The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-12-29

AT Brush.
Ian; ll-ls-Poultry Show a, Canon
Ian 2o,-Athie,ic Club boxing contests
Jan, 2o-27-Annual Western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. c. a. Annual Conyen-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Daniel Mahoney, 6s, veteran mail
carrier died at his home in Denver OF
pneumonia.
Holiday spirits OF the liquid kind
led thirty nine men into Police Court
IN Denver on charges of drunkenness
Earl Langley. Is. of Pueblo, was
shot and seriously injured following a
quarrel with an Italian in skating
rink.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Grant enjoy
the distinction OF being parents of the
only Christmas baby in Denver in
1916
Four generations were represented
at the Christmas dinner given at the
home Of Mr., and Mrs. r. B. Sutton in
Denver.
The Holly Sugar Company is to
NciioNf uNt Il hr~ idNtoIy " CObt ~ ,bfVf
600 at Delta, and to purchase another
factory at Grand Junction
The largest gathering OF children
ever assembled in Denver enjoyed
Denver's first community Christmas
party. More than 10000 greeted San
Ia Claus and his aides
While Christmas merrymakers
packed Fifteenth street early Satur-
day evening, highwaymen slugsed and
robbed S. NJ Johnson in the entrance
to his store in Denver
At Colorado Springs j. p. Madden.
recently reelected city magistrate.
was stricken while at the office Of
the county clerk where he had gone TO
file new bond OF office
The carpenters union at Durango
has filed notice with the State Indus
trial Commission OF a demand for an
increase in wages from SO cents an
hour to 62k cents per hour.
One hundred miners employed at
the Fox mine at Marshall walked out
on strike because OF the refusal OF
Manager F. A. Snyder to discharge
two alleged non-union men.
The Silverton district shipped l73
cars Of ore per month on the average
during the year ending December l.
The net average monthly return on
the shipments are estimated at sl52,-
600
Highway construction by convict Ia
box made q saving OF $465,0OO to the
taxpayers OF the state during the last
two years, according to Warden
Thomas lyman of the state peniten-
tiary.
Pueblo had the biggest Christmas
in the history of the city All stores
in the city report buying greater then
ever before The b. p. O. f delivered
264 baskets to the poor on Christmas
morning.
More than 1000 persons We're turned
away from the doors of the Cathedral
OF the Immaculate Conception when
the first solemn midnight Christmas
mass in the history of Denver was
celebrated
The four reels of federal forest serv-
ice movies, recently put on tour in the
interests of education and fire preven-
tio1 by the government, will be shown
in Colorado beginning shortly after
the first of the year
The $4,000 600 mark as the value of
buildings constructed during the year
l n1 I'M ,,f 10
Christmas presents. According to the
permits issued at the city hall. the val
ue of such construction was s4,010,-
900.
ALI automobile owners who wish to
retain the same numbers in 1917 that
they have had during the past year
have been notified by the automobile
license bureau of the secretary of
| states department that they must file
| applications for their numbers before
Jan. /.
A Christmas present from the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers Asso-
citation was mailed out to the growers
when Secretary Harry B. Jones sent
the members of the association checks
totaling slnS,ooo. This pro rate covers
| all pears shipped out through the as
sociation this year and all apples up
to Nov. L.
Failing in their plan TO steal $1,000
collected in the Christmas offering at
the Cathedral OF the Immaculate Con
ception, burglars ransacked the lower
| floor of the home of Father Hugh L..
McMenamin in Denver, tampered with
a safe containing 5000 and escaped
after obtaining sacred vessel worth
$500, and all the Christmas gifts
which had been given the four priests
of the parish.
The volume OF Denver's Christmas