The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-02

sept. 21-22-Agricultural a q II "
Stock Show at Holyoke.
Sept. q -29-State Convention b. r. o. T.
at Trinidad.
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
at Ignacio.
Jan. 20-27-Annual Western STOCK
Show at Denver.
Pueblo is to have a new city hall.
Brush held a successful flowcr
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 20.
Ray Stephenson, 8 years old, was
drowned in pool of the South Platte
river near Greeley.
A cowmen's reunion will be one of
the main features of the Trinidad-Las
Animas County Fair.
between 3,OO0 and 1900 took part
in the second annual field meet of
miners at Trinidad.
Work will be started shortly on
new building addition to the Del
Norte fish hatchery.
Fort Morgan made elaborate prep
arations for it's Frontier Days festi-
val Sept. 5. 6, z and 8.
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.
The Pennsylvania Club of Colorado
will hold its annual corn roast and
picnic at Washington Park in Denver
on Sept. 8.
investigations are now being made
looking toward the selection of a site
in Colorado for the governments pro
posed S20,000,00O nitrate plant.
Bad horses and good riding win
feature the first annual Frontier Day
celebration at Creede, Sept A. A
realistic western "stage holdup" will
also be staged.
Displays of fruit, farm products or
minerals for the State Fair, to be held
at Pueblo Sept IS to %, will be hauled
free by the railroads from any point
in Colorado and return.
One of the pleasant features Incl
dent to the coming of Charles E.
Hughes to Denver was an excursion
over Lookout mountain for the news
paper men with the party.
Boulder mining men recently paid
more than $500 for beautiful speci-
mems of tellurium which turned out
to be worthless pieces of Stag coated
with aluminium and copper.
L. p Leonard, an engineer, was
caught beneath an overturned clam
shell dredge bucket at the Globe
smelter in Denver and seriously scald-
ed by boiling water and steam
Colorado Springs is entertaining
more tourists this summer than the
California towns, according to A. Z.
Carlton, who returned from a three
weeks Stay on the Pacific coast
Shipwrecked twice on her honey.
moon trip in Alaskan waters and ca III
time rescued is the experience of Mrs
Karl Winchell, Denver June bride of
this year, formerly Miss Mildred
Morgan
Denver's plan to transfer the buff
falo, elk, deer and antelope from City
Park to Genesee mountain is only
part of move to create a natural
habitat for all the wild animals in
the zoo.
The body of an unidentified man.
with a thirty-pound iron weight tied,
about the neck, was found floating
in a 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 $1O6 per acre.
The passage by Congress AMI the
signing by the President of the na-
tional park service bill has caused
congratulation and satisfaction in
Estes park. The achievement is the
result of seven long years of fighting
and working.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has posted notices in various
languages at all of its camps offering