The Ordway new era., 1916-04-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.


Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs.
April s6--Annual Convention Western
Colorado l. o. o. +. at Grand juno
tion.
May 2.-Republlcan State and Third
aud Fourth Congressional DISTRICT
conS cution at Pueblo.
May ls-Democrat.c State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 2O-Progrossive state Convention
in Denver.
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
The old plaster mill at Loveland is
being iismantled.
Craigs new s25,OO0 school building
is to be completed by aug. 26.
Ignite Lodge of the Maccabees
has been instituted at Frederick.
The Grand junction women's Club
will offer prizes for beautifying the
city
over 500 lamps have heen pledged
ing plant at Craig.
Big preparations are being made
to initiate large clag., of Knights
of Pythias at Greeley. April II.
The fourth annual dance OF the
Denver Policemen's Protective Asso-
citation will be held in the auditorium
April %.
Mrs. Margaret Rees, who was 80
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, ut 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 indi-
gestion.
A new athletic league was organ.
lied in Denver at meeting at the
First Baptist church. 1t will be com.
posed of representatives of the Bap
tIst churches.
DIR. George II. Vosburgh of Den
yer University delivered the com
mencement address to the graduating
class of the school of agriculture at
the 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.
posals for mayor form of government
i'll Denver was passed by the cit!
council. The date is May o.
Frank A. Maxwell has been ap.
pointed commissioner of Clear Greek
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 sery-
ice out of the power of the general
assembly. .l
From GS2 shipments in January to
more than $500 in March-or over
500 per CENTS the increase in Ii.
uor consignments to Denver as dis
closed by the records OF the express
companies.
Through transfer of the property
of Rees Wider, situated less than a
mile south OF the lake at the top ol
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 more adequate home
and to carry on the work of aiding
unfortunate girls has been instituted
by the College Home board of the
Womens Christian Temperance
Union of Denver
j. 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 ana
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 soma
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 a
For having loved and lost wooer