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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1908
Page
2
A Chicago Salvation Army visit accompanies an escaped Indiana convict back to the penitentiary. He calls it the happiest day of his life, saying spiritual conversion changed his motive and love, making freedom a state of the soul despite looming hard labor and bars.
A brief note from T. P.'s Weekly contrasts industrial norms with intellectual achievement. It cites London council's 35-year age limit for hires while presenting Dorland's view that great masters produce work at age 50 on average, highlighting different standards of age and achievement.
Reports from Colorado announce new county officers for Larimer and Weld. A wedding tale recalls Rev. J Fr Coffman traveling with a groom to wed Nettie Turner at a ranch near a claim, 25 guests joining a supper before the couple returns to Eaton to start life together. Hazel Z Rhoads and Thomas Hart wed in Ault and Trinidad, planning a western wedding trip then settling on the groom’s Trinidad area ranch.
Stockholders elected D. B. Wyatt T. H. Wilson W. W. Brown J. L. Dorsey B. G. Eaton as trustees. The next year assessment remains 20 per 80 acre water right. Laramie and Weld Reservoir Company names G. H. Oliver Jas. Milne J. M. Collins T. H. Wilson PD B. Wyatt as officers. Assessment set at 100 per 80 acre water right.
Myrtle Rhoads daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Rhoads wed Gershon W Forbes a Denver real estate man Sunday The bride worked in Denver and is well known in Evans She moved to Evans six years ago with her parents from Kansas City
A New York skin specialist argues that diet harms health, preferring collaboration with cooks over apothecaries. He asserts boards of health matter more than force, noting many people eat the wrong foods in excessive amounts.
Judge Lindsay argues that troubled boys come from broken homes and poor environments. He notes gambling, alcohol, and bad associations seed crime and urges community care, trust, and reform over punishment. He credits playgrounds, church, home, and school for salvation and warns laws are not built for children.
Special to the Daily Tribune reports Francisco Martenez, suspected in the Garcia family murders, was seen Friday at the Alex McKenzie ranch fifteen miles from Springfield Colorado. He was with Maggie Garcia, daughter of the victims, who appeared happy and unaware of her parents fate. They are likely surrounded in the hills and face starvation or capture soon.
The First Christian Church held morning and evening services on Sunday December 6 under the Christian Women's Board of Missions. Rev. Dubber spoke on the C W E M work in the far east and state highlighting church protection and membership, with a generous offering. Dr J A Dongan and Mr C C Paulson provided the evening program.
Mr Kerr spoke at Unity church on leadership and cooperative youth instruction. He urged church members to back his enterprises to expand Unity church's influence in Greeley and noted differing liberal religious views between eastern conservatism and western enterprise. He stressed a great civic task ahead.
President Roosevelt's commission on country life held a morning session at the Albany hotel in Denver. Members include E. M. Butterfield and Henry Wallace with L. C. Planchard, plus many state farmers and Fort Collins Agriculture College staff. R. M. Haythorn warned potato growers need organization similar to fruit growers. J. F. White criticized arid land reclamation efforts. Results will be sent to Congress in a general message after their return.
A Cleveland area school room hosts the visiting school commissioner. Teacher asks Johnny Smith for a coal cost problem. Johnny replies Three, noting teachers sometimes accept wrong answers in practice.
A series of property transfers including Ferris to Stultz in Dacona, Meyers and Heilman to Drumer, Peterson to Durkee, Twombly to Ewing, and others involving Fort Lupton Lodge No. 100 and Union Pacific Railroad Co. with varied sums from $1 to $35,000. Transfers also cover parcels in Greeley and Elk, with right of way and lot frictions recorded for 1965.
Morley recalls a Sunday hilltop gathering in a quiet Kent village where Darwin and Gladstone, both born in the same year, meet for the first time. Darwin warmly remarks on the honor of such a renowned figure visiting him as Gladstone’s lively discourse on massacre lessons contrasts with Darwin’s scientific interests in his greenhouse.
The London Saturday Review offers guidance for brides to study a fiancé at breakfast. It warns that a man who feeds the forty is poor marriage material, and that melancholy or boisterous temperaments reveal flaws. An empty dram and loud chatter at 8 a.m. are cited as warning signs.
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