Buying More Land Helps Weld County Fair Group
Secretary reports revenues and expenditures of the late demonstration show a net loss of 350 dollars despite substantial subscriptions between six and seven thousand dollars. Two 25 percent assessments were levied with a 60 percent balance outstanding. Land purchases include Wadna five acres for 1200 dollars half paid and Steidinger one acre for 200 dollars. Additional funds are sought to cover lumber costs and a twenty acre expansion to improve facilities.
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Weld County Fair Association
Wadna
Steidinger
Colorado Mortgage & Investment Company
Auto used as apple cart speeds Loveland haul
D. C. Straight arrived from Loveland with his auto loaded with 1,000 pounds of apples in the tonneau. He delivered at Park Merchandise company after a one hour twenty minute trip, a sharp improvement over the half day required by wagon and team.
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Cart
D. C
Straight
Loveland
Park Merchandise Company
Five boys given court lecture after juvenile arrest
Judge Bradfield lectured five youths arrested for loafing at juvenile court this morning. Three known contumacious prowlers must report weekly, with all five ordered sent to training school on the next complaint. One boy, father is a respected citizen with no mother, was treated leniently. The youth vowed to stay home and avoid trouble as tears showed some sincerity.
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Bradfield
Boy Gets Team in Jail for Theft
Race Gilpin a youth of 18 steals farm tools worth 20 and later 2 from George Harding's daughter. Tools found at neighboring ranches and smith shop after pawnings. He pleads guilty before Justice Hatch who sentences him to sixty days for stealing from his grandmother.
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Race Gilpin
George Harding
Nunnbungry
Suit to Open a Street Begins
An ordinance condemning the right of way for Nineteenth street and Seventh avenue through the Erickson property is now in effect and the city attorney is ready to file suit. Mrs Erickson sought 1000 for the fifty foot strip but the council refused. Officials argue the street opening benefits the Erickson property more than that amount. The case will be in district court, with an order for right of way likely in about ninety days. The street car line will then require a jog to straighten the path.
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Nineteenth Street
Seventh Avenue
Erickson
New District Opens First School Under Miss Florence McGinnis
School District No. 1 near Kersey will open Monday with Miss Florence McGinnis of Greeley in charge. A dwelling is rented for the start, and the district has voted bonds for a new schoolhouse now under construction.
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Kersey
Florence McGinnis
Greeley
Normal School Glee Club Organizes Here Under Professor Fitz
The first out of town concert glee club is formed at the State Normal School this term with ten voices under Professor Theo Fitz. A chorus of eighty voices is in training for term-end recitals and chapel use. The music department shows strong interest as registrations for the musical supervisors course rise sharply. Prefeasor Fite and the chorus performed the Toreador song from Carmen at chapel exercises.
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State Normal School Glee Club
Theo Fitz
Fite
Fitz
Carmen
Greeley Rail Line Aims for Payable Operation
President Allen forecasts a dividend for the Greeley line within a year as three mile loop rails near completion. Limited cars will run every fifteen minutes. work continues on Twelfth Avenue toward Third Street with poles and wire en route. The county fair crowds may be served with trailers and a steel observation car is considered for Island Grove park access.
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Allen
Greeley
Fort Collins
Twelfth Avenue
Seventh Street
Third Street
Car Varn
Pittsburz
Fair Association
Island Grove Park
Greeley Starch Factory Fire Prompts Talks of Rebuild
Amid smoldering ashes at the Greeley starch plant and a spate of hopeful letters, local clubs weigh incentives to relocate industry here. Promoters offer land and free factory sites to lure a rebuild while debates focus on sustaining potato processing and potential alcohol use. Manager Lindner remains optimistic for a prompt rebuild with a favorable agreement.
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Greeley
the Tribune
Joliet
Maine
Lindner
Local remedy for whooping cough touted as miracle cure
A Greeley doctor estimates at least forty whooping cough cases locally and Evans faces an epidemic level. The Tribune recaps a published medical note on using a specially designed tight abdominal belt to relieve symptoms in children, claiming rapid cure within 24 hours for early cases and noting careful usage to avoid harm.
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Greeley
Evans
the Tribune
The
Tribune
Juvenile horse race ends in crash near LaSalle
In LaSalle on December 14 a boy on a pony and two youngsters driving an old race horse collided with a buggy during a street race. The children escaped serious injury though the buggy was wrecked and the horse sustained scrapes. Walter Kimsey had taken his sons to work and met Dwight Cline returning from pasture when the runaway horse bolted.
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LaSalle
Schel
Leslie Kimsey
Walter Kimsey
Dwight Cline
Kimsey
Bailey's
Widow Davis Faces Loss to Save Her Orphans
Widow Davis, whose husband died two years ago while working for the light company, must sell a lot placed in her four children names to provide clothing and food. The children cannot convey the property. a guardian must be appointed and a legal sale ordered, likely costing the widow about $59.
Potatoes Take Small Rise In Price
Potatoes rose five cents to sixty five cents from the field this morning. Despite a short crop, growers face slim margins due to handling shrinkage and uncertain spring markets. Farmers with limited selling keep market buoyant as commission men apply the same price to Pearls and Rurals.
Eaton Electric Denies Claim in $14,000 Suit
Eaton Electric, defendant in a $14,000 suit by William Atkinson, filed an answer denying Atkinson’s alleged interest in the firm and the claim that he was Froze out. Preliminary issues likely to be resolved before the next court term.
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Eaton Electric
Eaton Electric Company
William Atkinson
Atkinson
Northern Colorado baseball league plan grows from small start
Manager Collins reports season earnings and expenses, noting the grandstand was paid for and a $25 per player treasury sum. A semi pro team is proposed with salaries and a $790 monthly revenue goal, backed by fans and stock subscriptions. The league would include Greeley Eaton Windsor Loveland Longmont and Collins with Fort Collins merchants asked for half holidays to boost three games weekly. The venture aims to stage many Sunday games in Greeley during the summer break.
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Collins
Eriing
George Dauth
Dauth
Greeley
Eaton
Windsor
Loveland
Longmont
Fort Collins
Denver Man Buys Stock in Beebe Draw District
LaSalle Oct. 14 Zinm of Denver buys 200 head of cattle from Beebe Draw ranchers and plans to drive them to his Denver ranch then place the herd on the Denver market. The purchase is part of Zinn’s annual Beebe Draw travels and boosts the area’s cattle trade by about $12,000.
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Denver
Beebe
LaSalle
Zinm
Zinn
Farmer's Spur Spud Crop Short In District Report
A Tribune representative questioned about ten farmers in Farmers Spur on spud yields. Most cited a half crop averaging fifty sacks per acre, while Tom Robinson reportedly leads with a banner crop around 140 sacks. Beet crop is excellent with a sixteen-ton average expected.
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the Tribune
Farmers Spur
Tom Robinson
Pueblo Drives $100000 YMCA Building Campaign Start
The Pueblo YMCA building fund begins with strong support after a banquet for 200 leaders. Governor Shafroth attended as guest, ex-Governor Adams hosted, and $44,000 of the $100,000 goal was raised. Major pledges included $10,000 from M. D. Thatcher and John A. Thatcher, $5,000 from C. W. Crews, and $25,000 from the Young Men's Committee. A 13 day drive will seek $60,000 more for a total $160,000 target.
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Pueblo
Shafroth
Adams
Messrs
M. D
John A. Thatcher
C. W. Crews
Greeley
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