18 Aug 1886
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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1886
Page
1
Local items report Armory inspection and Board of Trade meeting. Visits by Henderson of Titusville and Hendrickson in Greeley. multiple hires, marriages, and concerts. bridges, rail, and hotel mentions. Weather and irrigation gains, purchases, and deaths shape daily life across Larimer and Weld counties.
A mass convention of the National Prohibition Party movement in Weld County will meet at the courthouse in Greeley on Friday August 20 1886 at 2 pm to elect delegates to the State convention in Denver August 25 appoint a county central committee and nominate county officers including probate judge and county commissioner district three and one State legislature member All lodges societies and individuals in sympathy are invited to attend only straight prohibitionists may vote This call is issued by The Greeley Prohibition Club.
Miss Emiline Signor born Clinton county New York March 13 1837 died Fort Collins Colorado August 7 1886 aged 49 years 6 months 26 days She taught most of her life after starting at eighteen moved to Illinois in 1848 joined Baptist church at Brighton 1851 Came to Colorado six years prior to death taught in Larimer and Weld counties at death supervised a Fort Collins household Remains sent to Windsor for interment Funeral held at Windsor M E church Rev L Wright preached from I Corinthians 15 51 52 Sale notice: 80 acre farm under Number Two canal four and a half miles from town E D Lewis Greely Colorado
Acting Commissioner Stockslager of the General Land Office rules the January 13 1881 act applies only to railroad grant lands actually settled and improved by purchasers, excluding unoccupied improvements and lands excluded by the Dunmyer decision. The Roeschland vs U P R R case involves Daniel Witter and Henry N Copp for the plaintiff and Shallebarger and Wilson for the defendant. Platteville August 9 1886 reports Miss Maynard’s death from consumption in Rockford Illinois, family deaths in Groton Indiana, heat illness and quiet streets, new bridge nearing completion, bicycle riders en route to Omaha, water works talk for Loveland, Estes Park Institute organized with regional county membership.
Mr. A. T. Bacon of Greeley was in town last Saturday on business. Mr. Ross has completed a brick milk house enhancing his property. Jim Demmick, a longtime plasterer, returned and holds the plastering contract for the brick hall. Charles Terry of Greeley passed through town early this week bound for Denver with a herd of beeves.
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