The Raymer enterprise., 1919-03-27
CENTENNIAL STATE 1TElGs.

"oFkmenS compensation IN COlOroQ0
from IS to SO a week, under the state
fund, and reducing from
fourteen to ten days the so-called walt
ing period intervening between the
date Of injury and the time when COM
pensatlon becomes available. The bill,
as passed, increases the medical bene-
fits to 500 within a sixty-day period
following injury. Under the present
law. the maximum medical benefit 10
$l00 within a limited period Of thirty
days. The maximum death benefit,
under the new measure, is increased
from $500 to SIZES. Sponsors for the
measure declare that 1t contains an
aggregate increase of approximately
% per cent In the maximum benefits
available from the state compensation
fund.
Students of the State High School OF
Industrial Arts at Greeley staged
peace conference at their sophomore
junior-senior banquet given in the
Woman's club building. At the peace
table students c0stumed to represent
the leading characters and statesmen
of the allied nations were Introduced
by the toastmaster, Prof. Il. B. Smith,
impersonating Uncle Sam. The speak
ers in turn told of the part taken by
their nations In the war and expressed
their views as to conditions requisite
to permanent pence. DIR. J. r. Bell,
principal OF the school, impersonated
Premier Clemenceau and Presiden;
Crabbe, President Wilson.
Because Of slowness Of local beet
workers to sign contracts for the sea
sons work at the prevailing price OF
$25 an acre, they demanding $50,
which the growers refuse to pay, the
Great Western Sugar Company will
import enough laborers to take care
Of the enlarged acreage of beets
around Windsor. Z. G. Walters, agri-
cultural superintendent Of the COM
pany, says the laborers win be MexI-
cans gathered from New Mexico and
Old Mexico.
A six-ton fighting tank over the top
Of Pixies Peak as a feature Of the fifth
Liberty Loan compaign ls one Of the
stunts now contemplated, according to
Eli Powell, member of the press bu-
reau service, donated the state Liberty
Loan organization by the Union Pa
cific railroad. This sensational feat
Is to be attempted in a whlppet type
tank, manned. as Mr.. Powell puts II,
by "the hardest fighting tank men to
be had from service overseas"
A baggage and mail express car on
a west-bound Santa re passenger train
caught fire while In motion east Of
Baxter, and, with its contents, was de-
stroyed. The touring car was switched
onto siding at Baxter and an engine
summoned from Pueblo to bring 1t to
Pueblo. The fire continued to burn
until the car reached Pueblo, by which
time 1t was practically consumed. The
loss to the contents Of the car will run
into the thousands. 1t is believed.
Tons upon tons Of potatoes raised
In the dry farm districts around Gro
yer are being fed to hogs and cattle
because farmers refuse to haul them
ten or twelve miles to a railroad ship
ping point when they are selling at
only 30 cents per 100. This condition
has brought about a renewal Of the
agitation for more railroads and a
committee is now actively at work en-
deayoring to induce the Union Pa
cific to extend Its Brlggsdale branch.
Jack, 21-months-old son of W. T.
Granville, fire boss at the Lucas mine
at Louisville, was playing in an old
trunk In the yard Of the Granville
home near Boulder when the lid fell
on his neck pinning him down. His g.
year-old sister, playing near him,
screamed, and Mrs Granville ran out.
When she lifted the trunk lid the baby
was dead, the lid having broken hia
neck.
Double funeral services we're held In
Louisville over the bodies of Lyman
T. Elwell and his wife. Both were
victims Of Spanish influenza.
The Leadville Water Company is-
sued an order allowing the city to
use the surplus Of the appropriation
fund left over at the end Of the fiscal
year, ending April IA, to pay the re-
naming debts incurred during the re-
cent Influenza epider lc. The surplus
is expected to be around $4,000. The
total debts incurred during the cpl.
demic amounted to $1,000, Of which
$1,000 have been paid to date, leaving
a total Of $1,000 to be paid out Of the
surplus.
With but one dissenting vote, a
drainage district embracing 1,200
acres Of valuable land adjoining tha
town Of Windsor was created at a spe-
cial election. This is the first district
Of Its kind to be created In northern
Colorado and only the second one In
the state since the passage Of the law
permitting formation Of such districts.
W. H. Teller, Charles Sorrels and G.
W. Helps were elected directors o.
the district.
Municipal ownership Of the utilities