The state herald., 1919-08-01
Pithy News Notes
From All Paris of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News servlcs
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Aug,
26-29.
Boulder County Fair Longmont. Sept
2-5.
Arkansas Valley Fair, Rocky Ford
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan
Sept. 2-5.
Routt County Fair Hayden. Sept. 80.
Logan County Fair, Sterling. sept y
Delta County Fair Hotchkiss. Sept. o.
Adams County Fair. brighton. Sept. o.
M9ffat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. H.
Plateau Valley State Fair. Colbran.
sept. 1918.
Ba.a County Fair. Springfield. Sept
1918.
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
conejos County Fair. Manassa, Sept.
1913.
Western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair Yuma. Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept.
sa, u,.ehe County Fair. saguachs. Sept.
colorado,Nsw Mexico Fair. Durango.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. a.
Grand County Fair. KremmlinE. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
nter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. 10.
Placerville, which has been practi-
cally destroyed twice by fire. 10 being
rebuilt on a plan that will insure both
beauty and permanency.
Michigan, Colorado and Utah show
big increases In beet sugar prospects.
Forecasts show COlOradO's crop as 3
024.0O tons, an increase Of $4,000;
and Utah's 1,2OS,OOO tons, an increase
Of 100000 tons.
Appropriations OF $4,000 for the
Rocky Mountain National parks and
S1l, 900 for the Mesa Verde, for ex-
penses during the coming year, are in
cluded in the sundry civil bin signed
by President Wilson.
Charles Place Of Sawpit was instant
ly killed when an auto plunged over
Hairpin Tour curve and dropped thirty
feet to the bottom of the canon. The
spokes pierced Places head and stom-
nch.
The federal bureau Of public roads
approved the plans submitted by the
state highway department and Costilla
county for building 5S miles Of road
between Fort Garland and San Luis
under federal aid The new road Sec
tion, beginning with the San Luis end,
will cost approximately 10000.
Louis Mantz. 81 years old, Of Colo
RADIO Springs, was arrested at Mont
rose by Sheriff ]. II. Gill and con.
fessed to stealing the car he was driv-
ing TO visit his sister. critically Ill In
Lewiston, Idaho. The youth showed q
telegram from his sister asking him to
visit her. The sheriff took the car and
the boy back to Colorado Springs.
Denver will begin the construction
Of the south wing to the Colorado Mu-
scum of Natural History In City Park
shortly. as the result OF gift OF $780,
Denver citizen whose name is being
withheld for the present by Mayor
Dewey G. Raiiey. The name OF the
donor will be revealed at the formal
opening OF the Civic Center Aug. /.
Mesa County's share OF the state
school fund will total s0.O73.3s. The
entire fund totals $685.. 5.s34. and the an.
nouncement Of the various npportion-
ments was issued from the state super.
intendent's office at Denver. Other
West Slope counties will receive the
following sums: Delta, $8,3l80T; Do
lores. S%29.7l; Gunnison. s2.IO0.2s;
Hinsdaie. &l794s; Ouray. 1901. 80: Pit
kin. si,3a2.24. and San Miguel. ST.
SJo.12.
Better roads boosting received new
encouragement upon ndvIces that the
State Highway Commission Ind allot.
ted 100000 to Mesa county for road
construction. The amount. II ls un.
derstood, will be equally divided be.
tween the Palisade concrete road and
the proposed concret. rond between
Grand Junction and fruIta. The Pal
isnde road hns been under construction
for some tirrc. The Frultn road was
ordered surveyed by the county com.
inlssioners several weeks ago with n
View Of asking for state and federal
aid.
''The Good Ship Mlnnequa" Is afloat
and taking cargo aboard for her first
cruise In the Pacific ocenn Ms n mem
her Of the United States Merchant ma.
rine. The MInncqua u Pucblo's Vic
tory ship and her name would have
been Pueblo" II II were not for the
fact that there Is already n bntticshIp
In the United States navy by that
name. The ship wns chrIsicncd by
Mrs J. G. BrookIng OF Pueblo nnd tho
name "MinncGun' was given II because
~ the beautiful Lake MInncqun nj
Pueblo. A bottle of winter from Lake
MlnneIun was broken over the how Of