The state herald., 1919-08-22
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

SOMINu ENENIS.
Lerimer County Fair. Loveiand. Aug.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
Arksas.s kan Valley Fair. Rocky Ford
MerEan ssS, County Fair. Fort Morgan
Routt County Fair, Hayden. Sept. s-5.
Delta County Fair. Hotchisiss, Sept. =
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. O.
M9iiat County Fair. Maybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair. colbran.
Sept. 1918.
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
1913.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair,
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
conej2s County Fair. Manassa, Sept.
Western Slope Fair. Montrosc. Sept
Central Community Fair, Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair Yuma, Sept. 1920.
fhlsliG. silgs. County Fair Holy0ke' Sept
saEnsehe County Fair. saguache. Sept
coloradc:Nsw Mexico Fair. Durango.
coierado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 22-
Grand and, County Fair. Kremmllns. Sept.
Crowley County Fair Sugar City, Aug.
Inter- Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 30 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
Oct. 10.
The annual COW punchers' reunion
at Fruita will be held this year on
Sept. % and 20, according to dates de-
termined on at this time.
According TO advices by W. 7. Ella,
secretary Of the Chamber of Com
merce, the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish n
branch dehydration plant at Grand
Junction.
Practically 100000 acres of land has
added to the cultivated area. Few
states in the Union have showed
large an increase in the raw land re-
claimed in one year.
The Lamar Elks Home Association
has commenced an active campaign for
selling stock In the new home TO he
erected at Lamar. The lodge at that
place is planning ON having one Of the
finest homes IN the state.
Restoration of the pinto bean indus
try In eastern Colorado by placing an
import duty on Japanese beans, which
have demoralized the market for pin
tos, is to be asked OF Congress by bean
growers Of Weld county.
Having sold 1,295 acres of irrigated
land west OF the Platte river for more
than sl30.OO0. the Lupton Coal Ridge
Land Company Will put large part of
this money back into the work OF de
veloping 1000 more acres of raw land.
That the war on prairie dogs, inaug-
urated In La Plata county last spring
and which still is being waged, has
been fruitful In results, is the an
nouncement of q. W. Boyd. field fore
man of the Bureau OF Biological Sur
vcy.
A. W. Engle, 30, of Colorado
Springs. an oil company Official and
promoter at Electra. Texas. was killed,
and two women. Mrs. Joe Alter and
Josephine Chavez OF Delagua. Colo.
escaped without injury. when an auto.
mobile driven by Englc plunged
through the railing OF a wooden bridge
near Hastings, n coal mining camp.
near Trinidad. Into an arroyo.
There Is not n case Of contagious
disease In the city Of Pueblo or In the
county Immediately adjoining II. ne
cordlng To the announcement Of DR.
W. l.. Buck, city physician. This Is
the first time In years that such con
ditlon has been noted In that city. DR.
Buck attributes this to the fnct TIM:
the Influenza epidemic tnught the cit.
liens of Pueblo the necessity OF cxer-
cisIng greater sanitary precautions.
In Baca county, which not many
years ago was regarded MS worth
less waste. the acreage OF land In cul-
tiyation lns increased more than 100
per cent In the past ten years and II
now ranks about twentieth among the
counties In total cultivated area.
Durango will shortly possess II new
athletic club which II designed TO pro
mote boxing exhibitions, physical cul-
turc training and other athletic pur.
suits. W. W. McEwcn. Jr.. Rod $.
Day aud ]. II. McDcvitt. Jr.. nil sons
NJ prominent Durango families, filed
articles OF Incorporation In the secre-
tary Of states office for III. Durango
Athletic Club, announcing these ncilv-
lilies ns the object OF the organization.
by bank certificate issued by
State Bank Examiner GrnD, Mcrhcr.
son To the Farmers State Bank OF
GIL. the twcnty.sccond state bnnk
In added TO Weld county's total. and
the First bank along the railroad
between Greeley and Ilrlggsdnic II
established. The new banks cnpitnl
Is $1,000 and Its surplus S2,2i5. Tb"
addition of this bnnk mikes 2iJ stntc
banks In Colorado. Besides these there
ARE 1T6 national hanks, the nxnmin