The Raymer enterprise., 1912-02-15
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

operations during January.
The Boulder County Grange recently
held a business session in Niwot.
The Boulder W. G. T. U. has opened
. campaign for "dry Colorado"
The Mesa county farmers have or
ganized permanent Farmers Instl-
tute.
In La Plata county in 1911 there
were SO marriages, 20 divorces and 173
births.
Santa Fe Tail Band Of Pueblo" is
q newly organized municipal band in
Pueblo.
John Eaton and c. Smith Of Estes
Park have been arrested for killing
deer out OF season.
The Elks' club rooms In Canon City,
costing $4,000, have been completed
and are now in use.
The price of eggs in Denver has
taken a drop. selling at 20 to 26 cents
per dozen wholesale.
The business men Of Weld county
will try to get convicts to work on the
county roads soon.
The Colorado Realty Dealers Asso-
ciation will hold Its annual convention
In Denver In April.
The liquor question will be submit
ted to the voters of Evans at the CON-
ing spring election.
Two lion cubs have been captured
alive by W. F. Porter at Ridgway and
q third one was killed.
The estimated production of the
1912 crop Of Steamboat strawberries
ID placed at fifty carloads. "a,
Mrs. Minnie Ward Patterson has
the distinction Of being the first won.
an minister in Colorado Springs.
e. l.. Brown has been elected vice
president Of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, with headquarters in Denver.
The $4,000 stock in the store Of
the Bell Mercantile Company of
,Yampa was practically destroyed by
fire.
- The new creamery at Windsor has
bean- incorporated with capital Of
$10,0U0. The plant has been put into
operation.
Hot soup is being served to the stu.
dents of the Longmont high school
who live too far away to go home for
lunch at noon.
The cornerstone OF the new $35, 900
trade school Of the National Jewish
Hospital for Consumptives In Denver
has been laid.
Sixty representatives from counties
in central Colorado met in Colorado
Springs and organized the Lincoln
Memorial Association.
Colorado's Stationary Engineers
Association will celebrate its twenty.
ninth anniversary In Denver with a
ball and reception.
Acreage for cucumbers for pickle
company is being contracted for at
Greeley. Farmers are to receive $22
per ton for cucumbers.
Mrs. Clara Louisa Farley, who has
lived In Trinidad since 1882, claims to
have been for five years a housemaid
for President Lincoln.
Another suit for reduction In
freight rates between The Gulf and
Denver has been filed with the Inter.
state Commerce Commission.
The city Of Lyons has filed an in.
junction to restrain the town of Long.
mont from using water from the st
Vrain river for power purposes.
At a meeting Of all the commercial
bodies Of the state In Colorado
Springs recently. campaign was out
lined to attract tourists to Colorado.
Andrew Berglund, a native OF
Sweden and a resident OF Littleton for
thirty.elght years, was drowned when
he fell from a bridge into millrace.
Boulder has asked for 1850 acres
adjoining Its present city park. and
II Congress- grants the petition this
Will be the largest city park In the
United States.
Colorado Products Week" in Den.
yer Is planned to be one Of the great
est advertisements for home indus.
try aver made. The date has not yet
been decided upon.
The country around Hahn's peak is
rapidly becoming overrun with thou.
sands Of deer and elk. which have
been driven from their haunts in
Wyoming by the recent cold.
On condition that the people OF
Grand Junction provide site and g..
900 In cash, a concern In Muscatine,
Iowa, proposes to install q $4,000
canning plant in that city.
The states brief and argument In
the case brought to test the right OF
the treasurer to collect q state tax Of
SIS from each druggist has been filed
by Assistant Attorney General Chas.
O'Connor.
A deal which will mean mucn to ir.
IlgatiQn and farming In I.arimer