The Holly chieftain., 1916-01-28

rep. 11-12-Annual convention Colo
Tado Metal Mining Association. al
Feb. l2-Meeting Republican State
central Committee in Denver.
rep, t6cisEsports Carnival at Steam
March 20 April COLORADO Retail
Merchants' Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April l3.Democratic State Convention
President Wilson is expected to
speak in Denver. Feb. Is.
Two persons were swept to death
IN snowslide at Leadville.
George Menzimer. forty, Of Idaho
Springs, died at Georgetown.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
ton will be held in Denver Jan. %
and 29.
The first case to be prosecuted in
Denver under the new prohibition law
resulted in plea of guilty and fine
of 500 and costs.
John L. Stewart, county commits.
sioner, died at his home in George.
town of pneumonia. Mr.. Stewart was
sixty-four years old.
Gamely fighting to the last, Joel. w.
shackelford, pioneer, real estate man
end city builder, died at the family
residence in Denver.
Mrs. Elizabeth McGerr, seventy, a
resident of Georgetown since 1879. is
dead at the family home, following an
illness of two weeks.
Governor Carlson appointed M. H
Aylesworth. member of and attorney
for the State Public Utilities Commrs.
SIGN, to be it's chairman.
Investigations of the intricacies OF
a loaded toy cannon may cost George
Thompson, six years old, of Denver
the sight Of his right eye.
A. Solomon. eighty-six, pioneer res.
ident of Clear Creek county and faith
er-inslaw Of Sheriff A. e. Straub. is
dead at the latter's home in George.
town.
The annual meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Association of Municipal
Electricians, including Wyoming, New
Mexico, Utah and Colorado was held
IN Denver.
Mrs. Hank Maper of Gunnison was
in Denver resting up from the exer
tion she says she underwent when
she horsewhipped her former brother.
in-law, Herman Mauer.
Raymond McMillin, high school
senior at Lamar, was in Denver as
the official delegate Of the Good
Roads Organization of the school to
the Colorado Good Roads Associa-
tion.
The Mountain States Lumber Deal
ers' Association delegates were
guests at banquet at which the
Denver Knoll Hole Club acted as
host during their annual meeting In
Denver.
Stock Show judges and exhibitors,
and party of young women guests
Joined in big hunt for Colorado coy.
otes Monday. The horses ridden back
of the hounds were estimated to be
worth more than $15o,000.
The net public debt Of Denver is
s109,254.2S and the per capita debt OF
Denver on the basis of the last Unit
ed States census estimate of 253,OOO
population is $3.50, according to
statement issued by City Auditor
James F. Markey.
A sworn petition calling attention
to the fact that, although Judge Lind.
sey has been in Europe for some time
his salary has continued and ask
Ing the commissioners to see that it
Is stopped in the future was filed
with the city clerk of Denver by
P. Daniels, who signs him.
self "a citizen and taxpayer"
Reports indicating substantial prog.
ress in the establishment of elevators,
warehouses, factories and creameries
and the saving of large sums on the
purchase of coal, fruit, vegetables,
bags, binder twine, grain, flour and
seed were made at the Farmers Edu.
cational and Cooperative Union OF
Colorado, which met in Denver,
Reports Of q huge war order, oh.
tanned by Denver horse dealers, were
prevalent among tho buyers at the
stockyards. 1t is understood that q
contract Tor $4,000 animals has been
closed by the Denver firm with the
commission now in Denver represent
ing England and France, and that
the total amount involved In the deal
is $2,70o,0OO.
Three persons. who fifty years ago