The Ordway new era., 1921-09-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western s.-.p.p.r Union Se-, serice.)
COMING EVENTS.

| COMING EVENTS.
| Western Slope Fair. Montrose Sept
Cheyenne County Fair Cheyenne
| Well.. Sept 20-2+: Carroll Brown.
Sec
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept
| aO-a3: George r. smith. secretary.
| Weld County Fair. Greeley. Sept. 2l-23'
| J. f. McCreiy manager >,
Pueblo County Fair. Goodpasture, Sept.
22-23: Fred I.yti-. secretary, Pueblo:
| Yuma County Fair. Yuma sept sl-z4'
W. W. Williams. secretary.
Farm Bureau Fair Byers. Colo. sept
2l-22-23. II. Il. Teller secretary; ,
| Crowley County Fair. Sugar city. Aux
1926: II. 4. Hamilton. secretary. =.
HSeifana se a. a. eama" Gemty Fair W,lseneurs.
DOUGLAS County Fair. at Castle Rock.
Oct. 3. 4. 5.
oct 4-6: James L. Tressler. secretary.
Kit Carson County Fair. burlington.
Oct. SIS: ]. NJ. Hetuer. secretary,
e. l'ssu Comfy Fair. calhan. Oct 6-s'
ID. E. Nance. secretary.
Many new and novel exhibits from
far eastern and southern stnreS are an
nounced as coming to This years, Colo
RADIO State Fair mt Pueblo, while there
will he entertaining features never be
fore seen in the West.
Flood waters in the Las Animas val
ley caused II loss of SSH per farm, or II
total of S3l 800. for thiriy-seven prop
erty holders. according To n report
made in Durango at Il meeting of res
idents of the valley in July.
The left hand of George Kollmer,
rancher, living two miles north of
Fort Collins. was severed in an ensil-
age cutter at his ranch. He was taken
to Fort Collins to IL hospital, where it
was said his condition is serious.
More boys We're born in l.oveand
during August than girls, according to
the report of Dr. Joslyn, keeper of vi
tai statistics, which shows eight boys
and six girls born, as against death
rate of but five during the month.
Branch offices of the veterans bu-
reau will be established In Colorado
Springs Ocr. l, according to announce
ment made by an official of the organ
lzntiOn, with headquarters in Wash
ington. The work will he under the di-
rect supervision of DIR. A. +. Cornell
of Denver.
AT meeting the Pueblo Rotary
Club authorized Treasurer c. w. Pres
Sey 70 send TO the people of san An
tonic, Texas, through the Rotary Club
of that city. the sympathy of the local
people and a check for $500 to he used
in flood relief. The city commissions
ers have also sent message.
All evidence of walkout in the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company mines
of southern Colorado disappeared
when workmen who have been laying
off or Joining in a sO-called protest strike
against the reduction of wages, effec-
tive Sept. l, returned TO work under
the ruling of the State Industrial Com
mission, which restored the wage scale
in effect prior to Sept. 1.
A 14-year-old boy. Horace Mcknight
of Grand Junction, found 81 800 in cur
rency and turned il. over to the sheriff
Sheriff Frank Ducray said he believed
it was part of the $4,000 taken from
the Garfield County State Bank at
Grand Valley in a robbery on July 5.
The money was in heavy pouch in
the weeds back of the Denver K Rio
Grande Western railroad round house
Sidney Fl. Bourne, 30 years old, suf.
fered fracture of the skull in a fall
down two stories to the basement of
the town hall Of Littleton. He is at
Mercy hospital. His condition is seri.
Gus. County authorities said Bourne
was in the habit of calling at the town
hall to go to lunch with his friend
Claude Cartwright, county treasurer
Of Arapahoe county. He evidently in
tended to enter the council chamber OF
the second floor but instead entered
another door, lost his balance and fell
A bicycle speed test, undertaken by
Leonard Brown, a moving picture oper.
ator, on one of the paved streets OF
Fort Morgan, cost him three teeth, q
severe shaking and bicycle. Brown
was speeding south in an effort TO keep
up with an automobile. He turned
west but didn't turn soon enough and
the wheel struck the curbing. The
forks of the bicycle crumpled under
the impact and Brown hurtled through
the air. He landed on the pavement
and his jaw struck the curbing, knock.
ing out three teeth.
Despite the slump in values of prop
erty of all kinds, the assessed valua
tion of taxable property in Colorado
will show decrease of. only about
S25,OOO,QOO this year, according to re
ports from county assessors being re
ceived by the Colorado Tax Commits
sion. To date little more than hall
Of the counties have reported their as
sessment figures. At the present tax
rate the loss In revenue to the state
will be approximately 100000. 1t had
been estimated that the shrinkage In
the assessments would be about $780,.
100000 at the beginning of the year
and the present showing has proved