The Dolores star., 1919-08-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS

COMING EVENTS.
Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Aug.
Boulder County Fair, Longmont. Sept,
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford,
MerEan san, County Fair. Fort Morgan
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. 3-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. o
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. g.
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept. O.
M9ifat County Fair, Maybell. Sept. IL
Pisteau Valley State Fair. colbran.
Baca County Fair. Springfield. Sept.
Trinidad-Las Animas County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept. 1919.
Conej2s County Fair. Manassa Sept.
Western Slope Fair. Montrose, Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Phps PSmr c0Gnty Gny, Fair yuma SEPT 1729 G9
saguaehe County Fair. saguachc. Sept.
colorado.New Mexico Fair. Durango.
Sept. 1926.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 22-
Grand County Fair. Kremmlins, Sept.
crsSwlsy County Fair, Sugar City. Aug.
1nter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock.
The Lamar Elks Home Association
has commenced an active campaign for
selling stock in the new home to be
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 $4,000, the Lupton Coxi Ridge
Land Company will put large part of
this money hack 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 G. w. Boyd, field fore
man of the Bureau of Biological Sur
vey.
Construction work on an irrigation
project lying five to fifteen miles
south of Las Animas, which will make
an immense tract of land productive,
will begin Immediately, VIII Il. Muir
ply of the state land board announced
after the land commissioners ap-
proved $25O,OOO contract and bond
posted by w. A. Colt & Son of Las
Animas for building the irrigation sys-
TEN for the Mutual Carey Act Irriga-
tion Company.
There is not a case of contagious
disease in the city of Pueblo or in the
county Immediately adjoining it, ac-
cording to the announcement of DR..
w. L. Buck, city physician. This is
the first time in years that such a con-
dition has been noted in that city. DR..
Buck attributes this to the fact that
the influenza epidemic taught the cit
izens of Pueblo the necessity of exer-
clsing greater sanitary precautions.
i lie Mluldnu NeTedl IIouuCtS SoIH-
pany have signed contract with the
Farmers and Merchants Association
which calls for the erection of fac
tory building in Brighton to cost $780,
600. The company will manufacture II
breakfast food to be known as
"Whole Wheat Nuggets" The Brigh-
ton factory is one of three owned by
hn 'rhn Dfh q
Sioux Falls, S. D., and Omaha, Neb.
The factory will use all the wheat
grown within hauling distance of
Brighton and will pay the market
price.
According to advices by w. =. Ella,
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish II
branch dehydration plant at Grand
Junction.
Durango will shortly possess new
athletic club which is designed to pro-
mote boxing exhibitions, physical cul-
ture training and other athletic pur-
suits W. w. McEwen, Jr., Rod S.
Day and ]. H. McDevitt, Jr, all sons
of prominent Durango families, filed
articles of incorporation in the secre-
tary of states office for the Durango
Athletic Club, announcing these activ-
tiles as the object of the organization.
Fifteen cars of potatoes will be
shipped daily from the Montrose,
Olathe and Delta spud district, when
the busiest part of the season will
stnrt This iS tho on rIy nOtato harvest
and will continue ut this rate for sew
eral weeks. The spuds are being
moved to the markets in refrigerator
cars, which, however, will not inter-
fere with the regular shipments of
fruit from the western slope, about
which the growers were alarmed re.
Gently when car shortage seemed
apparent.
A. w. Engle, 80, of Colorado
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