The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1919-08-21
Pithy News Notes
From All Parts of
Colorado


Larimer County Fair. Loyeland. Aug.
2C-2e.
Boulder County Fair. Longmont. Sept
Arkansas Valley Fair. Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-5.
Morgan County Fair. Fort Morgan.
Routt County Fair. Hayden. Sept 3-5.
Logan County Fair. Sterling. Sept. .
Delta County Fair. Hotchkiss. Sept. .
Adams County Fair. Brighton. Sept o.
Moffat County Fair. Maybeil. Sept. IL
L.
Plateau Valley State Fair. Cochran.
Baea County Fair Springfield. Sept.
Trinldad-I.as Animas County Fair.
Trinidad. Sept 1913
Conejos County Fair Manassa. Sept.
Western slope Fair. Mon,rose. Sept.
Central Community Fair. Greeley. Sept.
Yuma County Fair. Yuma. Sept. 1920.
Phillips County Fair. Holyoke. Sept
saguache County Fair. ssguache. Sept.
Colorado. New Mexico Fair. Durango.
Sept. 1926.
Colorado State Fair. Pueblo. Sept a.
Grand County Fair. kremmlins. Sept
1921.
Crowley County Fair Sugar City. Aug
27-2s
litter Mountain Live Stock and Fair
brand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair, Castle Rock.
| Oct rs.
The annual COW punchers' reunion
At Fruita will be held this year on
Sept y and 20, according to dates de-
terlnined on at this time.
According TO advices by W. p. Ella,
secretary Of the Chamber OF Com
merce. the United States Dehydration
Company of Denver will establish n
branch dehydration plant ut Grand
Junction.
Practically 100000 acres OF land has
been broken for this years crops and
added TO the cultivated area. Few
states in the Union have showed
large an increase In the raw land re-
claimed in one year
The Lamar Elks Home Association
has commenced an active campaign for
selling stock In the new home to be
erected at Lamar The lodge at that
place Is planning on having one of the
| finest homes In the state.
Restoration of the pinto bean indus
try In eastern Colorado by placing an
import duty on japanese beans, which
have demoralized the market for pin
fos, is to be asked of Congress by bean
growers Of Weld county.
Having sold .295 acres of irrigated
land west Of the Platte river for more
than $4,000. the Lupton Coal Ridge
Land Company will put a large part of
this money back into the work of de-
veloping 2,000 more acres of raw land.
That the war on prairie dogs, inaug-
urated in La Plata county last spring
and which still is being waged. has
been fruitful In results, Is the an
nouncement of G. W. Boyd, field fore
man of the Bureau Of Biological Sur
vcy.
A. W. Engle, IS, OF Colorado
Springs, an oil company official and
promoter at Electra, Texas, was killed,
and two women, Mrs, Joe Alter and
Josephine Chavez of Delagua, Colo,
escaped without injury, when an auto
mobile driven by Engle plunged
through the railing of a wooden bridge
near Hastings, n coal mining camp,
near Trinidad, into an arroyo.
There Is not case Of contagious
disease In the city Of Pueblo or In the
county Immediately adjoining 1t, ac
cording to the announcement of DR..
w. +. Buck. city physician. This Is
the first time In years that such con-
dition has been noted In that city. DIR.
Buck attributes this to the fact tina.
the influenza epidemic taught the cit
liens of Pueblo the necessity of exer-
cising greater sanitary precautions.
In Baca county, which not many
years ago was regarded as worth
less waste, the acreage Of land in cul-
tiyation has increased more than 400
per cent In the past ten years and II
now ranks about twentieth among the
counties in total cultivated area.
Durango Will shortly possess new
athletic club which is designed to pro-
mote boxing exhibitions, physical cul-
ture training and other athletic pur-
suits. W. W. McEwen, Jr.. Rod s.
Day and J. ii. McDevitt, Jr.. all sons
Of prominent Durango families, filed
articles of incorporation In the secre-
tary of states office for the Durango
Athletic Club, announcing these activ-
tiles as the object Of the organization.
BY bank certificate issued by
State Bank Examiner Grant McPher-
son to the Farmers State Bank of
GIL. the twenty-second state bank
is added to Weld county's total. and
the first bank along the railroad
between Greeley and Briggsdale is
established. The new banks capital
Is $4,000 and Its surplus S2,2l5. The
addition Of this bank makes 2I6 state
banks In Colorado. Besides these there
are It's national banks, the examin.
ers records Indicate.
James Kramer, aged IA, was
drowned in Greenhorn creek, twenty
six miles south OF Pueblo, when he and
| his brother were swimming. The hoy