Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-01
Newspaper Union News Service.

ho'cioiu 10 piePhi ihS " S'h "'c'
900 bonds to build light plant.
Revival services are being held in
the Methodist church in Florence.
The Loveland Canning Company is
preparing for the 1916 campaign.
1t is predicted that the beet crop
in Colorado this year will be big
one.
A site has been purchased in
Colorado Springs for million-dollar
hotel.
w. e. Kramer has organized
company TO operate the Keno mine at
Ouray.
Four were bruised when Chns.
Crooks touring car turned over near
Pueblo.
Fort Morgan's Frontier Days cele
bration this year will be held Sep
tember 5-S.
DIR. John C. Tatmar, mayor of Oak
Creek, Colo. died suddenly of heart
trouble at Boulder
The weather conditions of the past
week were boon to farmers
throughout the state
Work on the new building of the
Broadway Christian church at Pueblo
will be begun about June l.
Edward o. Spiese. 23, young
farmer from New Mexico. ended his
life with carbolic acid at Rocky Ford.
The Greeley City Council has voted
to purchase $1,000 of the city's bonds.
thus saving a large sum in interest.
The Rev. Joshua l.. Gravett, pastor
of Galilee Baptist church in Denver,
celebrated the quarter-century ami.
versary of his services as pastor OF
that church.
The transcontinental railroads
through their vice president and traf-
fic managers, have offered to make a
number OF important adjustments in
Colorado freight rates.
News was received from Washing
ton that favorable report had been
made by the public lands committee
en- the Kent bill to establish a ma
t'onal park service bill.
w. Z. Mcclure. % years old, bar
ber at Golden, was found dead in his
employers barbershop. A coroner's
jury fixed the cause of his death to
be an overdose of whisky"
That her husband stayed at home
too much and that he was a nuisance
about the house. are charges made
by Mrs. Alice S. Eubank OF Denver
in the trial of her divorce suit against
a man s. years OF age.
At meeting of the State Board
OF Pardons, the case of Gerrit J.
Van Wyk, a Hollander who. was SEN
fenced to the State Penitentiary for
life on the charge of having muir
dered his sister-in-law, Gertrude
Hast, will be heard
w. A. Deuel.. former superintend-
ent of the Union Pacific and former
general manager of the Moffat rail-
road, died at Mercy Hospital in Dem
yer. where he underwent an opera
tion. Mr.. Deuel. was 10 years old and
was born in New York state
A postponement of the case of So
phia Gertrude Chellew, alleged widow
OF w. S. Stratton, has been denied by
Judge w. p. Kinney. in the County
Court at Colorado Springs. The court
also denied petition made by at
torney for Mrs. Chellew for an allow
ance from the Stratton estate for ex-
renses in bringing witnesses to the
city for the trial.
What was at first heralded as the
tapping OF an oil gusher and what
nay yet develop into the location of
oil sands of paying quantities was re-
ported from the No - ranch, six
miles north of Fort Collins. Boiled
down to the cold facts. the well drill
ers on the ranch have tapped at a
depth of ninety-sevcn feet a strata of
oil sand which has given a decided
trace" of crude oil.
George Adams. the Romany king
got his bride back in Denver. His
S25,O0O damage suit against her par-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Cruz, who
Adams claimed held his wife a pris-
oner, after he had paid them 81, 700
Tor her, was settled out of court.
Mrs. James Williams has been
elected president of the State Board
of Charities and Father William
O'Ryan has been made vice presi.
dent. The board has ordered that
uniform system OF bookkeeping be
put into use in all of the state char
table institutions.