The Ordway new era., 1916-02-25

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March 20-Aprl 2.-Color Retail
Merchants AssoGiation,s Food anu
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
May 23Republican State aud Third
and Fourth Congressional pistrict
Convention at Pueblo.
Fort Morgan Elks will hold fair
March Is.
r. l.. Metcalfe OF Omaha, spoke in
Denver on Washington's birthday.
Springfield citizens expect the
Santa Fe will build line to that
City.
Gustave Limprecht, restaurant
employe at Boulder, was found dead
in his rooming house.
Patrick w. Lawler. a BroomfieiG
rancher. was killed by an lnterurban
car about a mile north of Glohcvillc.
Miss Grace Mark OF Lonsmont was
seriously burned when her skirts
caught fire vale riding the rear seat
OF a motorcycle.
Mrs. Alice Wallace, 80 years old,
dropped dead from heart disease
while being fitted for a coat in Il
Denver department store.
The highest price ever recorded on
the Denver market for fat lambs,
s10.5O per cwt., was paid for two car.
loads in from Fort Collins.
A coroner's jury at Leadville de.
cided that DR.. Rider came to his death
from a gunshot wound from gun in
the hands of E. II. Sackett.
A call for the Democratic state CEN
trail committee to convene in Denver
Saturday. March 4, was issued by
Chairman Wellington Gates.
The Boy Scouts of Sopris celebrat-
ed the sixth anniversary OF their Or
ganiZation at that camp with ban
quet at the Lincoln school house.
Mrs. Margaret Osborn. SS, wife o.
Judge ". B. Osborn, died at Loveland
She was one of the first settlers al
Gold Dirt, mining camp near Cen.
tral City. in 1850.
A rosewood table used by President
Abraham Lincoln as his office desk
in the White House now stands in
the drawing room of Mrs. Clarence A.
Brandenburg of Denver.
Mrs. w. A. Osborne. SO, died at her
home in Loveland of old age Mrs.
Osborne was the widow of Judge w.
A. Osborne and was the second white
woman to locate in the Big Thompson
valley.
According to the report of the d..
rectors of the Denver Young Mems
Christian Association. 1915 was the
most successful from any angle of
any year in the history of the organ
ization.
The passing Of one bogus dollar at
Trinidad store led to the arrest OF
two men, William Riley and Jack
Diamond, both OF whom it is stated,
admitted that they have been en-,
gagged in the making of counterfeit
silver dollars.
The State Industrial Commission
awarded compensation in the sum of
$500 to Mrs. Edith Langdon of Grip.
pie Creek, whose husband, Samuel, an
employe of the Cresson Consolidated
Mining Company, died after being in.
jured in an accident in the mine.
Joseph Cuthbertson, 27. Rock
Island locomotive fireman, suffered a
broken back when both driving rods
of the engine pulling eastbound pas.
senger train No. 40 broke while the
train was running mile minute
near Siebert. in eastern Colorado. He
is in a Colorado Springs hospital.
Risking his own life to remove a
jeopardy to probably scores of 9th.
ers, Jesse B. Ronaldson 30, car.
penter and contractor, picked up a
live electric light wire on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad tracks south
of Bayaud street in Denver and a
moment later fell dead under the
shock of 1900 volts.
DR.. Bennett Graft, released on ST..
500 bail several days ago on charge
of murder, growing out of the death
OF Mrs. Ruth, Kamp at Mercy hospital
was rearrested in Denver on the or.
der of Coroner Sherman Williams in
connection with the death of Mrs.
Beulah Hatch, wife of George T..
Hatch of Longmont
The Rev. Otis l.. Spurgeon. who was
kidnapped from his hotel in Denver
after delivering religious lectures in
1914. has filed 100000 libel suit
against the Knights of Luther and
their manager. F. NJ. Shipper, accord
ing to dispatches from Des Moines.
Iowa. He represented the organiza-
ton while in Denver on speaking