The Raymer enterprise., 1920-08-12
Rthy News Notes
From Al Paris Of
Colorado
Western New,paper Union News Service.

westsrn Newspaper Onion News Service.
One Of the severest hail and rain.
storms experienced In the vicinity OF
NJ wot, damaged the crops to the ex.
tent Of $4,000.
Savings accounts In Colorado
amounting to &s3,074. 1900 are shown
In statement issued by Grant Nc
PIerson, state bank examiner.
That Weld county's sugar factory
will he built at La Sale next year BY
the Industrial Company, builder Of the
Fort Lupton factory, has been prac-
tically assured.
His lungs pierced by the points Of
pitchfork In the hands Of william
yandiver, age 80, formerly Of Denver,
Timothy Terpin, age -. Of Portland,
Oregon, lies ut the point Of death In
the hospital ut Haxtun.
J. George Leyner, 80. founder OF the
Leyner engineering works, nov known
as the Ingersoll-Rand Engineering
Works. near Iittleton, was seriously
injured when his automobile over
turned on the Colorado Springs road
near Littleton.
Az an outcome Of its fight with the
Pueblo city government, the Pueblo
Gas and Fuel Company surrendered
Its franchise to furnish gas'tO Pueblo
residents. asserting that II could not do
business ut the rate demanded by the
city.
A reduction In fire Insurance pre-
mlums Of $325.000 or approximately 8
per cent Of all the income Of this class
received by insurance companies op.
Grating In Colorado has been ordered
by State Insurance Commissioner
Claude w. Fairchild.
Increased freight rates will net
Colorado railroads approximately ST..
987 600 a year, according TO an esti-
made made by railroad officials, as
follows: Freight. $14,322. 400; passen.
ger service, S3,497. 08l: Pullman fares,
$4,000; excess baggage, S0,o00;
milk, 5000: total sl7,967O00.
Dunell. Colo, the site Of the Fitz-
simons United States General Hos
pital, and five other Colorado post
Offices have been raised from fourth
class to presidential class, according
to announcement by the Postoffice De-
partment In Washington. The post.
offices affected and the salaries Of the
postmasters are: Boone, 1900 /;
BunelI, s1,1OO; Elbert, 100; Hudson,
81 100: Merino, $500, and Weldona,
81 300.
Pa and Ma will attend the night
shows of fireworks and races under
spotlight at the State Fair, lust to
amusa the children" They will also
be there during the days SO that the
children may learn in the most perfect
manner possible-through object les.
sons-all about fine stock and the best
fruits and vegetables and grains and
artistic productions and up-to-date ma.
chinery; and all about the latest and
hest ways of doing the things neces-
sary to earn an honest living In this
world. And or course the children
will want to see what kind Of horses
can trot and pace and run the fastest,
and how fast the airplanes can 80
when sklmming over the grandstand
and bleachers and racing with automo.
biles on the track. And then the ehil.
dren are entitled to all the laughs and
thrills while they are young, and 80
they must see the wonderful acrobatl
and funny people who every day per.
form in front Of the grandstand And
It is perfectly proper that the young
folks should see and hear all the
things and sounds patriotic and the
wonderful music, and all that. Incl
dentally 1t will be noticed that the
children are better pleased than are
Pa and Ma themselves-it does them
good to see the children have good
time, you know.
Two men held up and robbed the
Slate Bank of Peyt0n and obtained
more than $4,000 In currency and
bonds and made their escape after
locking Albert L. Pieper, assistant
cushier, and ]. C. Walters, a customer
in the hank at the time, In the vault.
Colorado will come into Its own al
. result Of the freight increase an.
nounced by the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Freight rates, for year,
discriminatory against the west, will
he more nearly equal those Of the east
under the new schedule. with the n
suit that present manufacturing indus
tries will be vastly stimulated, and
that many new industries will be =.
tablished In the west.
The extensive road building pro
gram which 10 being carried out b.
the State Highway Commission, will
not be halted BY temporary shortage
Of funds, according to statements BY
members Of the commission. All wori
At present In progress, Z total repre-
scented by contracts for fS.300000 viii
be continued until completed, and new