The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

VeT.
County Fairs.
Sept. 1s-21-Cheyenne County Mt Chey-
enne Wells. -.
Sept. 1S-21.-western Slope at Mont
Sept 2o-22-Plne River Valley Fair at
Sept. 2O-22-Phniips County at Hoi-
Sept. 25-2s-colorado New Mexico Mt
Sept 25-2s-Meeting state Womens
Club Federation at Boulder.
Sept. 25-29-Las Animas County AT
Sept 26-2S-AnnuaI Fair at Calhan.
Sept 26-29.-Yuma County, at Yuma.
Sept 27-29-Lincoln County at hugo.
Sept. 27-2s-Grand County at hremm-
Oct. 2-5-Kit Carson County at Bur-
Nov. 6-s-Live Stock Show 1T Grand
Junction.
An Olney farmer has 75-acre bean
.ield.
Trinidad wants an up-to-date pack
ing plant.
Denver's vice cleanup campaign is
under way.
Sugar company commences opera
tion of recently purchased railroad.
Farmers of Durango district appeal
to Hoover for assistance in market
Ing crops.
Thieves and "yeggmen" in Denver
In one night burglarized home and
a jewelry shop and blew safe.
Beaver Park now has about $4,000
cherry trees, of which it is estimated
sc, 900 are in various stages of bear
ing.
A sugar manufacturer declared in
Denver that by Oct 1st there will be
drop in price of $1.50 per cwt., whole
sale.
Cornerstone of the courthouse to
be built for Moffat county and which
Is to cost $4,000 was laid at Craig
by Masonic officials.
Plans for new drive in the cru
sade against disorderly houses and
alleged red-light districts in Denver
have been formulated.
The Y. M. c. A. is maintaining
full force Of workers at Fort Logan,
Camp Baldwin, Camp Gunter and at
Golden and the rifle range.
Mrs. Tinsley Smith of Denver, mas
received word that her brother, David
G. Allen, a surgeon in the United
States navy, has been killed.
The first shovelful of dirt was
turned by ]. H. Thatcher on the site
where the new Thatcher fountain will
be erected in Denver City Park.
The Jewish religious year opens
this season on Sept. 16. The day is
called Rosh ha Shana and is observed
not as civil but as a religious fes
tival.
Denver will open its department for
the sale of Ignite coal at cost to
families of moderate means Sept. 18th.
The sale price is to be $415 ton
delivered.
The Royal Highlanders held their
seventh national convention at Den.
yer. More than 200 delegates from
seventeen states represented 10000
members.
The next movement to Fort Riley
of part of Colorado's quota for the
new national army will comprise 1905
men. including approximately 144
from Denver.
Miss Prudence Sparks, a 16-year-old
Denver girl, was found bound and
gagged and lying, on the floor in an
unconscious state in the home of heI
sister in Greeley.
The Fourth Avenue Congregational
Church in Denver has ten of its mer
enlisted in the army, among whom IL
DR.. T. w. Hopkins, captain of one OF
the ambulance units.
Ambulance Company No. 80, com
posed of five commissioned officers
and 119 men, left Denver for Camr
Dodge, near Des Moines, Iowa Capt
4. M. Hopkins is in command
A. Fields of Springfield, has ninety
acres of broom corn that will make
twenty tons or more, and fifty acrea
of maize and other stuff. That will
mean anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000
Activity in the Routt county coal
fields along the line of the Moffat
road has increased SO rapidly recent
ly that the road is now hauling over
$500 tons daily over the Corona hill
When the manufacturers convention
called by Governor Gunter convenes
in Denver at the state capitol on
Sept. 18th, it is hoped that those in
attendance will be from every nooh
and Granny in the state.
A Colorado member of the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers will
be named to confer with the Denver
Motor Club committee recently ap
pointed to investigate why Colorado
highways continue to remain in such
deplorable condition.
William Bruno, Mexican, who shot
and killed his former wife, Mrs
Santos Romero Bruno, while in
jealous rage, during the latter part