Gilpin observer., 1915-01-07
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Editorial ASSOCIATION at Denver.
Jan. 11.-Banquet Pioneer Printers So
Jan. s-1J.-Meeting State Assn OF
County Commissioners. in Denver.
Jan. 20-21.--Colorado Good Roads As
1t is stated that John F. Vivian Is
slated for secretary to Governor Carl.
son.
After four years of continual work,
Greeley is to have Y. NJ. c. A. organ.
ization.
Denverites greeted 1915 with shouts
of joy in midnight revels. and many
receptions were held on New Years
day.
Governor Carlson's inaugural ball at
the Denver Auditorium. Jan. -, will
be attended by the Denver city COM
missioners in body.
Their siXticth wedding anniversary
has just been observed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Hughes, pioneer resi-
dents of Colorado Springs.
Mayor Perkins of Denver was noti-
fled by the officers of the Panama
California exposition at San Diego
that March 1S had been set aside as
Denver day
Denver corporations will pay out al
most $2.000,000 in dividends and inter-
est to investors this month, accord
ing to estimates compiled by the var
ious concerns.
Mrs. ]. B. Greenslate, Wife of
farmer near Boulder, sustained a
broken collarbone and possibly inter
nal injuries when she was thrown
from a buggy in a runaway accident.
The rule prohibiting women teach
ers who marry from continuing their
school work should be lifted, in the
opinion of most of the teachers who at
tended the State Association gathering
in Denver
By acclamation Mrs. Fred Dick, for
Congress of Mothers, was reelected
at the final business meeting of the
sixth annual convention of the organ
ization, held in Denver.
Manager Wright of the Johnstown
department of the Fort Lupton Power
Company sustained serious burns
about the hands when he became en-
tangled in wires and grasped one that
was carrying $3.50 volts of electricity.
One hundred and seven Mesa coun-
ty ranchers and citizens of the west
end of the valley, enjoyed the annual
New Year rabbit hunt from Fruita to
the Utah state line, returning to
Fruita with SIS bunnies.
Uncle Sam will be represented at
the annual convention of the Good
Roads Association, which opens in
Denver Jan. 20, by C. H. Kendall,
senior engineer of the federal good
roads department
When Herbert Smith of Denver re-
TUNED from work he found a note
written by his wife, Mrs. Viola Smith,
and a lock Of her hair. She had taken
her young daughter and disappeared.
Hugh Walker the husband of Smiths
niece, has also disappeared and Smith
told the police that the couple had
eloped.
The Colorado Supreme Court is
called upon to decide whether the
state or federal government owns and
controls the surplus and unappropri
ated waters within a state in suit
filed with the court by Ethelbert
Ward, special assistant to the attor-
ney general of the United States. 1t
is said to be the first time the ques.
tion has been carried to the Supreme
Court.
Plans for the National Horse Show
and Midwinter fair took shape at a
meeting of representatives of the com
mercial and civic organizations of Den
YER The dates set were Jan. IS to 23
inclusive, at the Denver Stockyards
stadium. Miss Loula Long of Kansas
City will bring her stable of thorough
bred horses, estimated in value at
5000, 900, one saddle horse alone hav.
ing been purchased recently for s12,
600.
Blaming her mother-in-law for alien
ating the affections of her student
husband and for preventing a reconcil
iation by threatening to disinherit
him, Mrs. Margaret Il. ID. McCausland
of Denver and Paris has filed a suit
for $4,000 damages against Mrs. Eliza.
beth McCausland Of Englewood. She
has also brought divorce proceedings
against Jacob welty McCausland in
which $4,000 permanent alimony is
asked.
For the first time in its history Col.
orado has given promise that 1t may
some day be ranked as an important
corn-producing state. The production
of corn for 1914 was almost double
the production for 1913. Last year
10.600,000 bushels of corn We're har.
vested, according to government fig.
ures, while in 1913 the crop was only
100000 The value of the corn pro.
duced in Colorado last year was 81.
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