The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1917-12-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.


State land registrar sells 10000
acres Of state land.
A girl bandit held up woman in
Denver and secured $50.
Fifteen slackers were picked out OF
the sixty-three men caught in raids In
Denver.
New woman county agent for Pu-
eblo county arrives in Pueblo to take
up her duties.
Bakeries are now under government
license and eleven cents is price for
pound loaf In Denver.
Man charged with uttering disloyal
statements at Hugo will be turned
over to federal authorities.
Mrs. James Z. Hanley, wife of the
postmaster at Cripple Creek, died aft
er an illness Of about a month.
The undertaking establishment of
Thomas G. Macy at Greeley was
burned, entailing loss OF $4,000.
Miss Eva Lang became Mrs. John
Halliday. in the presence of the men,
bers Of the Denham Company in Den
yer.
The Rev. DIR. John Henry Hough.
ton, one of the bestowed ministers
ever In Denver. died In st. Luke's hos
pital
The semi-monthly pay day is firmly
established in Cripple Creek and
serves to keep business on cash
basis.
Political party starts circulating Pc
titions asking for an amendment to
constitution permitting state to 90 in
to coal business.
Charles Ellsworth Pierce of Las
Animas, who was aboard the de-
stroyer Jacob Jones when II was sunk,
Is among those saved.
The Denver municipal coal depart
ment has sold $4,000 tons of coal to
the poor Of the city since beginning
operations two months ago
The FL Paso County Womens Coun.
ell Of Defense has arranged for speak
ers to 80 to all kinds Of meetings to
arouse spirit OF patriotism.
Grocers and butchers Of Pueblo
have adopted the plan Of the National
Council OF Defense to make but one
delivery day to each family.
Abram !. Elkus, former United
States ambassador to Turkey, will be
in Denver Dec. 30, and Denver Jews
are making great preparations to well
come him.
Alcoholic liquors confiscated in Col
orado and not turned over to the hos
pitfalls by the courts will in all prob.
ability be given to the government for
military use.
Harley Rodman, IL years old, lies
unconscious in hospital at Greeley
from the effects OF a beating admin.
istered by two older boys on the
school campus.
Farm and industrial labor for school
boys is to be given serious c0nsidera.
ton by the Colorado Council of De-
Tense, in combating next years threat.
ened labor shortage.
Herbert Hoover. national food ad-
ministratOr, was urged by Governor
Gunter to come to Denver during the
meeting OF the Western National Live
stock show in January.
Frank c. Goudy of Denver, grand
sire of the |. o. o. r.. instructed the
treasurer of the Odd Fellows SOW
ereign grand lodge to wire $1,000 for
the relief Of the Halifax sufferers.
Wallace Simpson, a negro, whose
father lives in Denver, was cabin
steward on the American destroyer
Jacob Jones, which was sunk Dec.
while on duty In the war zone. His
name does not appear in the list of
survivors.
Denver's quota in the nationwide
Red Cross Christmas campaign, which
occurs Dec. II to "a inclusive, is $4,000
members. This means that the Den.
yer chapter must enroll $685. new
members, its present membership be.
ing 16,345.
In mimicry OF what she expected
herself and her mother to see at a
moving picture show they intended to
visit, Rose Friedenreich OF Denver
leveled an old, rusty revolver at her
mother and pulled the trigger Mrs.
Pauline Friedenreich, the mother, fell
to the floor dying, a bullet over her
heart.
Mrs. A. H. C. Morse, wife OF the
pastor OF the First Baptist church in
Denver, Is anxiously awaiting news
from Halifax. Her father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. Enos Churchill, and her
sister, Miss Nan Churchill, live at
Dartmouth, just across the bay from
Halifax, and she has fears for their
safety.
Although the election of officers OF
District is. United Mine Workers, ia
not until Jan. 3, the campaign prom.
ises to be one Of the liveliest in re-
cent years in the ranks Of the union
miners