The Ordway new era., 1916-09-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES roR COMING EVENTS.

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Sept. b-s-Fron,isr Days csisorauo"
Sept. IiEMesting Midland Trail Assn
Sept Is-is.Harve.t Festival at Mum.
Sept ls-18-State Fair at Puc5i9 n Y
Sept .7.se-Stats Convention b. r. " b.
Sept. 2s-soNThird Annual Pine River River
Valley and Southern Ute lndihh rn''
Jan. 20-27-Annual Weste S'os
Show at Denver
The Nucla flour mill is nearly COM
pleted.
Keota is to have a new grain e'e'
vator.
Cabbage shipments have begun al
Brighton.
The Conejos County Fair Will be
held on Sept 20, q and %
The Western Slope Fair Will De
held at Montrose in october.
The Boulder County Fair Will oe
held at Longmont Sept. TO s
Plans are made for the building OF
a road between Nucla and Delta.
A campaign for the extinction oil
magpies is being waged at Antonito'
The l. o. o. F. Lodge at Gunnison
has laid the cornerstone for its new
hall.
The San Juan Wool Growers Asso-
citation held its annual meeting al
Durango.
The Wolfe Tongue Mining Company
at Nederland is doubling the capacity
OF its mill.
The Logan Mining and Milling Com
pany will construct a twenty-five-ton
mill at Crisman.
Receipts Of the Golden postoffice
are now sufficient to entitle that cits
TO free mail delivery.
Contract for erecting the new West
Side school building at Greeley has
been awarded at s6,4s3.
The Equity Creamery Company at
Limon has awarded contract for
the erection OF Its plant.
Fifty Camp Fire girls from Primero,
Segundo, Sports and Frederick en-.
joyed an outing at Tercio.
Two new steel span bridger will re-
pldtt WOOutA Sll oNGi Aoh
nah creek in Mesa county.
E. L. Fitch OF Denver. WAS elected
grand chancellor at the X. P. Grand
Lodge at the meeting at Greeley.
VIM. Rockefeller. OF New York. Wis.
tied in Denver, while making a tour
OF the Union Pacific-Milwaukee rail
roads.
F. E. Davis had on display at Ord
way cucumber weighing 3A pounds
and measuring thirteen inches in
length.
Platteville closed the most success
full Pickle day celebration in its his
tory. The attendance was greater
than ever before.
Large shipments of ore from Silver.
ton district TO the Durango smelter
have required the installation of two
shifts of the sampling mill.
The silver anniversary OF Water.
melon day" is to be celebrated by the
people of the Arkansas valley at
Rocky Ford on Sept. 5 to 8.
Former Justice Charles E. Hughes
and the members of his family arrived
In Denver Aug. 26 to remain In Colo
'rado till the 1st of September.
The Two-F Forty mill, in willis gulch
near Central City, has completed the
Installation of the flotation process
and is ready for the treatment OF
ores.
Early potatoes are moving from
Delta. Farmers are receiving $1.65 to
S1.75 per hundredweight I. o. b. Del.
ia. The crop is running from forty to
1875 sacks per acre.
Everett jackson, of Colorado
Springs, a stepson OF the late Helen
Hunt jackson, authoress. is one OF
the Americans mentioned for bravery
in French army orders.
Ramona Guerra was arrested at
Greeley on complaint OF Maxsimo Gar.
cia, Mexican, who complained tina.
Guerra had taken his wife and a bot.
tie Of whisky, likewise a gun, and
gone down to the river with then.
The Wellington Mines Company has
put in an additional roaster to con
siderably increase the capacity Of its
mills which are running full time ant
are making an excellent grade Of zint
ore concentrates-about ninety toni
daily being hauled to the depot a
Breckenridge for shipment.
AS her daughter was running from
the house to summon the police, Mrs
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and dangerously wounded b!
her son Richard, 20. form
er inmate of the State Reroma
tory at Buena Vista, according to tn,
account Mrs. Harry Burns. his sister
gave to the police at Salida.
The Grand Temple OF Pythian Sis
ters in convention at Greeley. electe
the following officers: Grand chiei
Mildred Nelson, Paonia; q. 8, Flor
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