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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
2
The Daily Tribune marks its first month in Greeley with steady operation across mechanical, business, and editorial departments. Circulation grows on merit as readers pick up only paid copies, and the paper proves itself a valuable daily fixture alongside the weekly edition.
A hospitality roundup notes guests and visitors at local hotels and clubs including Camfield Miss Mary F. Rausch Fort Collins E H Dennis Orphean Musical Club W F Henry A H Richardson E W Crumbaker Ash Davis and wife Mrs John P D John L Lamb and wife E W Wourth and wife S Wright E Wright Clinton Iowa H J Danis Longmont Jay Rial Barnum and Bailey N S Dils Caldwell Idaho Dr J D Cary Timnath R Giddings J H Seamans and wife Fort Collins Mrs A F Searles Eaton Delphine Searles Eaton Mrs J L Kendel Eaton H Bert Cave and wife Pierce A W Gowder Fort Collins M J Gowder Fort Collins M Harmon H De Shiell Fort Collins C H Dauding and wife Windsor E R Bennett Fort Collins T D Dun lap and wife Knoxville Iowa Adam Koenig Knoxville Iowa Emmett Fuller Windsor A R Fuller Windsor.
Poultry broilers priced at 15 cents per pound hens at 10 cents per pound ranch butter 20 and 25 cents per pound eggs 20 cents per dozen reflects market rates for the period in Greeley.
Notice that the Model Mill will close on August 1 for necessary repairs. Farmers with feed on the ground are asked to remove it before that date.
An old man Limuel Brizan tine shares a social tale on truth and honesty. He warns that truth can do harm when wielded narrowly and praises truth as a quiet virtue that should be instinctive rather than practiced as a profession. He recalls tales of mind disease, fake honesty, and a toll gate gatekeeper who tested honesty in a hot sun.
Resumed factory work in the East and South drives strong starch demand for the Greeley plant. About 400000 pounds of potato starch shipped to Ox ford Adams mills in Massachusetts Senaca New York and other Eastern points. A new market arose as five carloads were sent to New York for grinding into potato flour for German buyers. Rail rates favor Eastern products but the Greeley output yielded good profits. last year's starch value was about $60000 and all was sold.
Weld county abstract and Investment Co reports transfers. Denslow Coal & Land Co to Clarence Buchanan for 325 dollars, lots 18 19 20 block 14 Firestone. A J Smillie to Henry Achzig for 16000 dollars NW of 20-7-65. Rhoda McCoy to Gilcrest Townsite Co for 87.50 dollars north 100 feet of lots 16 11 12 block 28 Gilcrest. William Barker and Mary A Barker to Harry F Pierce no consideration E half of 7-11-59. Samuel B Hale and William E Hale to Jacob Hoover for 650 dollars lots 8 9 block 2 Peerys sub Greeley.
A large Thursday crowd attended the chautauqua featuring the Orphean Musical club and cartoonist Ash Davin. The evening opened with singing and stunts, followed by Davin who drew and spoke with coloring easels for over an hour, drawing wide enjoyment.
The Alesmo club held a fine dance at Academy hall with electric fans cooling the venue. A good crowd attended as the new barn dance, trendy in the east the past year, was introduced and proved very popular.
Hundreds of floats and animals delighted a vast crowd as the Barnum & Bailey parade opened on time at 10 AM. Spectators cheered brass bands steam calliope and dazzling pageantry while elephants camels clowns and equestrians drew praise and a later afternoon show featured daring acts and Baby Bunting in the menagerie.
William Koeneman, a St Louis merchant, lost 27000 in promissory notes and 200 in checks plus 50 in cash to pickpockets in Denver. The notes were dropped in a downtown mailbox and later recovered. remaining money and checks were not found. Koeneman, traveling with family, was jostled on a street car and reported the loss after reaching the Albany hotel.
Five men working on a sandbar in the Las Animas river near Trinidad Colorado are marooned by a sudden rise in the river. Rescue efforts rely on rope lines as workers reach the site from the shore. The river had recently been rerouted within city limits along the Santa Fe tracks and high water has pushed embankments.
The Colorado and Southern offers special low rates daily and on weekends for the Chautauqua and Summer School in Boulder. Elaborate entertainment each day and for full program details write T. J. Fisher, General Passenger Agent, Denver.
The piece portrays ile as a developing city with nine thousand hay stock and a favorable location near Deg. It highlights a mountain water system, a Normal school, churches, a rail link, a million dollar beet factory, a large starch works, several small manufacturers, hotels, parks, libraries, three daily papers, four weeklies, and deposits over two million dollars. It emphasizes climate, retail, culture, and social life as signs of prosperity.
A compiled notice lists numerous fraternal orders with meeting nights and officers. From Greeley and surrounding groups including A A, K P, Masons, Odd Fellows, and Royal Arch, details of regents secretaries and meeting evenings are cataloged. Regular sessions span Thursdays to Mondays with various officers named for each lodge.
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