The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-06
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Western Slope Fair. Montrose, Sept
Central a Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Besver Park Fair at Penrose. Colo,
Yuma County Fair, Yuma, Sept. 1920.
Phiilips County Fair, Holyoke. Sept.
sagusehe County Fair. saguache. Sept.
coIorado,New Mexico Fair. Durango,
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
1927.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
lnter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock,
Oct. 7-s.
Soft water for Sterling about the
first of the year or very soon there
after is now the bright prospect.
The schools of Montrose and Mont
rose county opened with the largest at
tendance in their history with compe-
tent corps of teachers.
HaXtun, in Phillips county, will
shortly possess Il new bank under arti;
cles of incorporation filed in the secre-
tary of states office for the HaXtun
State Bank, with announced capital
stock of $4,000.
One hundred tons of freshly stacked
alfalfa hay, valued at $1,000, was
burned on the Lakeside Hereford ranch
of John f. Painter near ROggen. Fire
is believed to have started from spon-
taneous combustion.
The organization of the First Nation
al Bank has been completed at Bur-
lington with Il capital of $4,000 and a
surplus of $4,000. 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.
On behalf of the people of Colorado,
Gov. o. II. Shoup has sent Gen. John
J. Pershing Il letter welcoming him
back to the United States. The letter
is to be delivered to General Pershing
upon his arrival in New York
While timbering a dangerous place
in the Huffaker mine on Elk mountain,
Andrew johnson was injured severely
when he slipped and fell from rock.
Both legs were crushed. This is the
first mine accident in the Kremmling
district.
More than two-fifths of the beans
raised in Colorado this year are being
grown in three counties, Weld, Ebert
and Ell Paso. Pintos are grown largely
in the last two counties named, while
Weld county produces a large acreage
of seed beans.
William Brewer, AZ, well-known
rancher of Platteville, Colo, was in
stantly killed, and William Roam, Fort
Lupton, attorney, and George Brew
ster, also of Fort Lupton, were slightly
injured in an automobile accident on
the East Lake road. Mr.. Brewer was
driving the car, and it was travelling at
n high rate of speed, according to the
other occupants of the car, when it
struck chuckhole and upset on the
side of the road.
The Elberta peach season is on in
full blast at Palisade and the move
ment of twenty-five carloads of the
finest quality fruit ever grown in the
upper valley is evidence that this will
be 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.
last year.
Street railway employees of Boulder
have been granted an increase in
wages averaging per cent. The men
have been receiving a wage of 33 cents
new scale the wages will be 80, 80 and
40 cents an hour.
Perjury is charged against Joe Man
dich is an information filed in Boul-
der, in which Mandich, who is said to
be 45 years old, is alleged to have
sworn to lie in getting a marriage
license for himself and 14-year-Old Me-
lita Phillips of Longmont.
John Tarro, q peddler of ice cream
cones, who was arrested at Durango,
charged with having an unlawful
amount of intoxicants in his posses
sion, was tried in Justice Court and
found guilty and was assessed a fine
of $3.50, plus SS4 costs and ninety days
in Jail, has appealed the case to the
County Court and has put up cash
bond of 1854 to carry the case through,
which will come up for retrial at the
September term of court. When Tarro
was first arrested, the officers say
they found a barrel of wine that teste
more than per cent alcoholic con-
tent.
The heaviest bank clearings in the
history Of Colorado Springs were re-
ported for June, July and August by
M Colorado TIao IJouea