The Holly chieftain., 1916-05-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

June 17-Nineteenth annual Strawber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
June 22-25-Colo Christian Endeavor
Convention. at Greeley.
Aug. 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary Of Statehood, at
Aug National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly At
Denver
Aug. 1s-19-Pickle Day and Fair at
Platteville.
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention, Grand
Lodge X. Of r.. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
La Junta citizens will celebrate
July 4th.
Greeley bank deposits are close to
100000
Governor Carlson spoke at Holly on
Law Enforcement"
The Mesa Verde National park is
now open for the summer season.
The Holy Name Society of Denver
will hold an outing at Dome Rock on
Decoration day.
o. L. Smith of Denver who died
few days ago, left an estate valued
at $4,000.
Denver has been asked to Join in
celebration of national preparedness
day on June 3.
The Boulder County Tungsten Pro-
ducers' Association has been organ
lied at Nederland.
Mr.. and Mrs. 6. A. Young of Fort
Collins celebrated their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary.
An organization has been formed to
boost the Fort Collins Chautauqua,
which opens July 2.
Kremmling citizens will hold
meeting May 27 to discuss plans to
build new school house.
The Woman's Relief Corps of the
G. A. R., at Pueblo presented twen-
ty-four-foot flag to the county.
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 S.
The Cascade Tungsten Company,
with capital stock of $1,250,000, was
Incorporated to operate in the new
: tungsten district In San Juan county.
Reports from Canon City fruit-grow
ing sections indicate that the damage
from the recent frost has not injured
the crop as badly as at first thought.
One hundred and fifty fathers and
sons attended the banquet at The Y.
NJ. G. A., given under the auspices of
the Boys Club of that institution at
Pueblo.
W. R. Howland, chief deputy i'll the
Denver treasurer's office, reports that
$741,O1S in taxes have been received
by the office during the first sixteen
days Of collection.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, militant
English suffragist, told of remark
able conditions existing in England as
result of the European war to
large audience in Denver.
A chapter of the Kappa Sigma ma.
tional social fraternity has been
granted to Gamma Chi, a local organ
ization of the University of Colorado,
and will be installed June 2.
An exciting construction race is
promised between the Denver G. Salt
Lake and the Denver, Boulder &
Western railroads to get extensions
into Nederland in the tungsten dis.
trict.
Three Denver meat companies were
implicated in the confession made by
Ernest H. Pettigrove, former invoice
clerk for Swift and Company, charged
with conspiracy and theft of meats
valued at $4,000.
The government, which controls
the Rittman process of extracting
gasoline, has given the Midwest Re.
filming Company permission to expert
ment with the process upon its pro
duction of oil.
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.
While he was at the top of pole
at Dry Lake, near Boulder, adjusting
transformer, John Bisland, a gradu-
ate of the School of Mines at Golden,
was instantly killed when $4,000 volts
passed through his body.
The county commissioners at Fort