The Ordway new era., 1920-04-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| in February were 11O cars, three cars
more than in the same month last
year.
Two factories are now being rushed
to completion in Delta. The largest
plant will be the Holly Sugar Mill. The
other plant is the Colorado Packing
Company.
Pruning Is now in full swing at the
Grand Valley and in almost every
orchard men are being employed In
this necessary spring work. The trees
show little effect of the severe winter.
| Various organizations of Olathe plan
| to raise $4,000 for the construction of
modern community house in honor
| of the soldiers, sailors and marines
who served in the great war, according
to plans started at n mass meeting.
Miss Dorothy LelI, 19-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. +. l.. Lell of Ash
Mesa, died on her birthday, following
an illness of several weeks of pneu-
monia, which she developed after she
had recovered from influenza.
Ross Henry Anderson, 81 years old,
| II farmer of the Cowan district, near
Hugo, was Instantly killed when an
automobile in which he was driving
turned turtle, pinning him underneath.
| The accident was caused by the break
ing of the steering gear.
Petitions are being formulated, ad-
dressed TO the commissioners of Mont
rose county, asking for the construc-
tion of new road from Placerville to
| Naturta, the road to follow the north
side of the river, giving a south ex-
posure for the greater part of the dis
lance.
Miss Dorothy Smith, 16-year-old
daughter of Frederick II. Smith, cash
Ter of the First National Bank of Colo
RADIO Springs, is near death at Welles-
| ley, Mass, as the result of a skiing ac-
cident in which she was lmpaled by
broken skiing rod Miss Smith fell on
the fragments of the stick and her alb
domen was perforated in three places.
Negotiations were completed In Den
yer for the purchase of S56,50O worth
of radium by the Medical and Surgical
| group of Denver The deal was made
with the Radium Company of Colo
RADIO. One-half gram, or seven and
| lhree-qunrters grams of the precious
mineral is contained in the tube pur-
chased
Undersheriff William Stretcher, who
was injured at Boulder when city
automobile and fire company truck
| collided in heavy wind storm, died
| at University hospital in that city. He
| was the third man to die from injur-
les received in the accident, the others
being Chief of Police, l.. +. Bass and
Joseph Salter, 17-year-old son of City
Manager Salter.
George E. Adams, 65 years old,
resident of Greeley for 45 years. is
dead following paralytic stroke. Mr..
Adams came to Colorado in 1873 and
homestended ut Seely's lake. He Is
one of the wealthiest cattlemen in
| Weld county and Is said to have ac-
cumulated fortune of $2OO,OO0. He
was u member of the w. o. w. and
Knights of Pythias.
| 1t costs the state of Colorado $4376
less to educate a student at the Fort
| Collins Agricultural college than Mt the
state university at Boulder, according
| to reports on the two big institutions
submitted to Governor ShQup by Audi
| tor of State StOng. The average ex-
pense of educating student Mt tn
| Agricultural college, Stong reports, is
| s1S7.51, while at the state university
it is $231.oT. The Agricultural college
spent s222.O1s.Os educating 1,1s4 stu
dents, while at the university the edu-
cation of 1,745 students cost $4O3,-
1928. These figures are for the year
1919.
Allan France, an employe of the
pickle company at Brighton, died at
n Denver hospital of concusslon of
| the brain, sustained when he fell
twelve feet from a ladder on which
he was working at the pickle plant.
Two Pueblo men We're instantly
killed in peculiar accidents. Edward
Louis Korb, 3S, lineman of the Ar
kansas Light and Power Company, was
electrocuted while ut work on tele-
graph pole, and Steve Stock, an em-
ploye Of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company wire mill, met death when
Il redhot iron pierced his neck.
Colorado and Wyoming naval re-
servists who served during the war
with Germany may obtain Victory but
| tons by applying to Lieutenant Com
mander p. S. Thesis of the Denver
navy recruiting station or to the petty
officer in charge of the recruiting sta
ti0n nearest them. Hitherto only men
who served in the regular navy could
obtain these buttons in Denver. the
reservists being required to apply to
the commandnnt of the Twelfth Naval
district, San Francisco. Calf. All ap-
| pllcations for Victory buttons must be
accompanied by discharge or release
| from active duty.
Eighty fancy hogs from the ranch