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Newspaper
Greeley Republican
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1912
Page
3
Local ads and notices mix in valley town
A jumble of retailer pitches and personal notices across the town, including clothing sales at Condon's and Sherwin-Williams Paris green, loan offers from McClenahan, hardware and wagon items from Pioneer Cash Hardware and Gates, travel and visits among residents like Miss Blanche Irons, Mrs. Joyner, and Mr. and Mrs. Tidball, with assorted local business and professional personnel noted.
Local residents depart and visitors arrive in town
Mrs M B Skaggs travels home after visiting Mrs Alta Hamman and Mrs A K Ludiow. Mrs Ella Nelson of Corydon Iowa and Mrs B J Skinner of Bartlesville Oklahoma depart after visiting W L Harris and wife. Paul A Wallace of Salem Oregon returns home after visiting relatives A J Park and family. Louie Haller and family head to Alma Kansas after visiting his sisters Mrs W T Watson and Mrs J F Frye. The Cameron sisters and guests Grace and Elizabeth Williams take a car trip to Estes Park. Sherwin Williams Paris green praised by local dealers for a decade without complaints. D R McArthur Co Miss Nettie Rouse and Miss Jessie Littrell of Nelson Nebraska in town en route east from Cam field where they ranch. Mrs Brigan due from Illinois to visit J F Smith and daughters Anna Carrie Eula. Mrs Luella Stewart and baby Beatrice go to Ault to settle there after five years in town. K K Mayer of Denver visits with daughter Maxine, returning tonight. Mrs Alice Beckwith moves to a new home on Ninth Avenue. An automobile party from Longmont includes EB Montgomery and wife Charles Kistler and J M Denio and wife Ruth and Wilbur Kistler. The Colony Investment Co location at 812 Ninth Avenue offers park views and services in insurance and real estate. Mrs W J Rowe and daughter Mabel visit C Rugh Ranch on the Poudre, Fort Collins stop en route. Miss Nell Chestnut and Miss Ida Bishop plan six week trip to California leaving Sunday. J J Neill to take over Potato Growers Commission Company duties July 15 at Greeley Lucerne and Gill warehouses. formerly in Ohio for twenty years.
Birth Announcements From Greeley Area
A son Severance was born July 10 to Mr and Mrs Albert Pennington six miles east of Greeley. A daughter was born this morning to Mr and Mrs Fred King one mile north of the same area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Pennington
Greeley
Severance
Fred King
Diversion Project Aims at Denver Greeley Route
Gilcrest reports road work to divert traffic between Denver and Greeley through Gilcrest. Teams are building and grading the new highway, with tees and signage to guide motorists. The shorter route and sandless surface are cited as advantages as traffic increases from a few per days to ten or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilcrest
Denver
Greeley
Godfrey Bottoms
Platteville
Reward Offered for Missing L A Best in Lake Cobbesseecontee Case
Augusta Maine reports Lewis Albert Best of Kansas City remains missing after vanishing from a Lake Cobbesseecontee cottage last Sunday. A $2000 reward, dead or alive, born of a large search by hundreds of summer residents continues with diver work and Henry Pierce en route to oversee operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Lewis Albert Best
Kansas City
Best
Fred E. Carter
Mr. Best
Sire and Son Debate Saving Over Coupons
A humorous exchange from the Chicago News features a father urging his son to save part of a liberal allowance. The son responds that he has saved nearly 2,000 cigarette coupons as a form of savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Question of Good Roads to Be Brought Before Voters
Colorado Good Roads movement intensifies with aims to press for state bonds and county enabling acts. The August Denver convention will shape discussion as Roosevelts and regulars prepare for a fall campaign to elect pro good roads candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Good Roads Association
Good Roads
Sec
Denver
Greater Colorado Highways Association
County Commissioners Association
U S Knows of Atrocities In Peru Rubber Work
Washington reports the Casement inquiry into abuses by English concessionaries against Indian rubber workers in Peru. State Department officials hold Casement’s findings, with the US acting as mutual friend to Britain and Peru as Peru seeks to erase the stain from twenty years of harmful practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Peru
British Foreign Office
State Department
United States
Great Britain
Why They Went and Aboard the Quick Departure
A Sunday school teacher observes a hurried departure by a young girl and her brother, with the girl explaining they must go as the brother swallows a collection. The item notes a sale for less than cost and mentions unloading the sixth car of Sherwin-Williams Paris green shipped to the company in the past three years and D. R. McArthur & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Mitch Anne
Jimmy
Lippincott’s
Sherwin-Williams Paris Green
D. R. McArthur & Co
Woman Fakes Death After Husband Kicks Dog
Mrs. T. Hoya butchie, wife of a Japanese East Eaton resident, attempted to frighten her husband by swallowing five poison tablets. The overdose nearly killed her, but a physician saved her life as she recovered. Her husband admitted jealousy over the dog and his kicking of the animal.
