The Elbert County tribune., 1916-11-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Nov. 10-11-Flower Show at Denver.
Jan 1-6-Poultry Show at Denver.
Jan. 20-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan; 2o-27-AnnuaI western Stock
Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. c. A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs.
A coon and possum feast was held
at Pueblo.
Burglars looted Lafayette store OF
about $500 worth of merchandise.
Almost all of the $4,000 in new
dimes received at the Denver mint
Monday were taken.
Ninety-eight Denver motorists were
charged with violating laws of traffic
and appeared in Judge Bray's court to
explain their disregard for the law.
Several hundred Japanese men,
women and children who form the
Japanese colony in Denver, celebrated
the birthday of their mikado, Yo-
shihito.
Denver Lodge No. Al, Knights of
Pythias. will hold its annual minstrel
show for the benefit of the Pythian
relief fund at the Broadway theatre
Nov. A.
Denver's new employment bureau
for women was opened auspiciously
by receiving nine applications for
work from as many skilled and expert
enced women workers.
Six hundred teachers of the Western
slope gathered at Grand Junction for
the forty-second annual convention OF
the western division of the Colorado
State Teachers Association.
The name of Horace G. Benson will
appear on the ballots at the coming
election as Independent candidate for
district attorney, unless the Supreme
Court reverses ruling made by Dis.
trict Judge Perry.
Mrs. Hattie X. Howard, Progressive,
has withdrawn from the congressional
race in the First district, leaving the
contest to Vale and Hilliard, Repub
lican and Democrat, respectively.
Denver banks and other local finan.
cial houses are understood to have
been participants to the extent OF
sS5O,OOO in the new British govern
ment loan now being raised in the
United States.
Maj. H. B. Nelson, U. s. A, who
has been stationed at Fort Logan fol
the past two years, has been trans
ferred by the war department to the
Third infantry and will join his regi.
ment on the border.
The cases against e. H. Pettigrove,
uybp rbor ,ritl, h. Ia.
ment of about $4,000 worth of meats
from Swift & Co, were dismissed by
Judge William D. Wright in the West
Side court in Denver.
The minutes of the Colorado con.
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, which are now in preparation
show a net increase in membership
during the past year of 1,157, with a
total membership of 37,416.
Colorado boys in the National Guard
on border duty in Arizona are clean,
ing up everything in the athletic line
that comes their way, according to
word received in Denver from Shorty
Denvers corner lots.
Bishop F. ]. Mcconnell of Denver
received one of the most important
assignments at the disposal of the
Methodist Episcopal church, which
closed its annual conference in Min
neapolis. Bishop Mcconnell will go to
Mexico to do mission work.
l.. d. Eskridge of Hartman, pioneer
stockman and ranchman of the San
Luis valley, civil war veteran and
brother of the late DR.. ]. T. Eskridge
nerve and brain specialist of national
reputation, died in his apartments in
Denver. He was 70 years old.
Delegates at Denver to arrange for
the automobile sociability run from
the towns of Limon, Strasburg, Byers,
Deer Trail aud Bennett to Denver,
Nov. IS, reported a phenomenal pro
duction of pinto beans. 1t was claimed
that forty cars would be shipped from
Byers, and at least fifty cars from
Strasburg.
Construction of circle highway in
the Rockies that will extend Denver's
foothill parks system thru the scenic
Mount Evans region is proposed by
the United States forest service in a
report submitted by service engineers
to Chief Forester Henry S. Graves,
copy of which was given out by the
Denver office.
Fermor ]. Spencer. vice-president
and trust officer of the Continental
Trust Company. president of the Con
tinental Audit Company. and charac-
terized by banking men as "one of the
most capable trust officers in the en-
tire West" died of cirrhosis of the
liver in his home in Denver. He was
50 years old and had been i'll only a