The Raymer enterprise., 1918-06-06
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado
Newspaper Union New. Service.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
July s-is-sieeting National Associa-
ton OF CoIored Women In Denver.
July is-Repubiican State conyen-
| tion at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 22-24-coiorado State Firemen's
Convention ut Georgetown.
Sept 23-2s-colorad0 state Fair At
Pueblo.
Army worms have attacked the 81.
gar beets in the Manzanola district.
Denver people subscribed more than
$so0,00o to the second Red Cross war
fund.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr., made a
personal inspection of the mines at
Trinidad. @-..
Colorado will get an army nursing
school. according to word received
from Washington.
The Vienna and Watrous Cafes In
Denver were closed for violations OF
the food regulations.
Denyer's war gardens earned &S.l2
per capita last Year. according 10
George w. Skouland.
Brighton has entered new era OF
prosperity with paid secretary for
Its commercial association.
The employees OF the Union Pacific
railroad subscribed total Of 355.855
TO the Red Cross second war fund.
Rex Smith OF Glenwood Springs fell
q thousand feet with his airplane In
a tail spin at San Diego, but was not
killed.
A memorial service In honor OF the
dead soldiers OF the confederacy was
held In Sc. Pauls Methodist church In
Denver.
Another Colorado pioneer, David
Kerr, 81 years old, died at Cameo, at
the home of his only child, Mrs. Dan
lei Mcneil. &c.
A fine rich streak Of ore has been
opened on lease In the Portland
mine contro.lsd by E. @. Fink Of
Canon City.
Offices OF all members OF the Den.
yer Real Estate exchange will close
at noon every Saturday In June, July
and August.
approximately $50 boys and their
"daddies' attended the father and son
war luncheon In the Y. NJ. C. A. build.
ing In Denver.
The Portland Gold Mining Company
has engaged two women chemists ut
the Independence and Victor mills to
replace men called into service.
National army men are learning the
art OF trench warfare very rapidly,
according to Capt. Francois Sturpin Of
the French army, who stopped In
Denver.
Mrs. Emma Riley. accused Of kill.
Ing her husband, Patrick Henry Riley,
in Denver on Sept. 2s, must stand trial
as the result Of findings by alienists
that she is sane.
The 0uray Sampling Works OF the
Mum Brothers has been running on
ore from the Bachelor district, which
is maintaining steady output under
the leasing system.
The first American soldier OF the
l4Sth Field artillery to gain promo
tion on foreign soil is William Wright,
Of Denver, who has been given the
rank Of first lieutenant OF Battery B.
Mrs. Mary Davis, So years old, vet.
eran OF the Civil war, who fought side
by side with the men of the Sixty.
eighth Illinois infantry for nearly a
year. lies at the Denver county hospl
tai seriously Ill.
"Plow another acre" is the slogan
featured In the active" campaign Of
the Agricultural and Livestock Bureau
Of the Denver Civic and Commercial
association In Its efforts to raise funds
to help the farmers of Colorado In.
crease their wheat and bean-raising
production.
Arps Brothers and Murray, lessees
Of the Mineral Farm property located
In the ouray district, have opened q
l2-foot vein of ore which Ia said to be
one OF the richest strikes ever made
in that district.
]. A. Green OF Sloan, has been
awarded a contract for carrying the
United States mail from Pueblo to
Sloan from July until June 80, 1922.
For the service he is to receive ,1,.
800 per annum.
The production OF ore in the mints
OF the Cripple Creek district for the
month OF May is reported as amount
ing to 1l7,7oo tons at an average value
Of 1901 per ton and gross bullion
value OF s943,410.
An appropriation of sGs.255 for com.
pletion OF Rabbit Ear highway, to be
spent under direction of the forest
service in Routt, Grand and jackson
counties. has been approved by the
secretary OF agriculture.
Morgan County OIL and Gas Com.
pany has overcome the difficulty of
the quicksand which has been causing
trouble for months. Two shifts are
now at work in sinking the company's
well, situated four miles west Of Fort
Morgan.