The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28
(wsstsrn Newspaper Union News serlce.)
COUNTY FAIR DATES, 1921.

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i5-i7: william Feilers. secretary:
Western Slope Fair. Montrose' sept
1922.
2O-23: George r. Smith secretary.
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair.
Grand Junction, Sept 20-23. a.
Weld County Fair. Greeley, Sept. 2l-ZA'
J. f. McCrery. manager
Pueblo County Fair Goodpasture, sept.
22-23; Fred Lytle' secretary, FHep,9
Yuma COUNTY unity, Fair Fair rstarS yuma, sept. zl-i
Del Norte Fair. Del Norte. Sept. 2i.2S-
Crowley County Fair Sugar City. Aug.
Colorado State Fair, Pueblo. Sept. 20
80: j. l.. Beaman, manager:
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss; A. N
Minton, secretary.
Oct as: James f. Tressler, secretary.
Kit Carson County Fair. Burlington.
Oct 5aS J.; NJ t6r Hetneri Gbeysnee seSTeeayy Wells
oct. SIS; Carroll Brown, secretary.
Ell Paso County Fair, Calhan, Oct. 6-S;
ID. E. Nance. secretary.
The speed program of the Rocky
Mountain Racing Circuit has been
made up and starts at Fort Morgan
Aug. 1926, finishing up at Calhan
Oct. 6-S.
Fire in the basement of the Fort
Collins Express-Courier office at Fort
Collins destroyed paper stock and did
other damage estimated at $4,000.
Two men We're temporarily overcome
while fighting the fire.
Nfable lesser, the S-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry lesser,
northwest of Loveland, died very sud
denly and was buried at private flu
neral. She is the third child of this
family to die in two days, the other
two dying within few hours of each
other of diphtheria.
At a meeting of taxpayers it was
unanimously decided to instruct the
board of education to call an election
to decide on the issue of $4,000 in
bonds to enlarge the Seibert High
School building, consolidate the five
schools of the district and place the
school on the accredited list.
Henry Fowler of Branson, tried in
the District Court at Trinidad for the
murder of Joe Walters at that place
Feb. 10, was found guilty of voluntary
manslaughter by the jury, which re-
ported Fowler shot and killed Walters,
with whom he had quarreled, in pool
hall at Branson. The men were fUr-
mer friends.
A bronze memorial tablet to the
memory of Glenn Il. Bryant, former
superintendent of the Sunday school
of the United Presbyterian church at
Loveland, who was killed in battle in
the Argonne, has been received in that
city. Funds to pay for the tablet was
raised by class of boys whom he
taught in Sunday school.
In the biggest session ever held by
the State Board of Pardons at Canon
City. one life-term convict was par
doned, the sentences of six prisoners
were cOmmuted, forty-two appeals
we're denied and seven cases were con-
tinued. Harold f. Henwood, who
killed Tony Won Phul, noted aeronaut,
in the bar-room of the Brown Palace
hotel on the night of May "a, 1911, and
was sentenced to life Imprisonment,
was denied parole for the second
time by the board
Word has been received at Loveland
that C. e. Davis, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. C. Davis of Loveland, who is now
stationed with the United States army
at Fort Clark, Texas, has been pro-
NOTED to captain and at the same time
was selected captain of the polo team,
which is said TO be one of the best in
the United States army.
Mrs yonnie Smith, 20 years old,
died at Montrose, following three
hours of terrible suffering. as a result
of a large dose of poison which she
drank Two years ago Mrs Smiths
Youngest daughter died, and she has
been of melancholy disposition ever
since. Brooding over her daughters
death is said to have been the cause
of her taking the poison.
81 want to see where the bullets
come FROM" said S-year-old John Klein,
son of a prominent farmer of Iona,
near Grand Junction. The Klein boy
picked up the gun, and, with the re-
mark quoted, put his eye to the bar
rel. 1t is not known by Kroskob how
it was discharged but it is presumed
that the lad either struck the hammer
against a table or touched it with his
foot.
More than 900 applications for pros
pecting permits under the oil sections
of the leasing act of Feb. %, 192O, ana
covering the structural relations, were
reported on by the United States geo
logical survey during the past month,
according to NJ. d. McEniry, chief of
the field division of the United States
general land office in Denver. The
total number of reports rendered since
July l, 1920, is nearly $500, it was ex-
planned. Thirty-two reports were rem
dered during April on applications for
coal leases from the government, the
reports show.