The Raymer enterprise., 1918-02-07


nival at Steamboat Springs.
| Jan. 2224-AnnuaI meeting Colorado
Metal Mining Association at State
| Capitol building In Denver.
The thermometer registered Is de-
grees below zero at Fort Morgan on
Jan. 81.
Nearly half a million people use the
Bike National forest. in Colorado, each
year for recreation.
W. w. Mackey. for many years a
resident Of Denver, died suddenly at
Casper, Wyo.. Of pneumonia.
Denver bank clearings for January
were SS4.296,95S.5l an increase Of 32l.-
523, ,0s2 03, or 23.I per cent over Janu
airy. 1917.
The receipts Of the Denver post.
office for January. 1918. show an in
crease OF $3l, ,550.s6 over the cores
ponding month Of 1917.
William Lugg was elected president
OF the Longmont Commercial Associ-
alton, Lloyd c. Harris is yice-president
and c. p Emery secretary.
The total amount OF timber out on
the national forests in the fiscal year
1917 was S40,Gl2,000 board feet, as
against 714.505, 900 board feet In 1916.
One of the largest natural gas wells
4 In the West, estimated to be flowing
at the rate OF 100000 cubic feet Of
gas day, has Just been opened six
miles east OF Delta.
In the interests Of economy and the
welfare OF the district. members Of
the Denver board have decided to de-
fer the erection OF new East Side
High school for at least three years
At the Farmers Institute at Long
mont II. Z. Middleton was elected
president; Theodore Taylor. first vice
president; Mrs. James H. Golden, sec
ond vice-president, and Mrs. Belle Alb
bott, secretary.
The Catholic Colonization Society
Of the United States has started a m.
tion-wide campaign to aid landseekers,
and has decided upon Colorado as one
OF the best states to which to direct
prospective settlers.
John P. Smith Of Denver serving
as fireman aboard the receiving ship
Norfolk, was commended for bravery
by Secretary Daniels for having
leaped overheard to rescue drown.
Ing companion Jan. IL.
For the first time in Its history Ker.
sey Is without hen, rooster. chicken,
turkey or fowl Of any kind. Everyone
who owned poultry has sold it. The
high price Of chicken feed Is blamed
for the absence Of poultry.
Katie Bankart. young girl living
near Sterling, is held to the District
Court on charge Of stealing $375
from her father. The girl says she
took the money because her parent
owed her for work In the beet fields.
Orders to cooperate with the state
officials in the breaking up of Illicit
distilleries have been received by Har.
vey Slusser United States internal
revenue agent for the Colorado dis
trict from the head office in Washing.
ton.
Business men OF Pierce are plan
ming a jubilee celebration to be partic.
ipated in by everybody living In that
section. The occasion is the prosper
ity. which has increased 100 per cent.
over the corresponding period OF
year ago.
Sam w. Pierre, a contractor of Nor.
rison, who had charge Of building the
new road In Deer Creek cafon from
Pritchell to Littleton, was seriously in
jured when rock rolled down upon
him. breaking his right leg and inflict-
Ing other injuries.
Trinity Methodist church in Denver
has placed its first gold star on its
service flag In memory of the death,
from pneumonia, of Fred w. Kent at
Fort Sam Houston, Tex.
The potato growers of northern Col.
orado are faced with serious loss un.
less cars can be secured more rapidly
than they are now being furnished.
There are more than 1900 cars Of po-
tatoes yet to be shipped and unless
they can be moved In the next ninety
days they will spoil.
Twenty-Five pioneers OF Colorado
who had been in the state before Jan.
l. 1860. were given their twenty-eighth
annual banquet by the Pioneer Ladies'
Aid Society at FL Jebel temple in Den
yer. Including the families Of the pio-
neers and the Ladies' Aid Society
members, $50 people sat down to the
banquet.
Affairs OF the Farmers Life Insur.
ance Company are being investigated
by insurance commissioners and attor-
neys general OF Colorado, Kansas, Ne
braska and Texas. following the tenn
porary suspension OF business by that
company. 1t is said policies aggregat-
ing s14,000.OO0 are involved.
An antelope. said to be the finest
specimen in the state will be mounted
In the rotunda Of the first floor OF the
court house at Sterling. 1t is one OF