The Dolores star., 1921-06-24
Western Newspaper Union News service.l
COUNTY FAIR DRTEs, 1921.

"sstcIh oiopo rdir, hohtrose' oeps'
Adams County EaIr. Brighton. Sept
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair,
Grand Junction. Sept. 2o-23.
Weld County Fair. Greeley. Sept. HIS:
J. F. McCrery. manager.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 21-24:
w; w. Williams. secretary;
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug.
25-26: R. A. Hamilton. secretary.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept 26-
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss: A. N.
Minton. secretary.
Huerfano County Fair. Walsenburg.
Kit Carson County Fair. Burlington.
Oct. SIS; J.. NJ. Hefner. secretary.
cheyene County Fair Cheyenne
Ell Paso County Fair. calhan. Oct SIS:
d. L. Nance. secretary.
Florence seemed to be in the direct
path of the recent terrific cloudburst
and hailstorm. There was no loss of
life but property damage will reach in
to the hundreds of thousands, it Is es-
timated.
George II. Walton, "a years old, said
" DS ii Itlilcu JN"Vitl VI
Pa, dropped dead of heart disease as
he was climbing Green Mountain on
the way to Royal Arch, u scenic spot
two miles from Boulder.
Just north of Berthoud the last of
the series of cloudbursts that swept
Colorado broke and flooded the busi-'
ness section of the city. Damage to
the crops in that vicinity will run up
into several thousands of dollars.
Mrs. A. ]. Mclaughlin was killed oy
the discharge of shotgun in the
hands of the 4-year-old son of w. j.
Thompson. garage man, at kim.
Mrs. Mclaughlin was one of the pio-
neer settlers of eastern Las Animas
county.
Harry Stewart, son of Mrs. Pearl
Jolliff of Boulder, was given military
funeral upon return of the body from
France, where he died during the war.
The American Legion conducted the
funeral, providing military escort and
firing squad for the funeral. The
casket was wrapped in an American
flag, and buried in the Loveland bur-
ial park
Company NJ, 177th infantry, Colo
RADIO Nationar Guard, with Nelson d.
Wells of Fort Morgan us captain, has
been given federal recognition by the
war department. In short time a
Local armory costing $4,000 will be
built by the state and will be fully
equipped In every way for the COM
pany, which comprises nearly seventy
five men and officers.
A memorial hall to cost S65,OOO is to
be erected at the Modern Woodmen
sanitarium, fifty miles north of Colo
RADIO Springs, within the next year as
a monument to the 1000 members of
the order who lost their lives in mill
tary service during the Worlds war.
The names of these men will probably
be cast in succession of bronze tab
lets, which will be placed In the build
ing.
All of the civic organizations OF
Boulder are working hard on plan
for Fourth of July celebration that
will eclipse anything of its kind ever
held north of Denver. Different parts
of the general program have been as
signed to civic organizations in an
effort to secure their support and a
friendly rivalry that will make the
celebration great success.
Damage from flood waters in Weld
county is expected to total more than
$75O,OOO, according to reports. Many
bridges have been washed away and
at least 10000 acres of crops have been
destroyed. The damage to roads in the
county also is increasing, as result
of high waters in the Platte and Cache
la Poudre rivers and the overfowing
of other streams in the county.
Colorado Springs this summer will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
the city's founding. The celebration
will be in the form of an elaborate pa
geant depicting life in the Pixies Peak
region, from the earliest history down
to the present day. Representatives of
the Ute Indian tribe will be brought
from the reservation in southwestern
Colorado to assist in the pageant.
Canon City and vicinity, although
hard hit by the big storm, did not fare
as badly as other places further down
the Arkansas valley. There was no
loss Of human life, so far as known,
but considerable livestock was killed.
Many farms md. truck gardens We're
ruined so far as this years crops are
concerned.
Fully thirty houses were washed
from their foundations and some OF
them carried several hundred yards on
the crest of the flood that descended
on Erie as the waters In Coal creek
raised during the recent cloudburst.