The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-09-30

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Douglas County Fair, at Castle Rock.
Oct. 10 james t.. iressier. secretary.
Kit Carson County Fair. burlington.
Oct. SIS: J. NJ. Hefner. secretary.
Ell Paso County Fair, Calhan. Oct. 6-S:
D. l. Nance. secretary.
The closing day of the fair at Mont
rose was marked by a number of acci-
dents.
Two accidents marred the program
at the Wild West show and fair in
Greeley.
An unusually large exhibit of farm
products and live stock was shown at
the Yuma County Fair.
The Adams County Fair was the
most elaborate event of the kind ever
held in that section of the state The
program of entertainment left few idle
moments.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
in the case of Harvey Gibson. accused
of the murder of his nephew, Valentine
Simon. by Il jury in the West Side
Court in Denver.
An incipient forest fire, which start
ed on Spring creek, between Craig and
the Steamboat Springs section, has
been extinguished after burning sew
eral hundred acres of small trees and
brush.
Enrolment of students in the high
and grade schools of Grand Junction
has reached 1897, and it is expected
that this number will be Increased.
The large school attendance is taken
as an indication of the growth of the
city. All of the schools are crowded
to capacity.
The will of the late William Balla-
troll, an italian Of Ouray, provided that
band play at his funeral and that
each of his pallbearers he provided
with a jug of liquor. The provisions
of the will were carried out to the let
ter when the funeral was held, accord
ing to reports.
Each day the United States Veterans
Bureau, new name for the war risk,
sends compensation and insurance
checks aggregating 17,2101O to Colo
RADIO disabled soldiers of the recent
war and their dependents. This was
revealed in statement issued in
Washington.
An automobile driven by George
Bennefiel, Walsenburg undertaken,
was caught and overturned by whirl-
wind Benefiel with his Wife and son,
Warren was on the way to Pueblo to
attend the state fair. Warren Benne-
fiel was critically hurt and his father
suffered serious injuries.
Claude Sharrar, carpenter, 3S
years old, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide i'll the base
ment of IA partly completed house on
which he was working at Hereford,
sixty miles northeast OF Greeley Two
small children of the Sharrars, one Il
baby only year and a half old, were
thes ole witness to the double shoot
ing.
The Red Cross disaster relief unit
has placed more than S27 900 in the To-
cal banks ut Pueblo as maintenance
and pension funds for 1876 flood suf-
ferers Each beneficiary will be able
to obtain stipulated sum monthly un-
| til the entire fund placed to his credit
| is exhausted. Similar deposits have
| been placed in banks at La Iunta and
| smaller towns.
| An estimated expenditure of 100000
has been recommended TO the city
council of Loveland for the enlarge
ment or reconstruction of the pipe line
| from the dam in the canon 10 the city
Several parts of the city are now with
| out water service on account of made
quate piping facilities. The recon-
mendation was made by Alderman
| ViestenZ of the water committee.
The states collection of leaf gold
from Breckenridge, said to be unsur-
passed in the world and valued at not
less than $1,000 was stolen from the
| show cases in the state mining depart
ment on the second floor of the State
Museum building, Fourteenth avenue
and Sherman street, in Denver The
collection, experts say, cannot be re-
placed
Plans for a six-day extension drive
| by the Denver Boy Scouts were laid at
a meeting of the scout committee
chairmen held in the court house in
Denver. The dates for the drive were
set at Oct. 16 TO 30. The purpose of
the campaign, it was decided. will be
to triple the present membership of
25,0o0. 1t also is planned to broaden
the efficiency and the benefits 10 both
new and old members.
The organization of Il thirtv-piece
hand and the beautiful crops of east
ern Colorado are to be Jointly eele-
brated at Seibert, oct IA. when the
first annual band barbecue and com
munity fall festival win be held. A
big program is being built around the
free barbecue beef feed, which will he
free TO the public. An auction sale of
donated articles, show, dance, etc. will
raise money for the band.
The Arapahoe County Medical Soci-
ETY. was organized at Littleton on Sent.
81. DIR. Walter c. Crysler of I.lttleton
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