02 Feb 1909
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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1909
Page
1
The Greeley area sees higher potato prices driven by market demand and better sorting by growers. Local merchants note margins, commissions, and freight influence while farm hands and dealers adjust to rising costs and supply from the West. Hunters and land claims also fill January duties as offices remain busy.
House committee favors a measure from Greeley to raise the school tax limit to five percent of district property value. If passed, Greeley could build a new high school next year and allow full day attendance in grade schools. A weights and measures examiner bill is also favored, with standard weights required for all goods and penalties for short weights. Other bills include granting chancery power to county and juvenile courts and banning sale of cigarettes to schoolchildren.
Special to the Daily Tribune reports an airship line from New York to Chicago is slated to become reality soon. A 1000 foot long craft seating 500 passengers is under build with construction started after a contract to Lew Nixon. Wealthy New York financiers back the venture in a major capitalization effort.
The Home Gas and Electric company lit ten tungsten pattern lamps in a district between Ninth and Thirteenth streets on Eighth Avenue as an experiment. Residents praised the brighter alley entrances and the system’s efficiency, noting similar light uptake to one old arc lamp and inviting public comparison tonight.
Thomas PD Jones files map and statement for a reservoir a mile south of the Coal Creek project. It would draw flood and seepage waters from Long Draw, hold just over five million cubic feet, with a dam estimated at $5,000. Located in section township 6 north range 63 west along Crow Creek.
Mrs J Spute and her daughter Miss Carrie plan a brief trip to Denver starting Wednesday for a short stay. The notice mentions their travel but gives no additional details.
A mass meeting will be held at the Camfield on February 22 to discuss a proposed Y M C A building for Greeley. The state Y M C A officers will attend to report progress, followed by a public meeting to outline plans and seek support for funding and site arrangements.
E N Reaser of Interurban Construum reports in Greeley that $409,000 has been raised in the east for the electric line from Greeley to Denver and that a further $200,000 is needed to complete the project with strong confidence of subscription.
Henry A. McNeil of Eaton and Georgie Markham of Jefferson City Missouri granted license. C H Benoy and Ida M Hodson of Windsor also given license. Trys Tribune notices appear as a classified marriage brief.
The Denver Women’s Clubs Day Nursery story outlines a successful urban day nursery started three years ago in Denver, detailing its humble cottage beginning, rent, staff, and growing attendance. It notes the low five cent daily charge and ten cent option for multiple children, plus medical and meal provisions and weekly sewing sessions led by club members. The piece emphasizes the importance of a dedicated, skilled superintendent and central, accessible location for any new Greeley venture, and references a similar Denver Neighborhood House operation with settlement work.
Gibralter Feb 2 Captain Edw F Qualtrough commanding the battleship Georgia of the fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry was placed under arrest and will be tried by a court martial from his own fleet charged with being drunk at a reception recently given ashore. Complainant is Officer Wainwright. First serious charge against a high official since the cruise began.
In the lower house today the Japanese foreign minister announced that Japan is entirely at peace with the United States and there is no need for alarm over U S legislation affecting Japanese residents. He stressed friendship and fairness between the two nations and said Japan has no complaints.
Clayton Smith aged nineteen fatally shot his father in law at Union Oregon ten miles from LeGrande after constant quarrels since the marriage of his daughter. Henry Martin of Edison Nebraska is visiting his brother in law W Jabrend for a few days.
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