The Raymer enterprise., 1917-05-17

June l6.-Annual Strawberry Festival
and Carnival at Glcnwood Springs
June I-22--Christian Endeagor Con-
yentlon Mt sallda-
Aug. National Convention Of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
sept; lI.22-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
eblo.
Denver flour prices have advanced
to se.s547.O5.
Denver restaurants are to advance
pie TO 10 cents.
Colorado will furnish l09,500 men
under the selective draft act.
Pueblo Serbs got big sendoff at Pu.
eblo before starting for the war.
1t is believed that Colorado's army
quota will be raised within month.
May 10th has ben designated by
Governor Gunter as Y. NJ c. A. Sun.
day.
William A. Maxwell has been re.
appointed receiver of the Denver land
office.
At Pueblo 81 300 was raised through
the sale OF tags for the McCleland
orphanage.
Decoration day in Denver this year
is to be the most momentous In the
city's history.
There is marked activity among the
tungsten mines in the Feberite section
OF Boulder county.
A total Of l0i cars of concentrates
we're shipped from the Telluride camp
during the month of April.
-Four men and three women were
arrested at Greeley. charged with car
thefts, and returned to Denver
San Miguel county has about 500
Finnish people, who took part In the
big Scandinavian May day celebration
at Telluride.
More than 200 volunteers enlisted
from the Denver recruiting stations
last week for service in the army, ma.
rines and navy.
The payment OF $500 for an oil lease
on l6O acres in Wild Horse park in
Pueblo county, sets new high price
for leases In that district.
The Running Lode mine at Black
Hawk, which paid dividends OF $40 900
per month when operated by Denver
owners. Is about to resume.
The Summit Copper Mining and
Milling Company Carbon lake Kholer
tunnell at Red mountain has now
force Of eighteen men employed
Coffee and pie have joined the avia.
ton corps and will make trial flights
In Denver restaurants before June lst.
The general altitude will be 10 cents.
Pueblo's summer Fairgrounds will
be opened TO the children of the city
on the afternoon OF June llth, the
first Monday following the dismissal
Of school.
The Peoples Oil and Gas Company
has been organized to develop oil
lands embraced in the l00000.acre
tract lying in Alamosa and Saguaehe
counties.
Growers Of lambs at Fort Collins
were astonished at the price Of sl7.s5
for lambs, but still more 20 when news
came of SIS being paid at Missouri
river markets.
A call has come ior twenty-five Den.
yer girls 10 enlist under the Red Cross
as nurses aids and to prepare to 20
TO the front when the Denver base
hospital military unit mobllizes.
Mrs. J. NJ, Thompson. wife of a
farmer living east Of Longmont,
missed death by a scant foot when a
Burlington freight engine killed the
horse she was driving and wrecked
the buggy,
Farr & Crozier of Lucerne we're paid
1880 per hundred for shipment OF
lambs 10 Omaha, which is the highest
price ever paid on any market for
lambs. The same day Nelse Martin
of the Johnstown district received
sll,90 for a shipment of steers at the
Denver yards.
In order that Colorado may do its
part in raising the 50, ,0000O fund that
will be used by the Young Mems Chris
tlan Association In work in army and
navy posts, Gov Julius c. Gunter has
proclaimed Sunday, May Goth, as
Young Mems Christian Association
War Work Sunday, and has requested
pastors to urge contributions 10 the
fund on that day.
Facing the prospect Of spending his
honeymoon in jail, J, w Price, 76, a
wealthy rancher of Shawnee, stole out
of the court house in Denver while
awaiting further hearing OF the case
against him and married his l6.year.
old adopted daughter. Judge Rice mar
ried the oddly matched pair at his
home. Another singular feature OF the
case was that Price. as father and
guardian of his daughter, had to give
his consent In writing to her marriage
to him.
Mrs. Zoe Cunningham and A. W.
Marksheffel we're married In Pueblo
and departed at once for California
Mrs. Cunningham was divorced from