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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
3
A mixed list of small ads and society items covers sales inquiries rentals and wanted help plus numerous local visits and travels. Miss Ida Smith's Denver trip and several residents returning from trips to Yellowstone Park Denver Twin Falls and Des Moines are noted alongside farm sale inquiries and job requests.
Sanborn and Houston oversee loans for a small farm operation while various townsfolk depart for Clinton Missouri and Centralia Missouri. The ad notes affordable art supplies at Imboden and reports social visits to Estes Park Eldorado Springs and Eldorado hotel with multiple name checks and hotel lease notes.
Charles Newcomb, a popular Normal student last year and summer worker at a local restaurant, left today for Berthoud to assume the principalship of the schools there.
Mrs James Johnson arrives with her two daughters to live with cousin Mrs Agnes Dart and attend school in Greeley. This marks the sixth year the girls have come for schooling. Also visiting are Miss Flora Bowes of Halifax and Miss Gertrude Bowes of Boston, cousins of Mrs Russell, with Gertrude a violinist trained in Berlin. Watson Bowes, cousin, expected today from Denver to visit the Russell home.
Clarence Bennett presents The Holy City, acclaimed as a top stage production, at the opera house on September 9. Miss Luella Morey’s Parismade costumes dazzled as historically accurate, especially in act one’s king Herod dance and the stunning outfits in acts two and three.
Listings show six room houses and cottages sold in Greeley including No 1646 Seventh avenue to John A Pearce of Salida and No 1420 Sixth avenue to T A Stevens. Other properties 1207 Fourth street to T B Thompson and 1213 Fourth street to Winfield Moore. Welsh and Martin promote fair dealing and invite buyers or sellers to list or request purchases.
The annual Colorado State Commercial Association meeting will be held in Montrose September 15 to 17. The event features talks on state resources, a formal program, and a funded effort to advertise Colorado widely. Attendees may tour the Gunnison tunnel and enjoy western slope hospitality with rail fare discounts expected.
Mrs J B Coleman entertains her uncles Emmett Lorah from Windsor and E J Lorah now living in Denver. E J Lorah has spent many years mining in the mountains and is visiting for the first time in 48 years, recalling a crumbling town site once passed on his way from Iowa to the mountains.
The county clerk recorded the first addition map for Parish Heights in Johnstown. Harvey J. Parish owns land described as the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6, township 4 north, range 87 west.
Four year old Edith Mary Clough was the hostess at a birthday party for 50 children at the Clough home. Mothers and six invited guests attended, with booths, rides, games, dolls, teddy bears, and refreshments. A photographer captured moments as dolls, rabbits, and party favors delighted the youngsters and their mothers.
Miss Opal Veldran celebrated her eighth birthday with about 20 friends on a lawn party from 4 to 6:30. Japanese lanterns lit the yard as games, furnished tables, and a birthday cake with eight candles created a festive, grown up atmosphere. Guests included Ivy Wilson Anabelle Storm Ruth Corey Florence Blair Marie Benson Anga South Augs Miller Mabel Weinegar Harold Hall Mildred Hall Geo Janes Hellen Hers Wilbur Craft Anis Perkins Mudall Crabb Lois Van Antwerp Manford Grove Helen Brock Gordon Brock Leola Gibbeon Julia Stocker Lyle Muth Evelyn Hurlbut Rollard Eliott Lillian Adkirk.
John Wilson of Gillette Wyoming reports a strange crop on an apple tree in his yard a large yield of Irish potatoes. The spuds taste like potatoes but each contains an apple seed. Local observers test the tree and confirm the odd phenomenon remains unexplained.
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