The Raymer enterprise., 1915-09-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service

| Oct. ls.-Odd Fellows Annual State
convention at Colorado Springs
Red Cliff will be lighted by elec-
tricity.
An Adventist church is being built
at Klink.
Salida has new brass band OF
twenty-five pieces.
Glenwood Springs musicians are or.
ganizing choral society.
Petty thieves have been bothering
business houses of Trinidad.
Work has begun on Craig's new
$4,000 waterworks system.
Telephone connection between Mack
and Cisco has been completed.
Enrolment at the Colorado Agricul.
tural College at Fort Collins. $50
A good many blocks of new cement
sidewalk are being laid in Gunnison.
The Stockmen's Bank has been or
ganized at Collbran with $25, 1000 capi.
tai
The Greeley Tribune-Republican re-
ports an epidemic of hog cholera in
Weld county. ...-
The Platteville waterworks bond
election carried for the proposition by
about 81 to 1.
One acre Of ground In the city OF
Monte Vista produced twenty-six tons
of sugar beets.
Twenty-one cars of grain and six
cars OF potatoes were shipped from
Center last week.
The September term OF the Delta
County District Court had no criminal
cases to consider
A farmer near Wayerly had field
OF barley which averaged seventy.six
bushels to the acre. ..g
w. II. Bannister OF Palisade shipped
5000 boxes or twelve carloads OF
pears from twelve acres.
Otto and, Alvin Hubbs, near Johns.
town, threshed over 10000 bushels
from $50 acres of dry land
The body of Harry Wilcox, aged 70,
drowned in Morton's lake, near Ster.
ling, was found by searchers.
John Wolf, one of the oldest OF
Mesa county pioneers, aged IS years
and month, died at his home near
Molina.
Morton Hartman OF Longmont had
field of eighty acres OF wheat that
yielded an average OF 81 bushels to
the acre.
NiWots ghost mystery has been
solved. Scientists find marsh gas Ia
cause OF lights that have scared the
villagers.
A. P. Smithers OF Denver, who was
injured when pinned under an auto
mobile on the Morrison road. died OF
his injuries.
The Commercial Club Of Wiley has
designated October II as Buttermilk
Day. 1t is proposed to make il an
annual event
George l.. Roberts was appointed re.
ceiver of the Elitch-Long Gardens
Company by Judge Allen of the Den.
yer District Court
The State w. c. T. U. convention,
sitting in Denver. has announced its
determination to fight the cigarette
to Its determination in Colorado.
Sixty Italian reservists left Trini.
dad for the war front at home This
is the fourth detachment to answer
the call from southern Colorado.
Trains between Durango and Silver.
ton have lately been compelled to
slow down on several occasions to
prevent killing deer on the track.
The l7-months-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. p. Ostermiller. near Fort Nor.
gan, was drowned while trying to
cross the Morgan ditch on a plank.
The Rocky Ford sugar factory Will
begin Its campaign October 4th.
Beets in that section are reported un-
usually good in yield and sugar con.
tent.
Otto Frantz OF Rocky Ford amused
himself on September Goth by picking
two jars of strawberries. He hopes
to develop the strain to bear most OF
the year
The three English,speaking churches
of Wellington will combine as the
Western Federated church and will
snpersede the present Methodist.
Congregational and Baptist eongrega.
thons.
Rico Lodge No. 70, A. F. & A. NJ,
assisted by Rico Chapter No. 81, Or.
der or the Eastern Star. celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary OF its charter
with appropriate exercises and fes.
tiyities.
Prof. Junius Henderson. curator of
the museum OF the University of
Colorado at Boulder, has returned
from the coast where he secured
very fine collection of mollusks. fos-
sils and shells which will be added to
the museum.