The Elbert County tribune., 1916-12-29

jan Gitv i1-is-Poultry Show at Canon
''ai at fps,wAthletie psnvat Club boxing contests
jan 2o-27-AnnuaI western s,oo,,
Show at Denver. STOCK
fep t1on LY: -, IN, M c. a. Annual conven-
uoi at Colorado Springs.
Daniei hahoney, 6S, a 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
shoe ana seriously injured following a
quarrel with an Italian in a skating
rink.
mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Grant enjoy
'he distinction of being parents of the
only rsstmas baby in Denver in
-Four generations were represented
at the Christmas dinner given at the
home OF MIR. and Mrs. r. b. Sutton in
Denver.
The Holly Sugar Company is to
construct new factory to cost 81. 500.
900 at Delta. and to purchase another
factory at Grand Junction.
The largest gathering of children
ever assembled in Denver enioved
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 slugged and
robbed s. M. Johnson in the entrance
to his store in Denver.
AT Colorado Springs ]. 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 173
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 s152,-
GOO
Highway construction by convict la
box made saving of $465.OOO 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. e. delivered
264 baskets to the poor on christmas
morning
More than 1000 persons were 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-
tion by the government. will be shown
in Colorado beginning shortly after
the first of the year.
The s4,OO0,OOO mark as the value of
buildings constructed during the year
now passing was one of Denver's
Christmas presents. According to the
permits issued at the city hall. the val
ue of such construction was s4,010,-
900
All 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
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
tile Hltiuptio vi Nht aoooSidtioh SLCCho
totaling s1OS.000. This pro rate covers
all pears shipped out through the as
sociation this year and all apples up
% Nov. 1.
Failing in their plan to steal $4,000 |
collected in the Christmas offering at
he Cathedral of the Immaculate Con
.eption. burglars ransacked the lower
loor of the home of Father Hugh L.
dcMenamin in Denver. tampered with |
safe containing $500 and escaped |
.fter obtaining sacred vessel worth
500. and all the Christmas gifts |
which had been given the four priests
" the parish.
The volume of Denver's Christmas |
rade Is indicated by the bank clear |