Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-31

May 1.-First Congressional District
Repnblican Convention at Colorado
April 26--Annual Convention Western
Colorado 1. o. o. F. at Grand juno
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May 1s-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 20-ProSressive State Convention
| in Denver.
Aug. S-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Colorado City is to have a cleanup
day.
More streets are to be paved at
Fort Collins.
Bean culture is new pursuit for
San Luis Valley farmers.
A new X p. lodge is to be insti-
tuted at Greeley in April.
| The President has appointed Min
nie Johnson postmistress at Cortez.
Arvada citizens have raised $4,000
for. improving the road from Denver
to Boulder.
Evelyn Nesbit disappointed a big
audience, being unable to appear in
Colorado Springs.
The annual convention of Western
Colorado Odd Fellows will be held at
Grand Junction, April &C.
Two hundred people joined in the
search for w. B. Denton, who disap-
peared from Colorado Springs.
The Rio Grande drainage district
expects soon to realize money on
bonds, thus reducing the tax.
An appropriation of over 100000
has been made to improve the Rocky
Ford beet sugar factory and farms.
The State Supreme Court will hear
oral arguments on the medical bill"
passed by the last Legislature on
April IL.
Business interests in Salida are be.
hind a movement to move the county
seat of Chaffee county from Buena
Vista to Salida.
A reduction in insurance rates of s
per cent on business properties and s
cents per 100 for residences is prom.
sed Sterling after next month.
Tom Walton, of Fort Collins, plead
ed guilty to numbering Walter Urlley
last fall, after the case had been called
and the jury selected to try him.
Bolus Bolus. years old. and Leon
Schultz, 12. were killed in Littleton
by the caving in of large sand bank
in which they were digging caves.
Approximately 100000 will be spent
by the county of Ell Paso on its roads
this year, according to an announce
| ment by the county commissioners at
Colorado Springs.
Ten thousand dollars is the value
fixed on her pretty ankle by Miss
Hulda Johnson of Denver in a suit
filed against DR.. Nathaniel A. Thomp-
son in the District Court.
L. Irving Thayer. of Denver, was
granted an interlocutory decree of di-
vorce. He charged his wife, Caroline
Cooper Thayer, a second cousin OF
former Governor Cooper, with deser-
tion.
Senator Shafroth recommended
Lew F. Allen to be postmaster at Lit
Teton. Allen recently was named by
the Democratic voters at Littleton in
primary election as their choice for
the vacancy.
Mrs. Samuel Hazlett and Mrs. L. j.
Short have been credited as delegates
from Denver to the eleventh annual
convention of the Navy League of the
United States, to be held in Washing
ton, April 10 to 1S.
The advisability of requesting that
a special district judge be called to
Denver to hear exclusively prosecu-
tions under the prohibition law is be-
ing considered by the Colorado Anti.
Saloon league.
Peace in Mexico will depend upon
the ability of Gen. CarranZa to or
ganize his government on the basis
of sound financial responsibility" said
Bishop +. J. Mcconnell of the Metho.
dist Episcopal church upon his return
from Mexico City to Denver. UNLESS
the Carranza government can estab.
lish financial stability in the republic
revolution of serious proportions
may be precipitated at any time ana
the troubles of Mexico will be in
definitely perpetuated."
Sweeping with cyclonic velocity
along the eastern slope of the Cont
mental divide in Colorado, from south
ern Wyoming, where 1t blew an eighty
hour gale, a destructive windstorm
that struck Denver Tuesday morning
reached a maximum Of forty-six miles
| an hour during the day, destroying
buildings in the course of construc.
ton, swapping telegraph poles, dis.
mantling chimneys and furnishing
many narrow escapes from serious in.
jury to persons caught in the path OF
| flying glass from store fronts.
Mrs. Odele Overton Brown, who