Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-09-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Sept. b-s-Boulder County Fair at
Sept. 5-s-FrontIer Day. celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. Injecting Midland Trail Assn
Sept l5-i6.Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. s7.ss-siate Convention B. r. O. E,
Sept. 2s-ao~Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian FAR
Jan. 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
The Nucla flour mill is nearly COM
pleted.
Keota is to have a new grain ele-
vator
Cabbage shipments have begun at
Brighton.
The Conejos County Fair will be
held on Sept. 20, 81 and 22.
The Western slope Fair will be
held at Montrose in October
The Boulder County Fair will be
held at Longmont Sept. to 8
Plans are made for the building OF
a road between Nucla and Delta.
A campaign for the extinction OF
magpies is being waged at Antonito'
The l. o. o. f. Lodge at Gunnison
has laid the cornerstone for its new
hall.
The San Juan Wool Growers Asso-
citation held its annual meeting at
Durango.
The Wolfe Tongue Mining Company
at Nederland is doubling the capacity
of its mill.
The Logan Mining and Milling Com
pany will construct twenty-five-ton
mill at Crisman.
Receipts of the Golden postoffice
are now sufficient to entitle that ci1
to free mail delivery.
Contract for erecting the new West
Side school building at Greeley has
been awarded at $6.4S3.
The Equity Creamery Company at
Limon has awarded contract for
the erection of its plant.
Fifty Camp Fire girls from Primero.
Segundo, Sports and Frederick en-
joyed an outing at Tercio.
Two new steel span bridger will re-
place wooden structures over Kan
nah creek in Mesa county.
E. L. Fitch of Denver. WAS elected
grand chancellor at the X. p. Grand
Lodge at the meeting at Greeley.
VIM. Rockefeller. of New York, Wis
tied in Denver. while making tour
of the Union Pacific Milwaukee rail-
roads.
f. E. Davis had on display at Ord
way a cucumber weighing 3h pounds
and measuring thirteen inches in
length.
Platteville closed the most success
full Pickle day celebration in its his
tory. The attendance was greater
than ever before.
Large shipments of ore from Silver
ton district to the Durango smelter
have required the installation of two
shifts of the sampling mill
The silver anniversary of Water
melon day" is to be celebrated by the
people OF the Arkansas valley at
Rocky Ford on Sept. to S.
Former Justice Charles Z. Hughes
and the members of his family arrived
in Denver Aug. 26 to remain in Colo
'rado till the list of September.
The Two-Forty mill. in Willis gulch
near Central City, has completed the
installation of the flotation process
and is ready for the treatment of
ores.
Early potatoes are moving from
Delta. Farmers are receiving sl.65 to
sl.75 per hundredweight t. %. b. Del
ia. The crop is running from forty to
125 sacks per acre.
Everett Jackson, of Colorado
Springs, a stepson of the late Helen
Hunt Jackson, authoress. is one of
the Americans mentioned for bravery
in French army orders.
Ramona Guerra was arrested at
Greeley on complaint of Maxsimo Gar
cia, Mexican. who complained thae
tie of whisky, likewise gun, and
gone down to the river with them.
The Wellington Mines Company has
put in an additional roaster to con-
siderably increase the capacity of its
mills which are running full time and
are making an excellent grade of zinc
ore concentrates-abou ninety tons
daily being hauled to the depot a:
Breckenridge for shipment
As her daughter was running from
the house to summon the police, Mrs
| Cora Chavers, so, was shot
and dangerously wounded by
her son Richard, 30, form
er inmate of the State Reroma
tory at Buena Vista, according to the
account Mrs. Harry Burns. his sister
gave to the police at Salida.
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