The Colorado statesman., 1920-08-28
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

Principal Hill has been Superintcnu-
ent of schools at Colorado Springs for
several years Miss Susie NJ. Lovelace,
who has been principal of the Maple
ton school at Boulder for more than
thirty years, has resigned To become
dean of women az the Oklahoma State
Agricultural college at saltwater,
Okla. Miss Lovelace is at present
managing the hostess cabin Of the
Colorado Chautauqua. The arrange
ments for the Larimer county fair,
Aug 81 to Sept 3, are nearing compile
ton This fair promises To be one OF
the best that Loveland has ever had,
as the attractions that have been
booked are the best possible.
Huerfano Post No. 10, American Le-
gon, Walsenburg, has started move
whereby they hope to Interest, first,
the American legion posts of southern
Colorado, and then of the entire State,
in plan to have the January session
OF the Legislature consider Jaw
which will require that all juries in
the State be composed OF English
speaking citizens. 1t is aimed to have
the same law contain measure which
will require that all court judges and
officials speak the English language.
Joseph Frederick, GO. and his wife,
Anna, 80, are dead in their home at
Holyoke as a result of an alleged fam
lily quarrel said to have extended over
a period of several weeks. Mrs Fred
erick is said to have died from the
effects of four shots fired by her hus-
band. who later killed himself in an
other room Both were dead when
neighbors, attracted by the reports OF
shots, arrived at the home. What the
quarrel was about is unknown.
Fireworks, the finest ever seen in
the entire country, will he feature
each day, and the great fenture each
night. Every afternoon the infield viii
be enlivened with day fireworks of the
most modern discovered or invented.
Each night the pyrotechnic display VIII
be given in the form Of a distinctive
program; there will he no repetitions
each program will differ from all
others.
Marian II. sylvester, % years old,
employed in the coke oven department
of the Pueblo Steel works, was fatally
gassed while clearing a benZol tank ni
Pueblo. Sylvester was wearing gas
mask supplied by the company, but 1t
failed to keep out the gas fumes. Eel
low workmen saw him fall, and Tor
more than an hour attempted to revive
him by artificial respiration.
Frank Norman, who was helping
a liz. .at hn
Ruby mine near Florcsta, met death
when throwing big beam TO the
ground, 80 feet below, and Il spike on
the falling beam caught his arm He
was hurled violently to the ground. His
neck and both of his arms were
broken, but he lived fifteeE hours.
Rico citizens, threatened with losing
the telephone system, as the company
had decided to take out the local Of
flee. have purchased the telephone of
flee and equipment from the telephone
company and service has been resumed
after a short break.
A. w. Hallock, father of c. Wiles
Hallock of Salida, sustained broken
arm while cranking his automobile he
fore starting on fishing trip 10 the
Arkansas river. Other members of his
party bandaged the arm and he con
tinued his journey.
The FL Paso county fair is TO be held
at Calhan, Sept 30 to Oct. 2, inclusive.
Announcement of the fair dates was
made along with the entry and prize
list, the largest in the history of the
fair.
The Greeley & Denver Railway Com
pany has filed Il petition with the state
public utilities commission asking for
"A 7-cent fare. effective September 10Th,
The present fare is cents.
Thousands of dollars worth of fruit
and vegetables are being shipped from
the Grand Valley every day now and
the height of the Elberta peach season
is ON. The shipments of peaches will
reach probably 400 to 800 cars Early
potatoes are going out and the cars
are all being iced this year.
Nine million trout, of the rainbow
and native varieties, are being put into
the streams of the state by the state
game and fish department. This, ac-
cordng to II. G. Parvin, state game
and fish commissioner is the largest
number ever distributed by his de
partment in any one year.
In Il running revolver and shotgun
fight with burglar at Merino, Everett
Dean, 20 years old, shot and instantly
killed Benjamin Fuller, 30, farmer
living north of Merino. The duel, it is
alleged, followed Fuller's attempt to
rob the lumber yard and store of the
Merino Lumber Company.
Colorado has 234,767 women of vot-
iy.g age, it was announced in Washing
ton, ID. c., from the headquarters of
the national woman's suffrage party.