The Ordway new era., 1921-12-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western S.-,p.e.t Union New, Service. /,

! land, where Wnlte LeShorhs soiu io'
S1.55 each.
John j. Phillips and his son, Alex
Phillips, prominent Hereford breeders
of Goodland, Kan, have made entries
in the breeding Hereford classes for
the coming National Western Stock
Show to be held in Denver Jan Ia
TO 81.
A movement is on foot among wom-
en- members of the Civic Association
to make Loveland the most beautiful
city in Colorado. In addition to see
ing that the streets are kept clean and
free from weeds, that the houses have
| pretty lawn and the back alleys are
cleaned, II is proposed to start a com
munity flower growing contest
\ speeding automobile met deer
| in a snowstorm ut the head of the Big
| Thompson canon, and now there is one
less deer in Colorado. The machine
was driven by Charles f. 1iN. cashier
of the Estes Park Bank. The driver
could not see he deer in the binding
| snow and the deer-a doe-failed TO
get out of the way of the machine
| After four months of life, the Love
land Business College has closed Its
doors and C. II. Worley, the founder,
| has gone to Denver. No notice of the
| close of the institution that had thirty
day and night students was given, ex-
| cept by Il notice posted on the door
after the night session of school that
lit would be impossible TO continue
| its operation
William Riley Hill. found guilty last
month of the murder Of his 9-year-old
! stepdaughter, Maxine Short, was SEN
/ fenced To life Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary by Judge Samuel
! johnson ut the opening session of the
District Court at Brighton. Hin was
granted sixty-day stay of execution
and sixty days in which to file bill
of exceptions.
| Mrs Mabel Barbee Lee of Denver,
| publicity secretary for inter-mountain
| division of the y. w. c. A, has been
| appointed by the board of trustees of
Colorado College to direct the finan-
| cial campaign of the institution next
spring. Ii is planned to complete the
| 100000 found necessary to meet the
100000 conditional gift of the Gener
al Educational Board OF this amount,
approximately SIZE, 900 has been sub
scribed.
Approximately 81, T03,0 900 has been
set aside by the state and government
for the construction of federal aid pro-
jects carried over to next year, accord
| ing to the semi-annual report of State
Highway Engineer l.. d. Blauvelt to
the highway advisory board which has
been made public. On projects COM
|
exceeding 100000 was expended,
while S2,O6l,9 represents the total
cost of federal aid projects completed
from Dec. 1, 1920, to Nov. 30, 1921.
The balance is to be expanded on un-
finished 1920 and 1921 federal aid pro-
jects.
The dairy division of the National
| Western Stock Show in Denver prom
ises to be larger this year than ever
before in the history of the show. All
of the principal Holstein herds OF the
state will be represented, both in the
show ring and the annual sale. The
Guernsey breeders, who made a most
excellent showing last year, will be on
hand again with choice offering, and
several other breeders of this popular
|
.he McClenahan herd of Jerseys, of
Greeley, expected to be on hand as
usual, and there is n possibility that
some Jersey breeders from neighbor-
ing states may help fill the ranks of
this division in January.
Sheriffs deputies in Larimer coun-
ty We're looking for clews to the thieves
who stole twenty-five sacks of sugar
from boxcar as it stood on the track
near Kelim as part of a shipment from
the LOveland factory to the Johnstown
warehouse. The sugar was loaded into
an automobile and taken to Loveland
where all trace of 1t was lost by the
officers who had traced the tire tracks
that far. The car was sealed and the
robbers broke the seal. Two trips were
made by the auto that carried away
the sugar.
Camp, road and shelter improve
ments totaling 100000 are in contem-
plation for the greater comfort of
travellers to Colorados national and
municipal parks and forests in 1922.
Denver and twenty other cities will
spend $225,00O on auto park facilities,
according to advices coming to the
Tourist Bureau Of the Denver Civic
and Commercial Association. Rocky
Mountain National Park, which led all
others in 1921 in travel patronage, will
take $4,000 of its appropriation to i'm
prove the Fall River road, the high
est skyline auto stretch in the world.
Road improvements are planned for
Mesa Verde National Park, according
to Jesse Nusbaum, superintendent.
James r. Bruce, rancher living