Gilpin observer., 1915-10-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union New. Service.

Boulder is to have a Homecoming
celebration Oct % and %.
The state convention of the Baptist
churches of Colorado was held in
Greeley.
S. Elias Dawson, 20, commander of
the Montrose G. A. R. post, dropped
dead at his home.
Over 200 Odd Fellows and Re-
bekahs held their annual state con-
vention at Colorado Springs
Henry Wilson. while locating hunt
ing grounds for party from the East,
roped bear near Hot Sulphur
Springs.
Cripple Creek is now eighty miles
by automobile from Denver since the
completion of the new highway over
Nighthawk hill.
The eighth regular meeting and
banquet of the Agora, or Southern
Colorado Schoolmasters' club, was
held at Canon City.
John R. Lawson was one of the
speakers at the fiftieth anniversary
celebration of the Masons and Marble
Settlers Union in Denver.
George Lyman, SO, veteran of the
Civil War, who marched with Sher-
man to the sea, died at his home in
Denver after a long illness.
The progress of Denver and Colo
RADIO will be celebrated by Denver
electrical interests during Electrical
Prosperity Week, Nov. 30 to Dec. 4.
Mrs. Loula Lowell. president of the
Colorado Daughters Of the Confeder-
acy. was unanimously reelected to
that office at the Denver meeting.
w B. and Coney C. Slaughter were
indicted on ninety-seven counts by
the federal grand jury for wrecking
the Mercantile National Bank at Pu.
eblo.
A reception honoring Frank G.
Goudy, recently elected deputy grand
sire of the sovereign grand lodge of
Odd Fellows, was given at Odd Eel
lows hall.
The next national convention of the
American Road Builders Association
may be held in Colorado, according
to a letter received by Robert E. Hig.
gins at Pueblo.
Frank L. Rose, charged with
libeling Judge Ben B. Lindsey, will be
tried again Dec. 6, the jury having
failed to agree in the trial just
ended in Denver.
Mrs. Sidney Carmack, wife of John
Carmack, a member of one of the
best known families of Boulder cou1-
ty, died suddenly on the Carmack
ranch at Deer Trail. ~
Mary F. Kiker, the 19-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Kikel
of Boulder, died of pulmonary tuber
culosis. She had been an invalid al
most since childhood.
Affording striking exhibit of
goods made in Colorado, the Colorado
Products show in the rooms of the
Denver Manufacturers Association
continues to draw good crowds.
When Congress reconvenes, Senator
John F. Shafroth said he would take
up the rehabilitation of Fort Logan
and attempt to have it restored to its
former Importance as an army post
Mystery surrounds the death of
A prominent family of Maysville, KY.
whose body was found in a rooming
house at 1929 Larimer street in Dem
YER.
While wrestling with fellow en-
ploye at the beet dump at Dent, Geo
Myers, who is employed as tare man
for the Great Western Sugar Com
pany, sustained fractured ankle and
a dislocated hip.
Miss Helen Sumner, former Denver
girl and niece of Mrs. Helen Wilson,
has received the appointment of as
sistant chief of the Children's Bureau
at Washington, d. c., of which Miss
Julia Lathrop is the head
The will of the late Dennis Sullivan,
which was filed for probate in the
County Court in Denver. made John
Clark Mitchell, president of the Den.
yer National Bank, the principal bene.
ficiary, and named Mr.. Mitchell and
the Denver National Bank as the first
executors of the will.
Clabe Jones, an aged Colorado pio.
neer living in Denver, is host to his
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
James S. Jones, who are the heads OF
five Jones generations, scattered over
the western states. Almost any day
Clabe Jones, 6S, and his father, 81,
may be seen strolling along the
streets of Denver.
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Poe, an aged Denver
woman, whose will was lodged with
the Probate Court, bequeathed to her
first husband, James S. Bitter the
wedding ring he gave her upon the
occasion of their wedding thirty years
ago, at the same time wishing him
lifelong happiness and health" To
her second husband Mrs. Poe left s5