The Holly chieftain., 1915-12-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES srOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 3-Annuai convention Colorado
Farmers Congress at Fort Collins.
at Fort Collins Agri ,ltural College.
Jan. 4-s--Colorado Kennel Club sho"
Jan. s-IoSsixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers Associa-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-ls.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. 1s.SSixth Annual Convention OF
Jan. 1s-22.-Western Live stock Show
March 2o-April s.-colorado Retail,
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Colorado Springs Elks will enter
tain 1000 poor children on Christmas
Day.
Nearly 100000 Christmas packages
left Denver through the postofftce
Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard, SO years
old, who had been a resident Of Colo
RADIO twenty-five years. died in Dem
yer.
Only four cases of diphtheria, ex-
cept those in the Steele hospital, have
been reported to the Denver Health
Department.
The mine strike cases have been
transferred from Trinidad to Ell Paso
county for hearing in the Fourth Ju-
dicial district.
MisA Helen 2latt, ~ years old. and
for 25 years teacher in the Denver
public schools, died suddenly at Park
Avenue hospital.
Englewood now has "Great White
Way" 1G0 tungstens now lighting her
streets, replacing the fifty-four arc
lights heretofore used.
Two armed bandits beat John ].
Fitzgerald, a Denver saloonkeeper.
but were frightened away before they
had obtained anything.
The annual session of the Farmers
Congress will be held at the Colorado
Agricultural College in Fort Collins
during the week of Jan. 3.
A coroner's Jury at Cripple Creek
places the blame for the death of
Lawrence Secrecy, Dec. 16, on the
Cresson Gold Mining Company.
On the charge of passing two
worthless checks, G. H. Linn, mine
operator, was arrested by Under
Sheriff Euler Of Boulder in Denver. !.
e. r Smith a Denver Tramway
employs, risked death to rescue his
three young children when the family
home at Edgewater was destroyed by
fire.
Charles Adam Murray, musician and
composer, who came to Colorado 25
years ego, died at his home, 1884 Lin
coin street. Death was due to pneu-
monia.
Ten thousand persons will gather
before the Pueblo court house Christ
mas night and take part in the first
municipal Christmas celebration ever
held In Pueblo.
The fody of Claude L. Poston, who
disappeared from his home in Edge
water Dec. 3, was found frozen in a
ravine mile west of Louisville by
. rabbit hunter.
Judge James e. Benus Of Boulder,
prominent in many ways, being wor
shipful master OF the Masonic order,
has pledged himself not to shave or
have his hair cut until peace prevails
in Europe.
Formal opening Of Denver's new
f$2,500,000 marble postoffice at Eight
eenth and Champa streets took place
when hundreds thronged into the new
building bearing Christmas packages
to send by parcel post.
Tony Lombard, l7-year-old North
Denver boy charged with causing the
death of Sandy Antonio, IS, in fist
fight over girl, was acquitted by a
jury of involuntary manslaughter in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Six men and one woman under in
dictment in connection with the death
of Miss Louise Mansfield, who died
ten days ago following a beating she
received in a Petersburg 1oadhouse,
were given preliminary hearing at
Englewood.
Ed Cody was taken from Rio
Grande train at Colorado Springs
charged with the theft of draft for
e247 in Denver. Cody was accom-.
panied on the train by his wife and
six children, the latter ranging in ages
from 2 to IL years.
The submission of a new liuuor