The Ordway new era., 1919-10-31
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


ricutural statistics under the recently
enacted law the State Immigration De-
partment, which prepares the blanks
on which statistics are gathered. has
decided to make number of changes
In the blanks for next year. 1t has
been found that most of the mistakes
made this year resulted from making
entries under the wrong heading, as
the blanks are large and the lines that
must be followed are long. A system
of double line and colOred line ruling
will be followed next year which will
make 1t easy for assessors and their
deputies to follow the proper lines,
both across the blanks and from top to
bottom. 1t has also been found this
year that with the blanks now in use
1t is impossible to obtain accurate in
formation regarding the less import
ant crops, such ms tomatoes, garden
peas, flax, snap beans and others that
are grown only in restricted localities.
| Special blanks Will he furnished next
year for gathering information regard
ing these crops which are grown only
in restricted areas. Reports from all
parts of the United States indicate that
no state has obtained better result in
the collection of agricultural statistics
upon the first attempt than Colorado
did this year and an effort will be
made next year to bring the report ms
near as possible to perfection. All as
SCISSORS did excellent work this year
and few of them obtained as com
plete reports as 1t will ever be possible
to obtain.
The Flower and Vegetable show CIV
| en- under the auspices of the Denver
Society of Horticulture, Parent-Teach-
ers Association and Denver Garden
Club, Will be held in Denver, in the
Auditorium, Oct. 29-30-31. The Audi
torium has been donated by the city as
the show is free exhibition. Twenty
five dollars will be given as II prize for
the best Premier Rose. which is one
of the most beautiful grown and a
Colorado developed product. Florists
from Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Boul-
der and other points will assist in max
ing the show success. The high
schools of the city will choose a set of
judges to work in conjunction with the
regular judges.
The proposed improvement OF an
eleven-mile strip of the Colorado-to-
Gulf road has met with the approval
of the New Mexico highway commits
sion, according to n report sent to ].
S. Bright, district engineer of the fed
eral bureau of public roads at Denver.
The estimated cost of the work is $685.
200. The strip which is to be improved
is to be surfaced with crushed stone. 1t
is near Clayton, Union county, n. NJ.
N. Lehrman, well-knOwn merchant,
was seriously injured at Brighton when
his daughter, Sarah, accidentally drove
machine over him in front of his gar
age. The "clutch" slipped as she was
putting the car Into the garage, after
returning home from Denver, and the
car gave sudden spurt and ran over
the merchant.
In raid on a farm two and one-half
miles north of Brighton in Weld coun-
ty, Sheriff L. A. GOrmley of Brighton
arrested Mike Kazlowsky and two bro
thers, who We're taken to Greeley to
be charged with making liquor. Six
gallons of distilled alcohol and fifty
gallons of raisin wine were seized by
the sheriff.
The Nederland- Ward auto road,
new scenic highway just constructed
by the forest service and bureau of
public roads, will be formally opened
this week. This road os the result of
cooperation by the federal depart
ments with the State Highway Com
mission and Boulder county.
Arthur Taggart, aged prospector.
was found guilty at Boulder in the
first degree for the murder of George
Spencer, who was found dead in his
cabin at Spring gulch on Aug. 6. The
jury was out forty-five minutes. He
was given life sentence.
A skull discovered accidentally by
Charlie Wilson, rancher on Coal
creek in jefferson county, prompted
search which revealed clothed skele
ton caught in fork of a tree fifty feet
up the hillside, short distance from
Piainview. The identity of the man
whose bones We're found could not be
established by Coroner William Woods
of jefferson county, to whom Wilson
reported at Golden.
Plans were formulated at meeting
of citizens and university officials at
Boulder for the most comprehensive
social survey, according to DIR. Lornn
d. Osborn, head of the university ex-
tension department, that has ever been
made in the West. The survey will in
clude the collection and compilation of
data concerning the vital statistics, H.
nancial statistics, school statistics, and,
in fact, every bit of information that
can be used to aid in welfare work
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