Outline of What Youth May Learn at Schools
Announcement of new branches at the State Agricultural College beginning October 5. Admission for eighth grade graduates. courses in soil fertility, seed breeding, animal care, farm machinery, horticulture, carpentry and blacksmithing, military drill, and core academics. tuition free. For girls, training in housekeeping, cooking, sewing, and household management with practical work and markets visits.
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State Agricultural College
Colorado
Annears Visit Sloan Home Then Denver Trip
Mr and Mrs Thomas Annear of Siiverton spent several days with Mr and Mrs R H Sloan. They traveled to Denver and plan another Greeley visit before returning home.
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Thomas Annear
Siiverton
R. H. Sloan
Annears
Denver
Greeley
Babies Welcome All Hearts to Methodists Cradle Roll
Mrs. E. H. Downey heads the cradle roll at the Methodist Sunday school. The program grew from 16 to 136 children under 3, with visits on birth days and diplomas at age 3. Small gifts mark milestones, including gold stars for deceased infants, and 100 babies attended this year’s Children's Day. Other churches have cradle rolls but less extensive programs.
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E. H. Downey
Methodist Sunday School
East Side
Presbyterian
Congregational
United Presbyterian
Government report shows mixed US crop gains August 1 1909
Bureau of statistics notes aggregate crop conditions on August 1 1909 slightly above ten-year average with total cultivated area up about 1.6 percent from last year. Wheat corn oats and tobacco improve. cotton rice hay and apples lag behind both last year and average across regions with notable regional disparities.
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Bureau of Statistics
Department of Agriculture
United States
Impor
North Atlantic States
New York
Pennsylvania
North Central States
Mississippi River
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
South Atlantic States
South Central States
Far Western States
Potato Day At Weld County Fair Promises Major Event
Weld County fair highlights a baby show as a premier attraction with every county baby in ribbons and frills. Greeley hosts Potato Day on September 4 featuring a giant baked potato and light refreshments, plus races and extensive farm life exhibits drawing record crowds facilitated by special railroad rates.
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Weld County
Loveland
Greeley
Barn party hosted for guests at Hillside Airy home
Mrs. F A Bronson hosted a Thursday barn party for Helen Buge and Florence at her Aburban Hillside Airy residence. Guests traveled by hay rack from the park to the barn, enjoyed refreshments, and socialized with attendees including Mabel Wright, Pearl Wright, Ada Bunker, Lois Van Antwerp, Hattie Foster, Blanche Sawyer, and Howard Bronson. Mrs. D Glazier from Whitehall Michigan arrived Thursday to visit I D Glazier and family while en route home from Salt Lake City.
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F. A. Bronson
Helen Buge
Florence
Aburban
Mabel ‘Right
Pearl Wright
Gladya Berk
D. Glazier
Whitehall, Mich
I. D. Glazier
Grammar and Romance in a Tea Time Tale
A narrator recalls an unaffectionate encounter with a girl named Carrie as she corrects her father at tea. The piece muses on whether grammar matters or merely hides brainy flaws, noting the maiden's beauty but disfavoring her correcting manner.
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Carrie
Death of Mrs. J. G. Harper in Sudden Friday Passing
Mrs. Georgia Harper, 36, wife of J. G. Harper, died Friday at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. S. Harper where she was visiting with her husband and son. Her illness was brief and the death a shock.Survived by husband and one son. Funeral at 10 Monday morning at United Presbyterian Church with interment in Linn Grove Cemetery.
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Georgia Harper
J. G. Harper
C. S. Harper
Man Converts Vacant Lot To Lush Garden In City
J. B. Todd of 1428 Eleventh street builds a thriving garden beside his home after an incubator failed. His plot yields sweet corn, popcorn, cabbage, beets, parsnips, celery, squash, pumpkins and more. Todd, a carpenter, plans to net about $250 beyond family needs from summer harvests.
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Todd
Eleventh Street
Greeks Strike On Street Railway Labor Dispute
Seventy Greek laborers halted work on the street railway project in Greeley after rejecting 1.65 dollars per day and demanding seven days of work. They left for Crow Creek to join Union Pacific housing, while the company plans to bring a new crew by early next week.
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Greeley
Street Railway Company
Union Pacific
Crow Creek
Allen
Colorado & Southern Bank
Thimble Party Honors Grace Brewster in Local Visit
Mrs. George M. Houston hosted a Friday afternoon thimble party for her visiting aunt Mrs. Grace Sanborn Brewster of Birney Montana. Thirty of Mrs Brewster's girlhood friends from Greeley attended the gathering to visit, stitch, and enjoy refreshments prepared with help from Misses Coffman Hall and Hanna.
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George M. Houston
Grace Sanborn Brewster
Birney
Mont
Oratory Artists to Visit Greeley as Fall Treat
The Oratory Artists, a singers troupe, will visit Greeley on November 2 with a November 1 payment of $600 to secure them and an extra night arranged for November 3. The event opens a lecture course under the Monmouth League arranged by F D Hawkins of Slayton Lyceum Bureau, the largest in the country. The program replaces the College Girls and costs $400 with Epworth League support, promising a strong show.
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Greeley
Denver
Mpnorth League
F. D. Hawkins
Slayton Ly
Ceum Bureau
Lyceum
United States
Epworth League
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