The Ordway new era., 1915-05-14


June Ssod issSa,y s1uigs.s .s.-coloraao Fair and
Sept. 2i-ocI, .s.--Mssting International
Dry Farming Congress- ut Denver
Colsr.do FsIr Dates for 1915.
Aug. Is-20.--lsland Grove Driving Club,
Aug, .s.ss7.-Bent county Fair Assocl-
Aug. a5- gT.SFort Collins Racing Asso-
Associatlon. rocky Ford.
Aug, 31-Scpt. 3-Larimer County Fair
Association Loyeiand. E.,r A.
Sept. 7-IO-St VraIn Valley Fair As
sep, fseaslgs tSnSSo's stat. Fair A..o
Sept. 2i"2i.-rTrinidad- Las Animas Co.
Oct 2-s--coiorado Agricultural Fair
and Racing Association. Denver
A ban has been placed on secret
divorces in Denver.
Twenty acres OF phosphate ground
near Ouray has been filed upon.
Salida citizens are raising a $1,000
fund to improve the Mount Tender
foot road.
A Ranch OF the National Order OF
Cowboy Rangers is being organized
at Greeley.
Extensive Improvements and re-
pairs are being made on the Sterling
sugar factory.
A contract Cor a twenty-fourfoot
road from Manitou to the top OF Pixies
Peak has been let.
The body OF a man about sixty-five
years OF age was found floating In the
Grand river near DeBeque.
Tom Mckee, Of Loveland. marketed
five car loads of lambs on the Den
yer market at $1,000 per cwt.
A quarrel over the recent coal strike
resulted in the killing OF Steve
Balarde by John Salvo at Trinidad.
State Auditor Mulnix has appointed
y. w. d. Stovall of Colorado Springs
a building and loan inspector In his
office.
Denver relatives are much con-
cerned about A. H. Cohn and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cunningham, who were passen-
gers on the Lusitania.
NJ. o. Pruitt. a former resident Of
Longmont who was well known in
Boulder, was killed in an automobile
accident at San Diego. Cal.
The Central Colorado Poultry and
Pet Stock Association held meeting
in salida to plan for the annual
poultry show on Jan. 11-16.
Ascension Day services willbe held
by DR.. Bulgin. who is conducting re-
rival meetings At Fort Collins. in
Estes Park on Thursday. May Is.
The threatened strike Of plasterers
In Denver has been postponed for nine.
ty days. during which time the con-
tractors win consider the demands of
the union. 5he
A school designed to give aid to
pupils in all grade from Kindergarten
to college will again be conducted this
summer in Boulder by the College Of
Education Of the, University, Of Colo
rado.
John r. Lawson, labor leader con-
victed Of the murder of John Nimmo
at Trinidad. during the coal miners
strike, IN back In Denver. He at once
started legal battle against his con.
viction and imprisonment for life.
e. C. sparkman. thirty-four years
old, travelling salesman. was oper-
atAd on for the tenth time In rs many
years. at the County hospitalin Den-
yer. The latest operation was for =
cancer Of the breast.
To provide easy access to Genesee
mountain and the whole OF the noun
tain park system. the Denver city
council voted to purchase 800 acres Of
land north of Genesee mountain owned
by Don T. Edwards. for $1.2S0.
Blown twenty feet into the air by
the premature explosion of a dyna-
mite charge, In the Boyer lime quar-
ry at Wellsville, Charles B, Burton
escaped without injury as q direct re-
suit of the explosion, but was serious
ly hurt In his fall to the earth. Three
of his ribS we're fractured and he was
injured internally. -
The only half-divorce ever heard OF
in Denver was granted by Judge Roth.
gerber In the County Court to Mrs,
Beryl G. Fison, who charged her hus-
band, Percy L. Fison with cruelty.
The other half Of the case will be
heard at the incoming Of the next jury
term. AS the case now stands the
pair are half divorced because Of the
courts finding against the husband.
w. s. McMcGerrihan. aged 38. OF
Primero, brakeman on the Colorado
& wyoming railroad, was killed when
he fell between two coal cars and 20
- q
body was found just out of Primero
lying with half the body on the out
side OF the rails and the other be-
tween the rails. The cars had passed
over the body just above the waist.
severing 1t in two.
Lin J. Luce. stepographer to Judge
A. HI King Of the State Court Of Ap-
mails ond Miua Charl0fte McClO,id. n