.
Representatives of forty-five Bap
list churches attended the annua
convention of the Rocky Mountain
Baptist Association at Denver.
George Hummell roped a young
porcupine on a recent camping trip
In North Park, and it has attracted
plenty OF attention in Greeley.
Mrs. Isabella Wagner OF Denver
who sued Fred Schumacher. demand
Ing $4,000 for alleged slander. con
tented herself with 81 damages.
The State w. C. T. U. convention.
fitting in Denver. has announced its
determination to fight the cigarette
10 its determination in Colorado.
Sixty Italian reservists left Trini.
dad for the war front at home. This
is the fourth detachment to answer
the call from southern Colorado.
Trains between Durango and Silver.
ton have lately been compelled to
slow down on several occasions to
prevent killing deer on the track
The 17-months-old child OF Mr.. and
Mrs. j. p. Ostermiller. near Fort Nor.
gan. was drowned while trying to
cross the Morgan ditch on plank.
With the addition of nineteen move
convicts from Canon City the Poudre
canon road force now numbers sixty.
Work will continue till cold weather.
Twenty-Five per cent of the large
cabbage crop around Henderson is re-
ported to have spoiled by being left
in the fields on account of low prices.
The Rocky Ford sugar factory will
begin its campaign October 4th.
Beets in that section are reported un-
usually good in yield and sugar con-
tent
Yeggmen blew up the safe in the
Laird postoffice and got s1.50. and
were scared away before they could
gather in the $1,000 that the safe con
tanned.
The three English.speaking churches
of Wellington will combine as the
Western Federated church and will
supersede the present Methodist,
Congregational and Baptist congrega.
tions.
Rico Lodge No. 10. A. F. & A. NJ,
assisted by Rico Chapter No. 81, Or
der of the Eastern Star, celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of its charter
with appropriate exercises and fes
| tivities.
An electric interurban railway
throughout the entire Arkansas valley
was predicted for the near future by
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