Gilpin observer., 1916-03-09

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May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May 1S-Democratic State Convention
| at Colorado Springs.
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver.
fsir.
The Maccabees' lodge at Frederick
is growing rapidly.
Work on Delta's sugar factory is
expected to start soon.
Plans for Loveland's new high
school are about completed.
stay of execution was granted
James G. Bulger until May 81.
The Laramie County Milk Conden
sary received an order for $500
cases.
S. A. Matthews is to have a 200
acre melon patch at Rocky Ford this
season.
| Contracts have been made at Fort
Collins to raise over 1900 acres of
sugar beets.
Sugar beet acreage in the Arkan-
sas valley is to be larger this year
than ever before.
At Trinidad the Knights of Colum.
bus initiated a class of forty-five at
recent meeting.
About 125 business and professional
| men and farmers attended a boost"
banquet at La Junta.
AT the annual meeting in Greeley,
j. f. Fezer was elected president of
the Union Colony Pioneers Associa-
tion.
The public spirited farmers of
Olathe, are putting in dollar for dollar
with the county commissioners to get
good roads.
The United British Society, com.
posed of subjects of Great Britain in
Colorado was launched at a meeting
held in Denver.
Robert NJ. Jones, well-known Den.
YER civil engineer died at Carlsbad,
N. M. His death was the result of
overwork, according to physicians.
Discoveries of rich tungsten ore
was reported by Fred Gcble. state
highway commissioner, who returned
to Durango from the Silverton dis
trict.
| Mrs. Amelie Gehrung Brocker, one
OF Denver's Oldest pioneers ano
wealthiest citizens, died of old age.
She would have been 81 years old or
April 81.
Denver machine shop owners indi
Gated that they will follow the ad
vice of their attorney and decline to
recognize Jurisdiction of the State In
dustrial Commission
Denver's camp for training men In
military tactics and life is to be open
from July 10 to Aug. 80, if plans now
being made by committee of bust.
ness and professional men are carried
out
The State Highway Advisory
Board determined that the money re.
ceived from the new half-mill road
tax levy shall be expended in the
counties in which the money is raised,
excepting Denver.
Miss Elsie Ulrich, a member of the
sophomore class of the West Denver
High School. won the arize of the
twenty-sixth annual Mary Louise
White oratorical contest, held in the
auditorium of that school.
Joseph Smitham, 76 years old, a
resident of Denver for more than
thirty-five years, died in Santa Fe, N.
NJ. of a complication of diseases fol.
lowing an attack of grip. He was
born in Cornwall. England, in 1910.
Daniel X. Wolfe, sophomore at the
University of Denver and a graduate
of West Denver High School, has
been awarded the Earl Montgomery
Cranston prize in the annual fresh
man-sophomore oratorical contest.
Two snowslides are reported along
railroads in the mountains and, as
far as heard from, no lives were lost
One of the slides was near Shoshoni
in the Glenwood Springs district. The
other was at Kildare, near Leadville
The Denham Theater building and
the ninety-nine years lease of the lots
on which 1t stands were sold in front
of the courthouse In Denver by Alex
ander Nisbet, commissioner of safety
who acted as sheriff. The property
brought $236,321.22.
There were only fifty one vacancie.
Monday in the working force of the
Leadville smelter of the American
Smelling & Refining Company. accord
ing to word received by the State In
dustrial Commission from the sheriff
OF Lake county.
From the estate OF Col. Geo. s
Newman, owner of the famous Mac
Rose farm, the State inheritance ta,
DEPARTMENT received n tax of s1t