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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
5
A crowded page of want ads and notices from Greeley details sales of livestock including pigs cattle and dairy stock, farm equipment and real estate offers, rental listings for rooms and furnished spaces, exchange trades for land and machinery, and local business notices. Mentions Wednesay circulation, contact addresses, and local merchants like Fagan & Houtchens and Wilson Grocery Company.
C A Fletcher was in Denver. Grover Schuman left Friday for Atchison Kansas. O Oleson leaves this week for Omaha on business. Reynolds and Co. Mrs William Platney of Eaton shopped in Greeley Monday. Arthur Gill home from State University for vacation. Clay Madden leaves Wednesday to visit his mother in Reston Iowa. Dunham jeweler promotes Christmas gifts. Grace and Edna Nelson of Fort Collins in Greeley Monday en route to Douglas Wyoming. W C T A to meet 2 30 Tuesday with Mrs Ita Hamman at 1102 Tenth Street. Wilson Grocery Company offers china patterns. Edwin Starkey and wife left for Kerrville visiting relatives for a month. Flossie Churchill delayed from Santa Ana California and arrives today.
A collage of local notices features shopping mentions for Mrs. G W McMurray of LaSalle and Albert Eaton's party, Alexander's doll giveaway on Wednesday, and the Hoffman market opening. Other items include shoeing a horse, affordable kisses, and watch retention thanks to four hundred supporters.
J. M. Cameron Spot Cash Store at 815 817 Wighth avenue announces a sale with low prices on linen and silk handkerchiefs 1c to 65c ties 10c to 50c and 35c boxed silk ties plus gloves mittens sample shirts pants coats suspenders and more highlighting big Xmas bargains in northern Colorado.
Notice to stockholders announces the annual meeting of Greeley Building & Loan Association at its Greeley Colorado office on Tuesday January 5 1909 at 7 30 p m. Officers report election of seven directors and auditing committee and other business. George D Statler J H Hays Secretaries.
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of The Lower Latham Reservoir Company will be held at the office of the company in the city of Greeley Colorado Saturday January 9 1909 at the hour of 10 o clock a m for the purpose of electing five directors for the ensuing year levying an assessment and transacting such other business as may properly come before said meeting J B Phillips Secretary Greeley Colo Dec 23d 1908
Ben F. Hoffman invites customers to the Hoffman market at 827 Seventh Street for meats and vegetables. The Wilson Grocery company store advertises evening hours until after Christmas with a display of china. A noted exchange incident involving Wercoats seeks return to 1310 Highth Avenue.
Storewide sale on all jewelry in stock with half off. Jewelry is guaranteed absolutely. Local merchants promote reduced prices on decorative china and accompanying items.
ASMUS and SON advertise a complete stock of imported and domestic cigars in all sizes and packages with pipes and smokers supplies available for holiday gifts.
The Central Blacksmith Shop relocated from Seventh Street to 617-619 Sixth Avenue. R. L. Orr is proprietor and offers the full blacksmithing line.
A Third Off store advertises half price on all jewelry. The notice from Ahlstrand Mercantile Co. promotes a substantial discount, inviting customers to shop reduced items.
At 1 30 p m a meeting of the Lower Latham Ditch Company will elect five trustees. The event aims to fill governance roles for the water district and manage ditch operations. Residents and shareholders are urged to attend and participate in the vote.
The annual meeting of stock holders will be held at the secretary’s office 1941 Tenth avenue at 7 30 p m Friday January 8 1909 to elect a board of directors hear reports of officers and transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. W G Chambers.
Holders of the Glenmere Park Association will meet at 1617 Tenth Avenue, Greeley, on Friday evening January 15, 1909 at 7 30 p m to transact such other business as may properly come before said meeting. Albert F Carter.
Marriage licenses have been issued to J. E. Hall and Cora Bell Vivion of Denver. Conrad Kauffman and Katy Brens of Greeley. Henry Engel of Kersey and Frederika Oster of LaSalle.
An American army officer recalls a test of shooting among young Englishmen. A pompous British observer belittles the skills, then the officer demonstrates with a rifle, missing once and then hitting the bullseye six times in a row. The Briton concedes, praising the Yankee marksmanship with an English gun.
John Burns the British labor leader, married in 1880, settled as a journeyman in Battersea and claimed to be Britain s first hands on engineer of an electric tram car. He tested the tram at the Crystal Palace for six months, lying to draw public interest, then used a decoy of his wife and mother in law to encourage riders.
An architect contends with Mrs Drippingold over house style choices for her country estate. She insists on towers visible from far away and demands Norman Gothic as the preferred form, seeking ancestral grandeur.
A matter of fact Scotchwoman visits an elderly neighbor and dispenses stark advice about facing illness. Janet says she is very bad in the damp weather and Martha retorts with blunt humor, urging Janet to fix a day for dying and stick to it.
A dialogue shows a master noting a pupil’s poor vision when he cannot see the till while taking money from customers. The new boy questions the oddity, asking why the other lad left for. The master explains sight issues occur at times, implying the till was missed.
Mrs. Benham-Henry acknowledges not drinking now and asks how she quit. Benham recalls a decisive moment when her mother visited and he came home drunk to find three of her, a turning point.
A Life magazine quotable line imagines a dialogue between a doctor and a student about physics. It frames the classic irresistible force versus immovable object paradox as a teaching moment.
A German proverb notes that as money increases so does love for it. The saying reflects a paradox about wealth shaping affections and desires.
The speaker asserts leading status in apples for quality price and variety. Stores buy at retail prices. A large stock supports steady pricing from $1.75 to $2.50 per box and highlights the Roman Beauty display as unequaled in Greeley.
A local shop promotes a wide range of candies with quality at medium prices. The ad stresses that prices suit every body and that little ones will be pleased with this selection.
Sticky and sweet dates and figs advertised for Christmas with fresh produce priced at 10c per pound for dates and 20c per pound for Ban-Ban Turkish pulled figs. The copy promotes a wide selection and urges customers to try the shop.
By the Swedish American Republican club on Wednesday evening December 23 at M. B. A. hall on the south side of Seventh street near Ninth avenue. A fine musical program and other good numbers. Hot coffee after the program. Tickets twenty five cents. You will be sorry if you miss it.
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