The Raymer enterprise., 1922-09-28
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.


lato crop showed u condition Of Is per
cent compared with 81 per cent q
month ago and 50 per cent year ago
and ~ per cent the ten-yeur average
for Sept. |. The crop will undOu1ted-
ly to the largest ever produced In the
state, unless conditions decline unusu-
ally during the next sixty days. The
state crop Is now estimated ut lS.l35,-
wv bushels tproduced on approximate
ly 10000 acres), compared TO final
estimate of l1,UIU,OOU bushels last
year produced upon about $1,000 acres.
Moisture has generally been deficient
in the non-irriguted potato sections
and there has also been some shortage
Of irrigation water In the north-central
portion Of the state. Usually about ~
10 10 per cent Uf the state crop is con-
sidered as commercial.
Denver-Due to beneficial showers
In many sections of the state and to
excellent rains in the northeastern
counties and in some western slope
districts during August. corn improved
about per cent during the month aud
had condition Of 81 compared with
- last year and 70 the ten-year aver
age. The condition indicates crop
OF 2l.732,OOO bushels. assuming that
entire corn acreage produces grain.
Usually, only about 70 to 81 per cent
Of the acreage planted Is harvested
70: grain, the remainder being cut for
silage, fed in the field or abandoned.
The state crop last year amounted TO
l5,979,OOO bushels.
Fort Collins.-After the jury had
been out for twenty minutes in the
case in which Robert Il. Nichols was
charged with killing his brotherin-law.
Sterling Z. Bills, in Il quarrel over
gravel pit privilege. verdict Of not
guilty was reached. Bills died March
n on the way TO the hospital after he
had been struck on the head in the
gravel pit. Nichols was charged with
striking him with his shovel Nichols.
however. declared that he put up his
shovel to ward off blow of Bills
pick and .he pick glanced back and
the point of 1t struck Bills On the
head, inflicting the wound which
proved :ltal.
Denver.-May 1920 are the dates set
for Denver music week for 1923, ac-
cording TO an announcement made by
F. II. Talbot. executive secretary to
Denver community service. Arrange
ments have been made through Com
missioner J. J. Wick Roy to reserve
the city Auditorium on these dates for
music week activities. Out-Of-town
bands and choruses are being commu-
nicated with in an endeavOr to extend
the music week idea throughout Colo
RADIO.
Denver.-COntracts have been let
for construction work on ColoradOs
newest lndustry-a plant for the man
ufacture of carbon-black. at White Riv-
er. Rio Blanco county, by the Rio
Bianco Carbon Company. recently or
ganized In Denver. now fully financed
and prepared to erect II factory, ac-
cording to Thomas J. Dixon, Its presI-
dent.
Ordway.-The first bank to be
formed in Colorado in several months
was Incorporated and chartered by
Secretary of State Milliken in Denver
The new institution is to be known us
the Ordway State Bank at Ordway,
Colo, and capitalized for S25,OOO. The
incOrpOrators are A. J. Luneburg, NJ
T. Galley nnd J. K. Galley.
Colorado Sprngs.-George Wash
burn is believed to have shot and per-
haps fatally wounded Mrs Laura
rorce and to have killed himself here
The woman ran to Il neishbor's house
and notified those there of the shoot
Ing The two are said to have had nu-
merous qu&rrels.
Fort ColIns.-The sophomores at
the Colorado Agricultural College won
every event in the annual freshman
sophomore class scrap held here on
Colorado field.
Estes Park. -Enos A. Mills, natur-
alist, lecturer, author and proprietor
of Longs Peak Inn, at Estes Park,
died suddenly here. Death was attrlb-
uted to heart failure arising from IL
number Of complications, among them
Overwork. Mr. Mills had not been i'll
the day before, us he walked about his
inn chatting with guests. He retired
apparently in usual health, and awoke
to call his wife at = 80 O'Clock and
tell her that he felt badly. She sum
mOned DIR. ID. Z. Abbott Of Chicago. II
guest ut the inn. Mr.. Mills lapsed into
Inconsistencies shortly afterwurd
and died at 3 o'clock. He vas 81 years
old and had lived In Estes Park for
thirty-six years.
Denver.-"AppGlling situation at
Smyrna has made necessary u nation.
wide appe... for relief" read +. part of
4 telegram received by the Near East
relief last week from james l.. Bar
ton. national chairman Of the Near
East relief. Following the receipt of
this telegram, machinery Immediately
wus nuf In motion In ull nuris of I'olo.