The Arvada enterprise., 1921-08-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.
Morxsn County Fair, Fort Morgan.
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Aug. so-sept. .: J. l.. Miller. sscre-
Washington County Fair. Akron. Aug.
Teller County Fair. Cripple Creek. Sept.
.; ID. J. Upton. secretary
Larimer County Fair. Loveland. Sept.
b-S: j. w. Thompson, secretary.
Aoffat County Fair at Maybcl. sept.
FramtOn Russell was cranking his
machine ut Ioveland 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 II Colo
RADIO DOy. He was resident of Red
Cliff, where his father, ]. H. MOckett,
Is Il prominent mining man.
During terrific thunder storm. the
din of which drowned out the sound
of their activities, IN unknown num-
her 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 emf
bile this resort to accommodate more
people. The cost of the structure was
$4,000. 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 500 per
sons
The country population Of Colorado
las been increasing for the past TWEEN
ty years, although the per cent Of the
population that IL from the country
rural population Of Colorado In 1900
was 2O2, $50: In 1910. 297. 427 In 1920.
1877. 1893. In 1900. 81 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 aud
baseball games will be the daily fea-
lures Of the annual fair of the Deer
Trail Fair Association Aug. IS, 10 and
70. The ball games will be between
the Deer Trail team and those Of
Strasburg, Byers and Hugo; and
haprLfnr ron hp,,l
ing steer will be specialties during
the fair. The general exhibit Of agri-
cultural products, cattle, hogs. sheep
and h0rses 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
report made to the State Public
Utilities Commission by william Reid
one of It's inspectors, after n trip
through Logan and northeastern Weld
counties. The wheat crop. Reid re.
ports, Is one of the best ever harvest.
ell In this section of the state. The
commission Will make every effort to
assist the farmers In obtaining cars
and getting their crops to market.
There now Is In the hands of the
American Red Cross x35O,0OO for the
relief Of the persons rendered homeless
by the food which swept down upon
Pueblo, Colo, early In June. This
amount consists Of the original $685.
OO contributed by the National Red
Cross when the first news Of the seri.
Gus situation was flashed over the
country, 3l25.OOO contributed by Amer
lean Red Cross chapters In response to
appeals from President Harding and
National Red Cross officials, and ~.
proximsteiy 1125.OOO contributed by
Colorado cities.
Dry land wheat that has Just been
threshed on the G. A. Jeffries farm
ran fOrty.flve bushels, machine meas
ure, to the acre. and weighed out
sixty.tw0 pounds 10 the bushcl, which
Is almost . record for dry land wheat
In Larimer county. The ShOwnlter
wheat In the same district averaged
forty bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Amelia CsciiInes, ~, wife Of
Tony Cachines, II farmer northeast Of
Bloomfield. was killed when II horse
hitched to u buggy ran away and she
was thrown out. her neck being
broken. She wns 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 mil when the
horse 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 -. when he was drowned while
going to the rescue of his brother,
who had been caught In the swollen
flood waters ut that time, the body OF
Charles Bryont, Jr. S-year.old sou Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bryant. was re-.
covered from the river IN II badly de.
composed condition.
Colorado us Q c0ai.producing state