The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-31

Jan. .1S.-sixth Annual conventioa Of
,Ce Cole Good Roads ASA At Denyer.
Jan; ie-15-Wsstern Live Stock Show
Feb. ls-Meeting Republican stals
Centra! Committee In Denver.
<GS tselsEsports Carnival at Steam
March sS.Aprii ..-coiorado Retail
fndx.trisi fdSnan rxnoo;,.n. rAsooSissions ] Foo ana
The Brighton road il being gray
eled.
A request has been made for . d.
pot at Hot Springs.
Steamboat Springs is planning ..
sports carnival to be held Feb. 1918.
The Camp Bird at Ouray will drive
. 9.000-foot tunnel from mill to mine
The annual show Of the Pueblo
Poultry Association was largely At
tended.
Governor Carlson and family spent
Christmas on the farm Of his father
near Greeley.
Following the usual custom Denver
banks made cash Christmas gifts to
their employees.
John Curtis, who would have been
100 years old in February, died at
Cripple Creek of the grip.
The Christmas business at the Pu-
eblo postoffice this year was by far
the largest ever transacted
A gasoline motor car express and
passenger service will be established
between Johnstown and Milliken.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars VIII be spent in building an addi-
tion to the Ford assembling plant in
Denver.
By order of the Postoffice Depart
ment, rental of boxes in small town
postoffices have been raised about S3
per cent.
Colo, ado has ninety-five power
laundries. The capital invested is
$1.44o.ss6. against sl.270.G5e five
Years ego.
Miss Nettie r. Rossell, 50. for twen.>
ty-five years teacher in the Denver
schools, was hit by two automobiles
and killed.
Mrs. May Singleton Of Denver died
in st. Luke's hospital after she had .
given birth to twins by the aid of a
Caesarian operation.
The first big snowstorm of the sea-
son swept over Denver and Colorado
Sunday. More snow fell in Denver
than in any other part Of the state.
The state inheritance officers now
claim that the state will realize ap-
proximately 100000 from the estate
Of Dennis Sullivan, millionaire bank
@r and pioneer miner.
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.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bostwick,. - years
old, mother of two-months-old child.
cut her throat with her husbands ra-
xor at her home in Denver. The hus-
band, Laurance G. Bostwick. was at
church.
Nearly 100 citizens of Buena Vista
held meeting recently to perfect ar
rangements with q manufacturing
company Of Oroville, Ohio, for the
construction Of $15O.000 smelling
and concentrating plant.
Twenty prominent Denver men
have been appointed on a committee
to represent the Navy League in Colo
RADIO: The league was formed to in
crease interest in the need of a great
or navy and adequate preparedness.
David Castetter, an S3-year-o,d war
veteran, died at his home in Denver.
Mr.. Castetter came to Colorado in
1884 and entered the hotel business =
in Julesburg. He came to Denver
about twenty years ago and for .
number of years was care-taker Of
Chaffee Park in North Denver.
Several buildings at Sunshine and
in other mountain towns were blown
down, telephone service was crippled,
merchants signs were whirled away
and some windows were blown in by
the windstorm that ragged with great
fllrv from q O'clocIr Mondo1, y,irht go,