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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
3
Colorado and Southern announces special low rates to Boulder for summer school with daily and weekend fares. For full details and the complete program contact T.KE. Fisher, coral Passenger Agent, Denver. Local entertainment highlighted each day.
Various local residents and guests are reported in Greeley. Mrs. Howard Kennedy visits Mrs. W. B. Starr, Miss Emma Anderson of Longmont heads to homestead northeast of Hugh Davis, and the Sterling party visits Cherokee park. Edith Roach returns home to Warrensburg Mo. for vacation.
Mrs William Burkhart traveled to Denver on Friday to meet her sister Mrs W C Price of Natches Mississippi. The pair returned to Greeley this morning. Mrs Ella Ashby and daughter of Creston also left today after visiting Tom Ashby and family. They proceed to LaSalle then Denver and home. Mr and Mrs L Short of New Castle Pennsylvania arrived days ago. Mrs Short a nurse tends their son C E Short ill with typhoid in Greeley hospital.
E H McClenahan arrived Friday evening after a month traveling in California Texas and Old Mexico. Mrs McClenahan shows health improvement and will stay in California until October.
J. F. Feser and his daughters Misses Ethelwyn Florence and Marion came back last night from a six week stay at their summer residence Rockhurst on the Poudre where they spent the season.
Grain prices for Wheat Corn and Oats shown with September and December futures. Wheat Sept. and Dec. reflect mixed figures while Corn and Oats move within narrow ranges. Park price for Sept. sits at 15.47 as rain totals hit up to five inches across parts of the Kansas corn belt.
At the Epworth League business meeting a winter lecture course of 750 lectures was planned with five attractions. A committee was appointed to push the project. Alton Packard the cartoonist slated for one evening. If arrangements hold Governor Hanley of Indiana may attend.
A cheerful crowd from Sterling rode the southbound train Friday afternoon awaiting the Sterling motor. Twenty five of sixty Sterling residents traveled to Cherokee park for their vacation, with the group having previously passed through Greeley in a special car. The remaining travelers stay at Campton's hotel for an extended outing, part of an annual summer trek to Hermosa, Wyoming by rail and stage.
August 13 report notes Pumpkin Pie Day events as Mrs A Scheidt and children visit Wellington. Local births include a son born to Mr and Mrs Chas Boyd on Tuesday August 4. Visitors include Rea Vertrees from Gault Colo with Dayton aunts Ethel and Mary.
Miss Eunice Rowe daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Rowe returned Friday evening from Aust where she had been visiting her aunt for a short stay.
Miss Merna Robison returned to Morenci Arizona after a year with her aunt Mrs B L Kittle. She will teach in Morenci next year. Mrs C A Dent improves after heart trouble. Mrs Margaret McVett of Ida visited son W J McVett. Roy Adams returned from Monmouth Illinois after a stay with relatives. Miss Bertha Hall of Cheyenne visited Mr and Mrs F P Matthews. A J Park reports pleasant stay at Rockhurst. Mrs Louise Whittler leaves for Salt Lake City. Mrs George Tucker and Hal Wimberly visit Gilcrest over Sunday. Florence Beardsley underwent appendicitis surgery at Greeley Hospital. operation successful.
Mrs. Margaret MeVety traveled to Boise Idaho to visit her son W J MeVety. Her husband is a businessman at the Statesman in Boise and previously trained at the Tribune five years ago.
An informal shirt-waist dance was held Friday evening in Academy Hall with about 20 couples attending. The new bar dance features 27 steps and is described as fun yet strenuous, suitable for warmer weather.
A Sterling party touring the state arrived in Greeley Tuesday evening with a broken car. They sent the car east for repairs, spent a day in Greeley, then left Friday evening by rail for Fort Collins and took a stage to Cherokee Park to join the S ling party. They plan to return to Greeley for the car and continue their journey across the state.
The steamer Premier burned at Warren’s Landing near Winnipeg, killing the captain and two crew members among passengers and destroying docks and nearby buildings. The blaze began in the engine room during the night and spread rapidly.
Denver August 8 report says Colorado Democrats nominate at Pueblo September 8 with Milton Smith calling the meeting to order at 10 a.m. over a three day session. Delegates allocated one for every 75 votes or major fraction thereof, aiming for a record turnout likely around 1,000 delegates.
Reports from Camp Emmett Wyoming say a small man observed from a high rock point during a militia drill by field glasses. Troops pursued him but he vanished as officers reached the spot. Investigators believe he may have been recording new rapid fire field cannon developments at Fort Logan.
A Friday night intrusion at 929 Fifth Street left a theft of edibles and a whisky bottle from a back porch refrigerator. The burglar reportedly took the bottle along, leaving the rest of the root beer stash untouched as a mild home brew.
A New York Sun item recalls a comic moment at a drugstore when a little girl asked for hatsules meaning capsules. The amused clerk narrates how the mispronunciation sparked a brief, cheerful scene that brightened the morning for about three quarters of an hour.
In Chelsea Turner urged a Ramsgate doctor to reconsider the London physicians view of his prognosis. The doctor confirmed the dire outlook but Turner requested nourishment before the final visit. After the refreshment break the doctor could not change the verdict and the artist died quietly.
The piece surveys reasons for planting yews in churchyards. Antiquarians dispute archery uses, wind shelter, and congregation comfort, while Gilbert White and the critic Ray link the yew to mortality, immortality, and evergreen longevity.
On the Rialto Hamlet Fatt claims the mantle of Kemble. Yorick Hamm notes the clothes question is settled and adds that a good free lunch route will fix the situation.
J Beil of Laramie obtains from the state engineer an appropriation of 40,000 acre feet and 35 square miles drainage to Douglas creek for a reservoir near Millbrook on the Laramie Hahn s Peak and Pacific line. The scheme aims to reclaim 60,060 acres immediately and 40,000 later with water conveyed by syphon and tunnel to the Little Laramie River. Estimated cost ranges from 406000 to 500000, and Beil says funds are ready to begin work when needed.
The Switzerland Trail trip on Sunday Augusts Sunday offers a scenic excursion over the Colorado and Northwestern line. The Greeley Band will furnish music and host the trip showcasing valleys plains mountains canyons rivulets forests and vivid alpine scenery.
A special round trip train from the C. and S. depot leaves at 7 30 a m for a Boulder to Glacier lake excursion with mountain climbing boating and a band concert included. Tickets are 2 75 for the round trip and the return trip is in the cool of the evening.
Longmont prepares for the Ninth Annual Pumpkin Pie Day on August 13 with plans for 16 000 pies 2500 loaves of bread 1000 gallons coffee and 1500 pounds boiled ham. Special trains and unusually low water levels from Denver and Greeley are offered by the C and S railway.
A hotel arrivals column lists guests including Mrs. J. A. McLean of Ames Iowa H. H. Summers and family of Colorado Springs J. H. Roedger of Fort Morgan M F Roe deg er Weldon A D Jackson Sterling F W Bridler Del Norte J H Empson Longmont Maude E. Royce Evans R G McGrew Fort Steele Wyo I R Parkham Denver.
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