The Colorado statesman., 1916-08-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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aug 1o,12-Woman's Party Conference
at Colorado Springs
aug. I4-Grand Lake Yacht Races.
aug. l4-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs
aug. iS-iS-Pickle Day and Fair al
Aug. 21-Celebration of the opening of
me new State Highway between Del
Morte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
aug. Sl-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Longmont.
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sept. 11-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
in Denver.
Sept. 15-16-Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 1S-23-State Fair at Pueblo.
Sept. 27-29-State Convention b. p. o. E.
at Trinidad.
There are 34,261 motor cars in
Colorado.
Larimer county claims population
of 10000.
Many new residences are being
built at Fort Morgan.
A Fraternal Day picnic will be
held at Glacier Lake, Aug. 20.
Snow slides in July were reported
in the mining region near Fulford.
A quarter of mile north of Miner
discovery of coal has been made.
Clarence Chaffee, IS years old, was
drowned in the Fountain river at Pu
eblo.
The Arkansas Valley Fair at Rocky
Ford will celebrate its silver anniver
sary this year.
A $4,000 bond issue has been voted
by Nederland for the construction of
city water system.
Especially heavy ore shipments
from the La Plata mining district are
reaching the Durango smelter.
Estimates of Colorado's sugar beet
crop this year are 25O,O0O tons, as
against 244 ,449 tons last year.
Denver is to have a new apartment
hotel to cost $175,000 at Fifteenth
street and Cleveland place.
One hundred and seven men were
given places within fortnight by
the free labor bureau at Loveland.
Officers of the grand castle of Col
orado Knights of the Golden Eagle,
will meet in Denver, Aug. 10 and IL.
There are now 500 Denver house
maids enrolled on the books of the
Domestic Workers Industrial Union.
The receipts at the Denver postof-
flee for the month of July were $116,-
778. This indicates gain of $5,226
over the same month last year, or
4.6S per cent.
A stamp cancellation die which
prints the information that the Rocky
Mountain National Park is open to
visitors is now used on all outgoing
mail from Denver.
Private Floyd Norris, of the field
hospital corps, and Miss Alice Baker,
of the Ladies First Aid Corps, were
married at the Colorado mobilization
camp at Golden.
The government safety-first train
will arrive in Denver the morning of
Aug. and will be on exhibition on
the tracks in front of the Union sta
ton on that day and the following
day.
Word was received at Lamar that
E. ]. Cheland, 3S years old a pros
porous farmer, had been drowned in
the Arkansas river, just below the
head gate of the Amity canal in
Prowers county.
Colorado's oil output in 1915 ac-
cording to the Geological Survey was
2O8,475 barrels. The average price of
this oil at the wells was SO cents a
barrel, and the total market value of
the output was s1S3,475.
The town of Manitou, located in
the heart of the mountains, six miles
west of Colorado Springs, was hit by
cloudburst. Ruxton creek, flowing
through the town, became a raging
torrent, the force of the water cut
ting away the banks.
The first couple to be married in
Colorado after it became a state,
forty years ago, were Mr. and Mrs.
William J. Hammill. Mr.. Hammill
died six years after his marriage.
I'VE were married in ST. Mary's ca
thedral," said Mrs. Hammill, who OBJ
served her wedding anniversary in
Denver and the states birthday to-
gether.
Because of the rapid growth of the
sugar beet industry, the federal gov.
ernment is employing experts to dis.
cover the best means of developing
the industry. The Civil Service Com
mission has announced an open com.
petitive examination for agriculturists
in sugar beet investigation to fill a
vacancy in the Department of Agricul.
ture. 1t pays $1,000 to s2,1OO a year.
Two days of heavy downpour left
practically every road out of Denver
heavy and slippery. One bridge, that
at Horseshoe bend on the Colorado