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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
A cluttered page lists rates for daily insertion and various sale and rent items. Entries include sale of Belgian hares and Angora kits, house and lot for sale at a price, a Rambler for sale in good repair, furnished and unfurnished room rentals, and a trade ad for a rug exchange. Contact details and partial descriptions appear with brief conditions.
The Reeley Band provides music and hosts a special Switzerland Trail excursion by Colorado and Northwestern from Boulder to Sector Lake. The round trip leaves at 1 80 pm from the depot, with mountain climbing boating and a band concert included. Tickets are 2.76 for round trip.
Farm loads reported at Sanborn and Houston. H L Robertson left for San Diego California. Ruth Stottlemeyer departed for Hood River Oregon. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs J L Duncan on Thursday August 6. Mrs B L Kittle and children visit Denver for a week with her parents. Fred Huston came from Boulder for a few days with Telendas. P R MacKinnon Rock Island Frisco agent was in town. Irene Proctor of Denver visits Lexie Mead. Miss Snook's party heads to Yellowstone. Harry Snook returns from county trip. Carrie Snook on four week state trip. Snook attends Western Students Conference and visits Cripple Creek Colorado Springs Pueblo Denver Longmont.
Local brief lists residents traveling for visits and trips. Names include A G Shook to Pulsa Oregon J Brush to Colorado Springs Mrs G W Kindred and son Roy from Denver and John Gimple welcoming a daughter born August 5 at 26 Third Street. Also up: Porter daughter born August 2 in McCoy Colorado and fishing plans by Charles Jackson Joe Woolf and E J Wilson. Vada Rowland returns from Overton Nebraska. J K Thompson to Glen Haven. Mrs J F Reid departs Torrington Wyoming. J A Godman heads to Linneus Missouri. Mary Carter back from Fort Morgan with Maud Myer.
George Horne and Grover Shep pard traveled to Denver today. W. W. Hibbard and daughter Gail returned from Eldorado Springs after a two week stay. Mrs. Roy Shumway left for Lyons Nebraska visiting G. W. Weber. Vera Burney of Kerrville and Carrie Woodruff depart Glen Park for two week visit. Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Doohan hosted a dinner party with J. B. Patton George Stansbury guests. The group played 500. A. J. Condon Alberta and baby C Ilanes Dr. C. H. Call and Steven Mead left for Cherokee park then Hermosa by rail and stage.
Mrs Agnes Dart and her brother J C McNee returned from Blakebure Louisiana and Iowa today. She had left three weeks ago for New York state on a visit and fell ill at her brother's home in Iowa. She is improving but not well enough to resume travel.
A horse owned by Edward Penquite on West Tenth Street near Loveland was struck in the head by a lightning flash during a thunderstorm around 9 o’clock. The bolt passed down the forelegs, instantly killing the animal, while the stable and barn suffered no damage.
Mr and Mrs J M B Petrikin entertained about 25 guests Thursday night at their Tenth avenue residence. The casual event featured music enjoyed by guests, with light refreshments served.
The Oxford Indians and the home team played as rain halted action after both sides scored once. Neither side finished the game, and they were forced to return to town. More games with other teams are planned soon.
Longmont gears up for the Ninth Annual Pumpkin Pie Day on August 13 featuring a vast menu with 10 000 pumpkin pies 2500 loaves of bread 1000 gallons of coffee and 1500 pounds of boiled ham. Special trains from Denver and Greeley are offered by the railway for the event.
Special excursion by train to Glacier Lake departs Greeley at 7 20 a m returns 4 15 p m next Sunday. Cost 2 76 for the road trip rate. Includes the Greeley Band event and mountain scenery.
Frank C. Benson came back Thursday evening from Central City where he spent two weeks on vacation. Mrs. Benson and their children extended their stay for a longer visit. Miss Alice Shinneman of Parsons Kansas and Miss Anna Bender of Mt Pulaski Illinois were guests Thursday of Mrs. Elizabeth Doten and family, former Mt. Pulaski residents. F H Seare and family drove to Loveland in their car Thursday and returned early this morning after being delayed by rain.
In Gothland, Sweden, near Visby, a village named Sundre revealed what is likely the oldest known church organ. The instrument’s case survives seven centuries, with pedal and manual holes aligned to modern layouts and a bellows chamber visible inside. Paintings from about 1240 decorate the exterior and it was later used as a sacristy, then kept in good repair for holy vessels and vestments.
The halo traces to eleventh and twelfth century church rebuilding when rain led caretakers to cover statues with wooden disks. Giotto, starting as a boy, adopted these disk shapes, evolving them into a luminous circle that became the sacred badge in painting.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson arrived in Fort Collins from Laramie and rejected accusations by Professor BE F Ladd and J O Emery that he plotted to defeat the pure food law. Ladd charged Wilson with involvement in a plot tied to Ladd’s removal from a federal office.
New York plans for a $10,000,000 62 story Equitable Life building were officially approved by the building department. Designed by D H Burnham and Co in Chicago, the Broadway block bounded by Nassau Pine and Cedar streets was filed June 29. Policy holders opposed the expenditure and questioned occupancy and income projections.
Copenhagen dispatch reports Danish explorer Mylus Erichsen and two companions perished after an Arctic drift on an ice floe. The expedition began June 24, 1906, aiming to chart the northeastern coastline of Greenland. Esquiman, who delivered the news, arrived ill and died after filing the report.
The six month old infant Raymon Stevens, son of Mr and Mrs C E Stevens, died this morning. Funeral services will be held at 2 30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the family home 1540 Tenth Avenue.
Mr and Mrs Harry H Shaw and their son Keneth returned from a six weeks trip to Alaska aboard a tourist excursion visiting the Alaskan coast including Douglass Treadwell Skaway Sitka and British Columbia. Dr and Mrs Graham arrived later and the party split routes due to ticket eccentricities with the group noting the fires in British Columbia as a headline at the time.
A reader questions why safe doors often feature a painted rural scene with lakes trees or fields and rider fences remarks that such imagery may imply the peace of the country inside or soothe the viewer but admits the origin and meaning are unclear.
Up-to-date cottage on Normal Hill offered by William F. Stephens agent at the Opera House block. Price very reasonable and easy terms to the right party.
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