The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-12-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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NhhuAt convention 0plpr20O
Farmers Congress nj Fort Collins
jan S-S--Farmers' Annual Congress
Al fort Collins Agricultural College.
Jan: f,s.-coiorado Kennel Club show
Jan. 3-l0-Sixtesnth annual show Of
colorado Poultry Fanciers Associa-
ian. l.-is.-MeetinE Colorado Retail
,T"Gers and Butchers Association
Jan I9.-sixth Annual Convention of
jan. Western Live Stock Show
Feb. lz-Neetink Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb Is.lS-sports Carnival at steam
boat Springs.
March 20 Aprli e.-co.orado Retail
Merchants' Associations Food and
industrial Exposition at beaver.
The Brighton road is being grav.
eled
A request has been made for q de-
pot at Hot Springs.
Steamboat Springs Is planning a
sports carnival to be held Feb. 1918.
The Camp Bird at Ouray will drive
. S.OOo-foot tunnel from mill to mine.
The annual show of the Pueblo
Poultry Association vas 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
service will be established
between Johnstown and Milliken.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be spent in building an addi
tton 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 SO
per cent.
Color ado has ninety-five power
laundries. The capital invested is
Sl,44o,ss6. against $1.27O,G56 five
years ago
Miss Nettie r. Russell, 52 for TWEEN
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
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
or 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. 90 years
old, mother of two-months-old child,
cut her throat with her husbands ra-
cor at her home in Denver. The hus-
band, Laurance c. Bostwick, was at
church.
Nearly 100 citizens of Buena Vista
held a meeting recently to perfect ar
rangements with manufacture
company of Oroville, Ohio. for the
construction of a $150,0OO smelling
and concentrating plant.
Twenty prominent Denver men
have been appointed on a committee
to represent the Navy League in Colo
rado. The league was formed to in.
crease interest In the need of a great
er 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 We're blown in by
the windstorm that ragged with great
f.,,, n
til early Tuesday morning in the Boul
der section.
For the twelve months ended on
Nov. so. the Denver Cities Service
Company made net earnings of $3,-
G95,301 an increase of $2GS,sSS over
the previous year. or 235 times the
dividend requirements for the pre-
ferred stock. The twelve months
business was the greatest in the COM
pany's history.
Nearly $1,000 in refunds to saloon