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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
1
A large crowd gathered at the Armory Hall to hear Carrie A Nation speak on temperance. She declared temperance a crime and attacked the Republican Party, claiming the election betrayed the nation and prophesying a nationwide movement led by her.
A petition filed by C F Tew for the Green River Irrigation district seeks examination approval and confirmation of bonds already voted for water rights. The district lies under Bijou ditch east of Hardin south of Platte river Masters station with a long history from 1872 when settled as Green River Colony.
The Normal Institute of district No. 2 ended Friday with remarks by Mr. Miller and Dr. Snyder, music by Mr. Bell, and Van Churchill reading the institute organ called The Institute Tutor. The event drew 184 enrolled and 149 attending regularly, with 78 prefect records and over 60 percent holding first-grade certificates.
The piece criticizes Colorado politics during a Denver election marked by alleged fraud in gas and tramway franchise votes. It praises lower court efforts to expose truth and urges thorough investigation, public support for reform, and radical remedies to purify the state’s public life.
A three year old boy, son of Shelby Thomas, two miles north of Greeley, was run over by a mowing machine Friday morning. Both feet were severely mangled with possible amputation to be avoided. The child hidden in grass woke to the mower attack as the father rushed to aid him. The family faces a grim aftermath with care at Greeley hospital.
A sample of dry farming shown in Arbuckle and Purcell’s window features a dozen potatoes grown twelve miles east of Greeley without irrigation. The crop is smooth firm and reportedly high in grain and flavor averaging seventy five sacks to the acre. Nearby ten acres of Mexican beans also thrive without irrigation. A Boulder area farmer grows 265 acres of grain mostly wheat also raised without irrigation and waist high at harvest.
The International League of Press Clubs will tour Denver area during the week of August 27 and visit Greeley on the 30th. They plan a Fort Collins dinner and an afternoon arrival to view local crops and irrigated lands. F P Frost of the Commercial Club seeks autos and carriages for transport.
Henry Lininger, eighty, arrived from Menominee Wisconsin to make his home with son Walter in Greeley at Tenth Street and Fifth Avenue. A Mexican and Civil War veteran, he lost hearing when both eardrums burst at Pittsburg Landing. He receives 40 dollars monthly pension and belongs to the G A R, now communicating by a tablet. He recalls being sighted by an enemy shooter at Pittsburg Landing and notes the north and south are united. Deck Woods opens a new barber shop in the Woolf Building Main Street, promising city shavery quality and big bright mirrors hidden during Carrie Nation’s visit.
The Denver Post reports a bumper sugar beet crop in Colorado valued at 10 million dollars, up 1.68 million from last year. More than 2,000 beet pickers will earn about 1.5 million for three months, with 100000 acres planted. The Great Western Sugar company builds new factories at Fort Morgan, Brush, and Billings as profits rise.
George G. Donovan and Ed McCarty, East Greeley residents, have plowed about 1600 acres in Weld County for various clients between Grover and Greeley using a four mule team and a modified threshing engine. They plan a second threshing outfit as harvest approaches. The Elks take a 30 day option on Dr. Thompson property at Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue, negotiated by F. P. Frost. Odes Norstrom visits from Lea ville and heads to Guthrie Oklahoma after a stay with W. D. Balcom. Charles A. Bennett resigns Ramsay Dry Goods post to move to Colorado Springs for rest with his family. L. H. Gowdy and wife visit J. F. Reid of Pleasant Valley. Gowdy is Gowdy-Simmons Printing manager at Colorado Springs.
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