The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News service.

Routt County Fair Hayden. Sept. 3-5
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. g.
Delta County Fair Hotchkiss, Sept. g
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Adams County Fair brighton, Sept. o
M9ffat 3s County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
Plsteau Valley State Fair, colbran
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
1918.
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
ConeJos 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
colorado-New Mexico Fair Durango
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
| 27-2S.
Inter- Mountain Live Stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 8.
| Douglas County Fair, Castle Rock,
Oct. rs.
One hundred and twenty summer
students at State Teachers College at
Greeley received certificates or de-
grees at the commencement of the
summer term of the college
Werner H. Reed, late Colorado phi
lanthropist, was worth $5,777, ,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-
ecutrlx 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 be an abundance of deer
for Colorado hunters during the four
day open season of Oct. l to 4, inclu-
sive, this fall, in the opinion of Roland
G. Parvin, state game and fish COM
missioner. who returned from an ex-
tensive trip through the game sections
| of the state.
| About 10000 navy victory medals
will be issued by the Denver navy re-
cruiting station to men who saw serv-
| ice during the war. These medals
should be ready for distribution about
Nov. l, according to Lieutenant Com
| mander w. p. Brown in charge of this
station.
Charles William Reed, who would
have been 81 years Sept. 1, died at
| Longmont of a complication of dis
eases. Mr. Reed came to Colorado in
1859 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 1S0
suits, most of which had just been re-
ceived for the fall trade.
A paving project to cost 100000
and provide hard surfaced highways
through Colorado Spring from north to
south and from east to west has been
indorsed by the Colorado Springs Au-
tomobile Club and doubtless will be
submitted to the voters at a special
election to he held next month
The total acreage of rye planted in
Colorado for the 1919 harvest was ap-
proximately 165,000 acres, compared
with little more than $4,000 acres in
1909. Yuma county is Colorado's ban
ner rye growing county, with 29,051
acres, or nearly twice as much as was
grown in the state in 1909.
School children to the number of
$4,000 in the state of Colorado, and
teachers to the number of 5000, are to
be 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 anu lne increase III mining Nalua-
tions, the total assessment in Montrose
county exceeds the valuation of 1918
by $1,260,120, 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 travelling bag containing
a considerable amount of clothing, one
mile south of Greeley, by two armed
highwaymen. The Greeley police
have arrected a Greeley farmers son,
who, Mrs. Reynolds believes. was one
of the two men who robbed her
Rolling down the hillside with the
velocity of a cannon ball. a huge bouI-
der, which weighed at least two tons.
crashed through the two walls of a
barn at the rear of the residence of