The Raymer enterprise., 1918-05-09
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMSe


town delegates on the Harvard plan.
number OF special features" have
been arranged Denver superintend-
ents will have all out OF town superih-
tendents as their guests at banquet
and at the same time the ladies Of the
elementary division will have their
banquet The executive committee Of
the State Association will entertain
county officers at breakfast"
there will be banquet Of Christian
men and the Lions Club is arranging
an automobile seeing Denver" trip.
Majority of the country schools Of
Colorado and those OF many Of the
larger towns closed during the past
week for the season. Literary and
patriotic exercises marked the last
days In many OF the schools.
Colorado's school fund is approach
ing the 35,000,000 mark. AT the rate
state land is being sold and at the
prices which the State Board OF Land
Commissioners is obtaining for II, the
mark will probably be reached soon.
Not satisfied with going "over the
top" In the third Liberty Loan cam
paign Romeo. with 200 inhabitants, de
cided to hold Red Cross day, when
an auction was held and $500 was
raised for the Red Cross.
A jury In the District Court at Boul-
der awarded Mrs. Elsie oldfather a
judgment OF $4,000 against w. W. LIN
niger OF Denver, damages because OF
the death OF her father In an auto ae-
cident in Boulder cafon.
The fuel adminintration has fixed
the price for coal mined by the VII
liamsburg Slope Coal Company at
Florence, Fremont county: Mine run.
1925; prepared sizes. $4.25; slack or
screenings. 3I.25.
The Denver Tramway Company
filed with the Colorado Public Utili-
ties Commission an application for an
increase In rates. fares and charges"
on the company's city and interurban
railway lines.
The first contingent OF 1i1 draft
men who will be stationed at Fort
Logan arrived In Denver from Ne.
braska and Kansas. There are $500
men 10 arrive at Fort Logan within
two weeks.
The Denver federal forest service
paint shop has just completed 1868
signs. including all types and varie-
ties, which have been placed through.
out the seventeen national forests Of
this state.
The petition OF Charles Songer. sen.
fenced In 1914 to from 80 to 100 years
In the penitentiary. for writ OF
habeas corpus was denied In the West
Side Court Of Denver by Judge Jchn
]. Mullins.
r. E. SPECIAL, 80 years old, travelling
salesman for shoe company Of St
Louis, killed himself on the leyee Of
the Arkansas river. In view Of mum.
Der who we're crossing the bridge at
Pueblo.
Fred Z. Britt Of Pueblo, for the past
several years clerk to the board OF
county commissioners, was appointed
sheriff Of Pueblo county to I'll the va.
cancy occasioned by the death Of John
NJ. Mckee.
sThe State Public Utilities Commis-
sion refused the railroads operating
In Colorado rehearing Of their petit
tion for an increase in coal rates, de.
MED by the commission two weeks
ago
Jose Galegos. aged 9S, long a resi-.
dent of Fort Collins, expired while sit.
ting in his chair. According to rec.
ords In the Catholic church In Alame-
da, New Mexico, he was born in 1920.
Robert Lowry Martin, 76, pioneer
and one Of the Vests most noted min.
Ing mag Yates. died at his home In
Denver.
The A. E. Headlee alfalfa and stock
ranch, four miles southwest Of Hooper,
consisting Of 400 acres, has been sold
Mrs. James Williams was reelected
president of the Colorado Board Of
Charities and Correction at meeting
at the capitol Father William Organ
succeeded himself as vice president.
Nine hundred alien German women
and girls over the age OF IA years are
residing in Colorado II the estimate
made by United States Marshal s. ].
Burris is correct.
The body Of an unidentified woman
about IS years Of age, was found
floating on the surface Of City Park
lake. near the boat house, in Denver.
The Republican state convention
will be held at Colorado Springs ON
Tuesday. July l6. The total number
OF delegates has been fixed at 913.
Mrs. Jane Hughes, mother of Mrs.
George Walter Brown, the first white
child born In Denver. died at her
home, 2433 Fourteenth street.
Former Adj. Gen. John Chase, for
seven years at the head OF the Colo
RADIO National Guard, died at his home
in Denver of pneumonia.
Sidney E. Roberts, father Of Mrs.