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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
3
Classified items list farm loans sales auctions and rentals with names and locations. Items include livestock bales furn rooms and rental ads plus society notes on club meetings travels and church activities among residents in Greeley and surrounding areas.
The Windsor page lists residents visiting relatives in distant towns, holiday movements including Mrs Elmer Roy in Denver and Albert Tuck returning from Westminster University, local sales and theater tickets, church social plans, and a funeral for Miss Clara Kienks at Linn Grove Cemetery with Rev. R J Hunter officiating. Residences and travel details span Fort Morgan to Greeley and Windsor.
In Colorado Springs, Pasick Sr. a longtime Woodmen of the World No 5 clerk aged 67 was found dead in his bed from self inflicted wounds. His son Charles served life in 1905 for murder. Pasick was in ill health and leaves a wife and six children, with possible motive tied to past legal troubles.
A six feet seven inches tall man from Frederick, described as Colorado’s tallest and thinnest, is jailed for thirty days after a Christmas day knife fight with a companion. He could not stand in his Erie county cell and risked head injury escaping through a stove pipe. authorities avoided moving him during a motor car ride when a bell cord and whistle interaction occurred.
Colorado real estate men plan to push a bill for 320 acre homestead claims at the third annual dry farming congress in Cheyenne on February 23 to 25. The board of control backs the plan and organizers credit the congress with advancing dry farming in Colorado and the West.
Walter Joyner a Eaton flour mills employee wed Miss Mattie Burns formerly a clerk in a local dry goods store Saturday in Greeley. The bride, who came from Arkansas a year ago, resides with her sisters Mrs. Lafferty of Eaton and Mrs. Johnson of Greeley. Rev. R. J. Hunter officiated at the manse ceremony. The couple plan to live in Eaton.
All Windsor teachers join the State Teachers' Association session in Denver this week. Thirteen educators from Windsor Schools attend while a few reside locally, planning to return by early January.
George Miller, a Salvation Army captain, repents in his prison cell after giving up his bed to a poor Turkey. He reads the Bible daily, prays loudly, and faces an eighteen day remaining sentence with plans to leave town.
George M. Cohan’s The Honeymooners brings twenty musical numbers to the Greeley stage after a record run at New Amsterdam in New York. The show blends love politics and mistaken identity in a Vermont village with lively score and brisk dialogue.
J. J. Carper bought 160 acres near Kuner on the Sterling ranch Monday and sold it this morning for a $4,800 profit. F. S. Miller took an option at $45 per acre, then sold to J. S. Carper at $56 per acre, followed by a Hollander buying the tract at $85 per acre. Carper covered the original cost with cash and took a mortgage for the remainder.
The Tribune reports a community effort to raise a memorial for Father Tisdel. On Saturday January 9, thirty high school girls will canvass Greeley neighborhoods for donations, with red tags issued to donors and a goal of at least 500 dollars. Suggestions for the memorial including a marble shaft, orphanage, day nursery, or hospital wing are invited by letter to the Tribune.
Daily Letter from Ault notes a four generations gathering for Christmas at J D Madison’s home with Madison's father from Creston Iowa visiting. Lillie Ankeney, teaching in Wyatt district, visits Carr. W S Lowry of Windsor visits parents and has accepted a position at Eaton.
Local ad proclaims deep discounts on a premium line of leather goods in Greeley. Company claims competitive pricing and urges shoppers to investigate the sale for substantial savings.
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