Cheyenne Wells record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969, 1921-07-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News seriee.)
COUNTY FAIR DATES. 1921.

SOoNA N"sss go A.N-' 49,
Colorado state Fair. Pueblo. Sept. &C.
so So; J. l. d,,a, nenmani Ha1n manager Fer; Morgan
Aug. 24-26: W. j. OFT, secretary.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford
AUG. 3o-sept. 2; J. L. Miller. secre-
si-sept. 2: Joe X, Poweison. secre-
Teller County Fair. Cripple Creek. Sept.
s; D. ]. Upton. secretary.
Larimer County Fair. Loyeiand; sept
Boulder County Fair. LonEmont. Sept.
1877; Harry E. Niven. secretary:
Phillips County Fair Holyoke' sept
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept ID
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. 1S-
saguache County Fair. Saguache. Sept.
western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept.
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept.
20-23: George R. Smith, secretary;
Inter MOUNTAIN Liye stock and Fair
Weld County Fair. Greeley. Sept. 21-2s:
pshIo Gn'Ity MSGrsry sTr manaseaa Gsseapa.,ur. Sept
W. W. Williams. secretary: -
RIG s.ni Grsnds s,s, County Fair Del Norts'
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
26-26: r. A. Hamilton. secretary. =,
Disss Mntsn Geu.sz .ssr.,s4y s!y ssss isis
Oct. as; JAMES =. Trs:.l.r; ses!e.ssIy.
k,5 Oct: crT'sn s.s j. cSI"'k X. Hefner @ @.eeTst.rs
Weiis. sept. so-24: Carroll Brown.
Ell Paso County Fair. calhan. Oct. 6-s:
D. E. Nance. secretary.
Moffst County Fair at Maybei'' Sept
Annual Monte Vista Stampede at Monte
Vista. Aug. 8. 4. 5.
An organization known rs the FEEDER.
ated W0man's Club has been organized
ut Hugo.
The Colorado Supreme Court has up.
held the validity of the election chang.
ing the county seat of Eagle county
from Red Cliff to Eagle.
An auto truck in which thirteen res
idents Of Canon City were making
trip into the mountains turned over on
a sharp curve near Guffey, and nll the
occupants were more or less injured.
A telegram received ut MontrOse
from Nat Barney, who is spending the
summer ut Vera Cruz. Calf, conveys
the Information that his 12.year-old
son, Maurice, was drowned while In
bathing at the beach there.
Word wns received in Boulder of the
death of David Hershman, pioneer of
northern Colorado, Mt Long Beach,
Calf. Mr.. Hersliman came to Colo
RADIO Immediately after the Civil war
and farmed at Loveland. Later he
moved to this city and n few years
ago to California.
Two accidents in two days occurred
on the race track Mt Granada. Irwin
Merrill, 20, of Lamar was instantly
killed when racing machine which
he was testing skidded on n muddy
stretch of the track and overturned.
Merrill was son of H. c. Merrill of
Canon City and well known there. The
other death Oco.rred when Forest Nc.
GlbbOn, 10, son of well-tO-dO farmer
living near Holly, Colo. was run down
by heavy truck on the track. Both
died before medical aid could be ad.
ministered. ~
The contract for. the completion of
the new 100000 high school at Ala
mosa has been let by the board of edu
cation. and it is expected that the
building can he completed before the
beginning of the next school term. This
school was authorized two years ago
when the people voted bond issue of
$4,000. but when the bids were opened
1t was found that owing to the great
increase In costs of materials and Ia
Dor the bond issue was several thous-
and dollars short of enough to finish
the building according to the plans.
Mount Blanca, one of the highest
mountain peaks in Colorado. was
flown over by f. +. Bowers and G. o.
Thalmndge, Colorado Springs avintOrs.
The men were flying Mt an altitude of
1850 feet when they passed over the
summit. 1t is the first time an air.
plane has ever accomplished this feat,
so far us is known.
Artie Mckee, charged with the muir.
der of his wife in Yuma county on the
afternoon of April 5, 1921, was con.
vlcted of murder in the first degree at
Akron after the jury Ind been out five
hours. Mckee has been tried twice be.
fore in Yuma county. the first trial
being hung jury and the second re-
sulting In conviction.
One man is believed to be dying with
four knife wounds In his side, another
is In critical condition with several
slashes in his body and third man
Is being held in the county Jail here
following stabbing affray, Mt Pros
pect heights, one mile south Of Canon
City. The wounded men are Frank
Snyder and Louis Pierce, both Aus.
trian smelter workers. Mike Anderson
is in jail accused of attacking the two
men.
Mrs. Katie Gertrude Bourk, % years
old, committed suicide by taking poi
son at the county hospital at Greeley.
Mrs. Bourk had given birth to u daugll-
fer at tho hOSnionl two weeks hafora