The Raymer enterprise., 1921-12-08
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

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the state this spring, compared with
5,Gl3 reported for last year, and 2,2a3
for 1919 The use Of tractors In the
general farming districts of eastern
| Colorado has been increasing very rap
idly In the past three years, and there
mas been q steady Increase In other
districts This year there were only
SIX counties In the state that reported
40 farm tractors, all Of them being
mining counties, In which very little
farming Is being done. Weld county
holds first place. with jOi tractors re-
ported, and Logan county ranks sec
ond, with 43l. There are now thirteen
counties In the state reporting more
than 100 farm tractors each. Ten
counties which reported no farm trac-
tors In 1919 have reported from one
to twenty each this year. Kit Carson
county. which reported twenty-six
tractors in 1919 reports 226 this year.
The board Of directors OF the Civic
and Commercial Association Of Denver
voted to conduct campaign to raise
a fund for the purchase. of stock of
the Live Stock Finance Corporation
50 that organization could function
and borrow money from the War
Finance Corporation to be loaned to
live stock men and save that industry
in Colorado. The board was asked to
raise fund Of 100000, but the board
lid not name any sum that should be
raised. II plans TO raise all that 1t
an and named committee that rep
rcsents all the various business ele-
ments Of Denver TO conduct the cam
palgn.
A cloud of mystery surrounds the
discovery Of the body Of Ray Thomas
on California mesa near Olathe, in
the bed Of a stream underneath high
flume. Coroner Schermerhorn at first
stated there was no need for an in
quest, but rumors that foul play had
been committed continued so persist
emily that he and Sheriff Dorsey Wis
tied the neighborhoOd. As rssu,
Sheriff Dorsey says that there are In
dications that Thomas was killed and
thrown from the flume into the stream.
Two sets Of doors In the vault OF
the Hillrose Bank at Hillrose, ten
miles northeast Of Brush, were blown
off by bank robbers. The robbers were
able to gain access to the vault, but
the funds Of the bank were In small
safe inside the vault and they evident
ly were frightened away before blow
Ing this open. r. A. Towne. cashier Of
the bank, said that this small safe con-
tanned about $4,000 Of the banks
funds, but that 70 far no money or pa
pers had been missed.
The United States government,
which recently put In service armed
marines to protect mail clerks and
mails. have placed government locks
on all mail wagons In Denver, taking
keys from drivers, and also installed
armed guards in the offices Of the col
lector Of internal revenue In the Gus
toms house, with probability that a
burglar alarm system will be added rs
additional protection In the latter de-
partment.
Frank Lux. l5-year-old Shelbyville,
Ind. boy, won the sweepstakes In the
junior corn contest at the Information
al Grain and Hay Show in Chicago
The judges declared his ten-ear sam,
pie the best ever exhibited. District
winners IN the Junior corn contest for
which a special premium list was Of
fercd by the Chicago board of trade
in addition to the $4,000 In prizes, in
cluded George Hoffman, Jr., Cliff
Colo.
Since W. r. Allewelt took up his
work ms director Of the state market
ing division, In July. up to Nov. Is to-
tai OF 1922 inspections Of vegetables
and fruit were made. according to q re-
port presented to the State Board Of
Agriculture meeting at Fl. Collins From
Oct Is to Nov. Is there were 3,422 in.
spections, he reported. Up until the
middle OF November. Mr.. Allewelt re.
ported. he had forty-four inspectors In
the field.
Three bandits entered the Parker
State Bank at Parker, locked the
young woman clerk in the vault and
gathered up what cash was in sight,
believed to have been between $1,000
or 5000 Miss Elizabeth Shultz. the
clerk. was alone In the large business
room Of the bank just at closing time,
3 o'clock In the afternoon, when the
three men drove up In an automobile.
They all entered the bank, and one
confronted Miss Shultz with the com.
mand that she keep silent. while the
others hastily drew down the curtains
a. though the bank was closed.
The 18th infantry, Colorado Nation.
III Guard, and all officers Of the regi.
mental staff have been given full and
complete federal recognition by the
War Department, according to word
received In Denver by Maj. A. L. Hart
Of the adjutant generals department.
The organization L. commanded by
Col. william G. banks. Lieut.. Col.
Paul P. Newton Is next In command.
John e. Hayes, chief engineer Of the
Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Com.
pany. owner Of the dam at Marshall