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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1888
Page
4
The notice lists N. Meeker as founder and Carver and Dunning as proprietors with Be. J. Carver as editor and H. L. Dunning as business manager.
The State Republican Central Committee will hold a Pueblo convention on May to select delegates for Chicago on June 19, 1888. Weld County will meet in Greeley on April 10 to apportion delegates, set a county convention date, and call for precinct delegate elections. A public defense favors J Max Clark over J L Brush for State Senator, arguing Clark’s agricultural focus suits Weld Logan and Washington counties. The Town Council, led by Mayor West, has spent the year revising city ordinances.
A Republican club formed in Greeley elected Ex Governor B. H. Eaton as president, A. C. Patton as secretary, and KE E. Von Gohren as treasurer. Membership surpassed 150 and grew further. The municipal election passed quietly with Colonel White and the aldermanic ticket winning. The vote approved library purchase and engine house sale. John C. Kendel’s funeral drew large civic and fraternal turnout with Masons and other orders in regalia.
The piece notes Colorado barley acreage rising about 50 percent with quick maturing and low irrigation needs. It forecasts 10 000 new farms in the south and San Luis Valley in 1888, cites nursery plant demand in Santa Fe and Colorado, praises Broadmoor dairy cheese, reports 14 inches of snow in Logan and Washington counties aiding grain, and describes forthcoming irrigation ditches into Montezuma Valley and details on wheat and alfalfa shifts. It closes with a biographical tribute to Leslie Lincoln Putnam, detailing his birth, move to Colorado, marriage, character, and potential.
John Kendel aged 41 near to 42 years dies in Greeley April 2 from syphoid pneumonia. Former Mississippi native and Confederate Army veteran, he lived in Weld County since 1876 serving as county commissioner and sheriff. Widowed wife and three children mourn his loss. large funeral attended by civic orders and community leaders.
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