The Colorado statesman., 1921-09-24


Douglas County Fair, at Castle Rock.
oct. O. T. 5.
oct. 90 Jsines y. Tresslsr, seeretary
Kit Cntson- County Fair. darlington,
oct 5-S; !. NJ. li"fucr. secretary.
IL IuSo County FHlr, Cnihan. oct SIS,
u. l.. Nance, SECRETARY.
At Il meeting the Pueblo Rotary
Club authorized Treasurer 9. w. Pres
sey TO send to the people of san An.
tonic. Texas, through The Rotury Club
Of that city, the sympathy of the local
people and II check for $500 to he used
in flood relief. The city commission.
ers hnve also sent message.
Complete returns from county as
SCISSORS to the State Immigration De.
partment show the total area under
cultivation I'm the state this year To be
approximately 5,3TO.OOO acres. com.
pared with 5.O72,34O acres reported by
county assessurs for 1920 and 5,OJ2,9J
ucrps reported by ths census bureau as
harvested in 1920. These figures, in
all cases include native huy, but do not
include orchards
Ben Wolf and William Harbaugh
crew on Pueblo city street car, while
on their way To work. found Il wallet
containing $1,000 i'm checks and cash
The wallet was the property Of Capt
c. Steele Of the United States army
who went through Pueblo with the
Ninth Infantry troops en route soutt
from Fort Logan, and who had lost il
while ON his way to where his mer
were encamped over night.
Willlmm Terry, a farmer living ont
mile south Of the La Junta, was killed
almost instantly by the accidental dis
charge of II shotgun. Terry was NOW
ing II patch of cane and discovered .
skunk in the field and was carrying
the gun with him ON the moving ma
chine, when it slipped down into the
moving parts of the machine and was
discharged Terry was hit in the
stomach and died almost Immediately.
There are 59,934 farms I'm the state
of Colorado out of Il total of 6,44S,36d
farms I'm the United States, according
to the United States census figures. OF
the farms in the United States 6,11S,
956 report having pure bred live stock.
OF the 5993I farms in Colorado, 5693s
report having domestic animals and
the figures show for the stock on Colo
RADIO farms 1907 horses, S,7Sl pure
bred; 1.T56616 cattle, 33,6l0 pure bred !;
1,S13.255 sheep, 10,47S pure bred; 81,
9O6 swine, 3,245 pure bred.
Sidney H. Bourne, 80 yenrs old, sur
fcred fracture of the skull In a fall
down two stories to the basement Of
the town hall of I.IttletOn. lie Is at
Mercy hospitn. 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 Arnpahoe county. lie evidently in
tended to enter the council chamber of
the second floor but instead entered
another door. lost his balance and fell
SIX prizes, aggregating $50, were
awarded to six youngsters Of Love
land for keeping the best looking
lawns from May l TO Sept. |. Effle
May Walker got first prize. SO; Wei
don Rlker second, $3.50; Clatha Wari-
ner third, So. Peter Welgle, May
Wright and Martha Fischer received
fourth, fifth and sixth. 1t was de-
cided by the business men who of
fered the prizes at the first of the sea-
son to make the good lawn contest,
that was originally started to prevent
spread of the dandellon, an annual af-
fair. Children under Is years old
a.,
ty We're In the contest.
Jack Hynes, fire department chief
OF Grand Junction, who was arrested
by Denver police officials. has been re.
leased. AT the time of his arrest he
was returning to Grand Junction from
the state fire chiefs convention at
Longmont.
An educational exhibit, presenting
the work of five bureaus, Will be
shown this year at the Colorado State
Fair by the u. s. Department OF Agri
culture. Models of earth and gravel
ronds; pictures of forest roads; fed
eral mid ronds, irrigation and samples
of road building materials in their
proper proportion. are among the fen
lures which will be displayed by the
bureau of public roads. a model of
an "Ollver house and colony growing
house." and colored pictures of loco
weed will be shown by the bureau OF
animal industry. The Biological Sur
very viii feature pictures in colors OF
the Townsend mole, Richardson
ground squirrel, prairie dog, various
predatory animals and ways of eNter
minating these hindrances TO farming
and stock business A cabinet of
mounted birds, showing some of the
more beneficial ones VIII also be on
display.
Statistics gathered by the Colorado
Immigration Department show that the
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