The Raymer enterprise., 1918-10-17
Pithy News Notes
From, An Parts OF
Colorado
Western N.s.pap.r Union New. Service.

Hk was uestfOyeu Dy IHt.
Fifty thousand dollars In idle funds
Of the Denver District Court are to be
Invested in Liberty bonds.
Ranchers of the Spring Creek neigh.
b0rhood near Craig held yenison
barbecue and dance al the grange
hall
Three more deaths we're reported
by the health board at Colorado
Springs. bringing the total fatalities
from Spanish influenza up to thirteen
Every school teacher In Boulder has
been appointed house.to-house can
vasser TO ascertain the number OF
Spanish influenza cases in the city.
The sales of the United States post.
office in Denver for the month OF Sep.
tember showed an increase of $22. 1856
over the business of September. 1917
The death at Colorado Springs of
Eddie Roe OF Buffalo, Wyo, brought
he total of fatalities at Colorado Col
.ege from Spanish influenza up to
seven.
w. ID. Keen of Pueblo and G.. l..
Hover OF Longmont have been ap-
pointed draft advisers OF the depart.
nent of agriculture for the district OF
Colorado
Headquarters of the Colorado con.
ference Of the Seventh Day Adventist
Church will probably be moved soon
from Denver to Loveland, according
to Prof. d. ID. Rees.
Capt. John Evans and his family
have gone TO Washington. where the
former provost marshal will assume
new duties under Provost Marshal
General Crowder.
Word reached the state health
board that seventy out OF l40 school
children in the town OF Hooper. in the
northwestern part Of Costilla county,
are i'll OF influenza
Colorado wheat scored big victory
at the international Wheat Show at
Wichita, Kan. by carrying off first
prize. The wheat was grown by John
Howell OF Montrose
Several Colorado sugar factories are
still short of the requisite labor sup.
ply. according to information given
out in the sugar division of the fed
eral employment service.
The city council of Sterling adopted
an ordinance which decrees that each
man OF the city between the ages OF
Is and So years must work at least
thirty-six hours each week
Mrs. Eva Hin Edwards, wife OF Am.
brose X. Edwards, a rancher residing
three miles southeast of Parker, died
a. the hospital in Littleton of pneu
monia superinduced by influenza.
A number of new cases OF influenza
have been reported to the headth au.
thorities at Delta. Acting on the
governors proclamation, the local au-
thorities will close the public schools.
Laborers at the recuperation camp
at Aurora will be allowed time and a
half for overtime. This concession Is
In addition 10 the 40 cents per hour
wage allowed by recent order OF the
government
The need OF nurses to help fight
Spanish influenza is still urgent,
School teachers, temporarily out OF
work by the closing OF the schools,
who have had practical nursing ex-
perience can help.
All motor truck transportation com.
panies desiring exemption for their
drivers from other war work, must
obtain certificate OF approval from the
Highways Transport Committee of the
Colorado State Council of Defense,
Room 23S Capitol building, Denver,
according to new ruling just issued
by that body.
Except for slight flesh wound on
the right side OF his head, Lieut.. Cliff.
ford C.. Mutt, Denver aviator, escaped
injury when the big battleplane which
he piloted from Houston, Texas. to
Denver in the interest of the Liberty
Loan was wrecked at the City Park
race track when It fouled a tree while
attempting flight Oct. 10.
Two Denver boys and two from 9th.
er points in Colorado are in the lists
OF casualties made public Oct. IL by
the War Department. John M.
Haynes, Denver. is reported dead from
accident or other causes; Donnell b.
Keller, Denver, is wounded severely !:
Thomas A. Ice, Camp. and Walter De
Long Newman. Trinidad, also are
among the severely wounded.
Five Colorado boys wounded severe
ly in action were reported in the cas-
ualty lists made public Oct. 10 by the
War Department and the marine
corps. They are: Sergt. Louis John
Schnell. Colorado Springs; Clyde c.
Duffy, Canon City; Eric F. Shoup,
Colorado Springs; Aaron c. Summers,
Eckley: George II. Rosenberg Boone
Mathew j. Niederkorn. Denver, pre-
yiously reported missing, now is re-
ported killed in action.
The Colorado Baptists' state con.
yention, scheduled TO be held in Pu-
eblo Oct, 22 TO "a, has been postponed
until Nov 10 10 IL becaugp of the