Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-07

May z.-hepubllcan state ana Ihiru
| and Fourth Congressional District
| convention at Pueblo.
May 1S-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 20-Progressive State Convention
| in Denver.
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
The old plaster mill at Loveland is
being 1ismantled.
Craig's new $4,000 school building
is to be completed by Aug. 2G.
Ignite Lodge of the Maccabees
has been instituted at Frederick.
The Grand Junction Womens Club
will offer prizes for beautifying the
city.
Over 500 lamps have been pledged
for the support of an electric light
ing plant at Craig.
Big preparations are being made
to initiate a large clas. of Knights
of Pythias at Greeley, April II.
The fourth annual dance of the
Denver Polfcemen's Protective Asso-
citation will be held in the auditorium
April &c.
Mrs. Margaret Rees, who was 95
years old, died of pneumonia at the
home of her son-in-law, William
Schmidt in Denver.
Because of the high price of lead
the American Smelling and Refin-
ing Company has increased the pay
of all its employees.
Angelo Vota, an Italian employed at
the Sunnyside mines, Mt Silverton,
committed suicide by blowing him
self up with dynamite.
A campaign to raise $4,000 with
which an addition to the BETHEL hos
pital will be built this summer was
started at Colorado Springs.
The Rev. John G. Blake. for ten
years chaplain of the Colorado Peni
tentiary at Canon City, died OF heart
disease, following an attack of indl-
gestion.
A new athletic league was organ.
lied in Denver at a meeting at the
First Baptist church. 1t will be com.
posed Of representatives of the Bap.
tist churches.
DIR. George H. Vosburgh of Den
yer University delivered the COM
mencement address to the graduating
GLASS of the school of agriculture at
tho Fort Collins College.
Paul William O'Brien, Jr., of Den.
yer was proclaimed the most beau
tiful among 400 handsome babies at
the Pure Food Show and was award
ed the big silver cup.
The ordinance setting the date for
the special election to vote on pro-
in Denver was passed by the city
council. The date is May ..
Frank A. Maxwell has been ap-
pointed commissioner of Clear Creek
county to succeed the late John n.
Stewart who died on Jan. goth. The
appointment was made by Governor
Carlson.
The new state civil service COM
mission unanimously indorsed the
proposed constitutional amendment.
which would take the state civil serv-
ice out of the power of the general
assembly.
From 6S2 shipments in January to
more than $500 in March-or over
| 500 per cent-is the increase in Ii.
uor consignments to Denver as dis
closed by the records OF the express
companies.
Through a transfer OF the property
of Rees Wider, situated less than a
mile south of the lake at the top OF
Lookout mountain at the end of the
famous drive, the Denver Motor Club
has acquired summer home.
A campaign to raise $4,000 with
which to build a more adequate home
and to carry on the work of aiding
unfortunate girls has been instituted
by the College Home board of the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Denver.
]. F. Keating, superintendent of the
Pueblo schools, in an address before
the county superintendents of the
state at the opening session of their
convention in Denver, urged that pu.
pills be taught to gain more knowledge
from the practical side of life and
less from books.
The positive Identifying of the
clothes found on the Arkansas river
bank by Gilbert H. Denton, father OF
w. B. Denton, who disappeared some
two weeks ago, has convinced the
father, who went to Pueblo. that his
son was drowned accidentally. Both
relatives and authorities have given
up hope of finding young Denton
alive.
For having loved and lost n wooer
Miss Ethel Grubbs Of Denver thinks
she should be paid $4,000 cash. Sht
has submitted an itemized bill