The Ordway new era., 1919-09-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.

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Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept 8
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. 3
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. o.
Moffst County Fair. Maybeli. Sept IL
Pi.tesu Valley State Fair. coibran.
Bsea County Fair Springfield. Sept.
Trinidad-L.s Anima. County Fair.
cone1os County Fair. Manassa. Sept
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma, Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
saguache County Fair. Saguache. Sept.
colorndo-New Mexico Fair. Durango.
coloiado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Grand Junction. Sept 80 to Oct. 8.
Dousias County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. 7-S.
One hundred and twenty summer
students at State Teachers College at
grees at the commencement OF the
summer term of the college.
Werner r. Reed, late Colorado phi
lanthropist, was worth 5,TI7,91O.53
when he died several months ago. This
valuation of his estate is fixed by an
inventory filed in the County Court by
Mary Dean Reed, his widow and ex-
ecutrix Of his estate.
The Oakdale Coal Company WAS
charged with negligence and held re-
sponsible for the disaster at the Oak
view mine on Aug. IS which caused the
death of eighteen in the verdict of the
coroner's jury returned at Walsenburg
following an inquest that consumed the
entire day
There will he an abundance Of deer
for Colorado hunters during the four
day open season of oct. 1 TO 4, inclu-
sive, This fall, in the opinion of Roland
G. Parvin, state game and fish com
missioner, who returned from an ex-
tenslve trip through the game sections
of the state.
About 10000 navy victory medals
will be issued by the Denver navy re-
tTuliiIG StdtlOH 10 Iieil WIZ sdN StlN-
ice during the war. These medals
should be ready for distribution about
Nov 1, according to Lieutenant Com
mander w. p. Brown in charge of this
station.
Charles William Reed, who would
have been 91 years Sept l. died at
Longmont of complication of dis
eases Mr.. Reed came to Colorado in
1850 and settled at Black Hawk. He
made and lost fortunes In mining and
was one of the leading figures In Colo
RADIO mining for years.
The l.. Hertle clothing store at Gold
en-, the only exclusive mems store in
Golden, was robbed of $1,000 worth of
clothing by automobile bandits The
robbers broke in the back door and
took eighty pairs of trousers and 1SO
SUITS most of which had Just been re-
ceived for the fall trade.
A paving project to cost $IOO.6OO
and provide hard surfaced highways
through Colorado Spring from north to
south and from east to west has been
indorsed by the Colorado Springs An-
tomobile Club and doubtless will be
submitted W tHt Noteib Ut speSih'
election to be held next month.
The total acreage of rye planted in
Colorado for the 1919 harvest was ap-
proximately 185,OOO acres, compared
with little more than $4,000 acres In
1900 Yuma county is ColOradO's ban
ner rye growing county, with 29,O5l
acres, or nearly twice as much as was
grown i'm the state In 1909
School children to the number of
$4,000 in the state of Colorado. and
teachers to the number of 5000, nre to
he supplied by the State Fair Commits
sion with free admission tickets to the
fair grounds at Pueblo, Sept. 26.
Reports of county assessors showed
more than 100000 acres of grain
sorghums being raised in Colorado this
year, compared with 1871 in 1909. In
addition to the grain sorghums there
is approximately 100000 acres devoted
to sweet sorghums, grown for forage.
Due to the large increase in the
acreage of government land which has
been homesteaded during the previous
| year and the increase in mining valua-
tions, the total assessment in Montrose
county exceeds the valuation of 1918
by S1,26o,120, according to the COM
pleted compilation made by Assessor
G. w. Clarke.
Mrs. Marie Reynolds of Pine Bluffs,
Wyo., was held up and robbed of $50
in cash and a travelling bag containing
Il considerable amount of clothing one
mile south of Greeley, by two armed
highwaymen. The Greeley police
have arrected Greeley farmers son,
who, Mrs Reynolds believes, was one
of the two men who robbed her
Rolling down the hillside with the
| velocity of 81 cannon hail n huve horl-