The Ordway new era., 1921-12-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service,

Northern Colorado Poultry Show.
There were also few rabbits, turkeys,
guinea hens and guinea pigs to give
some variety to the exhibition, which
was one of the best ever held Mt Fort
Collins.
Frank Lux, 15-year-old Shelbyville,
Ind, boy, won the sweepstakes in the
Junior corn contest at the 1nternation-
al Grain and Hay Show in Chicago.
The judges declared his ten-ear sam
pie the best ever exhibited. District
winners in the junior corn contest for
which a special premium list was of
fered by the Chicago board of trade,
in addition to the $4,000 in prizes, in
cluded George Hoffman, Jr., Cliff,
Colo.
The United States government,
which recently put in service armed
marines to protect mail clerks and
mails. have placed government locks
on all mail wagons in Denver, taking
keys from drivers, and also installed
armed guards in the offices of the col
Iector of internal revenue in the Gus
toms house. with probability that a
burglar alarm system will he added as
additional protection in the latter de
partment.
The Setbert municipal light system,
white way and water works We're put
in service with q parade, mammoth
bonfire and old-time country dance at
tended by 1900 persons from Seibert
and surrounding towns. Music was
furnished by the Seibert community
band. In the last four months Seibert
has completed $4,000 addition TO its
consolidated school, SGJ,OO0 light sys-
TEN and water works and reduced the
grade on its streets TO uniformity,
An invitation to Henry c. Wallace,
secretary of agriculture TO attend the
National Western Stock Show in Den
yer next month will he delivered in
Washington by former Gov. Z. NJ. Am
mons, president of the Western Stock
Show Association. Secretary Wallace
virtually has acceded to the request of
the program committee of the Ameri-
can National Live Stock Association
to be present at the annual convention
of that body in Colorado Springs just
before the stock show in Denver.
Oil and gasoline tax collections by
the state oil inspector for November
exceeded those of the corresponding
period last year by S24,S44.2T. This in
crease was due, officials said, to the
recent decision of the State Supreme
Court upholdlng the legality of the tax
on gasoline and kerosene. The total
I,,f ha o,-tt, No
vember, 1920 were S51, ,54SSS, and
those of last month We're ST6,3935S.
The increased collections amounted to
4S per cent more than those of the
same period in 1920.
The dates of Jan. u to 81 are
marked with a great big circle on the
calendars of all the live stock men of
the West for a great deal of interest
to them is being crowded into those ten
busy days. From all over the United
States, delegates to American National
Live Stock Association are coming to
Colorado Springs on a fare and one
third rate that gives them a stopover
privilege on the return trip in order
that they may attend the National
Western Stock Show in Denver, Jan.
14-21. On the sixteenth of January the
annual meeting of the Colorado Stock
Growers Association will be held in
Denver, and with the fare and a half
open rate from all states west Of the
Missouri river on tickets to Denver and
return, good from Jan. ID to Jan. 30,
inclusive, all indications point to the
largest attendance of prominent stock
men of the West that the National
Western Stock Show has ever had.
w. II. Kellogg, 40 years old, Boul-
der grocer, died at the University hos
pital from an attack of lockjaw. Ac-
cording to local physicians, this is the
third death from this cause in the his
tory of Colorado. Kellogg ran a nail
into his foot Thanksgiving Day while
visiting at the home of neighbor
The foot became infected, but the in
jury was not considered serious at the
time. In a few days Kelloggs leg be
gan to stiffen and the stiffness grad
ually spread through his body and af
fected his jaws.
P. NJ. Webster of Fort Collins has @
setter that had even better luck thar
he did on one of their trips recently
The pit on the shore of the lake where
Webster decided to shoot was not biz
enough to conceal both himself ant
the dog, so the dog received instruc
tions to remain at the automobile un
til wanted. Webster failed to get an!
ducks and returned to the car to gt
home. The dog, who was sitting In thu
back seat, nudged Webster in the rib
as he was preparing to start the car
When Webster turned around the do;
showed him duck he had caught ant
brought to the car. The duck, whicl
was still alive, had had wing broker
near the tip and couldn't fly well.