Hastings Couple Wed by Judge Bradfield
Judge G H Bradfield united Alfred Hecker and Mrs Nellie Hudson of Hastings Neb in a simple ceremony with only essential witnesses present. Other licenses issued in the past two days included Natividad Caldron and Francisca of Windsor Fred J Russell and Miss Bertha M Sappington of Redlich Nev and the licensing for the morning wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Bradfield
Alfred Hecker
Nellie Hudson
Hastings
Neb
Natividad Caldron
Francisca
Windsor
Fred J. Russell
Bertha M. Sappington
Redlich
Nev
Why brides wear the ring on the left third finger
A historical note explains the modern wedding custom of placing a ring on the left hand's third finger. It cites long held beliefs from ancient Egypt onward that this finger is linked to the heart by the vena amoris and endures disease longest, with alchemists using it to stir potions and as a life finger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapheal
Remus
Broken rails menace rail travel rising faster than traffic
The Railway Age Gazette notes broken rails worsened since last January with 1,268 rails found by one road in sixteen days. The Chicago Examiner adds that despite a 49 percent rise in rail accidents, passenger and freight traffic grew far less, driving the danger higher. In the French West Indies households rely on candles due to kerosene lamp scarcity and high import duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Age Gazette
Chicago Examiner
Printing costs for Colorado initiated laws total 315203
Secretary of State James Pearce estimates the cost to publish initiated laws constitutional amendments and referred bills at 315203 dollars and four cents based on inches of text weekly papers counted at 84 cents per inch then 48 cents for the remaining four publications, saving about 300000 versus daily papers. He notes many signed petitions may have underestimated the expense to taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pearce
Colorado
Pearce
Gilcrest Considers Electric Light Plant Purchase
Gilcrest considers buying an electric light plant from Hendrie Bolthoff of Denver. The town will decide tomorrow if the roughly $3,500 system will be financed over two to three years. A company representative spoke at a special meeting, as incorporation revenue begins February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilcrest
Hendrie-Bolthoff Company
Denver
Weed Notice Dictates Private Property Cutting
City Marshal D F Camp urges immediate weed cutting on private properties under city ordinance. Noncompliance may incur a fine and the city may perform the work and assess costs against the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. F. Camp
Social Highlights and Gatherings Around Town
The Borgmann reception lit with colored incandescents hosted about 100 guests from the Christian church Bible school. A Ladies Aid picnic at Island Grove park invited all church members and their husbands for lunch and supper. Esther Davis received a surprise visit from about 25 friends at her home. Hardanger club enjoyed embroidery and refreshments at Mrs. C J Kiley’s with Mrs. Calder hosting. Billi ken club met with Mrs. Nixon for a craft afternoon and evening refreshments. Western Slope students at the summer school held a picnic at Seely’s lake with about sixty five in attendance and wagons transporting them there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society
United Presbyterian Church
Island Grove Park
Hardanger Club
F. W. Calder
C. J. Kiley
Hardanger
Western Slope
Seely’s Lake
Bond Ordinance Passed for Milliken Water Works System
The Milliken town board approved a bond ordinance for a $12,500 water works project funded by Henry Wilcox & Son of Denver. Bids show Charles A. Smith is contractor, with an extra 30 days delay granted to start work due to bond issues. The system will use a well already owned by the municipality. A special meeting is set for next Wednesday to sign the bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milliken
Henry Wilcox & Son
Denver
Charles A. Smith
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Lucy Curve
SEELY
Former Drug CO
Republican
Inquirer
Call Greeley
Deal
Agure Republican Office
Ninth Ave
Walnut
North Poudre
B. F. Woodruff
Ahlstrand
7Th St
Dor
CAM- Field Court
Eighth Ave
B. F. Woodruff & Co
9Th St
NOR
SASH
Colony Inn'l Co
9Th Ave
11Th Ave
Sime
Arthis
Joe Yoshi
Lath St. Hone Greeley
Joseph Wilkinson
U. P
Warrensburg
Union Natonal Bank
Oxfords
Condon’s
Moses & Kinsella
Dunham’s
EH. N. Miller
Condon’s. Oats
Rissler’s
Clayton Lumber Co
Klug
Pinneo
Colo
AHO
Pioneer Cash Hardware Co
F. A. Gates
Fezer
Paris
Paris Green
Blanche Irons
W. F. Spaulding
Kersey
Irene Houston
Noah's Ark
McClenahan
Williams Block
Lodwick
Mollie Greenslate
Portland
Ore
Mildred Norcross
Cheyenne
Jessie Gale
Depot
Sherwin-Williams
Jennie Lucas
Mary E. Bailey
J. R. Kerr
Chicago
H. C. Newman
Eighth Avenue
Grace Munce
W. A. Taylor
Los Angeles
J. P. Kiug Horse, Mule and Livery Co
Sixth Avenue
A. John L. Tidball and Son
Crete
Holdrege, Neb
C. F. Tidball
E. G. Young
Lyons
Charles Sheahan
East
H. F. Joy
H. H. Thurlby
Baby
Joe Breaden
St. Louis
C. J. Crockett
Eaton
Etta House
Grand Junction
B. P. House
Hattie Murchison
LaSalle
Dickhut
R. A. Morse
Wakeney
Kan
Ault
W. G. Link
M. B. Skaggs
Durango
Alta Hamman
A. K. Ludiow
Ella Nelson
Corydon
Iowa
B. J. Skinner
Bartlesville
Okla
W. L. Harris
Paul A. Wallace
Salem
A. J. Park and
Wu Louie Haller
Alma
Mr. Haller
W. T. Watson
J. F. Frye
Laura
Margaret Cameron
Grace and
Elizabeth Williams
Estes Park
Nettie Rouse
Jessie Littrell
Nelson, Neb
Camfield
Luella Stewart
Baby Beatrice
K. K. Mayer
Maxine
Alice Beckwith
Ninth Avenue
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Streets
Longmont
EB. L. Montgomery
Charles Kistler
J. M. Denio
Ruth
Wilbur Kistler
Colony Investment Co
Nell Chestnut
Ida Bishop
California
Alice Chestnut
Miss Chestnut
J. J. Neill
Potato Growers’ Commission Company
P. W. Goodrich
Neill
Lucerne
Gill
Ohio
L. A. Best
Roosevelt
U. S
French West Indies
WEED
Esther Davis
Miss Davis
William Davis
Billiken Club
T. A. Nixon
Airdome
the Gale Stock CO
New York
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