The Colorado statesman., 1917-08-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Aug. 25-Pickle Day at Plattev,iiee5; ,,nn p.
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OF Khorassan, at Colorado Springs.
Sept. 3-7-Frontier Day celebration at
Fort Morgan.
Nov. 5-11-Denver Auto Show.
County Fairs.
Aug. 2s-sept. l-Prowers County at La
Aug. 29-s1-Larimer County at Love-
Aug. 2s-s1-Crowley County at Sugar
Aug 81 Sept. Farmers Fair at Fow-
Sept 4-7-Boulder County at Longmont:
Sept. 4-7-Arkansas Valley at ROCKY
Sept. 6-s-sedgwick County at Jules
Sept. fi-14-Logan County at Sterling.
Sept. lS-2l-Cheyenne County at chey-
Sc pit. @ is-21Mwestern slope at Mont
Sept. i7-22-colorado State at Pueblo.
Sept. 2o-22-Phillips County at Aoi-
Sept 25-2s-Colorado New Mexico at
Sept, 25-29-Las Animas County at
Sept. 26-2S-El Paso County at calhan.
Sept. 27-29-Grand County at kremm-
Oct 2-5-Kit Carson County at Bur-
lington.
The Crowley county fair will be held
Aug. 81.
Flour prices dropped zoe per 100
pounds Aug. IA in Denver.
Mrs. Julia Quirk, pioneer Pueb-
loan, died at the age of S5 years.
Several Colorado men obtain Off
GERS commissions at training camps.
Fourteen Pueblo men were given
commissions at officers training
camps.
In various counties the women are
rapidly enlisting in state auxiliary
branches of the National Guard.
1t will take 5000 refrigerator cars
to move the crops of the western slope
in 1917, according to G. S. Kelch.
Announcement was made of the call
ing off of the Pixies peak automobile
races, scheduled to begin on Sept, s.
The movement started by the retail
clerks to have all stores in Denver
closed at o'clock was indorsed By
the Trades and Labor Assembly.
Nineteen employees in the Denver
postoffice have already enlisted in the
regular army and the draft has taken
six more, none of whom will claim ex-
emption.
The United States Department OF
Agriculture, in its report states Colo
radios sugar beet crop for this year
is considerably above the average of
the country.
Ell Paso county's crops may go to
waste for want of harvest hands
Farmers are clamoring for men to
handle the crops, which are now ready
for harvest.
Twenty-Five thousand Coloradoans,
in the greatest patriotic demonstration
ever made in Denver, met the Colo
RADIO contingent from Fort Riley on its
homecoming.
Acting under instructions Of Attor
ney General Gregory, United States
Marshal Burris revoked all commits
sions to employees of industrial con.
Germs as United States deputy mar
shals
The late Harriet Wolcott Vaile left
an estate valued at approximately
$4,000, according to preliminary es
Inmates embodied in petition which
accompanied the filing of her will in
the County Court in Denver.
The officers in charge of the Arkan-
sas Valley fair, Wild West carnival
and Watermelon day have about com
pleted all arrangements for the annu-
al event at Rocky Ford which attracts
the attention of everyone in the West.
The threatened strike of ESQ men in
the Harris mine, twenty-five miles
west of Steamboat Springs, was avert
ed when the company met substantial
| ly all the demands of the miners re-
garding the checkweight system and
increased wages.
Strict enforcement of the several
anti-premium ordinances was launched
by the City of Denver, and the initial
case, directed against the United CT
gar Stores Company, was won when
Judge Henry Bray fined that concern
$40 in Police Court.
More than 5000 acres of vacant
land adjoining the San Isobel forest
in southern Colorado have been set
aside by the federal government as
stock driveways under the act of Dec.
IS, 1916, by Secretary Lane, according
10 dh announcement made by M. ID.
Mclnerny, chief of the land office in
| Denver
The formal opening of the fourth
quadrennial session of the Supreme
Camp of American Woodmen colored,
was held in the Auditorium in Denver
with more than 1000 persons present
The delegates were welcomed on be-
half of the negro citizens by the Rev.
d. E. Over and on behalf of the city
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