The Raymer enterprise., 1919-08-28
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
western Newspaper Union New Services.

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COMING EVENTS.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont, Sept
2-5.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-5.
MorEan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. Us.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept y
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept =
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. s.
Mgifst County Fair. naybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair Cochran.
Baea County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Tr,nldad-Las Animas County Fair.
Conetos County Fair. Manassa. Sept.
Western Slope Fair. Mon,ro.e. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1870
Philips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
1871.
sasuache County Fair saguache. Sept
Colorado; New Mexico Fair Durango.
Sept. 1925.
COLORADO State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. az
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
2i-a7
Crowley County Fair. Sugar city Aug.
Inter- Mountain Live Stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept. 30 to Oct. ..
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. 10
G. W. Badger. for four years It
scoutmaster In Denver and for one
year assistant executive of the Denver
Boy Scouts, has been elected executive
OF the Boulder troops.
BY coincidence. the only two Col
den boys entitled TO wear wound
stripes arrived home from overseas on
the same day. They are Capt. OryilIe
Dennis and Private Delbert Parshall.
Isaac Victor. d years old. a patient
at the Jewish Consumptlyes Relief
sanitarium, shot and killed Miss Bes-
sic Marold because she refused to
marry him. The shooting took place
| In the courtyard Of the sanitarium In
West Colfax avenue, Denver.
Werner u. Reed, late Colorado phi
lanthropist, WAS worth ,9l0.53
when lac 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
Waunita Is certainly coming 10 the
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.
In Colorado approximately $1,000
600 Is now being spent annually for
the construction Of state and county
roads, or more than three times as
much as was being spent annually five
years ago. The amount available for
road work Is being increased each
year.
The death toll Of the explosion at
Oakyiew mine Of Oakdale Coal com
pany Is eighteen, and all the bodies ex-
cept three of the miners whose lives
were snuffed out when the blast
caught them 1900 feet In the work
ings, have been recovered by rescue
crews.
Rolling down the hillside with the
velocity of a cannon ball, a huge boul-
der, which weighed al least two tons,
crashed through the two walls of Il
barn at the rear of the residence of
+. +. Boles at Telluride, and then
crashed through the walls OF the
kitchen.
The Sunnyside mill of the Sunnyside
Mining and Milling Company at Eu-
reka is under operation after forced
closedown by the $4,000 fire that de-
stroyed the bunk and boarding houses
at the mine several months ago. This
mill is one of the largest and best
equipped in the state.
Costly and Atkins, leasing on the
Southern Boy mine in the La Plata
mountains, have cut a three-inch
streak of high-grade ore that assays
$3.50 per pound. The ore carries AIS
ounces gold and sixty ounces silver to
the ton, and was discovered in the
shaft that is being sunk In an open
cut where some good ore was mined
two or three years ago. The South
ern Boy is located one mile above the
camp of Mayday, and the high grade
Is In monzanlte-porphyry formation.
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 special appro-
priatlon. The tax levy Is being used
in the payment Of premiums and other
character. In addition the State Fair
Commission is spending $4,000 on the
sports and amusement program. II Is
TO be Colorado,s first 100000 fair.