Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-09-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING; EVENTS.

Stock Show at Hoiyoke.
Sept. 27-:s-State Convention B. P.o. E
Sept. 2S-3O-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Far
Jan. s2o-27-Annual western stock
Show at Denver.
Pueblo is to have new city hall.
Brush held successful flow>r
show.
The town of Grover is to be incor-
porated.
An amusement park is planned for
La Junta.
Many new granaries are in course
of construction near Virgins.
Canning factories at Fort Lupton
are busy with beans and pickles.
Cheyenne County Fair will be held
at Cheyenne Wells on Sept. 20 to III
A campaign is on at Trinidad TO
raise $4,000 for the annual county
fair.
A cowmen's reunion will be one Of
the main features of the Trinidad-Las
Animas County Fair.
Work will be started shortly on
new building addition to the Del
Norte fish hatchery.
Fort Morgan made elaborate prep
arations for its Frontier Days festi'
val Sept. 5. 8, 7 and s.
Preparations are completed for the
holding of the Western Slope fair AZ
Montrose, Sept 20, 81 and %.
The town board of Ault is consider
ing the purchase of a new engine AMI
pump for the Ault water station.
Improvement work on Madrid Res
ervoir No. 3, part of the Trinidad
water system, is nearing completion.
Charles Evans Hughes made 4
speech at Estes Park on Thursday
morning before leaving for Loveland.
A Sioux Indian village will be an
attraction at the Agricultural and
Live Stock Show at Holyoke. Sept.
21-23.
The Pennsylvania Club of Colorado
will hold its annual corn roast and
picnic at Washington Park in Denver
on Sept. 3.
Funds are being gathered for the
construction of a memorial hall on
the Chautauqua grounds at Boulder.
to cost $1,000.
At a special election at Fowler
Sept. IL will be determined the quea-
ton of a bond issue of $4,000 for the
erection OF school building.
Farmers north of Wray are consid-
ering the formation of an organiza'
tion to prosecute prairie chicken hunt
ers, who invade their premises.
Recruiting officers of the United
States army at Pueblo received
seventy-eight applications for admis-
sion during the month OF August.
Canteloupe shipping is in full blast
in Otero county. Twelve hundred
cars is the estimated output of the
season in the Rocky Ford district
The funerals of ]. W. Arasmith,
his wife and daughter, who were
killed in an auto collision with a train
at Cozad. Neb., were held at their
home in Golden.
The Elberta peach season at Pals
ade promises bountiful returns 10 the
growers on account of the compare.
tive scarcity of that fruit in other
parts of the country.
Displays of fruit. farm products or
minerals for the State Fair, to be held
a. Pueblo Sept. Is 10 %. will be hauled
free by the railroads from any point
in Colorado and return.
Colorado Springs is entertaining
more tourists this summer than the
California towns, according TO A. L.
Carlton, who returned from a three
weeks stay on the Pacific coast.
Mrs. Florence Fowler of Englewood
identified the body of a man founi
floating in a lake near Englewood as
that of her father, C. L. Bull. Bull
is believed to have committed sui
eide.
The body of an unidentified man,
with a thirty-pound iron weight tied
about the neck, was found floating
in small lake on the ranch of Harry
4. Snow, two and one-half miles east
OF Englewood
The City of Greeley will purchase
1000 feet of steel twenty-inch pipe
to replace the damaged water mains
Of the city water supply in Linder-
mayer Lake district two miles north
est of Fort Collins.
Rasmussen brothers. five miles
southeast of Longmont, secured 236
sacks of seed peas from fourteen acres
of ground. After paying for the seed
threshing and all other expenses, tho
crop netted S106 per acre.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has posted notices in various
languages at all of its camps offering
rewards aggregating $4,000 for infor-
nation leading to the arrest and con-