The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-23
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Larimer ri ne County Fair Loveland' Aug.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept.
20
Arkansas Valley Fair, Rocky Ford.
MerEan County Fair, Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair Hayden. Sept. 3-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. g.
Delta County Fair. Hotchlsiss, Sept, g.
Adams County Fair. Brighton, Sept. g.
Moffat County Fair. Maybell, Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair colbran'
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair,
Trinidad, Sept. 1919.
coneJ2s County Fair. Manassa' Sept
Western Slope Fair Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair Yuma. Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair Holyo<e' Sept
saguaehe County Fair. saguache, Sept.
cGseP9dosEsw sePe' saIsS Mexico Fair Durango
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
InterMountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction, Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. 7-9.
BY removing a glass in window,
thieves gained entrance to the French
Electric Cleaning shop at La Junta,
and made away with number of fine
dresses and several suits of clothes.
According to advices by w. p Ella,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish n
branch dehydration plant at Grand
Junction.
Restoration of the pinto bean indus
try in eastern Colorado by placing an
import duty on Japanese beans, which
have demoralized the market for pin
tos, is to be asked of Congress by bean
growers of Weld county.
That the war on prairie dogs, inaug
urated in La Plata county last spring
and which still is being waged, has
been fruitful in results, is the an
nouncement of G. w. Boyd, field fore
man of the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey.
Grasshopper hill, the site of Denver's
proposed Presbyterian hospital, was
sold to the organization committee of
the Hospital Association for $4,000,
according to announcement by Frank
n. Briggs, chairman. Work on the
erection of the building will begin next
year
Waunita is certainly coming to the
front, as one of the leading resorts
in Colorado. The popular resort is at
tracing hundreds of visitors this year,
twice the number of last year. Fish
ing has been remarkably good and
there have been numerous big catches
made all season.
Construction work on an irrigation
project lying five to fifteen miles
south of Las Animas, which will make
an immense tract of land productive,
will begin Immediately, VIII r. Muir
ply of the state land board announced
proved S250,00O contract and bond
posted by w. A. Colt & Son of Las
Animas for building the irrigation sys-
tenn for the Mutual Carey Act Irriga-
tion Company.
The Midland Cereal Products Com
pany have signed contract with the
Farmers and Merchants Association
which calls for the erection of a fac
tory building in Brighton to cost $780,
600. The company will manufacture a
breakfast food to be known as
"Whole Wheat Nuggets" The Brigh-
ton factory is one of three owned by
the company. The others are at
Sioux Falls, S. D., and Omaha, Neb.
The factory will use all the wheat
grown within hauling distance of
Brighton and will pay the market
price.
One of the most disastrous losses
in the dairy industry occurred at Hol-
ly when twenty-seven pure-bred Hol-
stein cows and a pure-bred Holstein
bull died as the result of eating cane
when they broke into a field on the
farm of Jens Jensen. The loss will
total $4,000 The entire herd died
| within a few hours.
The first state fair ever held in
| Colorado under state supervision and
financed and supported by the state is
to be held at Pueblo, September 22nd
to 9th. The state has acquired title
to the fair grounds through purchase
with funds granted in "A special appro-
| priation. The tax levy is being used
in the payment of premiums and other
items of expense of an educational
character. In addition the State Fair
Commission is spending $4,000 on the
sports and amusement program. 1t is
to be Colorado's first 100000 fair.
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