Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-28
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Junta.
June 1s-19.-Strawberry Days. Glen
JuRs Rso,l lssjniy $;M7coioraqo s,Is. Ealr and
Aug. 3!sept. 2.--Grand Lodge. X. of p.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 2G-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagler. /,
Sept. 27-Oct. S.-Meetins International
Dry Farming Congress ut Denver
Wesley Foster, of Boulder, shipped
two cars of bees to Idaho.
The Columbus mine, in the Silverton
district, will start work soon.
A farm house on the Hodges farm,
near Fort Collins, was destroyed by
fire.
The series of revival meetings which
came to close in Fort Collins netted
DIR. E. ]. Bulgin s1,S03.
C. E. Moore sold his 32O-acre farm
seven miles east of Loveland to Con-
rad Wacker for $4,000.
Twelve more men have been added
to the force of the Poudre Canon road
gang near Fort Collins.
A. r. Barbour, sixty-two, was found
dead in his bed at his home near
Fruitdale, west of Denver.
The Salvation Army will conduct
ten-day campaign to raise $4,000 to
erect a home in Greeley.
Mrs. Banta of Grand Junction was
convicted on a charge of bootlegging,
and sentenced to ten days in jail.
The 100000 bond proposition for an
addition to the Fort Morgan high
school, carried by vote of 80 to %.
Mrs. Geo. p. Avery, for two years
president of the Fort Collins school
board, has resigned as member of
the board.
The miners and prospectors
throughout the west lost a mother in
the death of Mrs. Katherine O'Brien
Peit at Ouray.
With the mercury down to 25 de-
grees Tuesday night, all records for
low temperatures in mid-May were
broken by 10 degrees.
The Delta High School track team
won the eighth annual track meet in
which eight high schools of the West
tern slope participated.
Twenty thousand dollars in premi-
ums will be offered at the Information
in Denver Sept % to Oct. 9.
Hassan ALE, section hand living
near Hygiene, was arrested and fined
$25 and costs and sentenced to thirty
days in Jail for violating the hunting
law.
The Albuquerque district confer
ence of the A. NJ. E. churches of
Southern Colorado and New Mexico.
held at Trinidad, was largely attended.
and great interest manifested.
Allan d. weitbrec, thirty years old,
son of r. F. Weitbrec, pioneer Colo
rado railroad builder and contractor,
committed suicide in Central park,
New York city. by drinking poison.
Grover H. Hicks, who was injured
in fall of rock at the Boulder county
tunnel on April 20, filed suit for S10,.
900 in the District Court at Boulder
against the Cariman Mining Company.
Charles NJ. Dunsmore, pioneer of
Colorado and known over the country
as horseman, died at his farm at
Redvale. Mr.. Dunsmore was seventy
five years old. Kidney trouble brought
death.
Sam Bernard, an Italian, was run
over by Rio Grande train at Grand
Junction and had his left arm
crushed so badly that amputation was
necessary. His skull was also frac-
tured.
David Starr Jordon, celebrated edu-
Gator and noted economist, will give
the opening address of the Colorado
Sociological Conference. which will
begin at the University of Colorado
at Boulder July 4.
Greeley is in deep grief because of
the serious, and what may prove the
fatal. illness of DR.. z. Y. Snyder, pres
ident of the State Teachers College.
and acknowledged one of the great
educators of the country.
Bids for the construction of the
first three miles of the Fall River
road, for the building of which $17,-
900 has been transferred from the
capitol board fund to the highway
fund, were advertised and will be let
on June /.
The Agricultural College at Fort
Collins will observe Memorial day this
year in manner which has not been
touched on in previous years. Patri-
otic exercises will supplant the usual
bacSalaureate exercises for the gradu-
ates of this years class.
A snowstorm that assumed blizzard.
like proportions shortly before noon
enshrouded Denver Tuesday and
threatened all fosmer snow records
for the month OF May with oblitera-
ton. The thermometer registered 80
degrees at noon, the record tempera-
ture for Man is since the first records
were taken in 1872.