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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1910
Page
6
A parade of residents and guests including Miss Maud Myers, Mrs. T. A. McAfee, Miss Pearl Miller and many others are listed as spending Sundays or Saturdays in Greeley or visiting relatives in nearby towns such as Denver, Loveland, Fort Collins, Platteville and Cheyenne. Notables include Judge W. D. Wright and Father O'Ryan along with the Bethge Hotel project supplier mentions and local business mobility.
Rev. H. B. McMillan, county Sunday school missionary, preached at United Presbyterian Church while Rev. W. A. Philips was away in Kansas last week for his sister’s wedding.
Mr and Mrs Vernon McKelvey host a dinner tonight for Mrs Robert Zumalt who departs soon for an extended trip east. Guests include Mr and Mrs Bob Yumalt Mr and Mrs C E Phelps and Mr and Mrs A D Pier.
Sophronia Hollingsworth entertained seventeen guests Friday evening with an April Fool party. The night featured progressive funch and April Fool games and amusements followed by a fine supper served late.
Rumor of A A Edwards appointment to succeed Wellington Hibbard is confirmed as Edwards becomes general manager and superintendent of the Laramie Poudre system. A new White steamer auto arrives to replace the wrecked vehicle used to cover the territory from the Laramie river to the Crow Creek country. Edwards is described as capable and experienced, having built a similar system for Larimer County’s Water Supply and Storage company.
New filings with the county clerk show irrigation projects across the county. N L Harrison of 1941 Logan Street Denver filed reservoirs Nos 2 and 3 plus outlet ditch No 2 costing 500 dollars with capacities around 2 2 million and 2 38 million cubic feet respectively irrigating about 200 acres. E Wellington Dye Roggen to build two wells and two ditches at a cost of 1600 dollars. Theodore D Jones city filed amendment to Farmers Reservoir No 2. Unappropriated waters from Poudre Big Thompson South Platte and Beebe Draw to be used. Reservoir cost 394 927 and capacity 4 729 765 125 cubic feet.
J Davis, foreman for W Crook, contractor, was fined 40 dollars and costs on each of two cruelty charges for abusing horses owned by Crook. Crook, the contractor, pleaded guilty to animal abuse and was heavily fined. Local humane society prosecutions gain citizen approval amid prior apathy.
Edom pile driving crew from Edgewater has worked two weeks along the Platte river near Fort Lupton and Platteville to shield Harry Ewing ranch land about an eighth of a mile long. Piles are driven close together with brush heaped behind to guard against erosion. The same crew repairs the Platteville ditch dam across the river weakened by winter floods.
Orchard April 6. A new Odd Fellows lodge with fifty five members was organized Tuesday night. Seventeen members from Sterling lodge attended and contributed to the ceremony. The Poudre Valley association now includes twenty two Colorado lodges north of Denver.
J. H. Nevins & Co at 811 Ninth Street offers monuments and related memorial services with contact via phone Weld 460.
J. V. Crone relocates his real estate, insurance and loan office to room 223 in the Coronado Building. Patrons are asked to note the new location while phones remain unchanged. The business will focus on city matters and insurance with continued real estate bargains.
W. A. Miner returned from Chicago where he spent a month with his sheep. He sold 1200 shorn lambs at 9.75 dollars each and wool at 1.75 dollars per lamb, yielding an unusually good price. He still has 2000 lambs at his Snyder ranch ready for market next week.
The Royal Neighbor lodge in Windsor arranged a Wednesday afternoon farewell party for Mrs. C. G. Golay before her move to Cameron Missouri. She received a lodge pin as thanks from the guests. Mrs. A. B. Johnson hosted a Thursday party for her daughter Axela turning five.
The Catholic church in Fort Lupton, a $3,000 building, was dedicated Sunday by Bishop N Matz of Denver with Mass by Father Bernard Froegel and a dedicatory sermon by Father Andrew Casey. A large crowd witnessed the ceremony and gifts were presented, including a memorial gift from a New York donor. At Fort Lupton Swedish Lutheran church dedication followed amid stormy weather. $250 was raised to pay its debt on a church costing just over $5,000, with a full program and community meals.
Collins District residents and guests are noted with visits and events. Morrison tended farming interests in town. Pierce guests Clyde and Henry Miler stayed with Mrs. M. Johnson. Morris and Quayle painted barns. Coxes hosted Cox family. Moore returned from Colorado Springs. Gartrell visits Idaho Springs relatives. Elder Lehr wrapped Advent meetings at the north schoolhouse. Myers returned from Dayton after his daughter’s death. Collins Literary Society closed its season with a musical program and a spelling match led by Miss Florence Johnston.
The Beaver Land and Irrigation company完成 a landmark project northeast of Canon City, Fremont County. Thirty five miles of cement laterals laid, main ditches and laterals consist entirely of cement pipes, buried two feet deep. All land under the project sold, irrigationists watch closely.
Want ads list a loan offer of ten thousand dollars on improved irrigated farm land. Contact T. T. Wilson via Greeley 268. Also advertised are a fine gentle saddle horse, Canopy top bicycle wheel survey, a station wagon, other vehicles and harness from Lowden at 424 Quincy Building Denver.
Denver March 1 Fifty town ships containing 1 152 000 acres of land will be opened to entry in Baca county Colorado in the coming weeks. The resurvey completed for the government has been turned over to the surveyor general s office. RK KF Pratt W H Clark and Arthur D Kidder led the work and are regarded as experienced. Settlers may be admitted this year after prior withdrawal in 1906 due to survey doubts. The next resurveying will be near Delta on the western slope within a year.
Charles Fry a well digger on the Greeley Valley tract south of town visited Kersey yesterday. He was seen in town after completing work assignments and discussing future projects.
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