The Ordway new era., 1922-12-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

! nounced by the Greut western ouk"'
Cu,npany la Il letter TO these growers
The letter states that 'in uccordnr-
with that part of the lo22 Sliding
scuIe beet contract. which proNiues
TINT further payment VIII De iiaue
| from time to time us market cohditioh'
warrant, the company on Dec. - VIII
make un additional payment Of 81 pei
ron for all heels delivered under that
| contract"
Sterllng.-CulminatiI weeks en-
tertuluinent In recognition OF her sue
cess In the 1872 national surety lesson
contest, Mrs. Anne Rogers, II tehcher
Of Sterling. was received nt the White
House recently by President Hardins.
who presented her with dipIoinn OF
honor. She won In contest among
$1,000 school teachers. preparing the
best lesson for promoting safety ON the
highways. The contest was conducted
by the Highway Education Bourd anu
National Automobile Chamber OF Com
merce.
Fort Collins of the mar
keting problem held the attention OF
the Colorado Farmers Congress dur
Ing the second days session. Livery
exchanges of opinion between Tue
speakers and farmers from tie floor
added spice to discussions of the Nithl
topic which has 10 do with disposal OF
the things produced on the farms or
Colorado. These discussions concerned
the slump in values of farm product J.
The solution recommended by the
speakers was cooperative marketing.
BurlIngton.-fwo little Colorado
farm girls-Elaine Hendricks, 1o, and
Bertha Boyer, II, of Kit Carson coun-
~, won the highest hunors in home
canning and ielly-making club work in
the United States, at the international
Live Stock Show in Chicago. three
month trip abroad, eliminating in an
exhibition before the domestic science
experts of France, is the reward of the
two girls. Their expenses will be paid
by the national committee on boys and
girls club work.
Bodlder.-Alpha Beta, new est of the
Greek letter fruternltles ut the Uni
OF Colorado, has leased for
three years the old Kappa Sig house.
james II. Hoffman, senior law stu
dent, of Littleton, Is president of the
which is pet!tioning Phi
Kappa Tau, national Greek organ
zntior. james K. Roach of Boston is
vice president Ralph Squire of Black
we'll, Okla, house manager; Lester
Weber of Denver Is treasurer.
Denver.-There is an automobile for
every SIX persons in Colorado, the
in the office of Secretary of
State Milliken show. Colorado, ac-
cording to the last census, has u popu-
Iation of 939, $40 On Dec. there were
in operation In Colorado 1G0.5S5 auto
mobiles - 1898 passenger cars and
1852 trucks. This makes. to be exact,
one automobile for every 5.S inhabl-
tants, or ten cars for every fifty-eight
people.
Denver. - With nearly S9,0O0,O0O
available for highway work In Colora-
do during the coming year, members
of the state highway advisory board
have been in session here completing
the budget for 1923. The sums to be
spent on the roads and highways of
Colorado next year include leftover
appropriations of 1922 and one-fourth
Of the S6,OOO,OOO bond issue voted at
the November election.
Littleton.-John w. Perry was found
to be insane and ordered committed to
the asylum at Pueblo. Perry, who has
been attending series of revivals
here, recently threw the meetings In
to panics when he announced he was
going to get shotgun and go over TO
Turkey to end the troubles in Europe.
Boulder.-Fifty-si high schools of
Colorado are to compete this year in
the annual interscholastic debates un-
der the direction of the University of
Colorado.
Fort Collins.-The following officers
were elected at meeting of the North
Central Colorado Athletic Association
here: William Akin, Laporte, presi-
dent; John X. Grant, Ault, vice presi-
dent; NJ. A. Morrison, Timnath, secre-
tary-treasurer Gilbert E. Counts,
Wellington, representative to the state
board of o@ntrol.
Greeley.-Bert ]. Lowe, convicted OF
the murder of his sister-in-law, Fern
Skinner, Is taking his fate with the
same stole indifference which charac-
terized his attitude during the trial.
He refused to make statement, us
did his brother, who departed for his
home in Cass Lake, MINI.
Sterling.-About two hundred depos.
itors of the closed Sterling National
Bank met here at the city hall to
bring about negotiations for the re-
opening of the institution. The bank
was closed two years ago, and recently
paid the depositors in full, with inter.