The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-04-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

DAbssS FOW COMING EVENTS.
April i3-Democratic state Convention
May First Congressional pistric,
Republican Convention at Colorado
April 2s-AnnuaI Convention Western
Colorado /. o. o. r. at Grand June
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
CohyentIon at Pueblo.
May 18-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 20--Progressive state Convention
In Denver.
Aug. s-DemocratIc state Assembly at
Denver.
The Grand Junction Women's Club
will offer prizes for beautifying the
city.
For the first three months of 1916
more than 100000 was invested in
Denver'c building activity.
The annual meeting for the election
Of officers Of the Denver Dumb
Friends League will be held April 20.
The fourth annual dance OF the
Denver Policemen's Protective Asso
citation will be held in the auditorium
April &c
Mrs. Margaret Rees, who was 80
years old, died of pneumonia at the
home of her son-inlaw, William
Schmidt in Denver.
Because of the high price of lead,
the American Smelling and Refin-
ing Company has increased the pay
OF all its employees.
campaign to raise $4,000 with
which an addition to the Bethel hos
pital will be built this summer was
started at Colorado Springs.
Donald McGregor. shot to death by
Villa in Minaca, Mex, is believed to
be Don p. McGregor, formerly EN-.
ployed on a Denver newspaper.
The Rev. John G. Blake, for ten
years chaplain of the Colorado Peni.
Tertiary at Canon City, died of heart
disease. following an attack of indi.
gestion.
A new athletic league was organ.
lied in Denver at meeting at the
First Baptist church. 1t will be com.
posed of representatives Of the Bap
fist churches.
With 22,054 names ON the petitions
the campaign to get signatures for
the recall OF Ben B. Jones and DR..
Clarkson N. Guyer from the school
board closed in Denver
DR.. George H. Vosburgh of Den
yer University delivered the com.
nencement address to the graduating
class of the school of agriculture at
the Fort Collins College.
Receipts from the sale Of stamps
and money orders at the Denver
postoffice for March were 1924 1917,
an increase of $6,264.OS over those for
the corresponding month of 1915.
More than 100000 acres of gov
eminent land in Colorado was taken
up by settlers during last year, &C.
cording to figures compiled in the
general land office at Washington.
The new state civil service COM
mission unanimously Endorsed the
proposed constitutional amendment,
which would take the state civil serv-
ice out of the power of the general
assembly.
Distribution of wage earners
through the free employment office o.
the United States immigration Blu
reau in Denver is meeting with unpre.
cedented success this spring Farm
positions filled in March of this year
total 1875, which monthly record was
first set in February
For having loved and lost a wooer,
Miss Ethel Grubbs of Denver thinks
she should be paid $4,000 cash. She
has submitted an itemized bill
through the Boulder courts to George
B. Sale, mining man of that city, in
suit for breach of promise, alleg-
ing breach of promise to marry.
Tired of eluding federal officials,
from whom he has been fugitive
for two years, II. e. Estes, who robbed
the Hilltop. Kan, postoffice in 1918,
gave himself up to government Off
GERS at Pueblo, where he had been ar
rested on another offense.
James B. Whalen, for many wears
district manager, with headquarters
at Leadville, of the Mountain States
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
died suddenly while in a physicians
office, which he had entered a few
minutes before to receive treatment
A clot of blood in the heart is said
to have caused his death.
Prof Cecil F. Lavell, found in Colo
RADIO Springs after being lost to him
self and the world for three years
started back to meet, in Toronto,
Canada, the wife he cannot remem-
Der. His cousin, Prof. Roy McFay
den of the University of Colorado,
identified him as the man for whom
wife. relatives and friends have been
searching the world over since Nov.
"a. 1918.
Tree planters in the West havs
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