The Lovington leader., 1916-10-27

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Oct 3o-Nov. <-Meeting Colo. state
Teachers Association.
Jan. l.s-Poultry show at Denver.
Jan. 30.1-Annual wsstsre STOCK
SHOW at Denver.
Feb. 3-<-Y. NJ. G. A. Annual Couvsn-
tion at Colorado springs
Over $4,000 Denver voters are reg
is,ered.
Over ii.COO automobiles are owned
In Denver.
There is talk Of incorporating the
town Of Miner.
Two concrete bridges are to be con
structed In Boulder this month.
Seven acres OF cabbage grown near
Tracyville netted the owner $l.770.
Strasburg will soon have a new sta
tion. freight house and stock yards.
The postal savings department oi
the Denver postoffice has $4,000 de
posits.
The Colorado Pioneers will give
banquet In Denver Oct. &c, at I'll Jebel
Temple
A fouryear-old son OF Nick Baron
OF Lafayette lost three fingers In
dynamite cap explosion.
Mrs. Helen Pullman Of Denver was
elected head Of the Rebekahs at the
annual meeting In Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. J. Burns cele
brated their golden wedding anniver
sary at their home in Denver.
Twenty.four acres OF land near Fort
Lupton produced an average OF $22s
per acre In tomatoes this season.
The Colorado Synod of the Presby
terian church held its forty'fifth an
nual session at Grand Junction.
The LongmontL Lyons road will be
shortened by 400foot cutoff to be
constructed through the Peterson
ranch.
The Fort Lupton milk factory has
paid out to the farmers OF that yicin
ity over $l5O,OOO for milk during the
past year.
The first checks for this season s
beet crop were mailed out to growers
in Weld county Oct. Is, and amounted
to about $4,000.
The federal government has beer
asked to subscribe $46,5O to aid ir
the building of the Arapahoe pass ane
Ward. Nederland roads.
Work has been started on the con
crete bridge to be built across thu
Goodhue lateral at Boulder on thu
main highway to Louisville.
Fifty floats will parade during tht
Home Products festival Oct. 2S. &C
cording to reports made at a meetini
OF the general committee OF the Man
ufacturers' Bureau held in Denver.
Word was received in Denver from
the Episcopalian house Of bishops tina
the Rev. Irving p. Johnson OF Fair
bault, Mimi. will be consecratet
bishop OF Colorado In Denver, Jan. l
1917.
Colorado" will be the name OF on
Of the four new dreadnOughts author
ICED for the coming year, according
to an announcement made at Wash
ington by Acting Secretary Of tn
Navy Roosevelt.
From freighting in the old days Il
prominence in politics was the caree
of Christopher c. Gird. so years old
Colorado pioneer, who died in Den
yer. Death was due to old age. II
had been ailing for five years.
| A report Just made by the Postol
flee Department shows that there ar
now 902 postoffices in Colorado
which are divided into classes as 70
lows: First class, S; second class
%; third class, SO; fourth class. 7S(
A thorough and far.reaching prob
into the illegal traffic OF liquor i
Denver and into the methods en-
ployed by the various authoritie
charged with the enforcement Of tn
law, was begun by the Denver count
grand jury.
The discovery Of the skeleton OF
young girl buried in the driftwood o
the bank Of the Arkansas river. fl
teen miles east Of Pueblo, has led I
Its Identification as that OF Mary P,
dolpich. II years old. who was drowl
ed two months ago while wading.
l.. T. Erwin OF Fairbanks, Alask,
United States marshal for the nortl
ern district OF Alaska. arrived ,
Canon City having in charge a won
an prisoner under three years SCI
tence for robbery. for incarceratio
In the Colorado state penitentiary.
Reports received from all over tn
country and from various parts OF tn
| otdtc VI SOtOId duO IuuINdtC tuut u o
rious "car shortage" exists on ali line
OF railroad throughout the country.
Colorado this shortage is caused b
an exceptional demand for cars Il
the movement of banner crops 4,
grain, fruit, potatoes and other farl
products.
Wallace Barrett, manager OF Il
Denver branch Of the Barrett Br
theirs, New York and Chicago cul
brokers, who failed recently. and WI
are being sought by police and feder
authorities for alleged fraudulel
stock manipulation. was arrested on
charge Of embezzlement. He was Ia
en- before Justice Rice in Denver ar
released on 5000 bond.