The Ordway new era., 1922-07-28
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS
COMING EVENTS.

Aug. 2-4-Stampece Monse 'S1,s,,.x
Fair. Loveland. r,,-
sem. s-s- Boulder County Fair.
Sept s-s-InternountaIn Fair and
| stock Show. Grand Junction.
Sept 5-s-Philiips County AT
hs Sept. e-s-wsshington County Fair.
SEPT. 1a-15-Delta County Fair.
Sept. Is-is-weld County Fair. Gree
Sept. l2-1s-LaPlatta County Fair.
SEPT. 12-is-Logsn County Fair
Sept. 1916 - Baca County Fair
sept is-1s-Adams County Fair.
sept 14-ls-conejos County Fair.
sepI 14-ls-Elbert County Fair.
Sept 1s-?2-western Slope Fair.
Sept. 1872 2-TrinidadLas Aniruas
sept. :o-aI-Kiowa County Fair.
Sept 2o-e2-RiO Grande County Fair.
Sept. 21-22-PuebiO County Fair.
sept .i-ss-El PasO County Fair.
Sept :l-2s-Lincoln County Fair.
| Hugo.
Leroy.-The Consolidated school dis
triet at Leroy has voted bond issue
Of $4,000 for the erection of a school
building
BouIder.-Neil Borden of this city
has been appointed assistant to the
dean of the Harvard University Col
lege of Business and has left for Cam
bridge 10 begin his work. He was
graduated from Cambridge last June
with special honors.
victor.-Because the woman with
whom he had been keeping company
refused to agree 10 marry him. Charles
W. Dingwall, Il barber employed in
the shop of W. W. Bonner, committed
suicide here. He shot himself through
the left lung and died almost imme-
diately.
Sterling. - County commissioners
from nine northern Colorado counties
unanimously indorsed the proposed So
OOO.OOU bond issue to be spent on state
highways at a meeting held here. The
counties compose the Ninth district
and Include Adams, Logan, Phillips,
Sedgwick, Yuma, Morgan, Washington,
Weld and Arapahoe counties.
Grand Junction.-Accused of for
gerry, Nels Nelson of Telluride killed
himself at the Mesa county jail here
by swallowing poison. He was said TO
have left Telluride after passing bad
check for $500. Nelson was arrested
later at Eagle, where he was working
under the name of Aim. Jail officials
who searched him allowed him to keep
bottle which he told them contained
medicine.
Trnidad.-Nash Fernandez, who
conducted a pool hall at Segundo,
coal camp near here, and who also o7-
Grated a taxi line, died here from a
bullet wound near the heart inflicted
by his wife, Mrs. Rosita Fernandez.
Fernandez was shot as he lay in bed
following "a quarrel in which his wife
had accused him of Intimacy with an
other woman. After thes hooting, Mrs.
Fernandez came into Trinidad and sur
rendered herself.
NplilIuSl'
cial Club has caused notices to be
posted through a greater part of the
state announcing that the Silverton-
Ouray highway, the scenic route tc
Mesa Verde, is open for travel. The
road is reported in good condition ane
will be open until Aug. Is, and per
haps even later. If the road is closed
- q nltrt
promises that notices will be published
in Denver and other Colorado news
papers.
Castle Rock-A fire of unknown
origin swept the hillsides a mile west
of Larkspur. Scores of summer resi-
dents in the cottages on Larkspur
Heights deserted their homes, taking
their possessions with them. Fear that
the wind and the dry countryside
might cause the flames TO veer from
their westward course prompted the
residents to move.
Rocky Ford.-An educational depart
nent has been added to the features
of the Arkansas Valley Fair. and $50
prizes will be offered for school chill
dren in Otero county. Heretofore the
exhibits of children have been in de-
partments also open to adults. The
change is due to efforts on the part of
Superintendent Walters of the public
schools here.
Denver.-"The coal operators, as
well as all other classes of producers
Of the necessities of life, must play
fair with the people of this state
That was the statement contained in
a proclamation issued by Governor
Shoup to the effect that military
forces will be withdrawn from the coal
fields of the state if coal operators
attempt making advances in prices OF