The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 3-S.-Farmers' Annual Congress
at Fort Collins Agricultural College.
Jan: 4,S-colorado Kennel Club Show
Jan s-1o-Sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Assocla-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. 19.-Sixth Annual Convention OF
Colo, Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. Western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. l6-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
March ,2o-April &c oforado Retail!
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The Brighton road is being grav-
eled.
A request has been made for de-
pot at Hot Springs.
Steamboat Springs Is planning
sports carnival to be held Feb 1918.
The Camp Bird at Ouray will drive
a 9,000-foot tunnel from mill to mine.
The annual show of the Pueblo
Poultry Association was largely at
tended.
Governor Carlson and family spent
Christmas on the farm Of his father
near Greeley.
Following the usual custom Denver
banks made cash Christmas gifts to
their employees,
John Curtis, who would have been
100 years old in February, died at
Cripple Creek of the grip.
The Christmas business at the Pu-
eblo postoffice this year was by far
the largest ever transacted.
A gasoline motor car express and
pa ssenger service will be established
between Johnstown and Milliken.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars will be spent in building an addt
tion to the Ford assembling plant in
Denver.
BY order of the Postoffice Depart.
ment, rental of boxes in small town
postoffices have been raised about 33
per cent.
Colorado has ninety-five power
laundries. The capital invested is
a,44O,S96, against $l,270,G56 five
years ago.
Miss Nettie r. Russell, 50, for TWEEN.
ty-five years teacher in the Denver
schools, was hit by two automobiles
and killed.
Mrs. May Singleton of Denver died
in st. Luke's hospital after she had
given birth to twins by the aid of a
Caesarian operation.
The first big snowstorm of the sea-
son swept over Denver and Colorado
Sunday. More snow fell In Denver
than in any other part of the state.
The state inheritance officers now
claim that the state will realize ap-
proximately 100000 from the estate
of Dennis Sullivan, millionaire bank
er and pioneer miner.
Colorado produces more than one
| fourth of all the beet sugar manufac-
tured in the United States. according
to figures recently compiled by the
United States Department of Agricul-
trre.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bostwick, 80 years
old, mother OF a two-months-old child,
cut her throat with her husbands ra.
kor at her home in Denver. The hus-
band Laurance c. Bostwick, was at
church
Nearly 100 citizens of Buena Vista
aeld a meeting recently to perfect ar
Tangements with manufacturing
company of Oroville. Ohio. for the
construction of $l50,000 smelling
and concentrating plant
Twenty prominent Denver men
have been appointed on committee
70 represent the Navy League In Colo
tado The league was formed to in
crease interest In the need OF a great
er navy and adequate preparedness.
David Castetter, an S3.year-old war
veteran, died at his home in Denver.
Mr.. Castetter came to Colorado in
1884 and entered the hotel business
IN Julesburg. He came to Denver
about twenty years ago and for a
number of years was care-taker OF
Chaffee Park in North Denver.
Several buildings at Sunshine and
In other mountain towns were blown
down. telephone service was crippled
merchants signs were whirled away
and some windows were blown in by
the windstorm that ragged with great
fury from Q o'clock Monday night un
til early Tuesday morning in the Boul
der section.
For the twelve months end.d Oh
Nov. 30. the Denver Cities Service
Company made net earnings of s3..
695,301 an increase OF s26S,SSS over
the previous year, or 2.35 times the
dividend requirements for the pre-
ferred stock. The twelve months
business was the greatest in the com
panys history.