Colorado History of Christmas Traditions
The future of outdoor Christmas lighting got even brighter when, in 1914, a local Denver electrician named D.D. Sturgeon decided to dip some lightbulbs in red and green paint and string them on the evergreen tree outside his 10-year-old son's window—to boost the boy's holiday spirits since he was too sick to join the family for the Christmas festivities downstairs. But not only did the electrician's son love it, people loved it, and thanks to the coverage of a Denver Post reporter, they came from miles around (by horse-drawn carriage, of course!) to see what everyone believed to be the first illuminated outdoor Christmas tree.
-The Denver Post
The future of outdoor Christmas lighting got even brighter when, in 1914, a local Denver electrician named D.D. Sturgeon decided to dip some lightbulbs in red and green paint and string them on the evergreen tree outside his 10-year-old son's window—to boost the boy's holiday spirits since he was too sick to join the family for the Christmas festivities downstairs. But not only did the electrician's son love it, people loved it, and thanks to the coverage of a Denver Post reporter, they came from miles around (by horse-drawn carriage, of course!) to see what everyone believed to be the first illuminated outdoor Christmas tree.
-The Denver Post
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Governor Davis Waite
Davis Waite and his wife, Francis, moved to Leadville, Colorado in 1879. He worked as an Attorney in Leadville until his wife died in 1880. Then Waite and his two children moved to Aspen where he started the local newspaper the Aspen Weekly Times and started the People's Party (Populous) in Colorado.
Waite was elected Governor 1892 and he was Inaugurated January '93. His election coincided with the Panic of 1893 which hit the silver mining industry in Colorado particularly hard. In 1894, the Western Federation of Miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado went on a five-month strike and Waite intervened on behalf of the union, ordering the deployment of the state militia to Cripple Creek to support and protect the miners.
Governor Waite tried to overturn the corruption in Denver in 1894 by removing police and fire commissioners that he thought were shielding gamblers and prostitutes. The officials refused to leave their positions and were quickly joined by others who felt their jobs were threatened. They barricaded themselves in City Hall, and the state militia were sent to remove them. Federal troops were called in from nearby Fort Logan to intervene and quell the civil strife in what became known as the "City Hall War." Eventually Governor Waite agreed to withdraw the militia and allow the Colorado Supreme Court to decide the case. The court ruled that the governor had authority to replace the commissioners.
Waite signed the proclamation giving women the right to vote, the second state to do that. He was not reelected.
Christmas Ho Ho Thoughts
“Christmas is in my heart twelve months a year and thanks to credit cards, it’s on my Visa card statement twelve months a year also.”
"There are not any nativity scenes in Washington D.C because they couldn’t find three wise men."
A Christmas Thought: Stressed is just Desserts spelled backward,
Governor Davis Waite
Davis Waite and his wife, Francis, moved to Leadville, Colorado in 1879. He worked as an Attorney in Leadville until his wife died in 1880. Then Waite and his two children moved to Aspen where he started the local newspaper the Aspen Weekly Times and started the People's Party (Populous) in Colorado.
Waite was elected Governor 1892 and he was Inaugurated January '93. His election coincided with the Panic of 1893 which hit the silver mining industry in Colorado particularly hard. In 1894, the Western Federation of Miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado went on a five-month strike and Waite intervened on behalf of the union, ordering the deployment of the state militia to Cripple Creek to support and protect the miners.
Governor Waite tried to overturn the corruption in Denver in 1894 by removing police and fire commissioners that he thought were shielding gamblers and prostitutes. The officials refused to leave their positions and were quickly joined by others who felt their jobs were threatened. They barricaded themselves in City Hall, and the state militia were sent to remove them. Federal troops were called in from nearby Fort Logan to intervene and quell the civil strife in what became known as the "City Hall War." Eventually Governor Waite agreed to withdraw the militia and allow the Colorado Supreme Court to decide the case. The court ruled that the governor had authority to replace the commissioners.
Waite signed the proclamation giving women the right to vote, the second state to do that. He was not reelected.
Christmas Ho Ho Thoughts
“Christmas is in my heart twelve months a year and thanks to credit cards, it’s on my Visa card statement twelve months a year also.”
"There are not any nativity scenes in Washington D.C because they couldn’t find three wise men."
A Christmas Thought: Stressed is just Desserts spelled backward,