The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-30
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Dates for Comma Events.
'estern Ne wspaper Union News Service.


Sept. 2-5-county Fair and Race
| Meeting at Rocky Ford.
'9ePt. ;S-5.-Wild West Show at Fort
Sept. 4-5.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
| sept. 6:-Second Annual Fall Festival
Sept p andas. S.s.GiMeetlng = of Royal High
Sept 326.-Mesa County Industrial
senf afd erpit e Fair at Grand JUNCTION at
SEPT; Rcat9.12 tg9z12.-ceunty Fair and Race
ST; Fort MorgaR MorSan county '- .,
;, Sept 11-12-Eighth District w. C. T.
9, So Stonvention at Denver o5ou
SEPT: Western Slope Fair at
Sept. u 19.-Annual Masonic Meeting
Sept. 52O.-colorado state Fair at
Sept. -26-Colorado New Mexico
Fair and Indian Carnival at Du-
Sept. 1926 = Trinidad-Las Animas
county Fair at Trinidad.
sept. ~ -2S.-Bankers Conventio1 at
Sept. 29,SO-Inter- County Fair at
:. Oct. .f.s-state w C. t. U. Conven-
Oct. 24.-sedgwick County Fair at
Oct. 2-4NEi Paso County Fair at Cal
! han.
Oct; 7i12;-Meeting Society of Ameri-
can Indians. at Denver
Oct; 2l.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo
Oct. 3o.-Nov. Colorado Kennel Club
Jan 24,@National western Stock
19l5-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians. Denver
Colorado is to have an official good
roads day in October.
Tracklaying has commenced on the
line between Craig and Steamboat
| Springs.
Mayor J. M. Perkins of Denver, who
is surgeon, performed an operation
for appendicitis ON his own son, Earl,
aged 19 years.
The case OF H. H. Bernard against
Queen Anne" Bernard at Craig for
divorce resulted in hung jury. Two
| jufymen out of six stood out for Mrs
Bernard.
Fred Klinefelter, thirty-one,, for
several years a trusted clerk in the
employ of a drug company in Denver,
was arrested, charged with embezzle-
ment.
T. ]. Faires of Rocky Ford has re-
ceived the contract for the new Elks'
home to be built at the corner of Elm
avenue and Ninth street this fall. The
contract price is $20,403.
The Supreme Court will, on Sep.
tember s, hear arguments for and
against commission government and
b. October it is expected that the
court will hand down it's decision.
To rope and hogtie a large beay
bear was the unusual experience OF
Clarence and Aaron Mckee and Jas.
hcRae of Collbran while crossing
Cannon Flat on Battlement mesa
Three hundred seventy-thfee cars
of genuine Rocky Ford cantaloupes
shipped from Rocky Ford in the first
week of the 1913 season sets the rec
ord for the history of the industry.
Theodore Salelli, Italian section
boss, held on recommendation of
the coronef's jury for the murder
of Mrs. Marie Decker, cook at the Hay
wood section house, fourteen miles
from Fairplay, was released under $500
bond
That the potato crop of the Greeley
district has been damaged not to ex
ceed two per cent. was the statement
made by DR.. H. A. Edison of the United
States Department of Agriculture and
DR.. Hans w. Wollenweber, his col
league in the government service, just
prior to their departure from Greeley
for Carbondale.
State Senator Thomas II. lies en-
tertained at his immense stock ranch
in Axial basin at Craig. People from
all over northwestern Colorado and
| dozen or more from Denver, Fort Col
Inns and Boulder attended the big bar
hecue and dance in the senator's huge
| hayloft. 1t is estimated that fully
200 couples were on the floor. The
dance is an annual affair
On warrant charging misconduct
in the Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs, Francis w. Keller, thirty-two
year old, president of a brokerage
! firm of Denver, and Mrs Jacquana
Russell, thirty, wife of Thomas Rus.
sell of Chicago, were turned over by
the Denver police to constable from
Colorado Springs. They were held
several hours in the city Jail.
In order to take advantage of the
present low water in the Gand river,
the secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the reclamation service to be,
gin at once the construction of the
| diversion dam for the government
high line canal at Grand Junction. The
dam will be located above Palisade,
and it's estimated cost is $375,0O0. The
completed project will cost between
$4,O00,OO0 and $5,OO0,OO0. 1t will wa,
ter about $4,000 acres of land.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Maurice Ray.