Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-25
COLORADO
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aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at FlaSler.
! Sept. 27-Oct. S.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Samuel Watson, eighty-nine, passed
away at Grand Junction.
The State Bankers Association will
meet at Greeley, Aug. 1919.
A $25,OOO bond issue has been pro-
posed to improve Colorado Springs
parks.
| School children of Denver will pay
tribute to the Liberty bell Saturday,
July 10.
More than $4,000 was garnered by
tag day girls for the blind from gen.
erous Denver people.
Municipal and state authorities will
have full charge of the Liberty Bell
celebration in Denver July 10.
| Fourteen pair of twins, ranging
from eighty-two years old to twin
babies, were recently photographed at
Hotchkiss.
| Over one hundred members of the
Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity will meet
for twoday convention in Denver,
june 25 and &c.
| Forty-four thousand dollars was
raised during the first two days of the
campaign for $25O,0OO for the child
ren's hospital in Denver.
Construction has been started on a
two-story and attic dormitory for the
Queen of Heaven orphanage in Den
yer, to cost about $4,000.
The congressional committee in
specting government reclamation pro-
| jects will arrive in Denver June 2S
and remain here six hours.
The largest parade ever held in Pu-
eblo was the feature of the second
day CT the twenty-fifth annual state
Sunday school convention in Pueblo.
After robbing the house of $500
worth of jewels and family silver,
providers set fire to the home of II.
Steinberg. 2957 Curtis street, Denver.
There are 221 assignments of error
in the motion of John X. Lawson ap-
plying for a new trial in the District
Court of Las Animas county at Trim
idad.
At the thirty-eighth annual COM
mencement exercises of the Univer-
sity of Colorado. at Boulder, Presi-
dent Livingston Farrand conferred
22S degrees.
After being blind for five years,
George Tranhaile, n rancher of the
Rhyolite mountain country south of
Cripple Creek, is now able to read
newspaper print.
The Buckeye State Society will en-
tertain Governor and Mrs. Frank b.
Willis of Ohio and members of the Of
ficial party during their stay in Den
yer on June "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Penrose of
Colorado Springs have announced
that they will construct large
swimming pool in Monument Valley
park as a gift to the children of that
city.
Prosperity in Colorado as reported
by the bankers of the state will be
aided by bumper crops, George T.
Wells of Denver stated in his month
ly bulletin of conditions in all parts
of Colorado.
The libel suit brought by District
Attorney John A Rush against John
c. Monfort and conducted by Special
Prosecutor Greeley w. Whitford was
thrown out of court in Denver with a
directed verdict of not guilty.
Lieutenant Sharp of the United
States Army will reinspect the ar
tillery batteries of the Colorado Ma
tional Guard through orders from the
War Department. Adjutant General
Chase gave out this information.
c. l.. Smead, a pioneer of 1859 and
said to be the Oldest man in Boulder
county, died in his home, nine miles
west of Longmont, at the age of 90
years. A broken hip, suffered a few
weeks ago, resulted in his death.
Frank +. Castillo, president of the
Mary Mckinney Mining Company oi
Colorado Springs, one of the pioneer
capitalists. and oldest residents of the
Pixies peak region, died at Beverly
Hills, Cal. suburb of Los Angeles.
At the third annual sociological con
ference of the University of Colorado
to be held in Boulder from July tt
July 10 inclusive, some of the mos
prominent economic and sociological
authorities in the United States will
speak.
DIR. Walter Hilliard, one of the old
est and most prominent eye, ear, nost
and throat specialists of the Rock,
Mountain region, and for twenty-si,
. years one of the leaders of his profes
e sion in Denver. died from cirrhosis o
the liver.
Declaring that he never took ad
vantage of a woman. Candy Kid No
2 refused to rob the drug store a
Thirteenth avenue and Pearl street
r In, he
jamin Howard. wife of the proprietor
8 in charge as he entered the place a
: IL O'Clock at night.