Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1920-09-17

| COMING EVENTS.
| Hugo, Colo.-The Lincoln County Fair
will be held at Hugo. Sept 1890.
Oct. 1-2.
Nels Melvin Peterson, 12-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs Frank Peterson, living
near Wild Horse, thirty miles south
east OF Hugo, was instantly killed
when he was dragged to death by
horse
One of the many innovations and
special attractions at the Colorado
state fair this year is the Sunday open
ing on Sept. 10. with a full program of
entertainment events and all the ex-
hibits in order.
| After wandering for two days in the
mountains without food and sleeping
in the open, Allen Robbins. IS, and
Gilbert Russell, 13, both of Loveland.
were found on the Fall river road
north of Estes Park.
Sheriff Trnbing of Laramie. Wyo.,
positively identified the body found
near the Ahes monument, at Sher-
man, as that of w. II. Pfleiderer, the
Longmont optician, who perished in
storm last April IT. The body was
taken to Laramie. A sheepherder dis
covered the decomposed form lying in
ravine.
Denver was selected for next years
meeting place by the Columbian fed
Grafton, an 1talian-American society,
at its fourteenth annual national con-
vention Mt Springfield, III. 1t was
voted to raise n fund of $25,000 to
| TA1a
John Glacomlno OF Globe, Ariz., was
elected president.
Seventy-eight men have re-enlisted
IN the navy for duty aboard the Simp-
son, all of which reside in Colorado
and Wyoming. only twenty-four more
ex-navy men are needed to man her
and she will be the crack destroyer of
the navy. She win be commissioned at
Philadelphia. Her home port will be
San Diego, Calf.
william Kicks, Grand Junction gro
GER, has been forced by County AS
SCISSOR Ocee o. Fellows to admit that
he did not report a large amount of
sugar he had in storage ,tt his place of
business when the tax assessor called
at the Kicks store and his assessment
was raised from n little over 81 900 to
$4,000 by the assessor.
Where the poison comes from that
makes the famed Poison springs of
the Crawford district so deadly is the
problem to be tackled by high school
students of western Colorado this year.
The water will be analysed and the
rock strata examined microscopically.
The geology of the land will be gone
into thoroughly also. There is a possi-
bility that the source of the poison
may be found and the springs re-
claimed for use.
Ted Irwin. II. son of Mrs. M. Irwin
of Colorado Springs, bellboy at the
Broadmoor hotel, was instantly killed
near the Hackey sheep ranch, Lincoln
county, thirty miles north of Ordway,
when his revolver was exploded acci-
dentally in fall. The bullet pierced
his heart The boy had been to Rocky
Ford for the Watermelon Day festiv-
tiles and was returning here on his
motorcycle. His body was not found
for an hour as the road is little used.
Mrs. w. L. White and her son, HON.
er, years old, who were on their way
to school at Montrose, were both
knocked unconscious by a live wire
carrying $500 volts. They were res
cued by passing farmer. Young
White was walking along with his
mother. when he reached to the ground
and grabbed n wire which had been
thrown across live wire. The child
was Knocked unconscious. His mother
attempted to pull him away and she
also was knocked to the ground.
The body of Michael Mellick of
Chandler, who was washed from his
automobile and drowned in cloud
burst in Chandler, was found in the
Arkansas river three miles below
Florence by Joseph Orr, nine-year-
old boy, who dragged the body to
shore unaided.
Bert Hughes, driving motorcycle
in the last racing event of the fair
Mt Sterling, was thrown fifty feet
through the air and sustained possible
fatal injuries when his machine broke
on the quarter stretch. In the side
car was Bruce Morgan, age 20, who
was only slightly injured.
A common inquiry nowadays is how
to treat wheat for the prevention of
smut. winter wheat that is to be
planted this season should be treated
for smut prevention" says ]. d. Mar
shall of the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege. The formaldehyde solution treat
ment is the cheapest, safest, cleanest
and most easily applied. To make the
treatment, the seed should first be run
through n tanning mill so as to re-
move the light weight smutty kernels.
The cleaned seed may be treated by
one of two common methods-sprink-