The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-08-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES res COMING EvExrs.

DATES res COMING EVExTs.
Aug lsls-Pickls Day and Fair ..
| Plattsyille.
Aug. zI-Celebration of the opening Of
the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Paxosa Springs. At Du-
Aug. 22- ss-Annu.I Convention. Grand
| Lodge X of r.. at Greeley.
aug, 3i-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept s-s-Boulder county Fair At
Sept. s.s-Eron,lsr Days esleera'lo"
Sept lI-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
In Denver.
Sept. is-i,-state Fair at Pueblo.
Sept. II 7-3s-Stats Convention BP. O. Z
| at Trinidad.
Sept. 3s-3O-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and southern Ute Indian Far
Jan 2o-27-Annuai western stsek
Show at Denver.
Fire did about $1,000 damage at
Golden.
Big wheat yields are reported in
the Longmont district.
Battery b at Golden is proud Of ts
evenly matched horses.
Miss Elsie Green of Denver will go
to China As q missionary.
President Wilson is expected to
speak at Denver on his proposed trip
to the coast.
Two more miles of the Fall River
road. over Mummy Range, will be
completed this season.
Mrs. Cora Newland, wife OF Ronald
o. Newland. WAS killed in an automo.
bile accident at Greeley.
Howard c. Parmelee has been
elected president OF the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden.
Four persons were injured in a
head-on auto crash At the South Boul-
der bridge, three miles from Boulder
Colorado guards at Golden rifle
range were paid Monday. approximate
ly $4,000 being distributed among the
men.
The contract for the furniture and
fixtures for the new Greeley Court
House has been let. They will cost
about 100000.
]. II. Everman, 80. OF Denver com
mitted suicide because he says he was
unable to provide the luxuries de-
manded by his wife.
Five thousand Oklahomans. spend
ing their vacation in the Pixies Peak
region, joined in celebrating Okla
homa day at Manitou.
John Gillespie of Boulder lost con
troll Of his car at Manhattan beach
and his leg was broken when the ma
chine ran into the lake.
The Colorado Springs and Denver
branches of the Red Cross have sent
1,035 comfort bags to Colorado troops
at the Golden rifle range.
Nick La Sale. an Italian coal min
or. 2s years old. was electrocuted in
the Big Lake coal mine. one and one
half miles west Of Lafayette.
Over 1000 persons crowded Island
Grove park at Greeley for the w. o.
w. picnic. Tom Henderson was in
jured in the bucking broncho contest.
A letter from President Wilson,
stating and celebrating at length his
views on the suffrage question, was
read at the Jane Jefferson Democratic
Club banquet at Denver.
Colorado militiamen have been or
dered to the border, and the National
Guard at the Golden Rifle Range will
entrain as soon as transportation IA.
| cilitioc con hA arropvod
| Arrangements have been made for
a public reception for Charles E.
Hughes, candidate for President on
the Republican ticket, on the occasion
of his visit to Denver Aug. &c.
After the Moose convention in Den,
yer decided not to name a ticket
a minority got together and desig
mated a state ticket, headed by
John B. Stephen OF Denver for cover.
nor.
George Lawrence, 25, of New York
was killed by a Colorado Midland
railroad freight train at Palisade,
twelve miles east of Grand Junction
Lawrence had been stealing a ride on
the train.
Mrs. c. Minton, mother OF David
Minton, charged with burglary in the
West Side Court, left Denver to go to
her home near Fort Lupton, on which
she intends to place a mortgage to
obtain the release of her son on bond
of $1,000.
Although marred somewhat by a
severe rain the second annual straw
berry carnival held at Steamboat
Springs was most gratifying sue
cess in every particular and several
thousand people were most pleasant
ly entertained.
The exploring expedition composed
of E. l.. Kolb, N. B. Sterns, J. F. Stone
and John Shields, which met with dis
aster in their first attempt to navi
gate the Black canon, was more sue
cessful in its second attempt, the par
ty succeeding in making twelve mile,