The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-01-07
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
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DATES For COMING EVENTS.

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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan i1.-Midwinter Meeting Colorado
Eoitorlai Association at Denver.
ciety at Denver
Jan. s-l.;-Meeting State Assn of
Jan. 20-21.--Colorado Good Roads As
ISOLATION Meeting. in Denver.
The Denver postoffice receipts for
1914 were S1,372,425, as against $1,311.-
291 for 1918.
Marriage licenses issued in Denver
In 1914 were III less than in 1918, the
total for last year being 1903.
The Bachelors ball at the MinneQua
club at Pueblo was largely attended
and proved an enjoyable affair.
Building permits in Denver during
1914 exceeded those of 1913 by 1857
in number and $S53,212 In value.
The question of the freight rates
from the northern coal fields to Den
yer reached the State Supreme Court.
Denverites greeted 1915 with shouts
of joy in midnight revels, and many
receptions were held on New Years
day.
Colorado ranks twenty-fourth among
the states of the Union in the number
of automobiles owned, having 1880
machines.
Sixteen thousand three hundred and
eighty-eight persons were arrested in
Denver by the police department dur
ing the year 1914.
Colorado nj ta ri a1
an investigation into the finding of the
body of newborn baby by two boys
near the State School for the Deaf and
Blind
Nancy Cattell, a clever Denver girl,
gave Scriptual reading at the general
meeting of the Colorado State Teach
ers' Association at the Auditorium in
Denver.
Staid, quiet, decorous Little Lun-
non" in Colorado Springs, exploded
and turned itself topsy turvy in
spectacular celebration that ushered
in the New Year.
Extensive changes in the city hall
were decided on at a meeting of the
city commissioners of Pueblo. Work
on the improvements will be started
within a few days.
Kirkland Spencer. 50. one of the
Oldest Odd Fellows and Masons in the
state, was killed by an electric car
while on his way to visit one of his
three sons in Pueblo.
Twenty silver loving cups were
awarded to the winners in the fifteenth
ha mt cho 81,
by the Colorado Poultry Fanciers' As
sociation in Denver.
Mother Jones left Denver for New
| York to be on hand should the Federal
Commission appointed by President
Wilson desire her testimony. She will
also fill several lecture dates while In
the East.
Three hundred unemployed men.
most OF whom have drifted into Den
yer recently from other points, called
upon Chief of Police O'Neil New
Years eve and asked him for lodging.
which was furnished.
Five carloads of flour, subscribed by
Colorado people to the national Bel
gian relief fund, through ]. Mignolet,
York city. there to be placed on ship
board for the ocean voyage.
Let the past bury it's dead" was
the message which the Rev Frank r.
Hollenbeck, pastor of the Grace Meth
odist church In Denver. gave to his
congregation when he preached on "a
Famous New Years Resolution"
announced that strict observance OF
the law providing for war tax stamps
on perfumes, cosmetics, face creams
and lotions must be given by drug
gists or heavy penalties will be the re-
suit.
An oratorical league under the aus
pices of the intercollegiate Peace AS
sociation for the college debaters OF
colorado is planned by Prof John S.
McLucas, head OF the department OF
English at the University of Colorado
at Boulder.
President Wilson, members of his
cabinet and members of Congress who
will accompany the nations chief ex-
ecutive on his trip through the Pana.
ma canal to the opening of the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition, will be asked
by Denver organizations to spend a
day in Denver on their return from
the exposition early in April
Happy Jack" single comb white
leshorn cock, belonging to j. H. Cover
of Denyer. captured first honors as
being the highest scoring bird on ex-
hibition at the fifteenth annual cham
pion poultry show given by the Colo
rado Poultry Fanciers' Association at
Denver. According to w. II. Pierce,
the judge of the show, Happy Jack"