The Raymer enterprise., 1912-06-13
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Platteville is having building
boom.
Charles Wahl, an old.time settler OF
Ouray, is dead.
A terrific storm recently did consid-
erable damage to Routt county.
There has been organized at Colo
rado Springs Young Mems Demo.
cratic Club.
On June 13 Guy Buckles Of Omaha
will fight Howard Baker of Boulder at
Cripple Creek.
The Summer School for State
Teachers opened at Greeley with 1000
teachers enrolled.
The Colorado & Kansas, Pueblo's
new railroad, twenty-one miles long,
has been opened.
The President has appointed Ella
New postmaster at Delta and Frank
at Victor.
If plans Of Greeley men work out.
alfalfa breakfast food will soon be man.
ufactured in Weld county.
Montrose Chamber of Commerce is
to issue 10000 postal cards
to advertise the county.
DR.. c. A. Stewart Of Denver has dc.
parted on an automobile tour from
Denver to New York and Boston.
Golden is greatly excited over the
finding OF free gold by G. w. Parfet In
his clay drifts south of the city.
Longmont has decided to send an au.
tomobile on the Sociability run to Chi.
cago, which leaves Denver June rs.
The government has appropriated
$4,000 for the commencement Of the
federal building at Grand Junction.
The Hotchkiss Fair Association
gave a barbecue on June In place of
the spring races which were called off.
T. A. Arneal Of Cripple Creek was
elected president at the annual con.
ference Of the BARRIERS union In Den
yer.
Jammed into flume In the North
side lateral. at Gill. the body Of John
Losser, aged three, was found by I. N.
Ball.
Mrs. A. D. Droll of Greeley was se-
verely burned about the head when
she attempted to rellght a fire with
coal oil.
Rev. G. W. Dyer of Hastings, Neb,
has accepted the pastorate Of the First
church of Pueblo. The
salary is $4,000 annually.
Within the next two months hun.
dredg Of entrymen in Weld county will
prove up on their homesteads under
the new three-year homestead law.
There will be no work done on the
dam for the Boulder city water works
this year, the contract for which was
let last November for s52,19G.2O.
C. R. Mohr, of Cripple c ek. was
perhaps fatally shot at Trinidad by
Miss Ethel Doyle of Colorado City,
who claims to be his wife.
The new experimental ore.dressing
and metallurgical plant built for the
School of Mines at Golden, at a
cost Of sl25,OOO, will be opened July l,
The largest class in the history OF
the institution was graduated from
the Agricultural college at Fort Col
lns. wheL forty-eight received diplo'
mas.
w. l.. Carroll, Perkham mer.
chant, poured vinegar down his baby's
throat Immediately after the little
one had swallowed lye water. and may
have saved the childs life.
Jewelry and money to the amount
Of 500 was taken from the home of
Robert E. Hall of Denver, recently,
while the family was spending the ev.
ening at the theater.
All available space in Denver hotels
has been engaged for delegates and
members OF the Knights
Templar, who will hold their triennial
conclave there In 1918.
The damage by the flood in the Un.
river and Its tributaries in
Montrose county is believed by the
County Commissioners to be $4,000.
Several bridges have been washed
away and others are almost gone.
A twenty.year electric lighting fran.
rhlse was granted A. NJ. Gooding and
associates by the Town Board OF
Springs. Work on the plant
IS to start within sixty days and be
within a year.
Arrangements have practically been
whereby the Rocky Noun
lain League Is to be. organized with
Trinidad succeeding Pueblo, Ration
.aking the place OF Canon City and
Rocky Ford taking over the Colorado
Springs team.
Hereafter there will be fraternitles
1t the secondary schools Of agrIcul
ure controlled by the State Board Of
Agriculture. the board having passed
. resolution forbidding students In
hese schools from joining organiza.
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