The Raymer Enterprise (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
632 issues from 1910 to 1923, published in New Raymer, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Raymer–like many of the small agricultural communities in northeastern Colorado– started as a homestead, purchased in 1888 by Emma J. Courtright. Within the year, Courtright sold the land to the Lincoln Land Company, which platted the area and named the new townsite after George Raymer, the Assistant Chief Engineer of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad. The first newspapers, the Raymer Ranger and Raymer Herald, began publication and the first town elections were held. Lots in the new township went up for sale in the spring of 1889, but only five sold. Most of the buildings in the town were started but never finished and Raymer was abandoned by the early 1890s. However, the Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909 revitalized the area of Raymer. In 1910, the Post Office was changed to New Raymer as not to be confused with Ramah, Colorado.
S.P. Majors settled in New Raymer in 1910, bringing with him a small printing outfit with which he began printing the weekly Raymer Enterprise on May 14, 1910 (copies up to September 1, 1910 were not saved). Early issues of the Enterprise included a supplement of the Stoneham News, chronicling a small prairie town close to New Raymer. As the town boomed, so did the printing shop, and Majors added more equipment to his outfit. Under Majors, the Enterprise engaged in a bit of a rivalry with the editor of the Keota News, Clyde Leslie Stanley. The Keota News was published 15 miles from New Raymer, in another town with homesteader roots. Stanley took…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New Raymer, Colorado, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress