The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1916-10-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

| DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Oct e.Frontier Day Celebration At
Oct. l2-Annual Poudrs Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins.
Oct. 17;ls.Mestinx Of Synod Of Pre-.
Oct 1o-Nov. 4-Meeting Colo. state
Teachers Association. ,.
Jan. 20-77-Annual Wsstsrn STOCK
Feb. 2-l-Y. n. c. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Sugar advanced Is cents per hun.
dred In Denver.
Otero county now has 600 automo-
biles as against IL in 1907.
Boulder county farmers are harvest
ing $4,000 crop of winter apples.
Railroad earnings In Colorado show
= big increase for the past year.
The Fort Collins sugar factory has
started grinding the seasons beet
crop.
On September IL Colorado banks
had deposits aggregating $57,229.'
295.12.
annual convention Of the w. c. T. U.
In Pueblo.
A government surveying party Is at
work upon the proposed road between
Silverton and Durango.
Road builders in Boulder canon last
month completed 1000 feet Of 1s-foot
roadway in the Narrows.
The last bond OF the Boulder Elks
has been paid and the lodge now owns
its fine home free of all debt.
The annual convention of the Y. M.
C. A. of the state will be held at
Colorado Springs. Feb. 2, 3. and 4.
Petitions are being circulated at Sa-
Ida for the removal of the county
seat from Buena Vista to that city.
Two hundred and fifty miners are
wanted at once t. open the radium
mines in the Paradox valley. Mont
rose county.
Leopold Loeb, 50 years old, Denver
pioneer, and one of the founders OF
Overland park. died Of paralysis at
his home in Denver.
With gain of 1861 pupils over last
year at the same period the October
registration of the Denver public
schools reveals 33,133 students.
A banquet was held in Denver I'm.
der the auspices of the German-Ameri-
can alliance to celebrate the first set
tlsment Of Germans at Germantown.
Pa.
Gen. Funston notified the War De-
partment Friday that the National
Guard Of Colorado, recently ordered to
the border, would be sent to Douglas,
Arix.
Heavy shipments of sugar beets
caused a shortage In cars. and as
result the output of the northern Colo
RADIO coal fields has been greatly cur
tailed.
]. Ham Lewis will speak in Denver
on Oct 9, William Jennings Bryan on
Oct. IA. Theo. Roosevelt on Oct. II,
and Secretary of Labor Wilson on
Oct. 81.
The retimbering of the Mikado shaft
at Leadville has been completed. New
surface buildings are being erected at
the shaft preliminary to the installa-
ton of modern operating plant.
Two machinery buildings and the
tipple at the Ryson Coal Company's
property near Colorado Springs were
destroyed by fire. Officials of the
company estimated the loss would not
exceed $4,000.
The estate left by the late Adolph
]. Fang. Denver mining man, Is val
ued at S550.000 in the petition filed In
the County Court to probate his win.
The fortune was left to the widow
and five children.
Estes Park has been transformed
from a tourist center to a building
community. There is more building
going on at the present time than
there has been in the famous resort
at any time within the past five years.
The discarding Of an old pocketbook
after he had purchased a pair OF shoes
in Denver proved the undoing of
Ralph M. Under of Cucharas. who il
being held by federal authorities on
the double charge Of robbing the post
office at Cucharas and of attempting
to pass forged money order.
Devices intended to make possible
the complete combustion of bitumin.
Gus coal and thereby remove the great
est contendins factor in abating the
smoke nuisance. are to be Installed
in . number OF Denver office buildingl
and department stores by Frank M
Ladd. superintendent Of the city bu
reau Of building inspection.
mated in Denver. Whatever the result
Of investigation relating to the pro
posed increase from to cents may
be. the nickel loaf is bound to stay
II the big bakers refuse to make 1t
the little ones win. That was thu
opinion expressed by W. r. Chryslsr