Cheyenne record., 1917-09-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
stern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

County Fairs.
sept. 1s-21"Cheyenne County at chey-
Sept: ls-21.-western Slope at Mont
Sept: 2o-as-Pine River Valley Fair at
Sept; ;2o-22-Phillips County at Hol-
Sept sS-2s-colorado New Mexico at
Sept 25e2s.-MeetinE State women's
Club Federation at Boulder.
sept; Pt, S5,Ss-Las Animas County at
Sept. 2s-2s-Annual Fair at calhan.
sept 26-29.-Yuma County, at Yuma.
Sept. 27-2s-Grand County at Kremm-
Oct. a:5-K. Carson County at Bur-
Colorado field hospital on way to
Minneola, L. I. ...-...
De Los L. Holden, first mayor OF
Pueblo, is dead.
Weld county will ship 5000 carloads
Of potatoes this year.
The Las Animas county draft quota
of 331 men is now complete.
Two 16-year-old girls walked from
Dodge City, Kan. to Pueblo.
The Apple Pie celebration at Rifle
was a big success in every way.
The Oak Creek base ball team has
won eight of the nine games played.
The second big drive in Denver's
smoke prevention campaign is under
way.
The engine room OF the Empson
Canning plant at Mead was destroyed
by fire.
Craig sent big box of good things
to eat and smoke to the members of
troop G, Camp Baldwin.
The largest acreage Of broom corn
and beans ever planted in Baca coun-
ty will be harvested this fall.
The first carload OF honey to be
shipped by the Colorado Honey Pro-
ducers' Association left Ordway.
A new road will be built from the
south side of the Yampa river at
Craig to the Wise hill on Williams
fork.
The wheat yield in Baca county has
gone beyond all expectations. In some
localities yields of twenty bushels are
reported.
! Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, wife of the
Chicago multimillionaire packer, ID
planning to erect a summer home at
Glenwood Springs.
/ DR.. Victor c. Anderson was elected
president of the Colorado School Of
Mines at a meeting of the board of
trustees held In the office of the gov
ernor at salary Of $4,000 year.
Twenty cooks, among them some of
the most expert chefs in Denver. de-
parted for Camp Funston, Fort Riley,
Kan. to serve the soldiers now in the
cantonment.
district No were certified for SER
vice in the national army when the
appeal board at the state house sent
Its latest list of qualified men to the
adjutant general.
One hundred and seventy-six acres
Of seed beets were cut by hand in one
week in the Loveland sugar factory
district. There will be enough beet
seed raised in the state this year for
all the states needs.
With one day short because Of La
Dor Day, the bank clearings in Den
yer reached a new record for the year
in the week ending Sept 7th, with a
total OF s17,O59,Ss7.42. as against $11.-
5S1, ,250.30 for the corresponding week
last year.
Edward 8. Roller. late vice presi-
dent and general manager Of the Col
orado & Southern railroad, left an
estate valued at approximately $40.-
900. according to a petition presented
to the County Court In Denver by his
widow, Mrs. Abigail H. Roller
In response to a call that a man
had tainted at the Union station in
Denver. Charles Peck. driver Of the
police ambulance, made a record run
and found that the prostrated man
was dead and was his own father.
Frank L. Peck, 7e years old, Of EN-.
pire, Colo.
Stations for testing aeroplane en-.
gines at different attitudes are soon
to be established in Colorado, and an
aviation school and important base
can be secured for this state II the
business and commercial interests get
busy and submit proposals for site
according to word from Washington.
! Women are to have an equal chance
with the men as guides In the Rocky
Mountain National park. Their recog.
milton has been evidenced by the is.
suance Of licenses as nature guides
to four women by Supervisor L. c.
Way. A quartet Of applicants were
examined and all passed the tests.
Thirty thousand people were on the
Fair Grounds at Rocky Ford on the
last day of the Arkansas Valley Fair
On melon day 210,o pounds of water