The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-05-15


The Fort Morgan Chautauqua will
open June 81.
Wellington citizens contemplate
building another schoolhouse.
A creamery outfit is to be installed
on the county farm at Boulder.
Good Roads boosters dined and
planned at a meeting in Fort Morgan.
A bunch of lambs shipped from Fort
Collins sold on the Chicago market at
$l1.15 per cwt.
Tourists are already flocking to
Idaho Springs and points along the
Clear Creek Canon
The fourteenth annual Sunday
School convention of Morgan county
was held at Fort Morgan.
George Washington Post, G. A. r..
of Denver has asked that ban be
placed on sports on Memorial day.
Fort Morgan will vote on a propo-
sition to issue $4,000 bonds to erect
grade school buildings on May IT.
The Globe Express is retiring from
business, and the Wells-Fargo Express
Company will take over its business.
The estimated sugar beet acreage
in the Arkansas valley this year is
twenty per cent greater than a year
ago.
Andrew ]. limerick, for almost half
a century resident of Boulder, died
at the Colorado Sanitarium. He was
eighty-one years of age.
The will of the late philanthropist
and business man, David S. Lehman,
leaves all his property to his wife.
who is also sole executor.
U. S. Maroon of Denver was elected
president of the Fourteenth division
of Railway Mail Clerks at the annual
meeting held in Denver.
An increase OF l0O,O tons over the
coal production of the state in Feb
ruary is shown in the March report of
An unidentified man about forty
years old believed to be Mike Curry,
laborer. shot himself through the
head on the steps OF Denver room
ing house.
w. l.. Ryan. under death sentence
for killing Attorney Newton Crose at
Fort Collins last August. was inter
rupted in an attempt to escape from
the county jail.
The Meeker Masonic lodge cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the establishment of the order in that
city-the first Masonic lodge in North
western Colorado.
The total mineral production of
Colorado in 1914. exclusive of tung-
sten and vanadium, was $34, 4,25S. 1917,
according to Mine Commissioner
Henahans report
Governor Carlson will be one of the
leading speakers against the proposed
amendment to give Denver home rule
IN the liquor question in the cam
paign for the city election.
Mrs. Berta Wright. who shot her
husband, John Wright. at their home
in Denver, was released from the
Denver county Jail, under $4,000
bond to appear for trial May II.
The rain which fell in Denver and
eastern Colorado the past few days is
bringing. according to government Of
ficials. inestimable benefit to crops.
amounted in all TO 276 inches.
Members of Cooks drum corps
have launched personal campaign
TO raise the bulk of the $4,000 needed
to take the organization to San Fran
cisco to advertise Denver and Colo
RADIO at the fair.
Rodney Curtis of Denver. the mil
lionaire builder of the Denver tram
way system, died in a sanitarium at
San Diego, Cal, aged seventy-four
years The remains were brought to
Denver for burial.
The Rev. P. U. Sasse of Sterling
was arrested in that city upon infor-
nations alleging bootlegging and
other offenses. which were filed by
Deputy District Attorney Redmond.
He was released upon bonds of 81
900.
Three hundred delegates from
Colorado, Kansas. Nebraska. South
Dakota. New Mexico. Utah, Texas.
wyoming and Oklahoma are expected
to attend the summer conference OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. at Estes Park. June
ll-2O, according to Parker Jordan,
secretary of the association at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Miss Charlotte Perry. Denver's lead
Ing representative in the unique
colony of aesthetic dancers who will
rag as did the Hellenes on the shores
of Eudora lake this summer, arrived
fom Chicago with her teacher. Miss
Portia SWEET They and Miss Mar
,orie Perry are arranging to teach the
classes they found awaiting them.
Henry w. Legleitner. former presi-
dent of the Denver local of the Bridge