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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1908
Page
3
Advertisements show for sale listings and services mixed with personal notices from Greeley Colorado. Local names include Mrs J Reed Mrs Fouts and Inez Dexter with events at the Havener home and church suppers noted along with farm loans and deliveries of apples.
Weld county community notes list meetings visits and moves. Various residents travel to Denver and Glenwood Springs for conventions and family visits while merchants advertise shipments fruit and bargains. Local figures Jennings Newby Stevens and Clayton figure in civic notices and opinion.
Weld county district concerns two accidental deaths in the past week not reviewed by a coroner’s jury. A Windsor tree-fall boy and a Longmont burn victim were buried without proper permits. coroner Macy, in Loveland, will raise remains for inquests in the future. The rule requires coroners review any death within ninety days.
Weld county coroner candidate J. M. Peterson bet a Greeley man five dollars he would shake hands with William Jennings Bryan that evening in Denver. Peterson went to the Tribune office Tuesday and added the five dollars to the Bryan campaign fund after the handshake.
After 2 PM a large parade winds through downtown Greeley from Seventh street and Ninth avenue to Meeker Field. Cantons and lodge officers on horses lead bands from Greeley and Fort Collins, with Rebekahs in carriages and wagons. Tonight the local Rebekah lodge hosts visiting Odd Fellows Rebekahs at I O O F hall. A grand complimentary ball follows at the armory.
In France oyster collecting is described as strenuous work done by women. They work from early morning to late evening standing in water under a scorching sun. Some suffer mental strain and risk of insanity, while a few own beds profit from the harsh labor.
A fragment describes a young man who became General Fremont and left with Jessie. Tom Benton, a famed senator, threatened torture but Mrs. Benton retorted that he should instead give Jessie to him. The line ends with her quip about Jessie.
A fragment recalls a man named Jobson who visited a house, ate a big dinner, then went to another doctor for treatment. The passage also quotes Chamfort on laughter, noting the value of laughter as a wasted day. The text is fragmentary and sources imply a humorous anecdote rather than a report.
Special to the Daily Tribune Cheyenne Wy Oct 20 Two Japanese workmen were killed and several Americans badly injured when a caboose was hurled from a work train after a cyclone struck Lone Tree Creek thirty miles west of Cheyenne. Injured include Conductor James Rowley Roadmaster Collis Traveling Auditor Sumption and others burned by a red hot stove in the car.
Card to the Public from Interurban Construction Company invites interested residents of Greeley and vicinity to visit the Camfle hotel office for information on an electric interurban road between Denver and Greeley and possible extensions. E N Reaser, president, promises to answer inquiries.
Four more drunks were arraigned before the police judge this morning bringing the two day total to eight, a ten year Greeley record. Marshal Willians vows a strenuous crusade against intoxicants sold with knowledge of misuse.
More bootleggers Ernest Hall and Ben Tanler from Windsor were brought in this morning by Deputy Charles Peterson on bootlegging charges. Tanler and a Russian capture were released on $5 bonds, while Hall remains confined. The deputy also subdued a drunken captor in Windsor, leaving Mr Peterson nursing a bum mitt today.
Democratic governor candidate John Shafroth will speak at the Greeley Opera House next Tuesday evening October 27. Other speakers will join him, making it the main event of the current campaign.
Registration closed at 9 PM as total new names enrolled reached 1,999. The cutoff halted further entries and marked a high turnout for the period.
O B Stapelton former I O Glazier employee travels west to Ideho Falls to start a new business venture and plans to return to Colorado for his family.
In memory of W. Fields a Bullard store on Eighth Street displays twin windows. One shows Fields’s portrait draped in Canton purple, the other a Canton emblem in red, honoring his twenty two years as scribe of the local lodge and his death after stepping back from active duties.
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