Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-09

West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. 3I-Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge. X. of p.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagle-
Sept. 27-Oct. S.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Mrs. Rosiee Cohen, mother of nine
children, who gave birth to triplets
In Denver. was reported doing well.
total of s16,5s4.51 in inheritance
taxes was collected last month by Les
lie E. Hubbard, state inheritance tax
appraiser
The Denver committee in charge of
arrangements for the reception of the
Liberty Bell July 10 asks that merch-
ants decorate their stores on that day.
Caude X. Roettcher was reelected
chairman of the executive committee
of the Denver Tramway Company at
the annual adjourned meeting of the
stockholders in Denver.
The railroad lines, the hotels and
various enterprises serving tourists
were taxed to capacity to care for the
biggest June month-end run of tour.
lists in many year in Denver.
The first maneuvers in the legal
battle to save w. w. Howland from
going to the penitentiary for alleged
perjury were lost by the defense in
the West Side Court in Denver.
A special meeting of the State
Board of Health has been called for
July s to formulate plans for the en-
forcement of the new anti-drug law
law which becomes effective July 8.
June go. with 54-degree minimum
and 66-degree maximum. was the cold
est June day on record since 1906
when the thermometer dropped to So
on June 23 and registered 63 the next
day.
Denver will obtain the next Demo
cratic national convention, in the opin.
ion of Thomas J. Gore, United States
senator from Oklahoma and one of the
national leaders of the Democratic
party.
Greeley school children, patriotic SO.
cieties and citizens will welcome the
arrival of the Liberty Bell, July 10th,
by public program. to be held on
the steps Of the Union Pacific freight
depot.
John w. Campbell, "a, former resi-.
dent of Grand Junction, died in his
homestead, twenty-nine miles south
west of Grand Junction, from Bright
disease. He is survived by eight
children.
Rates for workmen's compensation
insurance in the state fund will be
announced on July 10. according to a
statement made by Chairman Nc
Laughlin of the Colorado Industrial
Commission.
The right Of Judge CRANKY Hillyer
tn preside in further trials of former
coal mine strikers in southern Colo
RADIO will be determined by the State
Supreme Court at hearing to be
held July 12.
That wild animals in the foothills
and mountains to the west of Love-
land are more in evidence than ever
before is the concensus of opinion
among those who spend considerable
time in the hills.
While his 5-year-old son, Myron,
stood a few PAGES away and watched.
Clarence F. Bergen. 80, proof clerk
for the Woodmen of the World, shoot
and killed himself in the bedroom of
his home in Denver.
Following the decision of Denver
merchants. Colorado Springs retail
stores enforced a rule that no more
women's clothes would be sent from
their stores on approval and that such
goods purchased would not be ex.
changed.
The run on the Denver divorce
courts is expected to break all rec
ords. Husbands and wives eager for
freedom already are joining in a rush
to get under the matrimonial barrier
befre the new law passed by the last
Legislature goes into effect on July u.
The constitutionality of the state
law against white slavery is attacked
in an appeal taken to the State Su-
preme Court in behalf of C. w. Scott,
who was convicted in Denver on a
white slavery charge and sentenced to
serve from three to five years in the
penitentiary.
Proceedings against the six soldiers
held in the guard house in connection
with the case of Margaret Much, the
15-year-old high school girl from
North Denver, are held in abeyance
until the girl is sufficiently recovered
to point out the exact place where the
offense was committed.
Adam McGregor, the Denver youth
who went to Scotland last fall to en-.
ter the English army, and who has
been in active service in France for
the last two months, is among the
missing in the Tenth Liverpool Scot
tish regiment. which he Joined in De
cember, according to a cablegram re
ceiyed in Denver