Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-02
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union r.w. service.

West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. 31-Sept 2.-Grand Lodge. K. of p.
Aug. 26-2s-Fail Festival at Flagle-. j.
Sept. 27-Oct. 8.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
George Whitney, 10. q pioneer resi-
dent of Boulder, died from gangrene.
Colorado public utilities are valued
at $256,512,39O in the assessment for
1915.
Actual work on putting in the new
water works for Montrose has been
started.
Work on the addition to the Fort
Morgan high school has been COM
menced.
President Wilson has appointed
Andreita NJ. Vigil as postmaster at
Trinidad.
The cornerstone for the new Ger
man Congregational church at Love
land has been laid.
Four TRUSTEES at the Buena Vista re-
formatory escaped. Two were ca
tured at Colorado Springs.
Harold Kissell, Denver chauffeur,
has been held for running down and
killing baby Nadine Mann.
Despite devastating floods in east
ern Nebraska and Kansas. crowds of
tourists continue to arrive in Denver.
At Littleton the Arapahoe County
Court set aside the decree of divorce
granted J. W. Boyd from Nello Mary
Boyd.
Another campaign was been started
to acquaint residents of Denver with
the scenic points of interest adjacent
to the city.
The sum of $45,375.s7 was spent on
Boulder county, roads by the county
commissioners in the period from
January 1 to June 10, 1915.
The United Workers for the Blind
will give picnic at Washington park
in Denver July for the members of
the blind home and their friends.
: Denver will be host to the governor
of the state of Virginia and his whole
staff. escorted by the famous Rich
mond Light Infantry Blues battalion
oh 2hohudyp July v.
Capt. l.. d. C. Gaskill of Fraser.
known as a pioneer builder OF Colo
RADIO. died at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. A. E. Bailey in Denver of
cancer of the stomach
The Tolle ranch. northeast of Pu-
eblo, for the past ten years owned by
Mrs. Emma Tolle-May. has been sold
to John J. Drinkard of Denver. The
consideration was s66,4OO.
Fuller Vreeland, 2S, son of B. F.
vreeland of Denver. filed suit in the
District Court for annulment of his
marriage to Nellie Vreeland. his 46-
year-old bride of less than six months.
Denver will be one of the seventy
five leading cities of the United
States to have the convention of the
national missionary campaign. Forty
thousand churches will send delegates
to these gatherings, which will begin
in October. The date of the Denver
meeting is Oct. 81, 29 and 81.
Col George S. Newman of Denver
is dead. The reputed millionaire.
clubman, owner of beautiful MacRose
stock farm, who two months ago mar
ried a California girl after short
courtship. passed away on a train at
Paola, Kan, forty-five miles from Kan
sas City. He was 76 years old.
A plot on the part of David Tyler,
the original Denver Candy Kid"
and his partner. Albert Angerman. to
strike down their guards in the Lit
tleton Jail at the first favorable op-
portunity and make their escape was
discovered and blocked. according to
Undersheriff J. F. Bennett of Arapa-
hoe county.
Edward v. Dunklee of Denver.
youngest state representative in the
twentieth general assembly, and Miss
Obie Sue Pulliam, one of Lovela1d's S
most popular young women. were
married at Loveland, in the home of
the brides parents. The Rev. d. T.
Pulliam, father Of the bride. per-
formed the ceremony.
In common with other sugar beet
growers, J. Ross Clark is optimistic
concerning the prospects for record
breaking crop this year. He concurs
in the report made by Truman G..
Palmer. executive secretary of the
United States Sugar Manufacturers
| Association, estimating an increase
of 121s per cent in 1915 over 1914.
Miss Margaret Much. 15-year-old
North Denver High School girl, daugh-
| ter of Frederick ]. Much, foreman for
the Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company, was kidnapped from her es-
cort, Roy R. Woodring, at Logantown-
near the Fort Logan military reserva-
ton. by four men in the uniforms of
United States soldiers. according to a
report made to the Denver police.