The Arvada enterprise., 1921-08-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.

U-Sept. - Soe - A0"S'soA' soSAS.
r.Ii.s County Fair. Cripple Creek. Sept.
&: b, ]. Upton. secretary.
L.rimsr County Fair; Lovsi.nd; Sept.
inter Mountain Live stock and Fair.
brand Junction, Sept. -.
x:sf:t County Fair At Aaye'''' Sept
S1S.aeaI 1saN.a; Harry Harry =. Nivsn, secretary. ~
Paiilips County Fair Ho'yoks' Sept.
Routt ,t County Fair. Hayden. Sept. IL
La.:u =; County seiI1. Fsi1. stsriias. Sept. Is
IL; c. J. Funk. manager.
Hinton. secretary: Sept. l3-ls.
is"i7; william Feliers. secretary.
western Slope Fair. Nontross. Sept.
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Arrangemsnts are being made BY
American Beet Sugar Company to
start their factory at Rocky Ford Sept.
16 Beet harvest will begin about
sept. 8. The crop in this section ap-
psars to be the best In years and the
campaign promises to be one Of the
longest In the history Of the factory.
An unmasked man held up three
clerks at the Broadmoor hotel at Colo
rado Springs and took $150 out of the
money drawer, rounded up the clerks,
two bellboys and 4 telephone operator
into the elevator, ordered them to ride
to the top floor, and escaped IN an
automobile from which he forced the
occupants to alight.
G. A. Finch, president Of the Colo
rado Anti-saloon League, In an address
at Colorado Spring.. said the fight be-
Ing made in this country against the
eighteenth amendment is being staged
BY English brewers. He intimated that
workers for the amendment faced q
harder fight to enforce the law than
they did to secure it, passage.
The Berthoud city council has de-
cldsd to discontinue the giving of free
light for porch lights in town. because
the light company asserts that many
people have been hooking electrical
appliances to these lights and using
the free current for housework, and
also because many Of them were never
turned on at nights - was intended.
Run down by 4 motor truck while
crossing highway bridge at Glenwood
springs, Iris Mangnall, II years old,
daughter Of H. J. Mansnall, was in
stantly killed. The girl dodgsd one
machine and stepped directly in the
path Of the big truck. Deacon at.
tempted to stop his machine, but the
wheels skidded on the plank flooring
Of the bridge, struck and run over the
little girl.
The city Of Fort Collins has Just
purchased water right that will in.
crease Its available supply Of water
for domestic, irrigation and fire pur.
poses by one-eight, increasing its total
water volume from 7.151 feet per sec.
ond to sO01 feet. The additional .s5
foot per second acquired cost the city
1928. The water right was obtained
from ditch No. l, division No. 1. dis.
trict 3, known - the J. H. Yeager
ditch, and 10 an excellent acquisition
as It has all priorities.
An inspection trip Of the Colorado
to-Gulf highway will be made by the
executive officers Of the North Star
Highway Association Of Colorado, Ne.
braska and the Dakotas the second
week In September. The trip will be
mfue in conjunction with the Colo
rndo-to-Gulf Highway AS90elDAsnsssAe
cording to plans being worked out at
present by G. n. Walker. president Of
that organization, and e. r. Kielgas,
president Of the North Star organiza.
'ion in Sedswick.
Edgar T. Conquest has been nomi.
mated to be register Of the land office,
Sterling. Colo, and James D. Gallup.
to he register Of the land office, Buf.
falo. Wyo.
Chicken thisves and allied crafts are
waEinE 4 strong campaign upon the
town Of wellington. Every night
dozen or more roosts have been
robbed. garden truck 10 pulled up. and
two fivs-galloo cans Of gasoline were
stolen from an irrigation well.
The largest increase in acreage
grown under irrigation shown for any
crop In the decade IL for alfalfa. The
census bureau showed that 659.0l2
acres Of alfalfa was grown under irri.
cation In Colombo In 1919, compared
With 4SO,5e6 acres y 1909. There was
also 4 considerable Increase in acreage
q alfalfa grown without irrigation.
the census bureau reports showing
That ~ per cent Of all alfalfa grown
In the state n 1909 was irrigated.
while only ~ pr cent Of It was ir-
risated IN 1919. Records Of the State
Immigration Department show that
me acreage Of alfalfa grown without
Irrigation In eastern Colorado coun-
t'es 10 Increasing rather rapidly each
year.
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