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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
3
A mixed page of classified ads and community notes from Greeley includes for sale pins and Angora kids, rental listings, a duck hunt update, voter endorsements for local justice and peace, and early notices about staffing at McCutcheon Hardware. It also reports visits from Denver and Fort Collins residents, a potato harvest anecdote, and teachers taking new positions in Alamosa.
Sanborn and Houston loan matters featured along with Tribune want ads and calling cards. Sunday visits include John Wilson and brothers in Denver. A potato crop remains in the ground and Stella Newcomb visits Katie Newem in Denver. Perkine travels to meet his brother-in-law returning from California to Minneapolis.
Sunday events report a rummage sale at the Unitarian church with October dates and names like Fartlowe Sknbern Asa McLeod Parcell Purcell and Bert Gibbs. Other notes mention Denver visits, a Statler Hose Dance at the Armory on election day, a photograph gallery change, and a hardware sale with floor stains and Stransky ware.
A Majestic Manufacturing representative demonstrates the Majestic range at McCutcheon Hardware this week. The unit is shown in actual operation baking and serving biscuits to large crowds.
Raymond Wolfe offers the Saturday Evening Post and mail subscriptions for Potter and the Ladies Home Journal at local prices. Leave orders at his home 720 Eleventh Street or at the Tribune office. Independent peace keeper portrayed as lenient toward a son, aiming to persuade rather than punish.
The Tribune invites readers to its office to view live election bulletins as they come in from wires. Up-to-the-minute results will be posted nationwide and in Colorado counties. The paper will publish results to the public as soon as received, via courtesy of the Colorado Telephone Company and the long distance system of the Bell company connecting millions of telephones.
Local notes report Miss Myrtle English in Denver and Mr Scott visiting Wayne Patterson. Harold Easterday recovered from nine weeks of typhoid after walking downtown today. M H Lowe returns Tuesday from Davenport where he attended an MBA convention as state delegate. C A Fletcher learns of his father's illness and leaves for home near Chicago. G O Stevens seeks Justice of the Peace as an Independent. long-time temperance advocate. Archdeacon Scofield preached at Trinity Episcopal. church building movement advances with likely action soon.
Potatoes arriving for J S Hall’s ten dollar prize for largest potato in the Greeley district. Few specimens approach five pounds, with EK Bliss weighing a likely five pound Pearl. Largest entries include Jasper Riggs and G O’Farrell Pearls, plus big Rural New Yorkers from August Peterson.
A political meeting in Greeley features H L Murray the prohibition candidate for governor addressing the crowd. The temperance group will use the former superintendent of schools room after the Republican veterans occupy the circuit court room.
In County Court final settlements were approved today for the Christopher Hansteen and John Wheeler estates. Executors reported payment of debts and distribution of residual assets to heirs under court supervision.
Sneak thieves operated Saturday night in the southwest city area stealing ten premium hens from August Anderson and taking lap robes from the barn. A robe belonging to the son-in-law was taken during a overnight visit. A robe from the barn of Mr. Harrison, county superintendent of schools, was also stolen.
John W Boyle of New York, an eastern capitalist with extensive local interests, travels to Greeley on business and signals possible closer industrial ties for the area.
Development via irrigation promises enormous results for farmers. Climate enables mek ons and Bermuda onions, vegetables, fruits and grapes earlier than California. Sugar cane yields high. alfalfa yields up to eight to ten cuttings yearly. Unlimited water from cooperative canal. Land is rich alluvial soil from the Rockies. Acres owned and controlled exceed 1,000 cleared and rentable in 20 acre tracts at $60 to $75 per acre. Boulder farmers active. Homeseekers excursions on first and third Tuesdays. Write for literature.
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