The Raymer enterprise., 1912-09-12
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

State worth while.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
One woman killed and two others
injured was the record for Labor Day
at Pueblo.
Pear orchards make poor roads.
This is the report of the Grand juno
tion Motor Club.
Mrs. John Lyons of Denver is look.
Ing for her husband, who disappeared
five months ago.
First.class postmasters of the Unit.
ed States will hold their annual con.
vention in Denver next year.
Forty pretty girls served hot bis.
cults, sandwiches, coffee and fruit at
Erie's Biscuit, Day celebration
The biggest shipments Of peaches
ever made from the Western slope in
single week were moved this week.
The placing OF dozen peaches in
the wrong box near Delta resulted in
a walk.out Of 100 Japanese fruit pick.
ers.
The annual council Of the sixth de.
partment of the Episcopal Church will
be held In Grand Junction October
1890.
The voters of Jackson county will
pass en- proposition to issue bonds to
build court house at the November
election.
Colorado Harvest Week" is expect
ed to prove one of the main features
Of the Festival OF Mountain and Plain
at Denver.
At the close of registration at the
State Agricultural college at Fort
Collins 800 students had been enrolled
for the coming term.
The Swiss government has appoint.
ed Max Waessel vice consul for
Switzerland at Denver. Mr.. Wacssel
has resided in Denver eight years.
With only the family present, Bruce
G. Eaton, one Of the wealthiest men in
Weld county, was married to Miss
Martha l.. Finch Of Denver at Greeley.
William ]. Bryan will probably
speak at the State fair In Pueblo, Sep.
tember II. Theodore Roosevelt is the
State fair speaker, September 10.
The Rev. Richard ]. Van Valken.
burg. grand chaplain OF the Odd Eel.
lows of Colorado. died here at his
home. He was eighty.nine years old.
According to Hebrew chronologists,
the world. dating from Its creation,
was 5,673 years old on the 18th. That
day Is the first day Of the Jewish New
Year.
E. R. Bennett. expert OF the State
Agricultural college, who has been in.
specting the Greeley potato district.
says there will be only half normal
crop OF tubers this year.
A contract was signed In New York
by which Newman Erb and his associ.
ntes assume control Of the Moffat
road and undertake its future exten.
sion and development.
An increase OF approximately 81.
100000 over three months ago Is
shown by the bank deposits in Colo.
rado Springs. They total $1O,944,27S.
as against $9.Sss.7Ol.54 in June.
Glenwood Springs won the final
game In the polo series between the
Denver Country Club and Glenwood
and won the Rocky Mountain chal.
lenge cup. The score was s to 5N.
F. H. A. Lyle, manager of the Glen.
wood Hot Springs and Hotel Company
and tho Glenwood Light & Water
Company. died at Glenwood Springs
sanitarium. following an operation for
appendicitis.
One of the features OF the Bent
County fair was the display Of the
worlds sugars entered by the Ameri.
can Beet Sugar Company. This inc,ud.
ed 500 specimens from every sugar.
producing country.
-Four persons were killed and two SC.
riously injured at Glenwood Springs
when a runaway trolley car ran
against stone wall, completely
wrecking the car and crushing four OF
the passengers.
A gasoline explosion wrecked the
rear Of the Miller tailor shop at Boul.
der and c. d. Miller, the proprietor.
was probably fatally burned. His as.
sistant. Richard Stoneman, also was
severely burned.
A homemade incubator. constructed
by Dr.. c. w. Hall at the Denver Coun.
ty hospital In twenty minutes, saved
the life OF the three and quarter.
pound baby born to Mrs. Margaret
Robertson.
The report Of the Denver postal say.
ings bank for the first year shows
that 3.3G7 accounts were opened and
1883 withdrawn. The deposits reached