The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-08-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Aug woman's Party Conference
~ Colorado Springs
Aug. lt-Grand Lake Yacht Races
Aus. lt-Colorado Federation Of LABOR
meeting at Colorado Springs
aug. n-is-Pickls Day AM Fair ~
Aug. 2I-CeIebration Of the opening Of
the new State Highway between De'
Norte and PagOsa Springs. at Du-
Aug. z-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. os r.. at Greeley
Aug. 3i-sent. Apple Pie Days AZ
Sept. S-s-BouIder County Fair at
Longmont.
Sept. t-s-Frontler Days celebration
Sept Injecting Midland Tran Assn
Sept. lS-Is-irarvest Festival at Num-.
sept q estate Convention BIZ E.
There are 34.26l motor cars In
Colorado.
Governor Carlson has announced
his candidacy for second term.
Four hundred horses and two car
loads OF mules have arrived at the
Golden guard camp.
Many stockmen met at Glenwooc
Springs to formulate plans for op-
posing the proposed herd law.
Officers OF the grand castle of Col
orado Knights of the Golden Eagle.
will meet in Denver, Aug. 10 and II.
There are now 500 Denver house.
maids enrolled on the books of the
Domestic Workers Industrial Union.
A Union day picnic, at which it is
planned 10 bring 1000 union men and
women together. is being arranged
for Aug. 90. at Glacier Lake.
Colorado was forty years old on
Aug. l, and in all parts of the state
the birthday anniversary was cele-
brated with elaborate public affairs.
The biggest electric show ever
given in Denver will be held the first
week in December, according to plans
which are under way by the elec-
tricians.
Julian H. Moore was selected as
candidate for the office OF judge OF
the Juvenile Court OF Denver at the
primary election Of the Denver Bar
A transfer of mining claims invOlv.
ing some 400 acres of patented
ground and at least tl.OO0,0OO in val
ue, is under consideration in the Grip
pie Creek district.
The market value Of silk" socks
from sawdust In the
United States in 1915 is said to equal
the total appropriation for administer
ing the national forests.
Colorado will receive this year $50,
$50 for highway improvements out Of
the $5,oO0.0O0 appropriation recently
made by Congress, II the state puts
up like amount.
The Woman's Republican League
OF Colorado held an executive commit,
tee meeting at the league headquar.
tiers in Denver and elected Mrs Julia
E. Killam president.
Persee Allen Bobbitt of Grand
county, who was on trial at Little
ton, charged with having illegally
purchased horse in Grand county
was acquitted by the jury.
The second annual basket picnic
for the blind and their friends was
held at Washington park in Denver
under the auspices of the United
Workers for the Blind of Colorado.
The government safety-first train
will arrive in Denver the morning Of
Aug Z and will be on exhibition or
the tracks in front of the Union sta
ton on that day and the following
day.
Whitefield and associates, who re
Gently purchased the Charles Porter
lease at the sixth level of the c. o,
d. mine, in Poverty gulch, are mining
ore of high average grade from the
stope of the main c. o. d. vein.
A plan to reach the North pole and
explore the Arctic regions by means
of modern aircraft was announced by
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic ex-
plorer and claimant to the honor OF
having first reached the North pole,
who is in Denver.
Miss Meta Lawrence, school teacher
at Monte Vista, who was awarded ST.
100 by the County Court in Monte
Vista in suit brought by her against
John Wertz, whom she charged with
slandering her. was made defendant.
in-error in writ of supersedeas ap
piled for in the State Supreme Court
Senator John Shafroth of Colorado
was called from Washington to Fay
ette, Mo-, by the death of his brother
Col. William Shafroth. Col. Shafrotn
was - years old and was unmarried
Recently he distributed his property
estimated at 100000, to his employees
the poorer people of Fayette, the
towns churches and TO the county's
road fund.
The Jane Jefferson Democratic
Club will celebrate the fifteenth an
niversary of the founding Of the cluf
Aug. 12. A banquet will be given IL