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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
3
Public notice lists furnished rooms for rent near Coronado Court and 1403 sth-st with near new stoves and heating. Adds a rubber tire car and implements lost items. asks to report to local office. Also mentions a blue coat found and a request to leave at the bureau.
Faro loans, Sanborn and Houston are listed. Wedding invitations and announcements appear at the Tribune office. Multiple notices report births, visits, and trips: a girl born August 14 to Mr. and Mrs. George Hennick. Mrs. J. D. Potter and daughter Bessie travel to Milwaukee. Minnie Rigney returns from Denver. Bessie Blair returns from Denver. families on fishing trips on the Laramie River. visits to Estes Park and Fort Collins. Edna Stevenson visiting relatives in Kansas. scans of departures for Twin Falls and Leadville. Mrs. Mary J. Wilson and Bessie travel from North Bend to Wellington. Rev. Thorell building a house on Twelfth Avenue. Maul Peters visiting Englewood. W. E. Lester and party plan Wyoming mountain trip.
Sanborn and Houston discuss farm loans while Wesley Sargent departs on a Boise business trip. Mrs Kersey Helmes of Kearney visits Mrs Kate Hanna as Hazel Godfrey returns from Glen Haven. W H Barden visits Denver to see his daughter Mrs Ray Roach. Nana Wright and Frank Wilder plan a Denver Moron trip. State Normal School seeks student help for room and board through secretary Miss Kete Seely. Moore couple depart Omaha after a family visit.
Local notes list Mrs. Tom Bell of Eaton shopping in town while Mr. and Mrs. H J Houston plan a Denver visit. Dr. and Mrs. Frank Dille depart for a ten day Estes Park stay. Beloit’s E G Smith visits uncle William Mayher and wife. Miss Mary E Hosack returns from Nebraska. Clara Peery visits Colorado Springs. Ida Smith seeks location to reopen her store. Fred C Andersons visit Colorado Springs. Merie Easterday returns from Estes Park Haven and Haygue’s pea trip.
The Daily Tribune arranged a C and 8 excursion via Great Western on Aug 27 from Greeley at 1 45 p m. The ride includes stops at Windsor Officer Johnstown Mead and Loveland to reach Boyd Lake edge where an orchard meal will be served. Round trip covers about 60 miles with opportunities to alight and sightsee.
Mrs E H Brown and Mrs T R Wilson with Mis George Baker plan a one week trip to Estes Park beginning tomorrow. The group departs for the mountain retreat.
The hoof is the same horn as a human toe nail and grows like one. Unshod horses grow faster than those with shoes and well fed horses grow faster. Toe nails take 11 to 13 months to grow down, while heels take 3 to 5 months. Cracks move outward as new horn grows. Bruises progress from skin to tip as the hoof renews.
The Candle auction in Tatworth Somerset continues a quaint ancient custom. A Meadow land plot near Tatworth sold by candle light with the final bidder becoming the next tenant for a year. Freeholders gather for supper before the bid while fines apply for speaking or moving during the candle burn.
Oliver Carpenter and his sister Miss Amanda will host a small company of young friends this evening in honor of two visiting guests from out of town.
Convict No. 1113, 57 year old S W Young, who had been trusted after years of exemplary behavior, concealed himself amid a party of Indians visiting the Wyoming penitentiary in Rawlins and escaped. He stole a guard’s hat and coat, joined the Indians to the wagon, then jumped off near town and fled toward the hills as guards sealed exits. Recapture expected. authorities pursue across the Rawlins district.
Miss Nellie Predman and F P Clark of Greeley were married Monday afternoon by Judge Nixon. They planned a speedy ceremony to save time and catch a train, with Judge Nixon trimming the rite to ten minutes which proved enough to complete their plans.
In Denver on August 18 the unknown burglar shot by George E. Ziegler in his room last week has been identified as J. F. Ward. W. E. Jones, manager of Kilbourne apartments, asserts he knows Ward and is positive the deceased is Ward.
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions with brief showers likely in the northwest area. Winds will be light and temperatures mild with no significant storms expected.
Mrs. E. J. Decker and son Harold with Arthur Gill and Mr. in New York returned Monday. Mr. Decker had left earlier and came back a few days before.
Miss Leota Thompsson departed for Las Animas after visiting Miss Eula Hopkins. Mrs. Martha Daves returned to Pueblo following a week with her daughter Mrs. BE W Grizzle. Mrs. D G Alter and Hei en returned to Denver after a visit with Mrs. W J Daniels. W H Senter sent Dan Patterson to Denver for the Denver Cheyenne endurance race, rider W P Slusser of Fort Collins. J M Cameron and two sons went to Denver for a few days to see sights and visit Golden. Mr and Mrs Walter Lovett of Massachusetts who summered in Denver explored Greeley for a winter stay.
