Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-14

Sept. 7-l0.-Crowley County FAIR AS
Sept. 7sIo.Ist. Vrain Valley Fair As
c. soeiation. Longmont; rat. ...o-
ciation. Pueblo.
Sept. 21-24.-Trinidad-L Animas co.
Oct aiF 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 $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 for tweTty-four-foot
road from Manitou to the top of Pixies
Peak has been let.
The body of 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
]. w. d. Stovall Of Colorado Springs
4 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.
M. o. Pruitt, 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 will be held
by DR.. Bulgin. who is conducting re-
vival meetings at Fort Collins, in
Estes Park on Thursday. May 13.
The threatened strike of plasterers
In Denver has been postponed for nine
tractors will consider the demands OF
the union.
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
RADIO.
John r. Lawson, labor leader con.
victed of the murder of John Nimmo
at Trinidad. during the coal miners
strike. is back in Denver. He at once
started a legal battle against his con-
viction and Imprisonment for life.
f. C. Sparkman, thirty-four years
old, travelling salesman, was oper.
ated on for the tenth time in as many
years, at the County hospital in Den
yer. The latest operation was for a
cancer of the breast.
To provide easy access to Genesec
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 $3.50.
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 4 direct re-
suit OF the explosion, but vas serious
ly hurt in his fall to the earth. Three
Of his ribs were 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. McMcGernihan. aged 3S, of
Primero. brakeman on the Colorado
G. Wyoming railroad, was killed when
he fell between two coal cars and 90
loaded cars passed over his body. The
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 ]. Luce, stenographer to Judge
A. H. King of the State Court of Ap-
peals. and Miss Charlotte McCloud,
typist at the st. James hotel. were
married in Denver by Judge King.
Miss McCloud has been blind for five
years.
All high officials of the United
States reclamation service and all
members of the appropriations COM
mittee OF the national house will visit
Denver and Colorado the latter part