The Raymer enterprise., 1919-05-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


dulged his little fancy In picture showi
until the police sent him TO jail for
six months. Several days ago. Sheriff
Won Phul received letter from Chief
OF Police Rynex at Schenectady, n. T..
asking for picture OF Mann. Won
Phul suspected he had been up to his
old tricks, and forwarded photo
graph Sure enough, II WAS the clip
ping Mr.. Mann who was stopping with
the New York police. and they said
he had been shipping off young ladies
braids and eurls again.
Reports received by the State Co
operative Crop Reporting Service indi-
cate In general way a better sup
| ply OF farm labor at this time than
was available al this time last year.
| Marked shortage has been reported In
some seeiioHs. particularly In parts OF
the San Luis Arkansas and rncom-
pahgre Valleys. General reports !nd'-
cate that the labor supply Is from Q
10 10 per cent greater, but still ap-
proximafely 10 per cent below normal.
There is surplus OF labor reported
n mnny Of the towns, but difficulty
Is encountered in getting people from
the cities and towns to 60 into the
country and undertake farm work.
Tie price being paid for sugar beets
this season, $40 ton fiat. has stimu.
lated the interest OF farmers In this
crop, with the result that Colorado will
have, II conditions remain favorable
throughout the planting season, the
largest sugar beet acreage in its his
tory this year. There Will be very
marked increase In acreage 10 the
Northern Colorado district, with small.
er Increases In the Arkansas Valley
and on the Western Slope. according
TO reports received by the Cooperative
Crop Reporting Service.
Sergt +. A. Day and L. n. Hagood,
recently discharged from the army.
have reached kremmlIng. In a small
car OF universal reputation. being the
first tourists 10 arrive In Middle Park
Ia 1919. They came from La Grange,
Mo-, looking for homestead locations.
They drove through Wyoming 10
Bags, thence 10 Craig, Colo, from
whence they went to Grand Junction
and Montrose. then TO Glenwood
Springs and Wolcott and State Bridge.
The members of the Congregational
church were surprised at the annual
meeting and banquet at Montrose when
c. b. Akard, vice president Of the
First National bank. announced that
he and his wife would place q memo
rial for their dead daughter. Mattye
Shirley Akard, in the new Congrega.
tional church In the shape OF a pipe
organ TO cost between 5000 and So.
600.
A cafeteria for the employees of the
swift Companas packing plant at the
s;ockyards has been opened In Den.
yer. Meals may be secured for "a to
IS cents and the profits will revert 10
the employees, who own the restau.
Mnt. Girls at the plant will act as
servers during the meal hours, which
last for an hour and half. There
VIII he three shifts at each meal 80
that the total organization can be- fed.
In competition with 1900 contest.
ants, Miss Bernice Brown OF Barr
Lake school, four miles east Of Brigh.
ton. has won the $50 Victory bond
given by Samuel d. Nicholson, state
chairman Of the Victory Loan drive,
for the best essay on "The Price OF
Peace" Miss Browns teacher, Miss
Evelyn Hartman, was awarded an emi.
nent service badge for the interest sh,
created among her pupils In the work.
Within three weeks at the outside,
work upon the Improvement Of the Big
Thompson cafion road, the main gate
way to Estes Park and the Rocky
Mountain national park, will com
mence. The plans for the work drawn
by the engineers OF the state highway
commission We're returned TO the com
mission by the federal roads bureau
with the approval of the governments
engineers.
Blossom Sunday" was celebrated In
the Grand valley and autos and inter.
urban cars were crowded with people
driving into the orchard district In rec.
ognition of the day. The fact that
clouds were lowering. as per the wea-
ther mans forecast. failed to discour.
age the blossom hunters or diminish
the crowds The trees were In full
bloom and there are thousands OF con
tinuous acres In the Grand valley
planted In fruit trees. blossom Sun.
day" is an annual event
Three new sugar factories have been
determined on by the Holly Sugar
Company, all to be erected on the
western slope-one at Delta, one at
M0ntrose and the third at Olathe.
Work viii begin at once upon the Del
ia factory, which, according to plans
will cost over sl.2J0.0O0. Beet grow.
ers of the territory adjacent have
taken S4OO,0OQ Of the stock on four
years time, with an option to pur.
chase the entire plant at any time
lllnx. xlish ta do h,.xl