The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-16
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Aug.
Boulder County Fair, Longmont, Sept.
2-5.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford,
Sept. rs.
Morgan County Fair, Fort Morgan,
Routt County Fair Hayden. Sept. 3-5.
Logan County Fair, Sterling. Sept. 3
Delta County Fair. Hotchlliss. Sept. g.
Adams County Fair, Brighton. Sept. O.
M9ffat County Fair, Maybell. Sept. IL
Plateau Valley State Fair, Cochran.
Baca County Fair. Springfield, Sept.
| 1918.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair,
Trinidad Sept 1919.
Conejos County Fair Manassa. Sept.
Western Slope Fair, Montrose, Sept.
Central Community Fair, Greeley, Sept,
Yuma County Fair Yuma, Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair Holyol<e. Sept.
Saguache County Fair. Saguache, Sept.
colorado:-New Mexico Fair. Durango,
Sept. 1926.
Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, Sept. 90
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept.
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. so to Oct. 8.
Douglas County Fair Castle Rock.
Oct 10.
The annual COW punchers' reunion
at Fruita will be held this year on
Sept. % and 26, according to dates de-
termined on at this time.
The fifth of series of mysterious
| fires in three weeks has led to the
belief that "firebug' may be at large
in Leadville. All of these mysterious
| fires have occurred in the small hours
of the morning and in nearly every
case a small building has burned.
The body of Eva Bingham, 20 years
| old, of McGraw, Neb., was found in a
dry ditch one mile from Eaton. A
party with which the girl was last
| seen is being sought by officers. Miss
Bingham had evidently been beaten to
death, her head being crushed.
James Kramer, aged Ia, was
drowned in Greenhorn creek, twenty
six miles south of Pueblo, when he and
his brother We're swimming. The boy
was seized with cramps in the cold
mountain water and drowned before
his brother was able to pull him out.
Alfred L. Myers, former well
known resident of La Junta, was killed
by being thrown from a horse. His
neck was broken. Myers went to the
postoffice and remained longer than
usual his wife went in search OF him,
finding his dead body lying along the
roadside, with the horse standing-near
by.
Actual work on the Main street paw
ing at Montrose has begun, after many
| delays which threatened to postpone
the construction until 1920. NJ. A.
Masters, contractor, has received con-
| siderable new equipment to handle the
large concrete contract and will push
the work to an early completion.
Some 200 pioneers and their families
gathered at the Playground at Rocky
Ford and enjoyed an old-fashioned pic
mic, in which the basket at noon and
the coffee and lemonade played an
important part 1t was the greatest
| gathering of genuine "old settlers
that has been held in Otero county for
years, and the entire day was one of
joy to the old-timers
Charles Ray, while making n blast
on the Gould reservoir, above Craw-
ford, Delta county, was killed when a
large rock from the blast hit him on
the head. Workmen We're at long
distance from the scene of the blast,
but the rock hit him squarely on the
head with such force that he died
two hours later. He is survived by q
wife and four children of Rocky Ford
Information has been received by f.
]. Waters of Clifton, that his son,
Corporal Fred Waters, captured the
championship of the marines at Guam
| tico, Va, for crack rifle marksman-
ship.
AS a result of the survey of bust
ness and professional openings in the
various smaller cities and towns of
the state, conducted early this year by
the State immigration Department, a
very considerable number of business
and professional people from other
states have found locations in Colorado
and have added materially to the
wealth of the smaller communities.
DIR. Charles Lamb, state veterinary
surgeon, and DIR. Glover of the State
Agricultural College, are attempting to
diagnose the horse disease that has be.
come prevalent in Otero county, espe.
cially in the Holbrook district. The
epidemic has caused the death of a
valuable animals in Prowers county
but after careful examination the au.
thorities declare that 1t is the same dis
ease that was so prevalent in Kansas Il
few years ago. After being attacked
the animals live a few hours and then
die.