The Ordway new era., 1916-10-13

byterian Churches at Grand Junction
Oct; so-Nov. NEEDING Colo. stat'
Teachers Association.
Jan. 2O-27-Annual Western STOCK
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. 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 ~ in 1907.
Boulder county farmers are harvest
ing a $4,000 crop Of winter apples.
Railroad earnings in Colorado show
a big increase for the past year.
The Fort Collins sugar factory has
started grinding the seasons beef
crop.
On September 12 Colorado banks
had deposits aggregating s57,229,'
295.12.
Over $50 delegates attended the
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
it's fine home free Of all debt.
The annual convention of the Y. NJ.
C. A. of the state will be held at
Colorado Springs, Feb. 2, 8. 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, SO years old, Denver
pioneer, and one of the founders OF
Overland park, died of paralysis at
his home in Denver.
With a gain of 1861 pupils over last
year at the same period the October
registration of the Denver public
schools reveals 33,123 students.
A banquet was held in Denver un.
der the auspices Of the German-Ameri'
can alliance to celebrate the first set
tlement Of Germans at Germantown,
Pa.
Gen. Funston notified the War De
partment Friday that the Nationai
Guard of Colorado, recently ordered tt
the border, would be sent to Douglas
Aris.
Heavy shipments OF sugar beets
caused shortage in cars, and as a
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. 27.
The retimbering of the Mikado shaft
at Leadville has been completed. New
the shaft preliminary to the installa-
ton of a 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
J. Zang, Denver mining man, is val.
ued at $550,000 in the petition filed in
the County Court to probate his will
The fortune was left to the widow
and five children.
Estes Park has been transformed
from tourist center to 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 pair of shoes
In Denver proved the undoing OF
Ralph M. Linder of Cucharas, who is
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.
ous coal and thereby remove the great.
est contending factor in abating the
smoke nuisance, are to be installed
In number of Denver office buildings
and department stores by Frank M.
Ladd. superintendent of the city bu-
reau of building inspection.
The scent loaf will not be elimi-
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 it,
the little ones will. That was the
opinion expressed by w. R. Chrysler,
of the Retail Grocers' association.
Breaking all yearly records in the
past, the postal receipts at the Dem
yer postoffice for the twelve months