The Ordway new era., 1921-03-18
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| denly in Greeley. wnen pretty ""' N
| haired girl, 10 years old. announced on
the witness stand at the inquest that
she is Mrs. Violet Purvis, common law
wife of the late dairyman, ana that
she had been, going 10 school at Loretto
HEIGHTS academy, near Denver, at ms
request and expense. preparatory to be-
ing publicly married to him. She an
nounced that she will claim the estate
for herself and unborn child. She sald
also that before becoming Purvis wlfe
two years ago she was Violet Mickle.
an orphan. and had been housekeeper
for Purvis' mother before the latter's
death in December, 1919.
Between $50 and 300 Mexieans-
men. women and children-filling three
special cars. departed from Denver
over the Santa Fe railroad for El
Paso. Texas, where they were trans
ported across the international bridge
into Juarez, and from there 10 Mexico
City, under the direction of f, Travino'
Mexican consul in Denver. The MeNi-
cans for the most part were laborers
who were left stranded in Denver ut
the conclusion of the beet campaign in
Colorado last fall. The laborers were
without sufficient funds to get back to
their native country, and had been IN
Denver with neither money nor work
to support themselves.
Denver municipal water has returned
deficit of S2S4. .S99.0T for the year
1920 according to the annual report is
sued by City Auditor Stackhouse. The
net income for the year was S4lo,-
T44S9, according TO Mr.. Stackhouse.
and the total expenditures, including
both construction expenses and future
contracts entered though not COM
pleted, amounted to S695, ,632.96. City
officials predict that less construction
and repairs will be needed in the plant
this year, and that the deficit will be
thus overcome.
W. S. Parkison. a pioneer druggist
of Glenwood Springs, chairman for six
years of the Garfield county Republi-
can central committee and widely
known politically throughout the state,
dropped dead of apopleXy while sitting
in his home with his wife, reading. He
had not been i'll, and the first intima-
tion she had of the unexpected attack
was the sudden falling of the news
paper from his hands. He was dead
before she could reach him.
]. r. Anderson, 4S years old, was
killed when the team of horses he was
driving became frightened and ran
away on Main street at Fort Morgan.
Anderson was delivering milk to his
customers at the time of the accident,
and as the horses dashed down the
street they collided with an automobile
standing at the curb. The impact
threw him from the wagon, and as it
turned over it fell on him, crushing
him to death.
A special week, to be known as
"orange week." is to be featured in
Denver March 81 to 2S. Dealers
throughout the city will decorate their
stores with placards and banners,
while windows will contain attractive
displays of the fruit. "Orange weeks
are being held in many cities through
out the United States for the. purpose
of reminding the public of the value
and healthfulness of the golden fruit
During twenty-six of the twenty
eight days in February there was sun
shine at least part of the time, to-
falling 179 hours of sunshine, with only
two completely cloudy days for the en-
tire month in Denver, according to the
monthly meteorological summary just
compiled by Weather Forecaster ]. NJ.
Sherier. The total for January
amounted to 1853 hours, the report
shows
Three bandits entered the First Ma
tional Bank at Strasburg, with the use
of crowbar, rifled fifty safety de-
post boxes in a vault and obtained
about 500 in pennies and nickels from
the cash drawer and escaped.
The number of persons subscribing
the total of S143,92s4S raised in the
drive for funds for the Denver Fedora
tion of Charity and Philanthropy was
more than double the number that sub
| scribed last year. The total number
of subscribers in 1919 was 1000 and
1851 persons subscribed in the 1921
drive. Since the close of the drive
| $4,000 has been subscribed. Leaders
in the organization are hopeful that
the $4,000 still needed to finance the
seventy-five charities adequately will
be raised.
| The planting of 100000 trees will be
resumed this year in the Pike forest
area by E. S. Keithly, government for
ester. Should heavy SHOWS come this
month the work will necessarily be
postponed, it being impossible to form
the camp until the snow is entirely
gone. Six hundred thousand trees
were planted last year.
| There Is considerable excitement In