The Ordway new era., 1915-12-31
COLORADO
, STATE NEWS
icstern Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES EOR COMING EVENTS.

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farmers Congress at Fort Collins
at Fort Collins Agricultural coliese:
Jan. !.s.--colorado Kennel Club Show
Jan. s.iogslxteenth annual show o,
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
Jan. l7-l9.-Meeting Colorado Retail
GroGsrs and Butchers Assoeiatio"
Jan ID.Dsixth Annual Convention of
Colo; Good Roads ASSN at Denver
Jan: iG,22-Wcstern Live Stock snow
Feb. le-Mecting Republican state
nsrch GsP'rs, a. cSmm!ttes onl in penvsr ne,a,,
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The new Monte Vista Baptist church
has been dedicated.
The Sterling sugar factory paid out
s1.50o,OoO for beets in four months.
Steamboat Springs is planning a
sports carnival to be held Feb, 1918.
The Camp Bird at ouray will drive
9.o0o.foot tunnel from mill to mine.
Colorado Springs Elks will enter.
| tain I GOO poor children on Christmas
Day.
The Fort Collins Commercial Club
has added 100 new members to its
roster,
Sterling expects the census now be.
ing taken to show population OF
over 5000.
The two sugar factories in Larimer
county have Just paid out $1,O0O,O0O
to the growers of beets.
The canning factory at Fort Collins
hno u,nRn 1urpo nm kor of cCut ru 70
for raising peas the coming year.
Fred C. Englehardt, farmer living
nine miles east Of Loveland, placed
the value Of the sight Of one eye at
$4,000.
Henry c. Murphy. 70 years old and
'59er, who ran the first hotel and
butcher shop in Denver, died at st.
Luke'i hospital
A sample OF ore from the copper
properties on the La Plata. near Man
cos. showed u value of SAT per ton,
practically all in copper.
The Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company has an
nounced that 1t will extend its lines
from Genoa to Burlington.
Edgewater made itself Christmas
present of brand new fire depart
ment, the first fire-fighting outfit
Edgeweter has yet enjoyed.
Warren Howard, employed in
grain elevator at Atwood. was killed
Instantly when he was caught in an
elevator and had his neck broken
James H. .Crabtree, livestock
dealer living at 1927 Grant street,
dropped dead while walking at Seven
teenth and Glenarm streets in Den
yer.
The surrender OF the Villa forces
In northern Mexico means increased
prosperity for Denver manufacturers
and dealers in mining machinery and
supplies. .r,.
Denver saloonkeepers are planning
banquet. 1t will be held In the
amendment goes into effect on New
Year day.
The oil shales OF Colorado and
Utah will furnish the petroleum OF the |
country. and at no distant period. 10 |
the belief Of the United States
bureau OF mines.
w. s. Phillips, 81 years old, man
ager OF the Bookcliff railroad and
coal mines, we'll known all over Col
orado. died at Grand Junction from
acute Bright's disease.
Shorty" Martinez, who was shot in |
the Jungles at Fort Collins by Vic.
toriana Lamos. lost his right leg,
when the doctors amputated the limb |
in order to save his life.
Wind records for three years were
broken at Boulder at an early hour
Tuesday morning, when for about
thirty minutes a seventy-five mile
gale whistled through the city.
Erastus d. Webster, second base
man on the Denver baseball team fol-
number Of years and professional!
baseball player and manager fol-
eighteen years. died in Denver.
Directors of the Country Club Of
Denver have served notice on its
members that all lockers must be
emptied of their booze Jan. and
that the club will strictly obey the
law.
Colorado produces more than one.
fourth OF all the beet sugar manufac |
tured in the United States, according
to figures recently compiled by the
United States Department of Agricul
ture.
Rienzi c. Dickens entered plea OF |
not guilty at Boulder when arraigned |
in District Court on charge Of mur.
der in connection with the shooting OF |
his father, w. H. Dickens. at Long.
mont several weeks ago.
The Maxcy Tabor ranch, known as
the East Ranch" comprising 2O,92c
acres, near Pueblo has been sold ~ |