Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-29
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

bAIES fOh eoMlNs tN ENIss
June s-11.-G. a, K. Encampment at
Fort Morgan.
June 16-1s.Sstate Sunday School Con
June 19-20-Strawberry Day at Glen
June 2O.-Sleeting Colorado Bank
June 25-es.-State Christian Endeavor
GonYsn3iGn at Golorna9 MesS spTb5nSy bsSyer
June I6-I7-+Meeting Colorado Post.
masters Convention at Denver
July 1-4.-Semi- Centennial iome-Com'
ing Celebration at Fort Collins
July s..Cherry Pie Day. Manzanoia. a q :,
July 22-23.-cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
July 3O.-Democratic State Convention
aug: Is-sl,- Co; Fair; IA Lamar and
Uniform Rank Encampment. Pueblo
Aug. 27.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.--Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
Sept. i-4.@A r X as Valley Fair
Sept. Watermelon Day; Rocky Ford
Sept. 2-5;-t'armers' Stockmen's
Sept. i-i-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
sept. s.Kiowa County Fair at Eads:
Sept: s-11.-Crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept. 9-1l:-GheEenne County Fair at
Sept Sept pay stase sasfr Fa city Pueblo
Sept. 15-1s.-Lincoln Co. Fair at Hugo
Sept Sept !s-2sRase Meet 5p Denysr snd Race
Meet at Limon.
Sept :2-25.-western slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 22-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept ss-2e-EI Paso Co Fair. calhan;;
1-2
Oct, s-s'mcaio.-New Mex. Fair at Du-
1sI5..Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Colorado and Wyoming Laun-
drymen's Association will meet in
Cheyenne on June Is.
Boulder is facing serious situation
in regard to its water supply as re-
suit of the heavy rains.
Struck by lightning while at work
in field near Sligo. Mrs. w. H. Nor
gan is in state of collapse.
Flurries of snow fell over Leadville
for twenty minutes Friday. while the
minimum temperature Of the day was
36.
A report that shots were fired upon
an interurban car en- route from Trim.
idad to Cokedale. is being investigated
by the federal army authorities.
Officers and members OF the Cham.
ber OF Commerce and the Real Estate
exchange are at work trying to secure
milk condensing plant for Denver.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany is preparing to spend not less
than $1,000,O00 in improvements in the
Denver division within the next
twelve months.
Seven nurses from the County Hos.
pital Training school in Denver re-
alton exercises held at the Woman's
Club auditorium.
Executing a well laid plan two
prisoners at the county Jail in Pueblo.
one of them held on a murder charge,
gained half hours freedom before
being recaptured.
Mrs. w. II. Mcclure of Denver.
whose husband disappeared three
weeks ago, has given up hope of find.
ing him alive. She fears his weak
ened condition made him unequal to
any hardship.
Fruit on $4,000 acres, cattle by the
hundreds and thousands grazing on
| the hills surrounding the valley, to.
gether with the growing products OF
the farm lands are writing prosperity
for Delta county in 1914.
Mrs. Blanche Trofler, known as
Hazel King, % years old, Denver, who
swallowed nine bichloride of mercury
tablets in the bathroom of the ma
irons quarters of the city jail, May
| 10, declaring she would rather die
than serve a sentence, died at the
county hospital.
A total of S326.S5 was disbursed by
the Woman's Relief Committee in
work done among the women and chill
dren sufferers from the Ludlow disas
ter. In cash. s132.95 was sent to the
southern fields, and in dry goods
s145.35. Expressage and incidentals
amounted to s36.5S, and special reliet
totaled $12.
Mrs. Mary Quick. so. and hei
mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, so, flirt
ed with death in Denver when a boil
of lightning struck their home at 126!
South Corona street, ripped the shoe:
from the younger woman's feet ant
stripped the clothing from her mother
inflicting severe burns on her back
The shock may result fatally for Mrs
Allen.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell of Denver, WHIT
was sent to Washington by the Law
and Order League to present its yer
sion of the Colorado strike war t.
President Wilson, gave an account o
her trip at a meeting of the organize
ton. II told the President" she said
that it was not the honest working
man we were confronting, but uniol