The Dolores star., 1921-09-30

| oct SIS. J. NJ Hcfncr. secretary.
| EI PnSo County Fair, Calhan, oct. 6-s:
| u. l.. Nance. secretary
Jack Hyncs. fire department chief
Of Grand Junction, who was arrested
| by Denver police officials. has been re-.
! leased At the time of his arrest he
was returning 10 Grand Junction FROM
the state fire chiefs convention al
Longmont.
| Seasonal buying caused slight in
/ crease in the coal production of the
! state in August, according to report
issued by James Dalrynple, state coal
mine inspector. Production In the
twenty-Ghree coal-producing counties
equaled I117,3@9 tons.
Complete returns from county as
SCISSORS to the State immigration De
partment show the total area under
cultivation in the state this year to be
approximately 100000 acres. com
pared with J,O72340 acres reported by
county assessors for 1920 and J,052,95j
acres reported by the census bureau as
harvested in 1920. These figures, in
all cases include nntive hay. but do not
include orchards.
Ben Wolf and William Harbaugh,
crew on n Pueblo city street car, while
on their way to work, found wallet
containing $1,000 in checks and cash.
| The wallet was the property of Capt.
| L. Steele Of the United States army,
who went through Pueblo with the
| Ninth infantry troops en- route south
from Fort Logan, and who had lost it
while on his way to where his men
We're encamped over hight.
William Terry. a farmer living one
mile south of the La .Iuuta, was killed
almost Instantly by the accidental dis
| charge of a shotgun. Terry was NOW
| ing Il patch of cane and discovered
skunk in the field and was carrying
the gun with him on the moving ma
chine, when it slipped down into the
moving parts of the machine and was
! discharged. Terry was hit in the
stomach and died almost Immediately.
Six prizes, aggregating $50, We're
awarded to six youngsters of Love.
| land for keeping the best looking
lawns from May 10 Sept |. Effe
May Walker got first prize, SO; Wei
| don Riker second, $50; CIatha Wari-
ner third. 81. Peter Weiglc. May
Wright and Martha Fischer received
fourth, fifth and sixth. 1t was de-
| cided by the business men who Of
fered the prizes at the first of the sea
son to make the good lawn contest.
that was originally started TO prevent
spread of the dandelion, an annual af-
| fair. Children under - years Old
We're allowed to enter, and about thir-
ty We're in the contest.
An educational exhibit, presenting
the work of five bureaus, will be
shown this year mt the Colorado State
Fair by the L. S. Department of Agri.
culture. Models of earth and gravel
roads; pictures of forest roads; fed,
| cral aid roads. irrigation and samples
of rond building materials in their
proper proportion, are among the fea-
lures which will be displayed by the
bureau of public roads. \ model of
an "Oliver house and colony growing
house. and colOred pictures of loco
weed will be shown by the bureau of
animal industry. The Biological Sur
very will feature pictures in colors of
the Townsend mole, Richardson
| ground squirrel, prairie dog, various
| predatory animals and ways of cxter.
minating these hindrances to farming
and stock business. A cabinet OF
mounted birds, showing some of the
more beneficial ones, will also be on
| display.
Women students. arriving for the
| opening of the fall quarter nj Colorado
| State Teachers College, Oct. 8, will
| find awaiting them three attractive
buildings equipped with all the con.
Neniences and artistic features of mod.
ern women's dormitorics.
Approval of Denver as staff head.
| quarters of the 1O3rd Reserve division
| United States army, has been received
| by the commission of army Officers
| for the purpose of selecting Officers
| for the units that will compose the di.
| vision. Announcement of Denver ms
headquarters was made by Col. Harp
X. Lee, head of the commission and
the man who has been selected as cliiet
of staff of the division
There are 59,934 farms in the stat.
of Colorado out of a total of 6,44S, ,36C
farms in the United States, according
TO the United States census figures. OF
the farms in the United Stntes G11S,.
DOG report havHlg pure bred live stock
OF the 59,93I farms in Colorado, 5G93e
report having domestic animals and
the figures show for the stock on Colo
RADIO farms: 420,704 horses, S,7Sl pure
bred; l,I56GlG cattle, 33,GlO pure bred
l,Sl3,2JJ sheep, 10,47S pure bred; 81.
9O6 swine, 3,245 pure bred.
The body of man believed 10 be
sam u. SamarZich of Seattle, Wash.
was found with bullet hole in the
right temple at the crossing of Pars
avenue and the lnterurban railroad In
Boulder. a revolver was found neai
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