The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-08
Colorado Fair Date. for 1918

SOiOh8uO Dateo AWAOs
Aug. ls-2o.-Island Grove Driving Club.
Greeley.
Aug 24-27.-Bent County Fair Associ-
Aug IS Effort Collins Racing Assoc
citation. Fort Collins.
Aug. 3l,,sept. s;-Arkansas Valley Fair
Aug, s1-sept. 3,-Larimer County Fair
Association, Loveiand.
Sept. 7.1o.-tcrowiey County Fair As
ISOLATION. Sugar city
sept 7-Io.-st Vrain Valley Fair As
sociation. Longmont.
Sept. 13-ls.-tolorado state Fair ASSo-
Sept 2i.-Trinidad-Las Animas Co.
Fair Association. Trinidad
Oct. 2-s.-colorado Agricultural ran
and Racing Association, Denver.
Denvers cleanup and paint-up cam
paign started Monday.
A ban has been placed on secret
divorces in Denver.
A car load of horses left Montrose
for the European battle fields.
Twenty acres of phosphate ground
near Ouray has been filed upon
A midnight blaze at Grand Junction
destroyed three ID. & X. G. cabooses-
Walter E. Lowey, Boulder cab
driver, was run over and badly in
jured.
Salida citizens are raising $1,000
fund to improve the Mount Tender
foot road.
A Ranch OF the National Order of
Cowboy Rangers is being organized
at Greeley.
Fire completely destroyed the home
Of NJ b. Thorp in Grand Junction and
all its contents.
Extensive improvements and re-
pairs are being made on the Sterling
sugar factory.
A contract for twenty-four-foot
road from Manitou to the top Of Pixies
Peak has been let.
The fifth annual Trinidad-Las Ami
mas county fair will be held in Trini'
dad Sept. q, %, % and "a.
The Nontrose Cooperative Cream
cry Company has been reorganized
and is running full blast.
Tom Mckee. of Loveland. marketed
five car loads OF lambs on the Den
yer market a $1,000 per cwt.
\ live stock specialist Will probably
be secured to aid in the development
of the uneompahgre project.
Hotchkiss capitalists have organized
a company for the purpose of install
ing and operating creamery.
Flames inflicted a loss of more than
$4,000 to the Twenty-third Avenue
Presbyterian church in Denver.
Francis NJ. Redington, a pioneer
resident of Denver for the last thirty
years, died from nervous prostration.
Placer gold which is said to run So
to the yard is being washed from the
earth on the Miers Fisher ranch in
North Denver.
NJ o. Pruitt, a former resident of
Longmont who was well known in
Boulder, was killed in an automobile
accident at San Diego. Cal.
The Central Colorado Poultry and
Pet Stock Association held meeting
in Salida to plan for the annual
poultry show on Jan. 11-16.
Congressman and Mrs. C. B. Tim
berlake, accompanied by DR.. C. P.
Fall. brother of Mrs. Undertake.
itit oltlilns lOf NtD., W mere
Mr.. Undertake will undergo an oper-
alton
A party OF 40 grocers from Ohio
spent two days in Denver en- route to
the California expositions. The WISH
tors engaged automobiles and drove
to many of the scenic points in the
city and vicinity
Plans are formulating for a farm
pageant. a new and striking feature
in Connection with the meeting of the
International Dry Farm Congress and
its allied organizations in Denver
from Sept. 30 to Oct. 9.
Mrs. Linnie Turley, wife of Vail
rurley, former dead" man. was re-
leased from the county Jail in Denver
after she had entered plea of nolo
contendere to the charges of taking
part in the conspiracy to defraud in
surance companies through the al
legged death of her husband
The Mesa Verde Coal Mining Co.
is the title of new organization eff
fected by John r. Sapp. The prop
erty embraced is located about two
miles above Crested Butte and has
been under development for the past
year. now showing one or more veins
of fine anthracite coal.
Blown twenty feet into the air by
the premature explosion of a dyna-
mite charge, in the Boyer lime quar-.
ry at Wellsville, Charles B. Burton
escaped without injury as direct re-
suit of the explosion. but was serious
ly hurt in his fall to the earth. Three
of his ribs were fractured and he was
in iured internally