Gilpin observer., 1915-09-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS S
western Newspaper Union News service.
COMING EVENTS.


COMING EVENTS.
sept. 0-11.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
sept. Morgan County Frontier
pays and Harvest Festival at Fort
Sept. 15-I7.-Elks' Annual Reunion at
Sept; 17.1s.-Midsummer Meeting OF
COLORADO State Editorial Association
Sept. 27Oct International Dry
Farming Congress. Denver.
ocI; 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1s.-odd Fellows Annual State
convention at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Anna C. Hansonn is postmis
tress at Straussburg.
No mail deliveries will be made in
Denver on Labor day.
Fort Collins has put bar on child
rem driving automobiles.
Greeley is after the 1916 meeting of
the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
The Doctor Zinc mine at Gunnison
grows larger as development goes on.
Longmont's s new $1,000 auditorium is
ready for the fair, which will be held
Sept. 7-1O.
The famous old stage that ran from
Ouray to Silverton has been supplant-
ed by an auto.
More than 100000 young trout
have been placed in Colorado streams
during the past few weeks.
Rocky Ford had $4,000 red. plump
watermelons for Melon day on the
last day of the Arkansas Valley Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Chapman of
Grand Junction celebrated their fifty
second wedding anniversary recently.
The Denver Press Club has ar
ranged fine program for its enter
tainment at the auditorium on Sept.
IL.
Surplus supplies now stored in the
old Denver postoffice building are be-
ing removed to the new federal build
ing.
According to Secretary Lanes re-
port $4,000 persons settled on Colo
RADIO land during the year ending
June 80.
Bankers who attend the Denver
meeting Sept. 20 will be given a
chance to see the scenic splendor OF
Colorado hills.
George P. Steele of Denver was
elected law president of the National
Fraternal Congress Of America at the
annual meeting in Minneapolis.
President Wilson will send a per.
sonal message on the occasion of the
official dedication of Rocky Mountain
National park Saturday, Sept. 4.
With his sweetheart watching help
lessly from the shore, Jay s. Myers,
% years old, of Denver, was drowned
I, in Fairview lake, seven miles from Lit
tleton.
| Harry ]. Hunt, while examining
of which he was conductor, at Pueblo,
was struck by a string Of cars and
fatally injured.
Mrs. w. K Wright was killed and
three others injured when the auto
mobile bearing the party was hurled
into a ditch in the descent of the sky
line drive near Canon City.
That the United States Department
of Justice has been investigating the
Colorado National guard situation was
| brought out before the military board
| of inquiry appointed by Governor
Carlson.
Plans have been presented to the
Denver school board for the organiza-
tion of the Americanized Swiss sys-
tenn of citizenship tIA lining in the high
schools with the ultimate aim of in
Producing the system in the schools
throughout the state
The dismissal of the entire official
board of six members and orders for
the selection of a new one followed
the attempted resignation of the Rev.
tian church, at the conclusion of Sun
days services at Sterling.
Believing that the sons of Colorado
who fought in the Southern army
should have a fitting memorial the
Colorado Confederate Monument AS
sociation has been organized for the
purpose of erecting a suitable monu-
ment, at an estimated cost of about
$4,000.
His body so injured that he never
expects to walk again. Joseph Koloff
filed suit in the District Court in Dem
yer to recover from the Oakdale Coal
Company the sum OF $5.392.5O for the
injuries, which he asserts were
caused by the company failing to
properly use stops and stays in it's
mine.
Paul Barth of Englewood had three
brothers In the German army. He
wanted to join them. but could not
arrange his transportation back to the
fatherland. So worry led him to take
fourth brothers revolver, ride to
Fairmount cemetery and fire three
shots two of which entered his hndu