The Ordway new era., 1916-04-21

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Republican Convention at COLORADO
April ss-Annuai Convention western
Colorado I. o. o. F. at Grand juno
April 2s-May s-Food show at Colo
rado Springs. r.,-a
May 2.-Republicnn State ana nrd i,rici
and Fourth Congressionai Dis''e'
May Is-Democrat;c State Convention
at Colorado Springs: ,,,n
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Greeley will spend $50,O0o for new
garages.
A 25-ton zinc oxide smelter is
planned for Salida.
The Craig flour mill was destroyed
by fire, causing loss of $4,000.
The contract to erect new NJ. +.
church at Brighton was let for $4,56s.
A feed mill at Gill was destroyed
by fire, the loss being estimated at
$500.
Nearly 100 cars of lambs have been
shipped from Larimer county this
season.
The Longmont Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution has been
organized. -
The proposition to increase the sal
ary of city commissioners in Fort
Collins was defeated.
A total OF 264 shipments Of liquor
were received in Otero county during
the month of March.
With 1900 acres of sugar beets
contracted for, the Grand Junction
sugar factory does not face very
dun season.
Governor Carlson has appointed
Mrs. J. b. Whitmore a member of
the Board of Control of the State In.
.dustrial School for Girls.
Rev. VIM. Organ aud Mrs. James
Williams have been appointed b.
Governor Carlson, members of the
State Board of Charities and Correc.
tions.
The highest price ever paid on the
Denver market for fat ewes was re.
corded when carload of choice ewes
marketed by ]. II. Roediger of Lodi,
sold to killers at $S.35.
The finding on the street at Colo
rado Springs Of a 16-year-old girl In
a hopelessly intoxicated condition re
suited in police raids which landed
a dozen people in jail on varied
charges.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad is reported to have reserved
with the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company tentative order for 10000
tons of steel rails to cost between ST..
100000 and $2.oOO.ooO.
Miss M. e. Meyers, manager of the
Postal Telegraph office at Rocky
Ford, was found dead in bed. She
had suffered an attack OF heart dis.
ease during the night. Miss Meyers
had been resident ot Rocky Ford
for the past twenty years.
New York and Colorado Springs
capitalists have completed plans for
the construction of a million dollar
hotel at Broadmoor, where for many
years the Casino has been one of the
pleasure resorts of the Pixies Peak re-
gion at Colorado Springs.
Miss Ethelyn Clark, stage partner
Of Joseph Howard, has told the Oma,
ha public that she is the wife of John
Halliday. leading man at the Denhan
theater in Denver. Mr.. Halliday has
refused to comment upon the reveIa.
ton, either in confirmation, denial or
in any other manner.
Evon Tull, who formerly was a
cowboy in Oklahoma and who labored
with a pick and shovel in northern
Colorado towns while he acquired an
education to fit him to work as re.
!igious instructor, wos ordained 9
priest of the Episcopal church in Den
YER.
New record prices are being made
so rapidly on the Denver sheep mar.
ket this year that one record Ia
hardly chronicled until another is
ready for the boards. The latest was
made when trainload of 3,O52
lambs. average weight seventy.nine
pounds, soid 10 packers at $11.25.
The announcement was made by
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., him
self Baptist. has ugreed to con.
tribute toward the erection of a
church, either Protestant or Catholic.
OF both. in all the company camps
where need or desire for one ia
manifest.
A search said to have extended
over a period Of several years and
covered the entire Colorado Rocky
Mountain region, ended with-arrest.
IN Beulah. Of DR.. Carey b. Crawford,
so years old on q charge Of desert.
ing hfs wife In Des Moines, Iowa. ac.
cording tor information emanatlns
from the mountain town.