Gilpin observer., 1916-01-27

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Central Committee In Denver.
Feb. 16-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
Trinidad has scored forty-five booze
raids since Jan. l..
George Menzimer, forty. of Idaho
Springs, died at Georgetown.
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Cole, eighty-one
years old, died at st. Luke's hospital
In Denver.
Fourteen departments of the federal
government in Denver have removed
their offices to the new federal build
ing.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Osteopathic Associa-
tion will be held in Denver Jan. 2S
and 30.
The first case to be prosecuted in
Denver under the new prohibition law
resulted in plea of guilty and a fine
Of $100 and costs.
Gamely fighting to the last, Joel. w.
Shackelford, pioneer, real estate man
end city builder, died at the family
residence in Denver.
John L. Stewart, county commits.
sioner, died at his home in George
town of pneumonia. Mr.. Stewart was
sixty-four years old.
Mrs. Elizabeth McGerr, seventy.
resident of Georgetown since 1879. is
dead at the family home, following an
illness of two weeks.
Governor Carlson appointed M. H.
Aylesworth, member of and attorney
for the State Public Utilities Commfs'
siCn, to be it's chairman.
Richard II. Love, five years United
States revenue agent at Denver, has
been transferred by the Treasury De
partment to ST. Paul, MINI.
Investigations of the intricacies OF
a loaded toy cannon may cost George
Thompson, six years old, Of Denver
the sight of his right eye.
Jacob Ebell, Loveland youth, was
arraigned before Justice Payne and
fined s25 and costs for passing worth
less checks on local merchants.
The twenty-eighth state convention
of the Colorado Young Mems Associa-
tions will be held. at Greeley, Feb. 4 to
6. Strong speakers have been obtained
A. Solomon, eighty-six, pioneer res
ident of Clear Creek county and faith;
er-in-law of Sheriff A. E. Straub. is
dead at the latter's home in George
town.
Governor Carlson was the principal
speaker at the Rinth annual legislative
breakfast of the Central Women's
Christian Temperance Union, held in
Denver.
The annual meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Association of Municipal
Electricians, including Wyoming, New
Mexico, Utah and Colorado was held
IN Denver
Mrs. Hank Mauer of Gunnison was
in Denver resting up from the exer.
tion she says she underwent when
she horsewhipped her former brother
in-law, Herman Mauer.
A partial eclipse of the sun visible
in Denver for an hour and twenty-five
minutes will occur on Feb 8, accord
ing to Dean Herbert II. Howe, profes.
sor of astronomy at the University OF
Denver
Nine arrests involving alleged vic.
lations OF the law against selling
liquor was the result of work of
'bootlegging" squads sent out by the
police of Denver Seven arrests for
drunkenness were made.
Governor Carlson appointed Fred.
erick Goble of Silverton a member OF
the advisory board to the State High.
way Commission to succeed Charles Il.
Herr of Durango. The appointment is
for term of four years ending April
/. 1920.
A policy of preparedness In antic.
ipation of the convening of the next
General Assembly was adopted at the
session of the Colorado Association OF
County Commissioners in Denver. The
commissioners decided to pass reso
lutions on proposed legislation now SC
they could work while the General
Assembly was not in session IN put
ting their views before the senators
and representatives.
Three persons, who fifty years age
were principals in wedding cere
mony In little church in Centra
City, met Sunday at the home of MIR
and Mrs. Edward c. Hughes in Den
yer and celebrated the golden ami
versary of the occasion. They wer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes and the Rev. B
T. Vincent, Methodist Episcopa
minister, who joined them in matrI
mony half century ago.
Reports indicating substantial prog
ress in the establishment OF elevators
warehouses, factories and creamerie
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