Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-08

Jan. 11.-hIidwinter Meeting Colorado
=, Edif1rini Associqtion Assoc alton at Denver:
Jan. -I,.-Meeting State Assn OF
Jan. 20-e1.--CoIorado Good Roads AS
ISOLATION Meeting. in Denver.
The Denver postoffice receipts for
1914 were $1,372.425. as against $1,311.-
291 for 1913.
Marriage licenses issued In Denver
in 1914 were Ill less than in 1913, the
total for last year being 2.303.
The Bachelors ball at the Minnequa
club at Pueblo was largely attended
and proved an enjoyable affair.
Building permits in Denver during
1914 exceeded those of 1913 by 1857
in number and $s53,212 in value.
The question of the freight rates
from the northern coal fields to Den
yer reached the State Supreme Court.
Denverites greeted 1915 with shouts
Of joy in midnight revels, and many
receptions were held on New Years
day.
Colorado ranks twenty-fourth among
the states of the Union in the number
of automobiles owned, having 1850
machines.
Sixteen thousand three hundred and
eighty-eight persons were arrested in
Denver by the police department dur
ing the year 1914.
Colorado Springs authorities started
an investigation into the finding of the
body of a newborn baby by two boys
near the State School for the Deaf and
Blind.
Nancy Cattell, clever Denver girl,
gave a Scriptual reading at the general
meeting of the Colorado State Teach
crs' Association at the Auditorium in
Denver.
Staid. quiet. decorous Little Lun-
non" in Colorado Springs, exploded
and turned itself topsy turvy In n
spectacular celebration that ushered
in the New Year.
Extensive changes in the city hall
were decided on at a meeting of the
city commissioners of Pueblo. Work
on the improvements will be started
within few days.
Kirkland Spencer, 50. one of the
oldest Odd Fellows and Masons in the
state, was killed by an electric car
while on his way to visit one of his
three sons in Pueblo.
Twenty silver loving cups were
awarded to the winners In the fifteenth
annual champion poultry show given
by the Colorado Poultry Fanciers' AS
sociation in Denver.
Mother Jones left Denver for New
York to be on hand should the Federal
Commission appointed by President
Wilson desire her testimony. She will
also fill several lecture dates while in
the East.
Three hundred unemployed men,
most of whom have drifted into Den
yer recently from other points. called
upon Chief of Police O'Neil New
Years eve and asked him for lodging,
which was furnished.
Five carloads of flour, subscribed by
Colorado people to the national Bel
gian relief fund, through j. Mignolet.
Belgian consul. left Denver for New
York city. there to be placed on ship
board for the ocean voyage.
Let the past bury It's dead" was
the message which the Rev. Frank X.
Hollenbeck, pastor OF the Grace Meth
odist church in Denver, gave to his
congregation when he preached on "a
Famous New Years Resolution
The Denver Federal authorities have
announced that strict observance OF
the law providing for war tax stamps
on perfumes, cosmetics, face creams
and lotions must be given by drug
gists or heavy penalties will be the re-
suit.
An oratorical league under the aus
pices OF the intercollegiate Peace AS
sociation for the college debaters of
Colorado is planned by Prof. John S.
McLucas, head OF the department of
English at the University of Colorado
at Boulder.
President Wilson, members of his
cabinet and members of Congress who
Will accompany the nations chief ex-
ecutive on his trip through the Pana-
ma canal TO the opening of the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition, will be asked
by Denver organizations to spend a
day in Denver on their return from
the exposition early in April.
Happy Jack single comb white
!eghorn cock, belonging to j. H. Cover
Of Denver, captured first honors as
being the highest scoring bird on ex-
hibition at the fifteenth annual cham
pion poultry show given by the Colo
RADIO Poultry Fanciers' Association at
Denver. According to w. H Pierce,
the judge of the show, Happy Jack -
had the highest percentage of any
bird he ever examined, ninety.six and
one-half points. Nineteen cups were
awarded to the owners of the winning