The Ordway new era., 1915-09-10
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENT,

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Sept; I5-II.-Elks' Annual Reunion at
Sept; -Midsummer Meeting OF
Colorado State Editorial Asspciation
at G!enwood Springs. nv
Farming Congress. Denver
octf 2-S.-Fair and Race Meetlhs AT
Oct is.-.odd Fellows. Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs
olathe is to have a new NJ. E
church.
Rocky Ford wants to buy the Den.
yer Welcome arch.
The Denver Sheltering Home for
Jewish Children is ready to start
work on its new buildings.
Governor Brumbaugh Of Pennsyl.
vania, while In Denver, came out
strong for woman suffrage.
The clothing merchants OF the state
have formed an organization called
the Colorado Retail Clothiers' Asso-
citation. a. ..
The midsummer meeting of tho
Colorado Editorial Association will be
held at Glenwood Springs, Sept. II
and IS.
Julian Latez, 2S years old, a Mexi-
can, was found dead under the Twen-
tieth street viaduct at Delgany street
in Denver.
william l.. Wilson, for many years
a well-known mining man Of Brecken-
ridge, died while sitting in chair at
a Denver hotel.
Iati hn
the State Board of Charities and Cor
rections that u new county jail he
built In Sterling.
The fair at Rocky Ford was one Of
the best ever held. and the big crowd
present enjoyed 25,000 choice water
melons on Melon Day.
John Friedman. 80 years old. lost
his right arm whe2 his shirt caught In
II cog and his arm was drawn into a
dough mixing machine in Denver
bakery.
Mrs NJ. L. Springfield Of Boulder
died after long illness. She had
lived in Colorado for forty-five years
and leaves husband, five daughters
and one son.
Sept 10 has been fixed as the date
on which the State Civil Service Com
mission will hear the charges pre-
ferred by Governor Carlson against
Harry w. Risley FOR the removal of
tAe latter.
An old resident OF Colorado. Mrs.
Catherine Henderson Woolpert. 70
J years. old, died at St. Luke's hospital
| in Denver after a two weeks illness
MRS. Woolpert came to Colorado With
her husband in 1851.
The S5O.mile reliability and econ
omy automobile tour over Colorado.
which was to start from Denver Sept.
=. has been changed to strictly a So
ciability tour. and the starting time
has been moved up to Sept. 12.
TThe briefs and pleadings in the
suit instituted by the Democratic
State Central Committee to oust J. B.
| tJeff) Farr, sheriff, and other Repub-
! lican office holders in Huerfano coun-
ty. were filed in the Supreme Court.
| After passing a large quantity Of
! counterfeit half dollars in the whole
sale district of Denver during the last
three weeks. it is alleged. Martin Fay,
30 years old. has been arrested by
United States Secret Service Officer
Goddard.
| Mrs. N A. Thomas of Denver has
the honor of being one of the young
est grandmothers in the United States.
| She Is "a years old Recently the
stork left seven-pound boy at the
home of her son, James Alfred Thorn
as. who is II years old. The mother
Of the baby is 20 years old.
Following his Withdrawal of a peti
ton asking for new trial, Charles
Bunnell of Wellington appeared before
land and was fined 800 and costs
amounting in all to 1920 for beating
his wife. He paid the fine and prom
ised to beat his wife no more.
For the purpose of distributing the
firearms which were taken in charge
throughout southern Colorado during
the strike disorders of 1918, Capt A
H. Dahlene Of the National Guard ar
rived in Trinidad with q large con
signment OF rifles and revolvers. He
has taken up his headquarters at the
Trinidad armory a1d is handing ou,
the guns to the owners.
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces an examina.
tion for forest rarger on Oct. 25 and
26. The examination will be held at
the following named places: Aspen.
| raIhrop Delta nepyer Durappo Fort
Collins. Hot Sulphur Springs. Glen.
wood Springs, Gunnison. Leadville
Mancos. Meeker. Monte Vista. Pagosa
Springs. Saguache, Steamboat Spring.
and Westcliffe. ,iEss.yse
Taxable values on all classes O
property in the City and County o'
Denver show a. decrease of $3.396,S7(