The Raymer enterprise., 1921-01-20
CENTENNIAL STATE 1TEas.

ID passing IN ~ PaSO county, In tne
last year the direction of rural school
affairs under Mrs. Inez Johnson Lewis.
county superintendent Of schools, has
resulted In school consultations
eliminating fifteen small and one
room schools. They have been re-
placed by three modern brick build
ings costing $4,000. centrally To-
Gated and accessible to all children BY
means Of well-dlrected motor bus
routes.
Plans to inaugurate campaign to
increase their present membership. to
obtain greater publicity, favorable leg
islation. better marketing conditions
and better development Of roads were
arranged by members Of the State
Farm Bureau at Fort Collins. W. G.
Jamison of La veta was elected presi-
dent Of the bureau for the coming
year.
Notice Of dissolution for the Pa.
gosa Springs Stockmen's and Ner.
chants bank, filed with the secretary
Of state Jan. II, was made for the pur.
pose Of changing the bank from a
state bank to a national bank, accord.
ing to announcements made yesterday
BY Paul Hardy, vice president Of the
bank, who declared that the institu.
ton was not defunct.
The ~high cost Of overproduction"
was given as the cause Of wage re-
duction Of 20 per cent announced by
the Denver Rock Drill Company. The
reductions affect 325 men. Everyone
In the plant was affected by the reduc.
ton. A few Of the foundrymen, mold.
ers and coremakers were reduced Is
per cent.
Pablo Sisnaros, 40 q Mexican living
at Fountain. was poisoned on Wednes-
day night by his wife, according to
confession made to officers at Foun-
tain by Joe Trajilo, nephew Of Mrs..
Sisnaros, who admits that he pur-
chased the poison and gave It to the
woman, who administered It to her
husband.
Colorado's coal production during
1920 exceeded that of the preceding
year by nearly 100000 tons and fell
only about q quarter Of million tons
short Of the 1918 output when the
twenty-one coal.producing counties Of
the state established Z high production
record Of 12,e5800 tons.
The first cases Of death from the %.
called sleeping sickness" reported In
Las Animas county occurred when
Lstiza Maglia, Is years old. Of Stark.
willie. Colo, died, having been In un-
broken sleep for eight days. Nike Sir
CHA, e. Of Fl Moro, died after an ID.
ness Of four days
R. ". Ellington of Denver has 70
Gently been appointed as state super
visor Of trade and industrial educa-
ton. This work ID carried on under
the direction of the State Board Of
Vocational Education, cooperating
with the national board.
Sportsmen are forming an organiza.
ton which will make accessible to the
public the famous Conejos Lakes re-
gion Of the Rio Grande National For.
est, Colorado, according to information
received by the United States Depart.
ment OF Agriculture.
Orders have been received by Lieut..
Commander P. S. Thelss In charge Of
the Denver navy recruiting station to
close the substations at Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and Casper, wyo. The
Denver station is the only one to re-
main open In Colorado and Wyoming.
A high grade Of potash has been dis.
covered In Stone cahon, eight miles
west Of Larkspur. The find has ere
ated much excitement In the vicinity
Of Perry Park and several farmers
have deserted their ranch work to en-
ter the prospecting game.
0oysrnor Shoup has stamped his dis
approval upon the 100000 highway
budget for 1921 prepared BY the State
Highway Commlssion and sent II back
to the commissioners with recon-
Inendations concerning the spending Of
the highway fund.
Another government tuberculosis
hospital to supplement the work being
done By Fitxsimons General Hospital
at Aurora probably viii be establisAed
ut Colorado Spring., according to
statement made In Washington by Con-
gresham Charles B. Timberiake Of
Colorado.
According to the verdict of the cor
oner's jury In Pueblo, Antonio Rom
ero committed justifiable homicide
when he inflicted q beating and gun
shot wounds upon Aululio Augon, altar
having found his wife In the lattsr's
arms.
o. D. Nell. prominent lurnberman q
Greeley, was elected president Of ths
Mountain States Lumber Dealers' ~,
sociation at the fourth session Of The
eighteenth annual convention hs,A In
Denver.
4 lone bandit invaded ~ Littleton