Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-03

Jan. 3-1O-Sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Grocers' and Butchers Association
Jan. l6-22.-western Live Stock Show
March .eo-Aprii colo Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
La Sale is to have a new jail.
Mountain lions are reported roam
ing the ranges near Moffat.
The price of explosives used in min
ing in Colorado has increased.
Denver's electrical prosperity week
show opened Saturday with a mask
ball.
Many marriage licenses were is
sued in Denver just before Thanks
giving
The Colorado Library Association
held its annual meeting at Colorado
Springs.
Governor Carlson and family spent
Thanksgiving with his father on his
farm near Greeley.
The rise in silver has resulted in
the reopening of the Yellow Pine sill
yer mine at Boulder.
Two flagpoles. ninety feet high and
costing $4,000, will embellish the ex-
terror of the new Denver federal
building.
Z. Z. Mclaughlin, chairman OF the
State Industrial Commission, is seri-
ously i'll of appendicitis at his home in
Denver.
A Denver business man proposes
that reading rooms be established in
the places now occupied by saloons,
when the state goes dry"
Mrs. NJ. E. Timberlake, wife OF
Congressman Charles B. Timberlake,
was the guest of honor at a reception
by the women of Greeley.
The Jewish Social Service Fedora
tion of Denver, at meeting held in
the publie library, by vote of 65 to
4G decided to dissolve.
The farm home of J. C. Archibald,
seven miles west of Longmont, was
burned to the ground, the house and
all the contents being a total loss.
After twenty-five years as sue
cessful theater, the Tabor Grand
opera house in Denver will be con-
verted into permanent motion pic
ture theater after Dec. /. &,
Fifteen hundred Denverites attend.
ed the municipal Thanksgiving serv
ices at the Auditorium and, led by
Denver ministers of all denominations
gave thanks for peace-state and ma
tional.
Large acres of sugar beets are still
in the ground in the Sterling section
OF the state, a condition unusual for
this time of the year. But the weather
is such that more sugar is being put
into the beets the longer they stay ir
the ground just now.
Thrown violently from buggy In .
| crash with an auto at Twentieth ano
Larimer streets. Denver, an unidenti
| fled man, believed to be a stockman
| received injuries from which 1t IL
| feared he cannot recover. He was
rushed to the county hospital in the
police ambulance.
A Colorado products display is being
ing of the Colorado Retail Grocers and
Butchers Association, which will meet
| in Pueblo Jan. IL, Is and 49, 1t is eN.
pected that 500 retail dealers from al
| parts of the state will be in Pueblo
for the convention.
Two employees OF the Mountain
Motor Fuel Company. West Thirty
eighth and Fox streets, Denver, were
dangerously hurt and the $4,000
plant of the company, owned by
former Mayor Henry J. Arnold, was
completely destroyed in a, fire and ex-
plosion which swept the buildings.
! United States Senator Warren G.
Harding. of Ohio visited in Denver.
The senator speaks of the outlook oil
the Republican party in the next cam
paign and says the race for standard
bearer has narrowed down to four
men-former Senator Francis L. Bur
IN Of Ohio. Elihu Root of New York
Senator J. w. Weeks of Massachusetts
and former Vice President Fairbanks
/ of Indiana.
Mayor w. II. Sharpley declares
that Denver people have special rea-
sons for thanksgiving because of the
fact that health conditions are excel
lent. The death rate is lower than in
any city of its size In the country.
The generosity of the taxpayers has
provided funds to care for the home
less. friendless and afflicted. There
is growing optimism as to the future
business and social welfare OF the
community"
At Pueblo Bob York, weIterweight
pugilist. who fought a twenty-round
draw with Eddie Johnson, was ar