Cheyenne record., 1919-09-04
COLORADO.
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. l$7S.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. =
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. g
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. 8
Mqifat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. H.
Plsteau Valley State Fair. colbran.
Baea County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept. 1913.
Conejps County Fair. Manassa, Sept.
Western Slope Fair, Montrose. Sept.
Central Community Fair Greeley. Sept.
Sept. 18th, 1919.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920.
Phiiligs ga County Fair Holyoke. Sept.
saguaehe 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.
Inter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 8.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Soft water for Sterling about the
first of the year or very soon there
after is now the bright prospect.
Frank Middleton, recently dis
charged New Jersey soldier, who fell
from hayloft some two weeks ago
and broke his back, while working on
a ranch in the Hogback district, near
Dolores, is dead.
The organization of the First Nation
al Bank has been completed at Bur
lington with capital of $4,000 and
surplus of $1,000. The bank will open
for business some time during the
month of September.
William Reynolds, 40, clay miner,
was crushed to death by a clay fall
while at work in the clay mine near
Golden, belonging to the Denver Sewer
Pipe and Clay Company, operated un-
der lease by Grant Parfet.
There will be an abundance of deer
for Colorado hunters during the four
day open season Of Oct. 1 to a, 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. 1, according to Lieutenant Com
mander w. r. Brown in charge of this
station.
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.
Charles William Reed, who would
have been 81 years Sept. 1, died at
LongmOnt Of 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.
Screams of the 2k-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Rosser brought
members of the family to the rescue
of the child but not in time to save 1t
from being scalded to death in a pan
of soap suds, at Marshall, Colo. The
mother, who was in bed i'll and unable
to rise, heard the boy screaming and
called for help. One Of the older chill
dren who had placed the pan of boiling
water on the floor preparatory to do
ing some scrubbing, but who had gone
outside the house, heard the call and
ran to the child.
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 1SO
suits, most of which had just been re-
ceived for the fall trade.
If a bill just introduced by Congress
man Taylor becomes a law, authority
will be secured to exchange privately
owned land for national forest land
or stumpage near Steamboat Springs.
This authority is being sought by own
ers of land on the Routt forest, who
would be enabled to either consolidate
their holdings or trade their land when
cut over for government stumpage.
The Elberta peach season is on in
full blast at Palisade and the move
,nent of twenty-five carloads Of the
finest quality fruit ever grown in the
upper valley Is evidence that this will
he a good peach year. The demand
for the Palisade crop exceeds the sup
ply and the growers are confident of
good prices and markets, although
prices prevailing this year are not as
high as they were for the same da