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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
3
Gale Adams returns from a weekend stay in Boulder. Several residents travel for medical, family, or leisure reasons including visits to Denver Breckenridge Estes Park and Seattle. Trade note lists dry land wheat seed at 2.00 per 100 pounds. Prof. A Gideon and father head east visiting Boston New York and Cleveland.
F. J. Green and his cousin Mrs. William Normile and daughter Arline, visiting from Idaho, left Monday for Franklin, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Normile and Arline will spend the summer at her old home, while Mr. Green plans a brief visit with relatives.
Mrs. H Oney of Salt Lake City accepted a position with Shaw Dry Goods. Miss Florence Painter visited from Denver to see her brother J L Painter and family. Paul West, visiting his mother Mrs G H West, heads to Seattle then San Francisco. Mrs Jennie R Hummel and daughter Romaine of Mechanicsburg Pa are guests of Mrs J C Wylie in Greeley.
Miss Ruth Green of Sterling stays in Greeley for a few days while traveling from Longmont. She is hosted by Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Rockwell and other friends during her stay.
Mrs Della Twist and daughter Nell along with Mrs J H Winter and two children visited Mrs N C Swan at her Gipson neighborhood country home Friday providing a brief social note with local residents as hosts and guests.
Mrs. L. W. Bassett traveled to Estes Park Sunday to join her daughter Mrs. B. D. Sanborn. Mrs. Sanborn and Philo have stayed in the park all summer, and Mrs. Bassett will remain for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perkins of Lincoln Nebraska visit his brother J A Perkins and family. Miss Phyllis Davis returns from Sterling after visiting her grandmother Mrs Shaw. Mr and Mrs Harvey Parker and children and Miss Nellie Chestnut return from Estes Park after weeks away.
Mr and Mrs Z H Fink return from a two months trip to Michigan visiting their old home and relatives at various places in the state.
Miss Me Halbrook of Morrison departs for a ten day vacation to her former Missouri home. She will be joined to Kansas City by her uncle J W Morgan who will then travel to Florida for two weeks and later visit Ohio.
Miss Mariel Cortelyou of Brooklyn travels with a large party from Brooklyn that had toured the west by a special train last month. She leaves the group on the return journey to spend a few weeks with relatives in Greeley and Denver at her aunt Mrs. W. P. Was ley's home.
County surveyor Robert Wright has returned from Messick and will visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Wright a few days before another surveying trip. Miss Millie Edmonds of Fort Collins visits Fort Collins social circles. W R Calvin and son Van report to their Crow Creek ranch finding seventy five head of cattle damaged fence and crops. Mrs J T Brown and Mrs E Preston arrive for a Mawhinney family visit with Bertha Mawhinney and Charles Mawhinney families.
Mrs J A Morrison hosts Miss Margaret Shufart former friend from Des Moines while Dr McCracken and Dr McCracken of Kalamazoo travel Yellowstone Park and plan a coast trip. New jail for women in Greeley described as luxury model with beds water and decorative features. Depot construction begins in Severance near the elevator costing about 2000 dollars with Great Western railroad involvement.
L S Mason of Beaver Dam Kentucky reports years of intense colicky pains vanishing after using Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He was advised by a friend and states there has been no return of symptoms for four years. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
Attorney Joseph C. Ewing has drawn up papers of incorporation for the Phoenix Bakery company to be incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. Incorporators are C. W. Martin S&S E. Martin and Thomas Welsh. Increased business cited as the reason.
M J OConnell of Greeley uncovered that Charles Phillips died in town sixteen years ago and used his real name not an alias. Phillips was son of a Virginia brewer whose fortune may await his widow in Nebraska. OConnell will contact Mrs Phillips and locate attorney E G Peterson.
John W. Shaw, held on forgery and mortgage disposal charges after arrest in Greeley, escaped from Deputy J. T. Nichols on a Rock Island train near Wewoka Oklahoma and fell headfirst from the platform. He died, skull fractured, as the train rode at 35 mph. Shawnee and Booneville burial followed.
Veteran reporter Jack Williams, a Spanish-American War figure, spoke at the Airdome last night. He warned that if war with Japan occurred, every Japanese worker in the country would be sent home and accused them of serving as foreign information agents. Williams plans to drive from Seattle and carries a flag dipped in many rivers.
A barefoot boy aged unknown outran a police car over about a half mile chasing a drunken man who frightened his mother. The city marshal sped after him in pursuit, clocking speeds of 25 to 30 mph as the barefoot boy kept ahead, entering his yard just as the marshal arrived. A Tribune reporter witnessed the unusual dash.
Officer James McGregor, free on $5,000 bond, faces an August 12 hearing on charges he shot Frank Luck last week. He has chosen to join a threshing crew and will depart the city today or tomorrow for new employment.
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