The Colorado statesman., 1921-08-13

Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Aug. 24-26; w. J. OFT, secretary.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford,
Aug. So-sept. 2; }. l.. Miller secre-
washington County Fair Akron, Aug.
3l-sept 2: Joe X. Powelson. secre-
tary.
Teller County Fair. Cripple Creek. Sept
s. d; j. Upton sec, secretary CyS.,ora s.n,
So; j. w. Thompson. secretary.
Moffat County Fair at Maybell' sept
$40.
FramtOn Russell was cranklng his
machine at Loveland when 1t Kicked
and he was hurled ten feet and
through the window of barber shop.
His right arm was broken.
Ralph J. Mockett, who lost his life
in the wreck of the steamship Alaska
off the coast of California, was Colo
RADIO boy. He was n resident of Red
Cliff, where his father, J. II. Mockett,
Is a prominent mining man.
During a terrific thunder storm, the
din of which drowned out the sound
of their activities, an unknown num-
ber of bandits entered the Garfield
County State bank at Grand Valley,
blew the safe and vault doors to de-
bris with dynamite, and escaped with
approximately $4,000 worth of secur-
tiles and cash.
William Timm of Montrose has
completed the Waunita Hot Springs
club house, and the addition will ena-
BILE this resort to accommodate more
people. The cost of the structure was
$12,5O0. The club house is 125 feet
long and thirty-fice feet wide, is two
stories high and ut one end there is
an auditorium which will seat 800 per-
sons.
The country population of Colorado
has been increasing for the past TWEEN
ty years, although the per cent of the
population that is from the country
has not increased all the time. The
rural population of Colorado in 1900
was 2O2, ,S39; in 1910, 297, ,427 in 1920,
737, ,S6S. In 1900, 80 per cent of the
people of Colorado lived in the coun-
try; in 1910, 81 per cent; and in 1920,
80 per cent.
Bronco busting, horse racing and
DdStDdll SdlDtS Will Dt lht
lures of the annual fair of the Deer
Trail Fair Association Aug. IS, 10 and
20. The ball games will be between
the Deer Trail team and those of
Strasburg, Byers and Hugo; and
bucking mule, mule race and a buck
ing steer will be specialties during
the fair. The general exhibit of agrl-
oh
and horses promises to be the best
ever shown at the fair.
At least $500 cars will be required
to move the wheat crop in that section
of northeastern Colorado served by
the Burlington railroad, according to
Il report made to the State Public
Utilities Commission by William Reid
one of its inspectors, after trip
through Logan and northeastern Weld
counties. The wheat crop, Reid re-
ports, is one of the best ever harvest
ed in this section of the state. The
assist the farmers in obtaining cars
and getting their crops to market.
There now is in the hands of the
American Red Cross $350,000 for the
relief of the persons rendered homeless
by the flood which swept down upon
Pueblo, Colo, early in June. This
amount consists of the original $105,-
600 contributed by the National Red
Cross when the first news of the seri-
Gus situation was flashed over the
country, $125,000 contributed by Amer
lean Red Cross chapters in response to
appeals from President Harding and
National Red Cross officials, and ap-
proximately $125,O00 contributed by
Colorado cities.
Dry land wheat that has just been
threshed on the G. A. Jeffries farm
ran forty-five bushels. machine meas
ure,. to the acre, and weighed out
siXty-two pounds to the bushel, which
is almost II record for dry land wheat
in Larimer county. The ShOwalter
wheat in the same district averaged
forty bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Amelia Cachines, 50, wife of
Tony Cachines, a farmer northeast of
Broomfield, was killed when Il horse
was thrown out, her neck being
broken. She was the mother of five
children. She and her husband were
returning from Lafayette and she had
stepped out of the buggy to look in
his rural post box for mail when the
borse became frightened and ran.
After being tossed about in the
waters of the Platte river within the
limits of Denver since the morning of
June IS, when he was drowned While
going to the rescue of his brother,
who had been caught in the swollen
flood waters at that time, the body of
Charles Bryont, Jr., S-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bryant. was re-
covered from the river in badly de-
Composed condition.
Colorado as n cOal-prOducing state