The Raymer enterprise., 1920-08-26
vESrENNlAL STATE ITEMS.

Principal Hill has been superIntend.
ent Of schools at Colorado Springs for
several years. Miss Susie NJ. Lovelace,
who has been principal Of the Maple
ton school at Boulder for more than
thirty years, has resigned to become
dean of women at the OklahoilA, State
Agricultural college at Saltwater,
Okla. Miss Lovelace Is ut present
managing the hostess cabin of the
Colorado Chautauqua. The arrange.
ments for the Larimer county fair,
Aug 81 to Sept. 3, are nearing compile.
tion. This fair promises to be one OF
the best that Loveland has ever had,
as the attractions that have been
booked are the best possible.
Nearly complete reports received by /
the State immigration Department
from county assessors show that the
area In cultivation In Colorado this
year Is slightly In excess OF a.OO0,OOO
acres, exclusive Of orchards. compared
with total of 4,795,792 acres reported
In cultivation by county assessors last
year. These figures include the area
devoted to wild hay, amounting to
about 100000 acres each year. The
largest increases In cultivated acreage
this year are In the areas devoted 10
winter wheat and corn, with consider.
able Increases In acreage Of sorghum
crops and moderate increases In alfal-
ia acreage. The reports Of county as
SCISSORS show that something more than
$4,000 acres Of raw land was broken
for the first time this year, compared
with about $4,000 acres broken last
year.
A trade extension tour through the
Arkansas valley, sponsored by the
Commerce Club and Endorsed by the
Pueblo Manufacturers Association, is
planned for September 14th to 18th in
elusive, and Is to be taken by ut least
100 persons, representing all business
hOuN's In Pueblo. Special attention
Will be paid to the towns of Baca
county which IRE soon to be connected
witt, Pueblo by rnll, the boosters to go
east to Holly and to return through
Eads, Haswell, Arlington, Sugar city,
Ordway and Crowley.
Marian Il. Sylvester. % years ola,
employed in the coke oven department
Of the Pueblo Steel works, was farally
gassed while clearing benzol tank at
Pueblo. Sylvester was wearing gas
musk supplied by the company, but It
failed to keep out the gas fumes. Eel.
low workmen saw him fall, and for
more than an hour attempted to revive
him by artificial respiration.
Thousands Of dollars worth of fruit
and vegetables are being shipped from
the Grand Valley every dny now and
the height Of the Elberta peach season
Is on. The shipments of peaches will
reach probably 400 to 500 cars. Early
potatoes are going out and the cars
are all being iced this year.
In running revolver and shotgun
fight with burglar ut Merino. Everett
Dean, 20 years old, shot and Instantly
killed Benjamin Fuller. 10. a farmer
living north of Merino. The duel. it Ia
alleged, followed Fullers attempt to
rob the lumber yard and store of. the
MerinO Lumber Company. fiN
Colorado has 234.767 women Of vot.
Ing age. 1t was announced In Washing
ton, d. G., from the headquarters Of
the national woman's suffrage party.
The figures were given out in cOnnec.
ton with the ratification OF the federal
woman suffrage amendment.
Rico citizens, threatened with losing
the telephone system, as the company
had decided to take out the local OF.
flee, have purchased the telephone Of
flee and equipment from the telephone
company and service has been resumed
after short break.
The III Paso county fair is to be held
at Calhan, Sept. 30 TO Oct. 2, inclusive.
Announcement Of tile fair dates was
made along with the entry and prize
i'st, the largest In the history Of the
~
seph Frederick. 90, and his wife,
Anna, IS, are dead In their home at
lIOlyOketas n result Of an alleged fam.
lily quarrel said to have extended over
II period Of several weeks. Mrs. Fred.
erick Is said to have died from the
effects Of four shots fired by her hus-
band, who later killed himself In an.
other room. Both were dead when
attracted by the reports OF
shots, arrived at the home. What the
quarrel was about is unknown.
Fireworks, the finest ever seen In
the entire country, will. he feature
zach dry. and the grent feature each
night. Every afternoon the inf cid will
he -nityened with day fireworks Of the
most modern discovered or invented.
Each night the pyrotechnic display will
he given IN the form of a distinctive |
program; there will be no repetitions
each program will differ from all
others. ., "a. SsY ,g n 4
In the arrest in Colorado Springs of
IL Mexican youth, IA years old. who es-
capped from the detention home, the po-
lice believe they have captured the