Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-07-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Union New. Service.

aug. l-Cele DratiOn COlOTAQO0 tOEp-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. 2NNational Convention of Rep
resentativer of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. 9@MeetIns Colorado Editorial AS
ISOLATION Mt Denver.
Aug. 1o-Republican State Assembly at
Denver.
Aug. 14-Coiorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 1s-is-Pickle Day and Fair at
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
Aug; s1-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. 15-16-Harvest Festival at Num-
Sept. 27-29-State Convention b. o. E.
A tract of 800 acres of non-irrigated
land near Hudson sold for $4,000.
Work is in progress at the Lillian
mine in Russell Gulch in Gilpin
county.
Contributions on flower day to the
Craig Relief Colony in Denver to-
tailed about $500.
The Colorado Editorial Association
will hold its annual midsummer meet
ing in Denver Aug. 9.
Colorado Democrats will hold their
state assembly in Denver Aug. 8. the
Republican assembly will be Aug. 10.
Denver banks have agreed to take
50 100000 of the $6,0OO,OOO bonds
necessary to provide funds to build
the Moffat railway tunnel.
At Idaho Springs a lease has been
granted on the Uncle Sam vein work
ings through the Big Five tunnel and
the lessee is arranging for starting
operations.
There are sixty men working for
the Caribou company on their pro-
ject in Boulder county. Two shifts
are being worked in the mine and
three in the mill.
Cheap electric power is a factor in
mining SO far as Boulder, Gilpin and
Clear Creek county camps are con-
cerned. In all of these water is used
to develop the power.
Urgent orders to recruit the Colo
RADIO militia units up to full war
strength, received at the Golden rifle
range. have resulted in the reopening.
with increased vigor, of the recruiting
campaign.
Police and private detective agen-
cies are searching for George Miller,
teller for a Denver bank, who is
accused of having absconded with
funds of the bank aggregating more
than $4,000.
Mrs. Edna Joslin Newman was de-
MED alimony of $4,000 from the estate
of her late husband, Col. Louis New
man. owner of MacRose stock farm,
by Judge Ashbaugh in the County
Court at Littleton.
The agreement between the coal
mine operators and the miners in
Washington. Montana and Wyoming.
expires this spring, and the miners
are preparing to again unionize the
Colorado coal fields.
The position the National Woman's
party will take in the political cam
paign this fall will be determined at
meeting OF the national executive
committee of the new party in Colo
RADIO Springs. Aug. 10 to 12.
Mrs. H. w. Neubauer. who aban-
doned her husband in Munson, Pa.
and went to Denver in company of
| Thomas r. Goodyear. has in turn
been abandoned by the husband and
left upon her own resources.
The Modern brotherhood of Amer
lea, an insurance society has amend
ed its rules to permit members of
the National Guard to retain their in
surance in full even If they are called
upon to 60 to war with Mexico.
James C. Burger of Denver. post
potentate of Ell Jebel temple, was
elected to the post of outer guard at
the forty-second annual meeting of
the imperial council of the Mobiles OF
the Mystic Shrine, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Members of the Woodmen of the
World, many of them with their fami-
lies and friends are in Denver from
the nine states in the Pacific juris-
diction attending their twelfth trien-
nial convention which opened on the
18th and continues until the eth.
Physicians attending Mrs. wess
Harvey, 23 years old. wife of an en-
ploye of the Union Pacific shops in
Denver, are baffled by strange
slumber into which the young woman
was plunged the afternoon of June 2s
and from which she has not
awakened
The wedding of Lulu Glaser and
Thomas Richards in Stamford, Conn.
has revived in Denver the memory OF
a series of suits and counter suits
through which Mrs. Martha Miner
Richards, formerly the wife of Rich
ards, wrangled for possession of the
affections of the Denver and Colora-
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