Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-21

April 2s-May s-Food show at Colo
rado Springs.
"ay AMI aERepS6iisan = State ana b,a,r,e' nlfa
| Convention at Pueblo.
| May 18-Democratic State Convention
| at Colorado Springs.
May 2O-Progressive State Convention
in Denver.
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Greeley will spend $4,000 for new
garages.
A 25-ton zinc oxide smelter is
planned for Salida.
The Craig flour mill was destroyed
by fire. causing a loss of $4,000.
The contract to erect new M. E.
church at Brighton was let for $4,56s.
A feed mill at Gill was destroyed
$500. ..
Nearly 100 cars of lambs have been
shipped from Larimer county this
season.
| The Longmont Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution has been
organized.
The proposition to increase the sal
ary of city commissioners in Fort
Collins was defeated.
A total of 264 shipments of liquor
were received in Otero county during
the month of March.
With 1890 acres of sugar beets
contracted for, the Grand Junction
dull season.
Governor Carlson has appointed
Mrs. ]. d. Whitmore a member of
the Board of Control of the State In
dustrial School for Girls.
Rev. VIM. Organ aud Mrs. James
Williams have been appointed b.
Governor Carlson, members Of the
State Board of Charities and Correc.
tons.
The highest price ever paid on the
Denver market for fat ewes was re-
corded when a carload of choice ewes
marketed by ]. II. Roediger of Lodi.
sold to killers at $685.
The finding on the street at Colo
RADIO Springs of 16-year-old girl in
hopelessly intoxicated condition re
suited in police raids which landed
dozen people in jail on varied
| charges.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad is reported to have reserved
with the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company a tentative order for 10000
tons of steel rails to cost between ST.
100000 and 100000.
Miss NJ. E. Meyers. manager of the
Il
Ford, was found dead in bed. She
had suffered an attack of heart dis
ease during the night, Miss Meyers
had been a resident OF Rocky Ford
for the past twenty years.
New York and Colorado Springs
capitalists have completed plans for
the construction of n million dollar
hotel at Broadmoor, where for many
years the Casino has been one of the
pleasure resorts of the Pixies Peak re.
gion at Colorado Springs.
Miss Ethelyn Clark, stage partner
of Joseph Howard, has told the Oma.
ha public that she is the wife of John
Halliday, leading man at the Denhan
theater in Denver. Mr.. Halliday has
refused to comment upon the revela.
ton, either in confirmation, denial or
in any other manner.
| Evon Tull, who formerly was n
cowboy in Oklahoma and who labored
with a pick and shovel in northern
Colorado towns while he acquired au
education to fit him to work as re-
ligious instructor, was ordained
priest of the Episcopal church in Den
yer.
New record prices are being made
so rapidly on the Denver sheep mar
ket this year that one record is
hardly chronicled until another is
ready for the boards. The latest was
made when a trainload of 3,O52
lambs, average weight seventy-nine
pounds, sold to packers at s11.25.
The announcement was made by
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
that John d. Rockefeller, Jr., him
self a Baptist, has agreed to con-
tribute toward the erection of a
church, either Protestant or Catholic
or both, in all the company camps
where a need or desire for one is
manifest
A search said to have extended
over a period of several years and
covered the entire Colorado Rocky
Mountain region, ended with arrest,
in Beulah, of DR.. Carey B. Crawford,
80 years old, on charge of desert
ing his wife in Des Moines, Iowa, ac-
cording to information emanating
from the mountain town.
Denver and Colorado Springs peo.
pie. who are large holders of stocks
in the various copper companies or
ganized by Spencer Penrose, Charles
NJ. MacNeill and associates, are ex.