The Ordway new era., 1916-03-31

MAY l'SFirst concressional District
Republican Convention at c"'oraoe
April ss-Annual Convention Western
| tion. e
and Fourth Congressional DistrNe'
Convention Mt Pueblo.
May ls-Democrat.c State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 2O-ProEressive state ConHeh'io"
In Denver.
| Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Colorado City is to have a cleanup
day.
More streets are to be paved at
Fort Collins.
Bean culture is new pursuit for
San Luis Valley farmers.
A new X p lodge is to be insti-
tuted at Greeley in April.
The President has appointed Min
ME Johnson postmistress at Cortez-
Arvada citizens have raised $1,000
| for improving the road from Denver
to Boulder.
Evelyn Nesbit disappointed big
audience, being unable to appear in
Colorado Springs.
The annual convention of Western
Colorado Odd Fellows will be held at
Grand Junction, April &c.
Two hundred people joined in the
search for w. B. Denton. who disap-
peared from Colorado Springs.
The Rio Grande drainage district
expects soon to realize money on
| bonds, thus reducing the tax.
An appropriation Of over 100000
has been made to improve the Rocky
Ford beet sugar factory and farms.
The State supreme Court will hear
oral arguments on the medical bill
passed by the last Legislature Oh
April II.
Business interests in Salida are be-
hind movement to move the county
seat of Chaffee county from Buena
Vista to Salida.
A reduction in insurance rates of s
per cent on business properties and s
cents per 100 for residences is prom
ised Sterling after next month.
Tom Walton, of Fort Collins, plead
ed guilty to numbering Walter Urlley
last fall, after the case had been called
and the jury selected to try him.
Bolus Bolus, 9 years old. and Leon
Schultz, u, were killed in Littleton
by the caving in OF large sand bank
in which they were digging caves.
Approximately 100000 will be spent
by the county of El Paso on its roads
this year, according to an announce
ment by the county commissioners at
Colorado Springs.
Ten thousand dollars is the value
fixed on her pretty ankle by Miss
Hulda Johnson of Denver in a suit
filed against DIR. Nathaniel A. Thomp-
son in the District Court.
E. Irving Thayer, of Denver, was
granted an interlocutory decree of al
vorce. He charged his wife, Caroline
Cooper Thayer, second cousin OF
former Governor Cooper, with deser-
tion.
Senator Shafroth recommended
Lew F. Allen to be postmaster at Lit
tleton. Allen recently was named by
the Democratic voters at Littleton in
a primary election as their choice for
the vacancy.
Mrs. Samuel Hazlett and Mrs. E. j.
Short have been credited as delegates
from Denver to the eleventh annual
convention of the Navy League of the
United States, to be held in Washing.
ton, April 10 to 13.
The advisability of requesting that
a special district Judge be called to
Denver to hear exclusively prosecu-
tions under the prohibition law is be.
ing considered by the Colorado Anti.
Saloon league.
Peace in Mexico will depend upon
the ability of Gen. Carranza to or
ganize his government on the basis
of sound financial responsibility" said
Bishop F. J. Mcconnell OF the Metho.
dist Episcopal church upon his return
from Mexico City to Denver Unless
the Carranza government can estab.
lish financial stability in the republic
a revolution of serious propol tions
may be precipitated at any time ana
the troubles Of Mexico will be in.
definitely perpetuated.'
4 Sweeping with cyclonic velocity
along the eastern slope of the Cont
mental divide in Colorado, from south
ern Wyoming, where 1t blew an eighty
hour gale. destructive windstorm
that struck Denver Tuesday mornins
reached maximum Of forty-six miles
an hour during the day, destroying
buildings in the course of construc.
ton, swapping telegraph poles, dis.
mantling chimneys and furnishing
/ many narrow escapes from serious in.
jury to persons caught in the path Of
flying glass from store fronts.