The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-09-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
Meffst ef,o County Fair at Maybeli. Sept.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
,.i.Su,lG larry =. Niven, secretary.
7n16 County Fair. Holyoke. Sept.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept. IL
l6; b. T. Shelton, secretary.
Logan County Fair. Sterling, Sept. 1s-
10; q. ]. Funk, manager
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss; A. N.
saM,,achs Mint9n; ces,s,s sesrstsry A Sept. 1916.
15-17: William Feiiers secretary.
western Slope Fair. Montrose. Sept
cheyenns County Fair, cheyenne
Welis. Sept. 1924; Carroll Brown.
Adam. County Fair. brighton. Sept
Weld County Fair. Greeley. Sept. ai-2s;
RIG S.ne ar:nds ,1dsa County Fair. Del Norts.
Pueblo County Fair Goodpasture, Sept.
xz.2s; Fred Lytle. secretary. Pueblo
Farm Bureau Fair Byers, Colo, Sept
2l-2z.1s. H. B. Teller, secretary.
crSwisy sSss County ~ Eais; ,i;; Sugar city: Aug.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 2e-
80: J. l.. Beaman. manager.
fhauesisno faosr5s County Fair Walsenburg.
Oct. 3. 4, s.
Oct: as: James E. Tressler. secretary.
XII Carson County Fair. Burlington.
Ei Peso County Fair, Calhan. Oct. s-s:
d. =. Nance. secretary.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs will hold their annual conyen-
ton at Colorado Springs Sept 20 to
a.
The trial Of william Riley Hill,
charged with the murder Of his 10
year-old step-dapghter, Helen Maxine
Short. July %. near Derby, Colo, has
been continued by District Judge
johnson Of Brighton until Oct. 12.
Boulder is going to Loveland to ask
for the 1922 convention Of the Colo
RADIO Firemen's Convention and to par
ticipate in the hose-coupling and lad
der contests provided in the program
for paid fire departments. Fire Chief
Emil johnson will present the invita-
tion in behalf of the city of Boulder.
Eleven teams trained in various
phases Of fire work, including ladder
climbing, hose coupling, straIghtway
hose races. wet. test hose races and
foot races, will battle for the seven
silver trophies and 1880 cash prizes
at the state firemen's convention,
which will be held in Loveland Sept.
s, 6, z. 8 and 9.
The use Of army airplanes for fire
protection in western forests will be
discontinued next summer, Secretary
Weeks announced, because "the larg-
er reduction now being made in ap-
propriations" permitted expenditures
for only the most necessary strictly
military needs" Mr.. Weeks made this
statement in a letter to Secretary Wal
lace. who had asked for army aid in
protecting timber lands In the West.
Property owners in the Greeley Pou-
DIRE district are adhering to their de-
termination not to pay the tax of
$27.6S an acre which was levied
against their lands last fall for the re-
tirement of the bonds of the irrigation
district which have matured. This
will add two and quarter millions of
dollars to Weld county's list of delin-
Quent taxes this fall, prorated among
361 property owners, according to their
acreage.
The Loveiand Rotary Club has taken
the boy question in hand. Deciding
that the Boy Scout movement is one
of the best builders of manly charac-
ter, the Rotarians are preparing to
establish a scout camp in the cafion
along the Thompson river. A COM
mittee Of four members of the club
and Scoutmaster Armstrong went to
the hills to look over sites and de-
cided on the location. Construction Of
the camp will be started at once, and
will be completed for occupancy next
summer.
Frank J. Hagenbarth, president of
the National Wool Growers Associa-
ton, which held joint meeting al
Salt Lake with the American National
Live Stock Association, declared in an
address that the present will be the
last bad year" for stockmen in that
conditions are becoming stabilized. He
asserted that the live stock men could
look with confidence to the future.
Lee Seuniga is dead in Durango
from a gunshot wound inflicted July
25 by Luciano Cienfeugos during a
quarrel over a hayrack the former is
said to have borrowed from the latter
two years ago and never returned.
Both men were armed and both were
wounded. Seuniga was shot through
the lung and Cienfeugos received
bullet in the arm.
Sixty of the leading business men of
Boulder took the trip to Arapahoe gla-
cier, where meeting of the CONNER
cial Association was held. This was
the first meeting Of commercial
body ever held on living glacier. The
Pathe Weekly took a movie of the
meeting. The glacier is located twen-
ty-five miles west of Boulder at the
foot of the Arapahoe peaks and at the
head Of the Boulder water system.
Reports from a number of local