The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1919-08-30
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coAIN0 EVENTS.
Lesiusr County Fair. I.ovsiand. Aug
Boulder County Fair. Lonsmont. sspt
Arkaas.s Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
AsIs: , County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt co1asy Fair. Hayden. Sept. is.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. =
D:i.a County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. .
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. =
Meffat County Fair. Maybs,l. Sept. H.
Pistssu Valley state Fair. Cochran.
BAGS County Fair Springfield. Sept.
Tr,n,ds:aa.L.. An!n.: County Fair.
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yum. County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1870.
PHILIP PHILIP County Fair H0lyoke. Sept.
saxusshe County Fair. s.Eusche. Sept.
color r, :ls.v Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado state Fair. Pueblo. Sept. az
Grand County Fair. KremmlIng. Sept.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug
Ipt-r-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction, Sept 80 to Oct. ;.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. TO.
The annual COW punchers' reunion
at Fruita will be held this year on
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termined on mt this time.
According to advices by w. P. Flu.
secretary OF the Chamber of Com
merce, the United States Dehydration
Company OF Denver will establish n
branch delIydrutiOn plant ut Grand
Junction.
Practically 100000 acres OF land has
been broken for this years crops md
added to the cultivated area. Few
states In the Union have showed
lurge an Increase I'm the raw land re-
claimed In one year.
The Lamar Ellis Home Association
has commenced an active campaign for
selling stock In the new home to be
erected ut Lanmr. The lodge Mt that
place IL planning on having one Of the
finest homes In the state.
Restoration of the pinto beam indus
try In eastern Colorado by placing an
import duty on japanese beans. which
have demoralized the market for pin
tos, IL to be asked of Congress by bean
growers Of Weld county.
Having sold 1895 acres OF irrigated
land west Of the Platte river for more
than $13O.OOO, the LuptOn Coal Ridge
land Company will put a large part of
this money back into the work Of de-
velopIng 1000 more acres Of raw land.
| That the war on prairie dogs, tnaug-
urnted In In Plata county last srQQG,
and which still is being waged has
been fruitful In results, IL the an.
nOuncement Of g. w. boyd; field fore
man of the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey.
A. w. Engie, 50, of Colorado
Springs. an oil company official and
promoter at Electra, Texas, was killed,
and two women, Mrs. Joe Alter and
Josephine Chavez Of Delagua, Colo.
escaped without injury. when an auto
mobile driven by Engie plunged
through the railing Of wooden bridge
near Hastings, coal mining camp,
near Trinidad, into IN arroyo.
There Is not cnse Of contagious
disease in the city Of Pueblo or in the
county Immediately adjoining 1t, &C.
cOrding to the announcement Of DIR.
w. +. Buck. city physician. This Is
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ditiOn has been noted in that city. DIR.
Buck attributes this to the fact tina:
the Influenza epidemic taught the cit
liens Of Pueblo the necessity Of exer-
cising greater sanitary precautions.
In Baca county, which not many
years ago was regarded as a worth
less waste, the acreage Of land In Gull
tivation Inns increased more than 400
per cent In the past ten years md 1t
now ranks about twentieth among the
counties In total cultivated area.
Durango will shortly possess a new
athletic club which Is designed to pro.
mote boxing exhibitions, physical cul-
ture trimming and other athletic pur-
suits. w. w. McEwen, Jr, Rod s.
Day and ]. II. McDevitt, Jr., all sons
Of prominent Durango families, filed
articles OF Incorporation In the secre-
tary of states office for the Durango
Athletic Club, announcing these activ-
tiles us the object Of the organization.
BY bank certificate issued by
State Bank Examiner Grant McPher-
son to the Farmers State Bank of
GIL. the twenty-secOnd state bank
Is added to Weld COunty's total, and
the first bank along the railroad
between Greeley and Briggsdale Is
established. The new banks capital
is $4,000 and Its surplus $2,2l5. The
addition of this bank makes 248 state
banks In Colorado. Besides these there
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