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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
3
A jumble of want ads listing real estate for sale including a five room cottage near Grover and a five bedroom house with price hints, plus rental offers, room for rent, and stray notices. Also mentions autos, farm items, and a plug for a business opportunity. contact details are partially legible.
The item lists various merchants and services from Thurlby to Sanborn and Houston offering jewelry loans hats and plumbing heating. A marriage license is issued for Jacob Achinger and Lizzie Devies. Miss Jessie Mosher hosts a gathering this afternoon. Mrs Curtis Gray visits Fort Lupton. J H Gilbert & Sons promote Lam Sing Wagons and Buggies. Several residents travel or plan moves and a Swedish American republican club meeting features talks by Dr Grant and D A Lofgren. One local reports illness from ice cream.
Mr and Mrs J T Warren traveled to Denver Tuesday. Rev R J Hunter also went to Denver for several days in the Capitol city. Mrs BE Wiedmann heads to Panora IA to visit relatives. Miss Louise Seelbach visits a ranch near Orchard for about three weeks. Mr and Mrs Foster McCune and Mr and Mrs Oscar Stewart plan an outing at Hetel park. J G Reynolds, recent Sterling employee, becomes bookkeeper at Eaton Sugar factory. Rey Findlay Matheson and wife of Chatsworth Canada arrive for a wedding trip in Colorado. Edith Roach hosts a birthday surprise party with 16 friends at Mrs H W Pool’s home.
Thur sday visits in Denver by Thursby and several locals. Residents plan or enjoy trips to Zimmerman's on the Poudre and Estes Park. A wire fence machine by Gilbert and Sons is showcased at old gas plant. Religious meetings led by Dr. Hull set for East Side Mission.
Thurlby jewelry and diamonds advertise timekeeping and watch services. McClenahan farm loan contact. C L Day & Company plumbing heating and model bath. Ginghama textiles offered. Ramsay Dry Goods promotes up to date wares. A fishing party on the Poudre includes I Glazier F A Gates August Euach. Warren Muth Shoe Co. advertises footwear and Bankcheck cash discounts. Mr and Mrs J O Pearce of Salida visit Greenley, purchase local property, plan to settle.
Mrs P W Goodrich entertained ten ladies Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs Sarah Marek. The informal gathering featured needlework, rooms decorated with roses and sweet peas, and a dainty repast served by Miss Anna Goodrich and Miss Pearl Goodrich from Wheatland Wyoming.
A Ministry of the Interior representative told the Duma that another famine is likely in Russia this winter. Two thirds of winter wheat failed across 18 provinces, with the southern district hardest hit. About 2.5 million acres remain unseeded, though June warmth and center to south rains improved spring wheat prospects. Relief programs will be needed for seeding and feeding.
A hungry seeker of obsolete books learned from a friend to ask Dewitt Miller of Philadelphia. Miller recalled the book containing the lines and noted the last known copy rested in an English library in London. He will lecture twice during the chautauqua.
Old mountaineer John Zimmerman and a small crew including his daughters Eda and Ada are building a large storage reservoir in Sheep Creek park six miles southwest of the Keystone hotel. The timber crib dam rises 30 feet high and 200 feet long with earth wings and a 250 foot timber outlet carrying 300 cubic feet per second. The project, supervised by Zimmerman, would supply late water to valley ditches and could yield a 4,000 horsepower power plant from the stream.
Reverend John Doane leads a local summer camp for fifteen boys in the Congregational church tradition. The boy choir, Rev Doane his son Leroy and Mr Demorest supervise a week at Wylie's grove. The camp features tents roughing it with a structured routine, self cooking, and careful adult supervision.
The Rhine bridge at Cologne collapsed when a crane failed while placing the middle span. A score of workers were buried under debris or swept into the river, with bodies recovered and others still missing amid a wreckage. A schooner wreck near Sackett's Harbor, loaded with a Canadian crew, was blown ashore in a gale, prompting lifeboat calls.
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