The Raymer enterprise., 1917-03-01


Steamboat Springs.
March 20.-Auto Show at Denver.
N'pt; l7-22-colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
A registered sheep club has been
formed at Mancos.
Potatoes brought four pounds for a
quarter in the Denver retail markets
Saturday.
John c. Long. 6s years old, a black.
smith, fell dead at Boulder at the
Colorado sanitarium.
Mrs. Anna Wilson. Respondent from
her slow recovery from ansoperation,
committed suicide in Denver.
Manager OF Revenue Clair J. Pitcher
Of Denver has taken in $1,500,U00
since he inaugurated the collection Of
taxes this year.
At a meeting OF the Montezuma
County Farm Bureau held at cortez,
II was decided to standardize the po-
tato crop for 1917.
A shipment of 396 boxes OF frosted
oranges, consigned from California,
were seized at Trinidad by the Unit.
ed States marshals office.
Jay Dee Hollingshead. 25 years old,
a former resident OF Denver, died in
Monte Vista, where he was extensive.
ly interested in farming.
The date Of Denver's fourteenth an.
nual automobile show has been
changed from the week of March 10
to the week OF March 20.
The funeral OF the Rev. George NJ.
Darley, 10, pioneer preacher OF the
Western slope of Colorado, who died
at Alamosa, was held in Denver.
Governor and Mrs. julius c. Gunter,
accompanied by number Of legisla.
iors. left Denver for Fort Collins TO
Investigate the needs OF the Agricul.
tural College.
Oil derricks will soon be rising
along the horizon In Logan county
nd the drills will be digging down
into the earth in search of oil close
TO Sterling.
George A. Levy, head OF the diyi
sion OF efficiency standards of Pitts.
burg. Pa, is the man who will go TO
Denver as chief Of the newly created
municipal industrial bureau.
Mrs. Eliza T. Morrison. 81 years
old. mother-in.law of Senator John
shafroth. died in Denver In the Shat
roth residence at 1887 York street.
where she had lived for the last fif
seen years.
The fortieth, or ruby. anniversary OF
the Woman's American Baptist Home
Mission Society was observed In Den.
YER when the society in Colorado unit.
ed with those In forty other states in
the celebration.
The announcement OF the passage
by Congress Of the bill forbidding the
importation OF liquor into dry states
had the effect OF starting deluge of
orders for liquor shipments before the
act becomes law through the sigma.
ture OF President Wilson.
Declaring that $4,000 a year was
sufficient for him to live on, DR..
Charles L. Chadsey, for more than five
years superintendent of Denver
schools and now superintendent OF
education in Detroit, declined to ac.
cept an increase Of $4,000.
President Wilson. Secretary OF War
Baker, Maj, NJ. c. Alpine. head of the
national Boy Scouts organization, and
Col Theo, Roosevelt were invited to
attend funeral services for Col. w. f..
Cody buffalo Bid. which will be
held on May 80 on Lookout noun.
tain, according to present plans of the
w. +. Cody buffalo Bill Memorial
Association.
After submitting a report to the
Department of Labor to the effect
that employment conditions In Colo
RADIO do not warrant the presence of
an organizer Miss Katherine NJ. Her
ring. sent to Denver by the govern
ment to establish bureau to improve
conditions among women workers,
has given up the office and returned
to Washington.
At Leadville the Fanny Rawlings
Mining Company has received returns
from the carload OF ore shipped since
the new lessees began work. This
car contained 45,643 net pounds OF
ore that run little over an ounce In
gold, little over thirty-two ounces
in silver and 4.S5 per cent in copper,
and making net value after deduct
ing treatment charges and freight OF
$55.S1 per ton.
The Wellington Mines Company is
sinking Its two shafts steadily. When
the main shaft reaches the proposed
new No. level. the bottom of the
shaft will be approximately 1000 feet
below the outcrop Of the main vein.
Fifty tens of good grade lead concen.
trates were shipped from the proper.
ty to the sampler at Breckenridge.
The mine continues 10 be heavy
shipper of zinc ore concentrates.