Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

Oct. 3O-Nov. 4-Meeting Colo. State
Teachers, Association. ~
Jan. 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan, so-s7.Annual western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ c. A. Annual conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Over $4,000 Denver voters are reg
istered.
Over 11.6OO automobiles are owned
in Denver.
There is talk of incorporating the
town of Miner.
Grand Valley Community Fair will
be held Oct. 27.
Florence is agitating the question
of a Carnegie library.
Fire destroyed the Eliopulos Gro
Gerry at Grand Junction.
Two concrete bridges are to be con.
structed in Boulder this month.
Seven acres of cabbage grown near
Tracyville netted the owner $1,77O.
The postal savings department OF
the Denver postoffice has $515,O00 de-
posits.
The Colorado Pioneers will give
banquet in Denver Oct. 26, at Ell Jebel
Temple.
About $4,000 voters registered and
can vote at the coming general elec,
tion in Denver.
A $780, ,OG0 dividend was declared by
the Portland Gold Mining Company at
Colorado Springs.
A four.year-old son of Nick Baron
of Lafayette lost three fingers in a
dynamite cap explosion.
Receipts of stock at the Denver
yards so far this year have exceeded
the totals for the year 1915.
Mrs. Helen Pullman of Denver was
elected head of the Rebekahs at the
annual meeting in Denver.
Concrete work on the new plant oil
the Nuckolls Packing Company at
Pueblo has been completed.
About dozen persons were Ill after
participating in the Methodist Church
Brotherhood dinner at Greeley.
Shipments Of cattle from the Tel
luride and Placerville region this fall
will aggregate about 5000 head.
Twenty-four acres of land near Fort
Lupton produced an average of $22S
per acre in tomatoes this season.
Hayden Bros. Coal Company pros
pectors discovered a ten-foot vein OF
coal near the railroad track at Kra
mer.
The Longmont-Lyons road will be
shortened by 400-foot cutoff to be
constructed through the Peterson
ranch.
The Fort Lupton milk factory has
paid out to the farmers of that vicin
ity over s15O,00O for milk during the
past year.
The federal government has been
asked to subscribe si6,500 to aid in
the building of the Arapahoe pass and
Ward-Nederland roads.
James NJ. Osborne. 67. a pioneer
Denver shoe dealer, died in Butte
Mont, after a short illness. He had
lived in Denver since 1879.
Colorado soldiers doing duty on the
Mexican border will not be able tc
vote at the November election, in the
opinion of Attorney General Farrar.
The Silver Ledge at Chattanooga
under the management of Mrs. l.. Bon
ivida. under a lease, has again Joined
the list of shippers and recently sent
two carloads of ore to the Durango
smelter.
The discovery of the skeleton of
ui, htr in, ta HriFt
the bank Of the Arkansas river, fiji
teen miles east of Pueblo, has led tc
its Identification as that of Mary Pc
dolpich, IA years old, who was drown
ed two months ago while wading.
L. T. Erwin of Fairbanks. Alaska,
United States marshal for the north
ern district of Alaska, arrived at
Canon City having in charge a WON.
an prisoner under three years sen.
tence for robbery, for incarceration
in the Colorado state penitentiary.
Three weeks ago miners working on
raise 29O feet from the main tunnel
level on the Capital mine in the
Georgetown district uncovered a streak
of ore two and one-half feet wide, all
first class. which ran by assay 1,390.41
ounces gold, or over s27.S00.
Amid impressive services, Colorado
Odd Fellows in Denver conferred up
on Frank C. Goudy of Denver grand
sire of the order, the grand decora.
ton of chivalry, which the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows bestowed
upon him in convention recently in
the East. Nearly 1000 members of
the state grand lodge witnessed the
ceremonies.
The enterprising leaser has taken
the place of outside capital in the