The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-20


Phillips J County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
saguache County Fair. saguache. Sept.
coloredo;,N 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. 3.
| Douglas County Fair, Castle ROCK
Platteville has just completed one
of the most modern and up-to-date
school buildings in the state, costing
$4,000.
The Greeley school board has award
ed contracts totaling $4,000 for new
buildings. a new six-room building is
TO be erected on the west side of the
city and a four-room building on the
east side
Loveland will have one of the largest
and most up-to-date theater buildings
in the northern part of the state when
| w. c. Vorreiter completes the S1jO,-
600 building that he has under con
struction at this time.
The Big Thompson road from Love
land to Estes Park has been closed
| for the winter TO enable workmen to
widen and improve it. Denver travel
ers to the park ar now going over
| the north and south St Vrain canOns.
The report made by Mrs. C. II. Bris-
tol, chairman of the canteen commit
tee of the American Red Cross in La
| Junta, shows that the local canteen
served total of 4O,790 soldiers in the
period from July 16, 1918, to Sept. l,
1919.
Farms in the San Louis valley dis
trict are this year yielding the great
est crops in their history, according
TO experts, and the apparent shortage
of cars in which to make shipments is
causing considerable worry to ship
pers.
The Loveland Masonic order will
have new temple when the work on
the State Mercantile building, which
was purchased some time ago by the
Loveland Masons, is completed. Work
| has been started on the remOdeling OF
the building.
missioner Joseph Cruise, and one of the
best known ranchers of jefferson
county, is dead at his home in Morri-
son, after a long Illness. He was 76
years old and had lived in Jefferson
county for thirty-four years.
One soldier was so injured he died
in short time, two We're badly hurt
and thirteen others were more or less
bruised when a large army automobile
from Fort Logan, bearing members OF
the post baseball team, turned over i'll
Denver.
Gov. o. H. Shoup has issued proc
lamation designating Wednesday, Sept.
II, as Constitution day and urging the
people of Colorado to give all possible
assistance for properly observing the
anniversary of the adoption of the ma
tional constitution.
The production of wheat in Colorado
this year will he 1S,049,000 bushels, ac-
cording to the September forecast just
issued by the state cooperative crop
reporting service. This is the largest
production ever recorded in the state
the previous record crop being that of
191S-13, ,536,0 900 bushels.
The seventh annual San Juan Nav
ajo Indian fair will be held at Ship
rock, n. NJ, for four days, commenc-
ing Sept. 80 and lasting until Oct. 3.
This is the only fair scheduled for
the extreme northwestern county of
New Mexico and is attracting more
than ordinary interest, inasmuch as
the Navajos have had an exceedingly
prosperous season.
Four miners were shot and killed in
the Tomboy gold mine at Telluride bv
unknown assassins, and a fifth was
shot in the leg and badly wounded.
Jose Gonzales and Santoz Ortez,
MeXicans, who shot and killed Police
man jefferson Evans in the pepper
sauce bottoms, a Negro and Mexican
settlement of Pueblo, were taken from
the city Jail by mob and lynched at
the Fourth street bridge, near the city
limits. None of the members of the
mob was recognized, as all wore
handkerchief masks and were garbed
in blue overalls and blue Jumpers or
plain blue overalls.
The Industrial Sugar Company,
S4,OOO,0O0 corporation financed by
sugar beet growers, is to build it's
first factory at Fort Lupton, according
to announcement of the board of
directors. The factory will contract
1000 acres in the vicinity of the town.
1t is planned to have the factory
ready to handle beets in the fall of
1920 AS Fort Lupton already has
two canneries and a large milk con-
densary, the new sugar factory will
make it the biggest manufacturing
| center in the county,