The Ordway new era., 1915-10-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Nov. 29-Drc. 4-Electrical Prosperity
Dec. 6-Ii-Annual Exhibition. pixies
Peak Rabbit and fet stock Associt-
iion at Colorado Springs.
The state tax levy has been placed
at 2.1O mills.
Greeley officers are investigating
a case of horse stealing.
Mrs. William Caruthers of Trinidad
was killed In an auto crash.
Governor Carlson delivered an ad-
dress on prohibition at Kit Carson.
A veteran Odd Fellows Association
wos organized at Colorado Springs.
J. Il. Fitzpatrick was arrested at
Fort Collins on a non-support charge,
A big gold strike made in Mt Zion.
near Leadville, returns $1,000 ton
In l4-inch vein.
Mr.. and Mrs. George u. Oaks cele'
brated their golden wedding anniver'
sary at their home In Denver.
Peter MontG,th. n pioneer ranch
man, died at Durango. The body was
thNSh W hiiuhGlphla loi pui
Henry B. Tweedale of Trinidad was
fatally injured and John Pritto in
iured in motorcycle accident near
Aguilar.
Articles of incorporation of the Ger
ing Sugar Company, capitalized at
100000. have been filed In the office
of the secretary Of state.
Zone hundred Italian reservists
from Denver and Colorado left for
New York. where they will embark
for Italy to join the colors.
Helen Kingsberry, the two.pOund
baby taken to Eenver by her mother
from Rock Springs. Wyo.. died at the
State Home for Dependent Children.
Governor Carlson was among the
speakers on Colorado Day at the Man
ufacturers' Associations display oi
wealth at the exhibit rooms In Den
yer.
Five bishops of the Methodist E:pis-
copal church attended the mass meet
ing held in the interests of Meth
odism In Denver Sunday afternoon at
Trinity church.
Nov. 2 has been set by the State
Land Board as the date for opening
bids for the leasing for oil and gas
development of $4,000 acres of school
land In the San Luis valley.
Robert Schrader of Denver. while
out hunting ducks on lake neal
Derby. in Adams county. was shot In
the leg by man who said that Schra
der was trespassing upon private
lake. q
Seven hundred and nincty-three
checks, representing approximately
$4,000. were paid Loveland employees
Ui the Great Western Sugar Company
on the first payday since the opening
OF the campaign.
Mrs. J. A. Lowell of Denver was
elected vice president general OF
the United Daughters of Confederacy
at the convention in San Francisco.
Mrs. Lowell recently was reelected
head of the Colorado branch.
Representatives of California and
Colorado mingled when the Denver
Boy Scouts met and entertained thir.
ty-one winners Of the High School
Agricultural Club contests OF the
Western state, en- route to New York.
Another woman who Is willing tc
share the millions of the late w. s
Stratton has come to the front. She
is Rose Ellen Stratton OF Kansas City
and alleges she is sister of the late
Colorado Springs multimillionaire
Henry Ferguson. 50 years old, stock
man and reputed millionaire of Ii
mon, who, three weeks ago married
Miss Ethel La Force. 25 years old
also of Limon, escaped from Noun,
Airy Sanitarium. where he had beer
confined for ten days.
The forty-fourth annual meeting Of
the synod of Colorado of the Presby-
tor'"n church was concluded at Fort
Collins after three days of interesting
n.e...ngs. here were more than $50
delegates in the city, most of them
beeing pastors of churches in the
state.
Meeting for the first time in sixty
years. Sydney Jocknick. a Colorado
pioneer. and David Hopkirk, a ranch
er living near Grand Junction, ex
changed "reminiscences of the sos
They are cousins. and Mr.. Jocknicks s
father left Iowa in 1855 to accept EN-
ployment in the government service
in the West.
DR.. Winfred Y. Grenfeli. the pat
ron saint of Labrador" has been Sc
cured by the University Y. NJ. C. A
at Boulder to deliver a series of ad
dresses to the student body early ir
February. Lady Gregory. whose
efforts in the behalf of Irish
literature OF the recent Celtic renais
sance, resulting In the founding of the
new Abbey theatar in Dublin, will
visit the university Oct. 30 and ad
dress the students.
Three more Fort Logan soldiers
were taken into custody by fedora