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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
3
Numerous small ads and notices present items for sale rent and services in Greeley. Listings include pets pigs and farm products, furnished rooms, hot meals and board, blacksmithing, jewelry gifts, cigars and holiday merchandise. Community events mention church meetings and a theater benefit at the opera house.
Holiday sales and shop notices fill the page with mentions of Reynolds Co. selling Christmas decorations and sweets. References include Paul Jones cigars, Klein Saturday afternoon events, and a Dun week call for Dettke due to his father’s illness. Local names like Greeley, Wilson Grocery, Bets, and Betson appear amid small ads for meats and produce at Reynolds & Co. 827 Sev Street Weld 102 and parish-related items.
A collage of local items: ask William Tell about Paul. farm loans by Sanborn & Houston. H Reynolds & Co. traveling fright agent for Northwestern in Greeley. Bi Bi comedy at Greeley opera house Thursday night. Lincoln Annuity Union pay weekly sick and accident benefits. Ben F Hoffman meats and vegetables at 27 Seventh Street. Henry Rehn family moving to Campbell Nebraska with Katherine and Emma remaining. Wilson Grocery store invites Christmas stock viewing. Lincoln Annuity Union forming a Greeley assembly before 1909.
Raymond Wolfe promotes the Saturday Evening Post subscriptions and mail orders at publisher prices with orders left at home or Tribune office. Wilson Grocery keeps evening hours after holidays for busy shoppers. A. B. McClure, musician, bedridden with grip and fever, at home over Greeley steam laundry. his nine year old son George recovering from fever.
Special to the Daily Tribune. Thermopolis, Wyo. Dec. 17. Mrs. Marion F. Brown shot and killed her husband after repeated beatings, using a 45-caliber revolver. She placed a pillow under his head and summoned a doctor. The dead man was a longtime resident with a violent temper.
The county clerk issued marriage licenses to Gabriel Lucas of Longmont and Susie J. Morris of Boulder and to John Devies and Mary Maczeyka of New Windsor.
R L Orr proprietor announces relocation from Seventh Street to new quarters at 617 619 Sixth Avenue. Everything in the blacksmithing line available in their updated shop.
Weld County Colorado officials and Board of County Visitors issue a formal resolution praising P A Tisdel Sr for decades of charitable service as probation officer. The statement lauds his christlike motives and says his spirit will inspire future generations and moral conservation beyond his life.
Kathryn Osterman stars in The Night of the Play a Daly comedy. She plays Nancy Brasher a jealous wife whose deception sparks a farcical mixup keeping the audience in uproar from start to finish at the Greeley opera house on December 23.
Wilbur Crabb celebrated his birthday at the Crabb home with a lively gathering Wednesday evening. Mrs. Crabb and Miss Maud Myer organized games and a fine lunch, and fifteen to twenty young friends joined the festivities.
J. H. Rowe of a ranch near Ault injured his hand while killing a sick calf. The knife slipped and the calf’s diseased blood contaminated the wound, causing persistent pain and concern.
Selling now by owner at 1727 Eleventh Avenue. Modern twelve room dwelling with two story barn granary chicken coop walk lawn. Tickets on sale at Greeley Opera House lobby for Bi B tickets 1 75 and 50 cents.
Descent of Pilgrim faiths gather for a communal supper with hasty pudding baked beans and brown bread. Dr Guerdon Miller of the Normal faculty delivers an address on Puritan ideals and the event ends with a doxology and resolve to make the celebration annual.
Rev R J Hunter and Mrs Hunter welcomed sixty five young church members for an evening program and socialtime at the manse. Miss Charlotte Gauss and Mrs Middleton read papers while A R Kinnie and Miss A Barney sang solos. Refreshments followed. The next day Mrs Hunter hosted a ladies afternoon with over fifty attending despite bad weather.
The New Electric theatre opened Wednesday with moving pictures illustrated songs and the musical Broosts. The first show was packed and the second crowd was unusually large. Manager Nelson appears to be turning Idle Hour reputation into a local winner.
Sligo moves toward growth with two concrete houses under construction for promoters, a wagon scale for a coal yard, and a store building and post office planned after residences. The postmaster is appointed and awaiting a business site, likely leaving time for more than stamp cancellations.
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