Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Testern Newspaper linton News serSice.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

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Jan. 3-s.-Farmers' Annual Congress
at Fort Collins Agricultural College.
Jan. 4-s.-colorado Kennel Club show
Jan. 3-I0-Sixteenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
Jan. 1S-I9.-Meetlng Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. 19,Wsixth Annual Convention of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. 16-22.--Wcstern Live Stock Show
at Denver.
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16-1s--sports Carnival at steam
March 2t-Aprn 2.-cofo.rado Retail,
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
The Brighton road is being grav.
eled.
The Sterling sugar factory paid out
sl.5OO.OOO for beets in four months.
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.
Colorado Springs Elks will enter
tain 1000 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 a population of
over 5000.
Governor Carlson and family spent
Christmas on the farm of his father
near Greeley.
The two sugar factories in Larimer
county have just paid. out $1.000,000
to the growers of beets.
John Curtis, who would have been
100 years old in February. died at
Cripple Greek of the grip.
The canning factory at Fort Collins
has made large number Of contracts
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.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol.
lars will be spent in building an addi.
ton 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 SS3
per cent.
Miss Nettie Z. Russell. 50. for TWEEN.
ty-five years teacher in the Denver
schools, was hit by two automobiles
and killed.
Henry G. Murphy, 79 years old and
a he, nd
butcher shop In Denver, died ataSS
Luke's hospital.
Mrs. May Singleton of Denver died
in st. Luke's hospital after she had
given birth to twins by the aid of q
Caesarian operation.
A. sample OF orc from the copper
properties on the La Plata, near Man
cos. showed a value OF SAT per ton.
practically all in copper.
The Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company has an
nounced that it will extend its lines
from Genoa to Burlington.
Edgewater made itself a Christmas
present OF brand new fire depart
ment. the first fire-fighting outfit
Edgewater has yet enjoyed.
Warren Howard. employed in a
grain elevator at Atwood, was killed
Instantly when he was caught in an
elevator and had his neck broken
Shorty" Martinez, who was shot in
the Juncles at Fort Collins by Vic
toriana Lamos. lost his right leg.
when the doctors amputated tho limb
in order to save his life.
The Colorado Light and Power &c.
operating at Alamosa, announced 6
Christmas present TO its patrons oi
from II to IS per cent reduction. eff
fective the first of the gear.
Wind records for three years were
broken at Boulder at an early hour
Tuesday morning, when for about
thirty minutes soyenty-five mile
gale whistled through the city.
Colorado produces more than one.
fourth of all the beet sugar manurac.
tured in the United States, according
to figures recently compiled by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Twenty prominent Denver mer
have been appointed on committee
to represent the Navy League in Colo
RADIO. The league was formed TO in
crease interest in the need OF a great
er navy and adequate preparedness.
George Reichert. wealthy Fort Col
Inns cattleman. and Eddie Lewis,
chauffeur, must appear at the Feb
ruary term of the Arapahoc County
District Court to answer charges of
mansliughter In connection with the
death OF Miss Louise Mansfield fol-
lowing beating she suffered in
Petersburg roadhouse.