The Ordway new era., 1922-02-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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the concluding session of the eonyea-
riou 81 Greeley. II was voted 10 hoio
the next convention az Boulder.
Boulder.-Miss Linnie Leckrone, e5
years old. Boulder county tuberculosis
| nurse, suffered a broken les while
skiing at Silver lake. twenty-five miles
west OF Boulder Miss Leckrone was
one Of & party Of several city officials
who went TO Silver lake for an outing.
.Aianosa.-A bill introduced in the
United States Senate calls for regu-
lar YEARLY session Of the Federal Court
al Alanosa. Colo The sitting would
begin on the first Tuesday Of each oc-
rober. according 10 the specifications
I OF the bill. Hundreds in the San LUIS
yalley have petitioned for such court
Pueblo.-winlam Solee. farmer re-
siding east Of Pueblo. i without a
home because he wanted TO take Z
bath. He placed an oil stove in The
bathroom Of the $500 farm home 10
/ take the chill off the room. He then
went TO another room 10 get change
/ Of clothing The stove exploded and
I the house was destroyed
| Greeley.-The Colorado potato ex-
/ pertinent station Is near Greeley and
( consists of forty acres II was estab-
I Hshed in 1915 for the Improvement OF
potatoes for the good Of The entire
state. and is under the direction OF the
I board OF county commissioners Of
I Weld county. the State Agricultural
Z College and the United States Depart
meut Of Agriculture. Every angle Of
potato raising Is studied at the station
by experts
Denver.--Name fakerS- viii not be
tolerated by the police any longer Il
an order issued by chief 4 Police
Williams TO his force provss effective.
Chief Williams notified The members
Of the department that hereafter when
an arrest j. made the correct name Or
names OF The persons arrest-d must be
ascertaiued. Il was because much dif-
fculty has been caused The police by
underworld characters who give fake
names rhat Chief Williams gave the
order.
Walssnburg.-Ex-serv men are
given homestead preference rights 10
the 5,l60 acres OF public lands, twenty
five miles northeast Of Walsenburg,
Colo, which have just been thrown
open to entry, according 10 word re-
ceIved by VI. D. McEniry, chief OF the
Denver field division of the United
States general land office. Homestead
tracts on this land are limited 10 320
acres each. After Feb. %, the general
public may file on any remaining
lands, IL was announced.
Crank Junction-James F. Shultz
of Grand Junction was elected presi-
dent OF the Colorado Aucrioneers' As
sociation at the twelfth annual conven-
ton Of the association held in Denver.
Other officers named were: Charles
W. Shook Of Greeley, vice president,
and n. Z. Fly of Rocky Ford, secre-
tsry-treasurer. The proposal of franz
ing and presenting bill TO the Legls-
lature 10 regulate the practice of auc-
tioneering in Colorado was discussed
at the meeting.
Fort Collins.-Isolated communities
in Colorado are demanding more and
more the services of the extension spe-
cialists from the Colorado Agricultur-
poultry specialist alone has assisted
with meetings in twenty separated
communities. reaching over ! 900 farm
people. 1t is estimated that as a re-
suit of these meetings, 800 farm nocks
have been culled at a saving Of 10000
and that better feeding and housing is
being practiced with all of these flocks
Greeley.-Declaring that Colorado's
greatest and most valuable asset was
It's children and that it greatest indus
try was the public schools, w. II. ].
Doran, president of the Colorado Man
ufacturers' Association, in addressing
the students of Colorado State Teach
ers' College pointed out the part all
school teachers can play in the Colo
rado Goods" campaign.
Denver-While In sleeping car en-
route from San Francisco, George Pin
dell, a sailor recently discharged from
the United States navy, was robbed
of SAT, railroad tickets. a watch and
his discharge papers, according to re-
port made TO the police. Pindell said
that he first became aware Of the rob-
berry when he awakened as the train
was nearing Denver.
Boulder-Mrs. Howard Hoyt Of
Louisville, wife of the cashier of the
Louisville bank. was badly cut and
bruised when an automobile in which
she and her husband were driving col
lided with a machine carrying seven
Boulder boys, two miles north of Louis
Vile. The boys were all thrown from
their car, but were not badly injured
Mrs. Hoyt's injuries required several
stitches.
| Canon City-Hanging to highly
charged electric wire and swinging
himself hand-over-hand along It, Cas-