The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-08
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Yestern N.wspaper Union News serylee.

National Society at Denver.
Aug. i9-22-County Fair and Race
Meeting Al Lamar.
Aug. 2S = Barbecue by Territorial
Daughters of Colorado. near Little
Aug, 25.-Conference of Governors at
Aus, @s9 55tsSsMeesing sRFsefIi of Philippine Ma
tional Society, at Denver.
Aug. 26.t-Knights of Pythlas Grand
Lodge hneeeting at Trinidad.
Aug: 2S.-Pumpkin Pie Day at Long
Aug. -29.-County Fair and Race
Meeting at Las Animas, -
august % Pickle day, at Platte-
Sept 1.--Tomato Day at Fort Lupton,
Sept. 2-4t.-shan kive Indian Festival
sept 2-5.ILarimer County Fair at
Sept 2-5.Ecounty Fair and Race
Meeting a Rocky Ford.
Sept 3-5.-Wild West Show at Fort
Sept. 6.-second Annual Fall Festival
Sept s-s.WMeeting of Royal High
Sept, 11,-Mesa county Industrial
and Fruit Fair at Grand Junction.
Sept ,9-11.-Weld County Fair at
Sept. s-f2-county Fair and Race
Meeting at Sugar City. , =.
Sept. 9-12.-Las Animas County Fair
Sept. 1I-I2-Eighth District w. C. T.
U. Convention at Denver.
Sept. 16-19-Western Slope Fair at
Sept. I5-2O.-colorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
oct. I.s-state w. c. T. U conven-
ton at Fort Collins.
oct 2-4.-Sedgwick County Fair at
Oct. 7-12SMeeting Society of Ameri-
can Indians. at Denver
Oct 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct 80. Nov. 1-Colorado Kennel Club
Show at Denyer:
19I5,SLast Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
Jacob Swetzer, seventy-seven years
old, resident of Colorado since 1860,
died at Georgetown.
Crops which will surpass anything
in the states history are to be Colo
RADIOS portion for 1913.
Three thousand men will be en-
ployed at the lnion station to handle
the crowds coming into Denver for the
Templar conclave.
Physicians are not able to explain
the early spread of typhoid fever
which has broken out in Denver
month ahead of it's usual time this
year.
Tourist travel into Colorado from
Teaxs this season is thrice that of
any preceding season, and the in
crease is largely due to the activity
of the Trinidad Chamber of Com
merce.
The International Phypogeographic
excursion, consisting of seventy-five of
the most noted plant specialists in
Europe and America, will spend ten
days investigating the natural vegeta-
tion ON Pixies Peak.
The annual Arkansas valley fair to
be keld in Rocky Ford September 2,
8, and 3, will be the biggest and
best since the movement was inaugu-
rated, according to Lewis Swink, presi-
dent, and George NJ. Hall, secretary.
Four million fry of rainbow trout
and 100000 of the native variety
will be placed in the streams of the
state by State Game and Fish Com
missioner Shinn. The distribution
VIII be made from seven hatcheries.
William j. Biercamp, former presi-
dent of the Germania State bank of
Denver, who disappeared more than a
month ago, following a series of mat
rimonial difficulties, is in Chicago and
asserts he will never return to Den
yer.
The oldest pioneer present at the
Colorado Day celebration in Denver
was Eugene X. La Vale, ninety-six
years old his last birthday. His back
is bent and his blue eyes dimmed but
his mind is as clear as it was forty
years ago.
Hurled from the back OF a burro
which she was riding down a noun
tain near the balanced rock, Miss
Jane Going, society girl of Birming.
ham, Ala, was seriously injured at
Colorado Springs. The girl struck
sharp stone with her chin and cut a
frightful cash in her throat, causing
great loss of blood.
An accidental turning on OF gas
without suicidal intents will be the
claim of attorneys for the late Will
liam l.. Clayton, former insurance com
missioner, who died July 23, in an eff
fort to enforce the payment of more
than $4,000 life insurance that he
carried. 1t may be shown also that
the gas burner in Claytons room was
defective.
The mystery surrounding the ident-
ity of the man found drowned in the
Grand river near Glewood Springs sew
eral days ago, is believed to have been
cleared by statement made by Mrs
Bertha De Wolfe, the Denver mani
curist, whose photograph was found
on the dead mans body. He is be-
lieved to have been George Leroy,
solicitor for Chicago picture enlarg-
ing house.