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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1871
Page
2
The essay argues work is a divine command central to moral development. It condemns attempting to live without labor and warns against professionals who evade effort. Physical labor is necessary alongside mental work, with wealth and success stemming from diligence.
Jaboree Sugho did not finally attain all that he had earned, a note reflecting a figure caught between farming life and legal work as his efforts toward a full goal remained incomplete.
The Lyceum's spring session began last Thursday under new management promising success. Miss Washburn and Miss Hollister presented music including an organ solo, with future meetings featuring their singing. Discussion covered education, national development, and the idea that soil and climate shape civilization, while remarks on dress and social mores sparked satirical notes about modern fashions and reflexive moral state symbolism. The piece notes the German Colony in Wet Mountain Valley’s reported failure and cites possible causes like high elevation and local burial issues.
An informal letter from early Colorado notes a visit by a Cheyenne royal family member who opposed billiard loans, a looming colonial-era church organ for the Baptist church, and plans to finish the church within four weeks. The writer contrasts Denver scandal coverage with local pride, cites East inquiries about Colorado, and mentions visitors from the Rocky Mountain News and the National Land Company.
An article envisions traction plowing by locomotive power and moving locomotives to road travel in Colorado where roads stay level and hard year round. It notes successful locomotive travel in England and Scotland and predicts practical execution soon. Mr and Mrs Olds plan to open Barnum House after furnishing it with high quality pieces. rooms are fully engaged reflecting their hotel reputation.
News brief reports invitations for church singing by Prof Barneshaa and a sermon by Rev Brown next Sunday. An auction Sunday at 11 AM offers fruit trees and blackberries. Free Church plans organizational work at the Tabernacle. Nearby law offices plant cottonwood trees for dove refuge and a young bachelor George West’s Pine Street house is praised as neat.
Readable account notes that Mr Flollister's sermons last Sunday before noon and in the evening in the Tabernacle drew large attentive audiences.
The Omaha Herald reports Horace Greeley’s view that colonized immigration can settle the West faster than old methods, aided by irrigation and the Colorado System. He urges moving urban populations to the plains, foresees bloom of deserts with water, and predicts wool, cattle, horses, and wool wealth from the Great Plains within 25 years.
A Denver Tribune notice lauds Greeley for rapid growth through collective effort. In a year a planned settlement transformed into a bustling center with rising real estate values, post office stamp receipts reaching $600 per quarter, and ongoing land sales to fund further improvements.
Partnerships fund a $1,000 lot for a schoolhouse, 895,000 raised, and construction begins. Churches for Baptists and Methodists advance with a grist mill, lyceum, and machinery. A saw-mill will operate using mountain logs via Cache la Poudre. The great canal, 26 14 miles long, will grow by six miles this year with a head depth of 34½ feet and bottom width of 12 feet, narrowing gradually every five miles.
A verse addressing an unnamed political rival, praising endurance and integrity. The poet commends independence, strong will, and courage facing foes while acknowledging occasional human weakness. The piece notes the opponent’s long, steadfast career despite challenges and aging.
In a comic reminiscence set in Greeley dated September 12, 1870, a narrator describes a move with a crowd, visiting a hotel, and plans to build a town amid wind, mountains, and prospects. The piece references German dialogue, local towns, and the Greeley Tribune copied by the Cincinnati Commercial.
Local snippets from Greeley Colorado including editorials on a paper title Verd ee, notes on travel via a from Greeley to Forte, and pianos sold with freight. Mentions Hoots store repairs, bankers, lands, Union Colony shares, Lyceum readings, and a Greeley Silver Cornet Band concert announced for Friday at sundown in the Park.
A writer urges swift town organization in Union Colony with a petition signed by two thirds of electors to appoint the first town board of trustees. The plan proposes electing six trustees on the next monthly stockholders election and naming five top vote-getters to be included in the petition to county commissioners. It stresses residency and eligibility rules, timing for June petition readiness, and the need for temperance minded, reliable men for town and school governance.
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