The Raymer enterprise., 1912-10-17
LlTrLs COLORADO ITEMS,
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

The Mountain and Plain Festival
at Denver was largely attended.
The 2Sth annual session Of the Weld
County Teachers Association was held
at Greeley.
Miss Ruth Boettcher Of Denver has
been selected queen of the Mountain
and Plain Festival.
Paonia football all.stars defeated
Gunnison in hard.fought game, Al to
0, In favor Of Paonia, at Gunnison.
All churches of Greeley have com.
bined and taken over the Fairgrounds
secured for the city by the Rev. D. D.
Forward.
Miss Katherine st. Clair was de.
clared Larimer county's maid OF honor
at the Festival of Mountain and Plain
In Denver.
Miss Olive Mcbride Of Aspen was
elected maid Of honor from Pitkin
county at the Mountain and Plain Fes.
tIval in Denver.
The Loveland High school has been
presented with seven-foot statue Of
Diana, queen OF the chase, by the
class Of 1912.
Three Denver society women and
man prominent in business and social
circles, are seriously i'll with appen.
dicitis in the hospitals of Denver.
An outdoor beefsteak fry in Chey.
ennc caion entertained the visiting
railway passenger agents and advertis.
Ing men In Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Fannie Franklin, &c, Denver
pioneer and charity worker. resident
for more than forty years. died at her
home In the Marquette apartments.
A fall of rock at the Ravenswood
mine killed two miners at Walsenburg.
They are Joan Curio. forty, married,
and Christ Bcljan. twenty-five, single.
Rather than accept Mayor Arnold's
terms for Ito further occupancy, the
Union Pacific railroad will order its
tracks on Blake street in Denver
torn up.
The Colorado chapter Of the Moth.
ers' Congress will battle for women's
emancipation from the corset, The
mothers demand equal waists as well
as equal rights.
Secretary Of the Interior Fisher will
be present Friday, October IS and
throw the first shovelful Of dirt on tho
big $4,COO,00O government Grand Val.
ley irrigation project.
The team match played between the
Denver Country Club and the Colorado
Golf Club, on the latter's links, was
won by the Colorado team by the close
score Of II to 10.
Arrangements have Just beon com.
pleted by which the Rocky Mountain
Fuel company will increase It's bono
issue to $l0,OO0.OO0 and its capital
stock to the same amount.
A campaign to bring 5000 families
to Colorado to take up homesteads in
the irrigated section about Fort Nor.
gan has bcen undertaken by the Fort
Morgan Chamber of Commerce.
Denver must keep its leper, c. W.
Bronson. who escaped from a Califor.
mia hospital and was apprehended by
Colorado officers and placed In a tent
near the Sand Creek pesthouse.
The Festival of Mountain and Plain
races at Overland Park opened under
most favorable auspices. TIE crowd
was enthusiastic and witnessed an ex.
cellent card OF six running races
Meekor will soon have the only com.
munity dairy in the state, conducted
ty a colony of Frenchmcn, who have
come from France for the purpose.
1t will be operated on a large scale.
Charging that her husband wanted
her to lead life of shame to support
him. Miss Leslye Brown field suit In
the County Court at Pueblo for a di.
vorce from Thomas Brown, a switch.
man.
After voting contest conducted by
newspapers OF the district, Miss Anna
Stoddart OF Goldfield. aged nineteen,
was selected maid Of honor 10 the
Queen OF the Mountain and Plain Fes.
tiyal.
The fOrty.first annual meeting of
the Synod Of Colorado was held in
the Presbyterion church In Denver.
The Woman's Synodical Missionary
Society met in that church at the
same time.
The transcontinental highway path.
finder car arrived at Grand Junction.
Members Of the party were enter.
tained at banquet by local autoists
and resumed their journey to Salt
Lake City.
Society will go to the bow.yows
when we hold our big kennel show"
says William Paget. promoter Of tine
exhibition to be held by the Colo :adc
Kennel Clsb October oath, 25th and
26th. at Denver.
Attorney Willis Stidger filed a mo-
tlon In the West Side Court at Denver
asking for new trial for Oscar
George, convicted OF murder in the