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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1888
Page
5
Greeley business, land deals, and rail updates across Fort Morgan Windsor and nearby towns. Included are Bijou ditch business, Bank of Fort Morgan ownership shift, derailment incident with depot repairs, depot lighting, potato starch work, street improvements, quarry plans, creamery talks, and holiday socials with local transfers and travel ads.
The co partnership between A F Sipperley and H D Sipperley in Greeley Colorado under the firm name A F Sipperley & Co is dissolved by mutual consent A F Sipperley has purchased H D Sipperleys interest and will collect all debts and pay all accounts and debts of the firm in Greeley Colorado November 30 1888.
Buffalo Shoe Company of Denver expands with a planned third outlet to meet rising trade. The retailer operates about twenty stores and discounts purchases at 20 to 60 cents on the dollar from competitors. Each customer will receive a Christmas engraving valued at 75 cents to $1. An estray notice records a dark bagothorse taken up with identifying marks.
An excursion from La Salle Colorado to North Platte Nebraska departs December 18 1888 with round trip fare and ten day return validity. Promotes irrigation success by Greeley farmers with water from the North Platte and favorable land near the Union Pacific line. Also notes land and water prices and addresses The North Platte Irrigation and Land Co. agent Geo H West Greeley Colorado. Water rights sale of Ditch Co certificates offered at discount. Saner item: skate products and shop ads by Von Gohren & Co.
William J Hopkins assigns his property to the creditor for collection. Creditors are to file verified statements of accounts. A creditor meeting will be held at Hopkins residence in Hillsboro on Monday November 26 1888. Sanborn Phillips & Co offer loans on farm and city property at low rates.
Ten per cent saved. The fence tax is now due. I will be in my photograph gallery for the collection of said tax. You will save ten per cent paying before the first of January 1889. B F Marsu, Collector. Hay for sale. I have a quantity of loose hay and alfalfa. EH Hearon.
The ad notes new daily Pullman buffet cars from Cheyenne to St. Louis via Kansas City starting October 15 1888. It claims fastest east–west service with one car change for many connections and promotes Union Pacific and Wabash routes as the Overland and principal western lines to St. Louis and New York area.
A rustic verse sketch titled Colorado Land praises farming gains in Colorado with verses on corn wheat pumpkins and livestock. The chorus celebrates the land while noting droughts and later bounty. The piece ends by promoting Brandt's Reliable Shoe Store in Greeley Town County Weld offering savings.
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