The Raymer enterprise., 1912-05-16
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

MlilKen mas let the contract for the
construction Of a $4,000 water works
system.
Bailey and vicinity have been visit.
ed by heavy rain, the first of the
season.
One hundred Denver business men
have organized the Mountain Park
League.
Yeggmen entered jewelry store in
Denver recently and stole $4,000
worth Of diamonds.
Johnstown will hold an election to
vote 100000 in bonds for the construc.
ton Of water system.
The Rev. E., NJ. Scott has been in.
stalled as pastor Of the First Pres.
oyterlan church at Lamar.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer, aged ninety.
three, for seventeen years a resident
OF Colorado Springs, is dead.
Boulder county fruit men say cherry
and plum trees have been damaged
very little by the recent cold.
Nearly every locality in the state
has been visited by heavy rain. accom-.
panied by considerable snow.
Veterans of the Civil War who have
homesteads near Raymer, are plan.
ming a reunion on Decoration Day.
The Burns theater. at Colorado
Springs, built at cost Of 100000
has been opened to the public.
Material for the new pea huller at
Johnstown is being hauled and work
Will commence on the building at
once.
Greeley will send out 5000 postal
cards May Is. the day designated by
Governor Shafroth as State Post Card
Day.
The shaft house at the Gem mine
at Idaho Springs, was burned, entail.
Ing loss of about 100000, partially in.
sured.
Oak Creek, on the twentieth of this
month, will begin the enjoyment Of an
electric light service furnished by its
own plant.
A. N. Blessing. prominent ranch.
man and fruit grower of Montrose,
committed suicide by drinking car.
bclic acid.
w. F. Edmundson, Grover ranch.
man, is installing an irrigation pump.
ing plant consisting of one large pump
and forty wells.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer, ninety.thres
years old, who said she was a distant
relative Of President Taft, is dead in
Colorado Springs. .
At the school election on Spring
Creek mesa, near Montrose, $4,000 In
funds were voted for grounds and a
fonr.room building.
Good Roads Day was observed in
nearly every locality Of the state, but
In many places the road work was in.
terfered with by rain.
Construction work on the new St.
Johns German Lutheran church, be-
Ing built in Denver at a cost of $780,.
600, is progressing rapidly.
The Elks and the Caledonian clubs
have made arrangements for one OF
the biggest Fourth Of July celebra.
tions ever held In Walsenburg.
Cisto Bronz, an Italian miner, met
death In the 5OO.foot level in the Ga.
lena mine In Central City by being
buried alive under tons Of rock and
earth.
Work has been begun on the Maroon
creek bridge. at Aspen, which the
state has voted $4,000 to help build.
Much will be done by citizens free to
the county.
At cost Of $4,000 Gilcrest has pur.
chased an engine to generate electri.
cal power for lighting to be installed
within thirty days and supply street
lamps and homes.
A sheriff's deed has been given B.
F. Lowell Of Colorado Springs for the
property Of the Colorado Consolidated
Mines Company Of Georgetown to sat.
isfy judgment Of 33S,475.s4.
A resolution demanding that Cover.
nor Shafroth call an extra session of
the Legislature to re-enact House bill
200 was passed by the Board Of Coun.
ty Commissioners at Grand Junction.
Judge Harry P. Gamble at Boulde.
imposed the first sentence under the
new non.support low, when he gave
Tom Macy one years Imprisonment
for refusing to care for his wife and
children.
Cut worms are taking beet fields In
the Platteville vicinity and one man
lost twelve acres In one day by them.
Farmers say II warm weather follows
the worm will disappear. Fields raw.
aged will be replanted.
BY the middle Of August the toll
road between Dotsero. on the RI.
Grande, and Mccoy, on the Moffat
road. will be completed, thus shorten.
Ing the distance between Grand juno.
tion and Denver 139 miles.
A new course Of study entitled a