The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-10

DATES FOX CCM.NS EtENiS.
Jan. 3-Annual convention Colorado
Farmers Congress al Fort Collins.
Jan. 4-S-Coiorado Kennel Club Sno"
at Denver
Jan. 3-1O-Sxteenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Assocla-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers', and Butchers Association
Jan. 1622.-Western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
March 2oApril &C o lorad o Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Alexander Nisbet, commissioner OF
safety was attacked by five youths
on Denver street.
Breweries of Denver and Golden are
preparing to turn their plants into new
uses after Jan. l.
A number of Colorado people attend.
ed the third annual conference on
marketing and rural credits at Chi
cago.
A total appropriation of $5,S40,O63
for city. county, school and state pur-
poses in 1916 was formally submitted
to the Denver council.
Conclusion of the brain sustained
in a fall caused the death of Miss
Annie Griffiths, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. G. Griffiths Of Boulder.
Mrs. Frederick M. Schaffer, So years
old, for thirty-five years proprietor Of
the famous Schaffer ranch at Hudson,
died at Mercy hospital in Denver.
Shares of the Golden Cycle Reduc.
tion Company touched 50 Friday on
the Colorado Springs Mining Stock EX-
change, the highest they have ever
been.
The death of Capt. William Hamil-
ton Green, who helped lay out Pueblo
and Canon City, makes William H.
Clark of Denver, Colorado's oldest pio-
neer resident.
In the death at Fort Collins of Will
lam Mason Post, 92, Northern Colo
RADIO lost one of its oldest residents as
well as one Of its most picturesque
characters.
Under the auspices of the Federation
of Agricultural Clubs of Morgan coun-
ty, a series of farmers Institutes will
be held on the circuit plan during the
week of Jan. 10-16.
According to the November report
of the department of public health,
Colorado Springs had an exceptionally
low death rate for the month. The re-
port givesra percentage of .94.
Herbert Allen, the 1S-year-old boy
who shot his sister, Estelle, mistaking
her for burglar at their home in
Denver, was completely exonerated by
the girl of all blame in the matter.
Electrical Prosperity Week in Den
yer came to close with a grand il
Elimination at the Auditorium, when
the largest crowd that has attended
the celebration gathered to witness
the closing events.
The annual memorial service of the
Elks was held Sunday at the home of
the Denver lodge. The largest number
of deceased members during any one
year will be eulogized, the eulogy
being delivered by John F. Enright.
John G. Cook, champion rifle shot of
the Colorado National Guard, holder of
forty-five medals and trophies for his
skill as a marksman, and several
times representative of Colorado at
national target practice, now ranks as
a second lieutenant.
Licenses covering period of twen-
ty days, or from Dec. II to Jan. 1,
1916, will probably be granted by the
Denver city council as solution of
the problem to be brought before
them on the former date, when 125 sa-
loon permits expire.
Chief of Police Glenn S. Duffield of
Denver returned from Longmont,
where he aided IN efforts to solve the
William H. Dickens murder case. de-
claring the evidence against Rienzi
G. Dickens, accused of Staying his
father, appeared to be decidedly i'll
eliminating"
At meeting of the board of direct
ors' of the Denver & Salt Lake rail-
road in Denver, Lawrence C. Phipps
was elected chairman of the board;
Charles Boettcher, president; Gerald
Hughes, secretary; Ward E. Pearson,
treasurer, and Fred G. Moffat, assist
ant treasurer.
Announcement was made that the
international Farm Congress and the
Soil Products Exposition would main
tain an office in the Chamber of Com
merce building in Denver until after
tie Ell Paso meeting next year, when
the selection of a permanent home