The Colorado statesman., 1916-12-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. S-ll-Nlnth Annual Poultry Show
Jan; 11-1S-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan; 2o.-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan, 2o-27--AnnuaI western Stock
Show at Denver
| feb. 2-4-Y. NJ c. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
The organization of an associated
charities is under consideration Ut
Montrose.
The city of Trinidad now has two
combination motor fire trucks in
operation.
Daniel Mahoney, 6S, a veteran mail
carrier died at his home in Denver of
pneumonia.
The rural delivery route has been
established between Greenwood and
the Rye district.
The Elks lodge of Fort Morgan has
purchased property, upon which to
erect club house.
The laboratory of the Empire Zinc
Company, located southwest of Canon
City, was destroyed by fire.
The first electrically driven alfalfa
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Broadacres farm near Wilson.
The postoffice at Greeley will enter
the first class. The total receipts will
run over $4,000 for the year.
Surveyors are at work on surveys
of the new state road through Golden
Gate canon to Black Hawk.
Holiday spirits of the liquid kind
led thirty-nine men into Police Court
in Denver on charges of drunkenness.
Earl Langley, IS, of Pueblo, was
shot and seriously injured following
quarrel with an Italian in a skating
rink.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Grant enjoy
the distinction of being parents of the
only Christmas baby in Denver in
1916
Four generations were represented
at the Christmas dinner given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs r B. Sutton in
Denver.
The town trustees of Palisade are
considering the purchase of twenty
seven lots on Main street to be used
for park purposes.
The total disbursements of the
Grand Junction sugar factory to beet
growers for the 1916 season will be
approximately $4,000.
The Holly Sugar Company is to
construct new factory to cost 81 $780,
600 at Delta, and to purchase another
factory at Grand Junction.
The city commissioners of Pueblo
have announced that Colorado mate
rial will be used for the construction
of the new city hall and auditorium.
Word was received at Brush of thu
arrest in Kansas City of Chester
Northfleet and Henry Ernst IN connec-
tion with the recent holdup of the
Stockman's Bank
The carpenters union at Durango
has filed notice with the State Indus
trial Commission of demand for an
increase in wages from SO cents an
hour to 621a cents per hour.
One hundred miners employed at
the Fox mine at Marshall walked out
on strike because of the refusal of
Manager f. A. Snyder to discharge
| two alleged non-union men.
Highway construction by convict Ia
box made saving of s465,OOO to the
taxpayers of the state during the last
two years, according to Warden
Thomas lyman of the state peniten-
tiary.
More than 1000 persons were turned
away from the doors of the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception when
the first solemn midnight Christmas
mass in the history of Denver was
celebrated
The four reels of federal forest serv-
ice movies, recently put on tour in the
interests of education and fire preven-
tion by the government, will be shown
in Colorado beginning shortly after
the first of the year.
A Christmas present from the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers Asso.
citation was mailed out to the growers
when Secretary Harry b. Jones sent
the members OF the association checks
totaling S10S,000. This pro rate covers
all pears shipped out through the as
sociation this year and all apples up
| to Nov. l.
Failing in their plan to steal $4,000
collected in the Christmas offering at
the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ception, burglars ransacked the lower
floor of the home of Father Hugh l..
McMenamin in Denver, tampered with
safe containing $500 and escaped
after obtaining sacred vessel worth
$780, and all the Christmas gifts
which had been given the four priests
of the parish.
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