Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-05-26
COLORADO,
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR coM.Nc EVENTS.


June 22-25-Colo. Christian Endeavor
Convention. at Greeley.
aug. National Convention OF Rep-
resentatives of Negro Race at Den
Aug. 8-Democratlc State Assembly al
Denver
Lodge *. of r.. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-s-F'rontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
La Junta citizens will celebrate
July 4th.
Greeley bank deposits are close to
S3,OOO,O00. ....
Fort Collins city officials face
cut in salary.
The Boulder County Tungsten Pro
ducers' Association has been organ
lied at Nederland.
lacking the new railroad line to
Nederland.
o. l.. Smith of Denver who died
few days ago. left an estate valued
ut $3S,O0O.
Mr.. and Mrs. 6. A. Young of Fort
ding anniversary.
An organization has been formed to
boost the Fort Collins Chautauqua,
which opens July 2.
Kremmling citizens will hold a
meeting May 27 to discuss plans TO
build new school house.
Ten-year-old Sam Provenza is sus-
pected of staying his mother, Mrs.
Comet Provenza, of Trinidad.
The opening of the trout season
May 25, has caused the usual ad-
vance demand for fishing licenses
The national convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen will be held in Den
yer June ).
Renewed interest in mining in Lari,
mer county has followed the discov.
cry of ore which assays rich in sill
yer by men in search of tungsten.
Mrs. Geraldine Croft Drinkwater,
divorced wife of DR.. Ray l.. Drink.
water, and Leslie l.. De Remer, we'll
known Denver clubman, eloped to Lit.
Teton and were married.
Colorado is to celebrate its fortietb
The Sons of Colorado Society plans a
big pageant and festival for the OBJ.
servance of the anniversary.
The American Railway Association
which includes in its membership all
the railroad lines in the United
States and Canada, will hold its an.
nual convention next November in
Denver.
Three Denver meat companies were
implicated in the confession made by
Ernest II. Pettigrove, former invoice
clerk for Swift and Company, charged
with conspiracy and theft of heats
valued at $4,000.
oresta Da Vella, Italian consul who
recently filed suit against Jean Mig
nolet, Belgian consul. and others in
Denver, to recover $1,000 for alleged
irregular sale of Wyoming oil stock,
has dismissed the case.
The county commissioners at Fort
Collins appropriated $1,000 for the
county fair at Loveland. OF the ad-
vertising FUND they gave Fort Collins,
500; Loveland, $500; Estes Park,
S75.
German citizens residing in the
Denver consular district have been
urged to observe strictly the laws OF
Colorado by the German ambassador
in Washington through DIR. Kurt
Ziegler, imperial German consul at
Denver.
At the ten-day conference of the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church at Atlantic City. the Rev. DR..
John Marquis, president of Coe Col
lese, Iowa, was elected moderator, Ell,
der w. F. Evans OF the Peoples Pres,
byterian church of Denver was
chosen one of the elders for the as.
sembly communion service.
In anticipation of call to arms,
which he asserts will be received by
the Colorado National guard within
sixty days. Capt. Charles II. Doak OF
Company l. of the state militia has
initiated a movement among Denver
business men for the raising of a
fund to provide for the wants of sol.
diers' families while brothers, sons OF
fathers are at the front
A police search which. starting in
Denver five years ago, extended over
the entire West, ended at San Bern
ardino, Cal, with the arrest Of Roy V.
Smith, Jr.. who, in 1911. fleeced Den
yer commission merchants out of
sums aggregating $4,000 by procur-
ing from them cash advances on car
load lots of grain which he repre-
sented, he had consigned TO himself
in Denver from points in Utah.
Alleging that she was locked in the
city ''bull-pen" among vagrants, and
kept there nine hours, compelled to