Miss Bertha Brooks, summer resident of Fort Morgan, spent a few hours in town en route to Eaton where she will oversee the science program at Eaton High School. Nelson Demorest is due home Wednesday from a five week eastern trip visiting Chicago Boston New York City and Canada. He also Ida Littleson in Atchison.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Tebbetts of Kansas City spend a day in Greeley touring the city and countryside. Mrs. Tebbetts arrived from Denver to meet her husband returning from Salt Lake City. The note mentions a honeymoon trip of Hiawatha residents and a reference to Miss Lillian and Letah Ellery with plans to return by week’s end.
Robert Harris of Colorado Springs visits town and registers at the Camfield. He is a prominent member of the Commercial Traveling Men’s association.
The Berean class of the Christian church will hold their regular monthly business meeting and social this evening at the home of Miss Maud Ward.
Mrs Sylvia Wilson and Mrs Jennie Warrington of Pender Nebraska have been visiting their brother M Curry and Mr and Mrs R G Strong. The ladies left this morning for Colorado Springs.
John West came back from Ely Nevada after two months away. M West will depart soon for Golden to attend the Mines schools.
The First Presbyterian Sunday school plans a picnic on Thursday afternoon at Howards Grove. The carriage leaves the church at 1 30 PM and proceeds to the grove for a supper and other good things.
Mr and Mrs T P Grout of Laver née Minnesota leave today for Denver after a brief visit with Mr and Mrs A C Croft. The Grouts and Crofts were longtime Minnesota pioneers. The Grouts, impressed by their first Colorado visit, consider making this state their home.
A training school at the State Normal will begin Tuesday morning September 1, with high school and kindergarten starting a week later. Regular work starts then and parade children should be present on the opening date. No fees for first and second grades.
Mr and Mrs J B Agnew entertain a Waterloo Nebraska group on an auto tour across the state departing Wednesday for Cheyenne. The crowd includes Mr and Mrs J C Robinson Temp Robinson Lawrence Robinson Miss Grace Robinson and Pike.
Miss Mabel Woolf will host a sorority party for Phi Delta Psi members tonight. Guests include Elizabeth Canfield Marjory Watson Lois Wright Mayme Wyatt and Carrie Snook with several members away from the city.
Afternoon routines unfold by the golf links where a girl named Cies gathers stray balls into a basket beneath apples. Gentlemen search in vain, assuming the balls drifted downstream, while Cisa sells them to her young man who buys at two pence each and resells to makers for sixpence.
The text notes that Ezra 7:21 contains all letters of the English alphabet in a decree by Artaxerxes the king and Ezra the priest. It adds that Zephaniah 3:8 also contains every letter, including Hebrew finals, highlighting curious alphabets within biblical passages.
A Scots man recalls his cat Bob stalking two young rats on a low stable roof. The cat caught one, the other fled to an elderberry tree. Bob leapt after it, fell to the ground with both rats, and killed them both in a single bold chase.
The ardent musician says he concentrates on his performance by immersing himself in the act. Miss Cayenne counters that such focus may blur recognition of the composer, highlighting a playful exchange about artistry and identity.
John and William Kingsbury fought Lower Latham Ditch Co and Union Pacific over waste seepage from railroad excavations south of Evans. Judge Nixon granted a temporary injunction permitting construction of a ditch to drain water for irrigation, with $325 deposited by plaintiffs.
Mrs. Asa Sterling presided at the Unique club meeting on Monday with red dahlias in the decorations. Prizes went to Mrs. Chas. Couzens for first and Mrs. Owen Fitzpatrick for consolation, while substitutes were Mesdames Brink and Walter Miner. A six o'clock dinner replaced the usual light refreshments, served by Miss Winnie Annis and Miss Annie Green.
A quirky exchange on love and dining contrasts soulful Youth and practical Friend. The youth claims music nourishes love while the friend jokes love demands fine fare like lobster salad and texrapia as costly nourishment. An aphoristic note ends with a cheeky axiom on church membership.
Mr and Mrs H M DeVotie depart their old home after 38 years away from Des Moines Indiana en route to New York City Their itinerary includes the September 5 wedding of their niece Miss Lou Mason in Vernon New York Mason formerly stayed at the DeVollle home in Greeneley and has many local friends
Poultry hens ten cents per pound broilers fifteen cents per pound fresh eggs twenty cents per dozen ranch butter twenty five cents per pound potatoes two cents per pound
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