The Raymer enterprise., 1911-02-23
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth, Telling.

Work on the sanitary sewer will be
started soon in Colorado Springs.
Judge James l. Mccain, a Colo
rado pioneer, is dead at Greeley.
Burglars entered a Pueblo pawn
shop and took $3.50 worth of jewels.
An effort will be made this year to
give Sterling good base ball team.
A bridge across the Grand river at
Grand Junction is to be built soon.
The Farmers Union has closed a
two days session in Colorado Springs.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook will lecture
In Grand Junction ON February eth.
With Mrs. J. S. Harrison as post,
mistress the postoffice at Gill has been
opened.
Frederick Kruse, former mayor OF
Central City and a Colorado pioneer,
is dead.
During the year 1910 Colorado shoe
factories turned out s35O.0OO worth Of
shoes.
The Western Slope Teachers Con-
.ention will be held in Grand Junction
April 1st.
VIM. H. Madden, railroad man of
Salida, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself.
The Ohio Society Of Colorado will
hold its annual meeting in Denver
March 4th. ,.-s ,4-.
Oil has been struck in n well near
Lamar, as result of years of labor
and much expense.
The Ladies' Civic Club of Durango
have inaugurated movement to
teautify the city.
lrrigationists are rejoicing over the
recent snowfall at the head of the
Poudre river and on the Grand
Logan county's first Annual Poultry
Show which has just closed, was one
CT the most successful ever held in
the state.
Three big steam shovels are at
work on the grade for the Colorado &
Southern extension from Wellington
10 Cheyenne.
Encouraging developments continue
at the oil well near Lamar and there
is every evidence of an extensive
flow OF oil.
Work on excavation has begun on
the new armory for the Windsor
militia company. The building will
cost about $4,000.
Rev G. A. Monroe, pastor of the
First Congregational church of Grand
Junction has ordered regular paid ad-
Nertisements in the newspapers.
Butler Dlsman. son of Benjamin
Disman, of Salda, has been appointed
assistant to Thomas Ward, Jr., United
States district attorney for Colorado.
Quite a number of fruit men of
the Arkansas valley are preparing to
nudge this spring at any time that
Jack Frost comes nipping around.
AT mass meeting at Fort Lupton,
II was voted by 80 per cent of the tax.
payers to take steps toward secur-
Ing municipal water system by
special election for n bond issue.
a bullsnake measuring six feet in
length and as large about the body as
4 mans wrist, was run over and cut
to pieces by the wheels Of a street
car In Grand Junction.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
{ perates and maintains first.class din.
ing stations at Pueblo, Sallda, Mln-
turn. Grand Junction, Helper, Thistle
end Wilby.
Charles L. McGruder, negro lieu.
tenant In the fire department of Den
yer for the last sixteen years, has
been dismissed from the service by
the fire and police board.
Pueblo's freight shipments during
January were 22 per cent larger than
during the corresponding month OF
1910. Shipments OF hay during the
month broke all records.
The Montrose Fruit Orchards Com.
Iany has leased 1000 acres to an
eastern slope man. The tract is In
the vicinity Of Shenandoah, and Is
partly set to young fruit tree.
Work Of surveying for the ditch of
the new West Sterling irrigation dis.
trict has begun. and. according to l..
l.. Stimson. construction engineer,
the ditch, to be about sixty miles long.
will cost 100000.
In one Of the fastest and most ex.
citing bouts Witnessed in Pueblo, Ed.
die johnson Of Salt Lake knocked out
Kid Taylor. Of Pueblo In the ninth
round OF scheduled l0.round battle.
Ihe contest was the wind.up OF q
American club smoker