The Raymer enterprise., 1912-12-26
COLORADO NEWS
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
January 20-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.

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ground for the Colorado state troops.
Louis Schmitz, aged 20. pastry
cook living in Denver. has disappeared
and may have committed suicide in
Pueblo.
According to the official figures.
only nine of the thirty-two amend
ments submitted ut the recent election q
carried.
A crowd of about sixty-five Greeks
left Denver for the old country. where
they intend joining the army In the
Balkans.
The golden anniversary of the we'd
ding Of Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Sites.
one of Denver's Oldest couples. was
celebrated at their home.
January 1917 inclusive, the Farm
ers' Congress Of Colorado meets at
The Agricultural College, Fort Collins.
'or its fourth annual session.
A chair of insurance has been es-
.ablished at Denver university by w.
D. Current, by authority of the Ma
tional Association Of Life Under
writer's.
Up goes the cost OF living another
notch. Most of the motion picture
theaters on Curtis street In Denver.
after January |. will charge 10 cents
admission.
In the last two and a half years the
public utilities commission of Denver
has cost the city sG3.596.4O since its
creation, according to compilation
made by City Auditor Markey.
The alumni and faculty Of the West
Denver High School presented Miss
Bertha Schmitz, a teacher OF Latin
and German, with 500 in gold as
recognition Of her twenty-five years
In the school.
Sixteen.year.old Violet Simmons.
who mysteriously disappeared from
her home In Colorado Springs month
ago, was found in Denver by Juvenile
Officer John Phillips. and returned to
Colorado Springs.
The grade teachers of Denver
schools, It has been announced, will
demand that the school board increase
their maximum salary from $500
year to $1,000. and their minimum
from $500 to 500.
A Festival of Mountain and Plain,
which will rival that of four months
ago is assured for 1913. A boom for
bigger, better, grander carnival fo-
next year was launched at meeting
of the festival board.
C.P. Allen, chairman; Thomas Tully
and ]. E. Maloncy of the State High
way Commission, completed plans for
the Improvement OF 4.5l9 miles. the
entire system of state primary roads,
at a total cost of $l,s32,5OO.
o. II. Shoup, business associate
Of Werner z. Reed for many years, has
purchased the handsome Reed resi-.
dcnce at Colorado Springs for a con-
sideration of approximately $4,000.
Mr.. Reed and family are living in Den
yer.
Miss Helen l.. Summer. Denver So
ciety girl, who has gained considerable
fame throughout the United States for
her books on suffrage, has accepted
the offer extended her by Miss Julia
Lathrop, head OF the National Child,
ren's bureau at Washington. to become
Miss Lathrop's chief assistant.
To lessen the burden Of Denver
county taxpayers. who. he declares.
are oyertaxod. Assessor Clair j,
Pitcher has announced that unless
the tax levy of 1871 mills recently de.
clared for 1913. Is reduced. he pro
poses 10 cut the assessed value OF
county and city property Sl2.OO0,00O.
With a few struggling shipments yet
to be reported. Mesa county has
shipped out over the Colorado Mid
land and Denver & Rio Grande rail
roads q total Of 1889 cars OF stock
worth approximately s2.Os5.5OO this
year. The Rio Grande has reported
from Mesa county GGi cars Of stock
and the Midland's business Is given
as 745 cars.
Drastic measures are being taken
by the school In the latest OF Sc
ries Of pranks committed this yeal
by high school students at Fort Col
lins. Wilbur King. sophomore 4
the high school,. placed quantity o.
calcium carbide In an inkwcll. Tn,
strong odor from the gus given ou
by the moistcncd carbide drove al
from the room. King was immedatel,
suspended.
"There will be no Raging on tn,
floor OF the new chapel theater, whcr
dances are given" says Father Nc
Menamin. rector of the Immaculate
Conception cathedral. of Denver. wv,
are united In our stand to stamp on
this vulgar type OF dancing and PEG
pie who dance on the theatcr floo
VIII nave to be satisfied with tn
more conventional form OF the oil