The Holly chieftain., 1916-11-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. I-s-PouItry Show at Denver.
jan 20-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. M. C. A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs
A ski club has been organized at
Yampa.
A new Blue Bird cottage is being
planned for Boulder.
Fort Collins has abolished hitching
posts on paved strees.
Not in twenty years have there been
80 few vacant houses in Pueblo.
Beet pulp wagons are prohibited
from using the streets of Fort Collins.
Over $50 carloads of lambs were re-
ceived at the Fort Collins yards in
three days.
Shipments of cattle from Hugo in
the last fortnight have ranged in value
around $150.00O.
There are 200 people in Rollinsville
and there are new families moving in
every day.
B. H. Moon has sold a section of
non-irrigated land to L. H. Gerstenber
ger of Byers for $12.so0.
Mrs. Anna Nagel Schirmer, wife Of
Godfrey schirmer. died of heart dis
ease in her home in Denver.
The Espy Ice Company is building
new dam above Rollinsville, twenty
five feet high and 200 feet wide.
Plans to purchase both the Soda
Springs park and the Mansions park
are being made by Manitou citizens.
Thomas H. Gibson. deputy in the
Denver city attorneys office. must
pay his wife, Dorothea, $40 a week
temporary alimony.
The Pueblo Trades and Labor AS
sembly has Endorsed plans for the pur-
chase of the Wade building in that
city for labor temple.
Ranchmen in Routt county are ad-
vertising for laborers, offering So a
day and board for ablebodied men
who can handle farm work.
Friendless and alone, although ap-
parently possessed of some means,
Martha scanlon. 81 years old, died in
a rooming house in Denver.
H. U. Nudge, reelected president OF
the Denver & Rio Grande at the an
nual meeting of the board Of directors,
returned from New York to Denver.
There we're 1000 candidates on nine
tickets for Colorado voters to select
from at Tuesdays election. Eight
special measures were also on the bal
lot.
Miss Agnes McKenna, teacher in
the Cheltenham school, is in a serious
condition at her home in Denver as
the result of blow over the heart
from golf club.
The city of Colorado Springs has in
creased its holdings of lands on the
north of Pixies Peak by the addition
OF the tract on which is located the
Half Way house.
Joseph Fitz-Owen Brind, Denver
manufacturer for thirty-six years. Sc
cured divorce from his actress-wife,
Mrs. Antoinette lie Brun Brind, before
the District Court Of Denver.
If present plans are realized for the
construction of new road through
Deer creek, the distance between Den
yer and Baileys will be reduced by
twelve and one-half miles.
All Delta mourns over the tragic
death of lied" Widney, the popular
fullback of the Delta High school foot
ball squad, as result of an injury re-
ceived in the football game in Paonia.
The Colorado School Of Mines at
Golden has been designated as the
first school in the United States to
become a federal military college un.
der the provisions Of the national de-
cense act of June 8, 1916.
Twenty-three exhibitors have pledged
themselves to make displays at the
free flower show to be held in the
Auditorium Nov. 10 and II, under the
auspices of the Denver Society OF
Ornamental Horticulture.