The Holly chieftain. (Holly, Colo.) 1897-1987, 1916-07-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

suIy Personal---very. Day OF Steam
Aug: 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. al
resentativee of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly .;
Aug 14-Coiorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs
Aug. lS-is-Pickle Day and Fair n
Aug. .22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. OF p. at Greeley.
Aug; sl-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. r s.s- lT Days celebration
Sept i5-I6-Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept 27-z9-Stats Convention d. p. .. e.
at Trinidad.
Colorado prison workers will picnic
In Washington Park in Denver, July
18th.
The county clerk at Gunnison has
issued 80 more auto licenses this year
than last.
The Delta National Guard were
given an ovation when they passed
through Gunnison.
A party from Steamboat Springs
made the trip to Denver over the new
automobile route in one day.
The Missouri Society of Denver,
will hold its annual dinner pail pic
MIC at Washington park, July Is.
Colorado will get $1,3O2,000 of the
$150,o0O.000 appropriated by Congress
for good roads in the next five years.
The Industrial Commission has de-
clared dividend to policyholders in
the state compensation insurance
fund.
The summer course at the State
Normal school, Greeley. has had so
far an enrolment of LOO in the col
lege department.
Steps have been taken to insure
concerted action OF all interests in the
preparation of the ordinance to abate
the smope nuisance in Denver.
Thomas ]. O'Donnell of Denver,
was elected president of the Colora-
do Bar Association at the annual
election held at Colorado Springs.
The clothing Of seven-year-old Vir-
ginia May Luke, of Denver, caught
fire from the candles on birthday
cake and she was burned to death.
More than 200 prominent attorneys
from all parts of the state attended
the nineteenth annual state conven-
ton Of the Colorado Bar Association
at Colorado Springs.
One promotion in the ranks of Com
pany E, Rocky Ford, las been Off
cially announced. Private Henry A.
Sullivan now Is battalion sergeant
major, with a salary of $45 per month.
An 1s-inch vein of graphite worth
from $500 to $500 per ton, has been
found on the eastern slope of siegel
mountain, about eight miles from Pit
kin, in the Quartz Creek mining dis
trict.
The head and shoulders of sacred
OK beautifully mounted arrived in
Rocky Fort by mistake and enter
tanned the curiously inclined at the
depot for day or two. The speci-
men was shipped to Earl Bennett by
mistake and was intended for the Zoo
at Colorado Springs.
After shooting and killing Abner
Lowell, 4s years old, and his son,
Hugh, IS, and seriously wounding an
other son, Frank, 16, in quarrel
over irrigation bitches. Henry Lud-
wig vas surrounded near Durango by
sheriff's posse in cabin, where
he killed himself with his rifle.
A snappy military program was
staged Sunday at the Golden rifle
range, with every unit in camp on
parade participating in drills and
other features of flag presentation
by the Sons Of Colorado. Those units
which had not received their emblems
were given state and national flags.
Mrs. Jefferson M. Snow, of Denver,
was injured, perhaps fatally, and her
husband seriously hurt, when large
automobile truck in which they were
returning to Denver from Cheyenne
plunged over small embankment,
four miles north of Fort Lupton, and
turned turtle, pinning them be-
meath it.
The Rev. Irving P. johnson, in.
structor at the Seabury Theological
Seminary at Faribault, MINI, who re-
Gently was elected bishop coadjustor
Of the Episcopal diocese of Colorado,
has formally accepted the post, sub
ject to his ratification by the stand
Ing committees and house IF hicbon,