The Ordway new era., 1922-09-15
CRISP
COLORADO
NEWS
COMING EVENTS

Sept. 1916 - BAcS County EAiT.
SEPT. i5-1e-AdAn,s County Fair.
sspt, Is-ls-conet0s County Fair.
= sept I.-ls-Elsers coansy Fair.
SEPT. 1872 Western slope Fair,
sept TrtniaAd-I-as AniuA,
County Fair. Trinidad
sept -o-si - hiOwa County Fair.
sept 20. q. 22-Morssn Agricultural
Sep;. sc-@s-itio Graude County Fair.
Sept. IS. -Pues;o County Fair.
sept se-ss-IuraA County Fair.
Sept -I-.s-n PasO County Fair
sept n-:s-Lineoln County Fair.
sept. -o-.s-HuerfanO County Fair.
Oct 5-sSKit Carson County Fair,
Oct Douglas County Fair.
Castle Roek-
Holyoke.-A whirlwind Of entertain
nent was given visitors 10 the Phillips
county fair here
Durango.-W. D. Ewing has been
| awarded the contract Tor the construc-
I ton of a school building in the Breen
district in Durango.
/ Pueblo.-ColuSlon OF his motorcycle
| with wagon here caused the instant
death of X. SenJena, -, of the Pike
/ View mine, near Colorado Springs.
| Fleming-Mrs. John J. Vorlander, 81
/ years old, was instantly killed by
| lightning while sitting in the kitchen
/ OF the 4. ID. butcher home near Elem
/ ing, Colo.
Pueblo.-A mysterious shot from the
darkness killed Edward Henderson,
Rocky Ford automobile salesman, as
lie was driving along Il country road
with a friend.
Loveland.-Hiram Il. Smith, resi-
dent of Loyeland since 1879, and jus
ice of the peace for twenty years, is
dead ut his home in Loveland, after an
illness of several months.
Castle Rock.-Dr. George ). Mason,
widely known Denver dentist, was
crushed to death beneath the steering
wheel of his motor car when it plunged
over a tweuty-fOot emuanKmenJ near
here
Pueblo-Hlgh water in the Arkan-
sas river washed out an approach to "A
bridge on the Denver x Rio Grande
Western railroad near Portland, Colo,
twenty-five miles west of Pueblo,
few days ago
Longmont.-As a part of the pro-
gram on the opening day of the Boul-
der county fair here, the new $4,000
grandstand, said to be the first con-
crete and steel structure of its kind in
the state, was dedicated at Roosevelt
park.
Greeley.-Bert j. Lowe, charged
with the murder of Edna Fern Skin
ner, pretty 22-year-old school teacher
and student in the summer school of
the State Teachers College, on July .,
had his trial set by Judge George II.
Bradfield for Oct. 10.
PueblO.-Pueblo retailers, jobbers
and manufacturers will start Sept. II
on a trade extension tour of western
slope towns. a band will accompany
the party and will play for impromptu
dances in the towns visited The tour
will extend through a week.
Golden.-Joe Sherer, II, was taken
to the state reformatory at Buena Wis
ia to serve an indeterminate sentence
for robbing bathers at Lakeside Sher-
er was employed at the bathing beach
and had charge of boxes in which
swimmers deposited their valuables.
\ series of thefts from these was
traced to Sherer, who is said to have
admitted his guilt. Sherer came to
Golden recently from California
Plattevllle.-The Superior Milling
Company has purchased the plant and
equipment in Platteville of the Nation
al Alfalfa Products Company.
Grand Junction.-Grand functions
"man of mystery" came to himself re
Gently and solved the riddle of his
| identity which has been battling Grand
Junction authorities since Aug. q He
| identified himself as Dorr Bartholf,
son of w. E. Bartholf of Seattle, and
gave his age as 81 years. He declared
he had been struck on the head in
small town in the Northwest, on the
| Oregon Short Line railroad, two years
ago. 1t Is believed he had wandered
| about since that time.
Denver-Heavy declines in many of
the important crops of Colorado dur
ing July and August 1 figures much
below the ten-year average, with a
composite condition figure for all
crops of the state equalling 90S per
cent of the ten-year average, decline
of 81 points during July, compared
with composite condition of all
crops of the state of 104.4 per cent on
Aug. l, last year, are the salient fea-
lures of this months crop report of