The Ordway new era., 1920-10-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.


farms operated By tenants since 1910.
According to these reports "a Per cent
Of the farms reported this year are
operated by tenants. compared with
1s2 per cent reported to the census
bureau In 1910. About Is per cent OF
the farms reported this year did not
show the character of the tenure Of the
farm operative, while the remaining
farms were operated By owners or by
hoinesteaders who have not yet proved
up Homesreaders OF this class were
treated as owners by the census bu-
reau in 1910. OF the farm acreage re-
ported by assessors this year approIi-
mately 20 per cent Is being farrned by
renters and - per cent by owners and
honesteaders. while about per cent
Is operated by owners who rent some
land In addition 10 their own farms
William S. Roe, for seven years
principal Of the Greeley High School,
will be the new principal Of the Colo
rado Springs High School, according
10 an announcement made at Colo
rado Springs. Air. Roe Is a we'll
known educator Of the state and was
given consideration as principal Of the
East Denver High School. He takes
charge Of his duties at once, relieving
Stillwell Moore. who has been acting
principal since the promotion of Mr..
Bair from principal to superintendent
Pueblo will be invaded Nov. for
three-day visit By educators from
all over Colorado, who will gathe- TO
attend the sessions OF the State EJu-
cational Association. At last years
session more than 100 people at
tended the meeting and more are sx-
pected this year. Notable among the
speakers will be Ida NJ. TarbeII, Mrs
Mary C. C. Bradford. state superin-
tendent Of public instruction. and DIR.
Frank W. Gunsaulus. president of Ar
mour Institute, Chicago.
Delta friends Of Ross Barker. who
is now serving his sixth year in the
navy, have received a letter which
states that he has been recognized as
the prize shark catcher in the navy.
With an apparatus consisting Of a fish
hook thirty inches long which weighs
two pounds, he has made record
catches in the West Indies, India, Sa-
moa and at Manila At the last place
he caught his largest one, which meas
ured more than eighteen feet in length.
One man was injured and five others
had a narrow escape when an outbound
Berkeley tramway car ran wild In Den
yer at West Thirty-eighth avenue and
Tennyson street, after the controller
box exploded. throwing the motorman
out of the car while It was travelling at
high speed. The car wes saved from a
crash by the quick action of passen-
ger. who ran to the rear of the car and
jerked the trolley from the wire.
With quotation of IL cents a pound
,n refined sugar az wholesale in New
York hopes Of sugar beet growers for
a large bonus on their beets this year
seem to have gone glimmering. Unless
the sugar market rallies, which there
is no sign OF 1t doing soon, beet grow
ers Will receive only the fiat price of
f12 ton specified in their contracts
for beets, which was signed early last
spring.
The new Fort Lupton beet sugar
factory of the Industrial Sugar com
pany has begun active operations. The
machinery has been tested and found
10 work perfectly, and a large force
Of employees has been assembled. I've
factory will handle GO,OOO tons th-r
fall and winter.
What is believed to be record
buck killed during the open season
was brought down by t. c. Seals of
Montrose. This was killed the first
day of the season and tipped the scales
ut 400 pounds.
Chris Christensen, one of the early
iesidents Of Evergreen, is dead, after
& short Illness. as a result of n stroke
of paralysis. He wa 73 years old and
had lived in jefferson county for forty
seven years.
The purchase of the Cushman ditch
hd stock was completed at the Octo-
ter meeting OF the Uncompahgre VAL
Ivy Water-Users' association at Mont
rose. The price paid by the govern
n.ent for this irrigation ditch was So
10. One thousand one hundred and
fifty of this VIII be subscribed by the
farmers who will use the water from
the ditch and the government will pay
the remaining $4,000.
The expansion of the soldiers train
i,.g school and the establishment of
Snops and laboratory to be used in
conjunction with classroom work is
now under consideration by repre-
sontatives Of the federal board for vo-
cstioDal education.
Mrs. Carl White, VIE of farmer
VINO lives thirty miles east of Hugo.
was Instantly killed and their 2-year-
old son seriously injured when shot
gun was accidentally discharged while
going to town with truck load of