Local residents and events noted across Berthoud area
Highland lake f. W. O. Campbell of Denver was caller here Monday. Charles Bodkin visited friends on the St. Vrain Sunday. G. Mead returned from Longmont Friday. Lacey of Lyons transacted business here Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Knott were Berthoud visitors Thursday. William Paul visited Denver last week. The annual church meeting will be held this afternoon. Skating is good on the lakes. Logan Owen of Longmont was a business caller here last week. The Montgomerys of Mount Zion attended church Sunday. The Sunday school and school will entertain this evening. Miss Stack and Miss Lynch depart for Iowa today. The band meets Friday evening with eighteen members. Several joined the Modern Reserve fund after examinations Monday night. Dr. Billines assisted at the time of an accident. Misses Beattie and Herrington visited Miss Ellis Monday. The school children enjoyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. UW Friday evening. E. C. Herrington heard from E. T. Nichols of Chicago about meeting melon growers Saturday. Beet growers met at the school house last Saturday to discuss factory prices. Officers named are John Laughlin president, KE G Packer secretary, KE McKenney treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Campbell
Denver
Charles Bodkin
St. Vrain
Uw. G. Mead
Longmont
Mr. Lacey
Lyons
EB. H. Knott
Berthoud
William Paul
Logan Owen
Modern Reserve Fund
Billines
Bessie Beattie
Edith Herrington
Edith Ellis
Lewis
E. OC. Herrington
E. T. Nichols
Chicago
John Laughlin
KE. G. Packer
Ke, McKenney
Toby
Evans Mayor Behrens Returns to Duty and Local News
Evans reports Mayor Behrens back in public life. Homer Sims acts marshal in Mr. Minn’s absence. Several residents visit Colorado and nearby towns. A road gang passes through Evans to the Platte river bridge project. John Brubaker returns home for the holidays. One accident leaves a man injured. another man’s brother dies in a railroad wreck near Godfrey, with remains to be shipped home.
Local Social Notes Include Visits and Events
Miss Fay Gardner of Delta visits Miss Pearl Thompson. Mr Nichols of Greeley digs a soft water well for Mr Baab. A Christmas entertainment is set for Wednesday at the schoolhouse. Ben Marsh of Greeley moves a house for Horace Clark to Peckham. William Rogers’ mother and brother depart for Illinois. Adventist meetings occur nightly in English and German.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Marsh
Greeley
Bain
Peckham
Horace Clark
William Rogers
Illinois
La Salle Community Notes Brief Youth Life Events
John Hubbard unloads his second car of pub born to Mr and Mrs J F Beatty a son. Vene Hinds of Brighton was a La Salle caller Monday. Miss Cora Bainbridge hosted a lunch for friends. Misses Coil and Hayward plan holiday visits. La Salle youths attended a musicale in Greeley. L Ogilvy hosted a dinner for friends earlier in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hubbard
Vene Hinds
Brighton
Cora Bainbridge
Coil
Hayward
LaSalle
Greeley
L. Ogilvy
Ault Record to Feature Eight Pages This Week
Ora Ault's son Albert Allison battles pneumonia while the town notes have births and travel. A daughter Pansy Pence born December 8 to Cass Johnsons recovers from coyote hunt enough to attend school. Arkon Selby shaken on a horse and improving. Christmas trees planned by Congregational and Baptist groups. Residents John Frye family travel to Missouri, and John Hayden couple depart for Boulder then Salt Lake and California for winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hayden
Boulder
Salt Lake
California
Local notices and community updates from Peckham area
Pe gram shows workers loading beers at Peckham while Mrs. Van Syock of Greeley visited nearby. Big Bend teachers plan an after Christmas entertainment. Mr. Kase rents Eckhart place for another year and plans housekeeping. J R Henderson and L B Larson drove to Denver to return later. Samuel Moore buys a farm southeast of Greeley near Delta school house and plans to move family there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Bend School
Mr. Kase
Mr. Eckhart
J. R. Henderson
Samuel Moore
Greeley
Delta School
Peckham
Inland City Social Notes Recall Christmas Week Moves
Big Bend residents report visits and travel during the week. Miss Ethel Phelam visited the city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson drove in Monday. George Wiggett of Erie is home for Christmas. Mr. Moore and family plan a move to a farm near Greeley. Mrs. Boal attended Katie Madden’s funeral in Platteville Friday. Locals attended Mr. Stevens’s funeral in Evans Sunday. Mrs. Albert Taylor and daughter of Greeley visited Mr. and Mrs. T. Wiggett Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wiggett
Erie
Mr. Moore
Greeley
Stevens
Evans Sunday
Albert Taylor
T. Wiggett
Special Land Buyers Excursions to Greer County Lands
Special Land Buyers Excursions will run to new lands in Greer county Oklahoma and other Southwest sections in November and December via the Frisco system. Prospective buyers can acquire rich and fertile farming lands at one-fourth to one-tenth the cost of lands in the East and North. Apply to R. S. Lemon, Secretary Frisco System Immigration Bureau, St. Louis for full particulars and rail rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greer County
Oklahoma
Great Southwest
Frisco
R. S. Lemon
Frisco System Immigration Bureau
St. Louis, Mo
Stockholders Meeting for The Lower Latham Reservoir Co
Notice of annual stockholders meeting at 812 Ninth Avenue Greeley Colorado on Saturday forenoon January 9 1904 at 10 oclock to elect five directors and conduct other business J B Phillips secretary Greeley Colorado December 24 1903
Farms for Sale Aged in Potato and Grain Farms
A real estate notice advertises several improved potato and grain farms with ample ditch and reservoir water for sale at reasonable prices. WM F Stephens, Agent, Room 9 Opera House block, invites interested buyers to view demonstrated work on these properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WM. F. Stephens
Opera House Blk
Business Woman in Letters From a Self Made Merchant
A line from George Horace Lorimer’s Letters From a Self Made Merchant to His Son notes a businesswoman example. Published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston, with permission indicated. The excerpt reflects attitudes of enterprise and professional life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Horace Lorimer
Small, Maynard & Co., Publishers
Boston
The Pig Toby and the Lessons of Pork Packing
A memoir excerpt recounts raising a pig named Toby and the clash over eating him. The narrator contrasts domestic life with business, arguing women lack in pork packing while urging tough, aggressive sales to win.
Going The Whole Hog in Graham Brand Marketing Sketch
A playful promotional riff extols knowing hogs from snout to tail and branding, comparing expertise to a mother and father in proud, humorous terms while urging belief in the product. The piece blends rural imagery with exaggerated confidence about hog quality and branding.
A Message On Education From a Father To His Son
A father writes to Pierrepont about Harvard education, urging balance between study and character. He emphasizes education beyond the classroom, warns against over or under studying, and argues college builds thinking and character more than mere grades. He compares learning to nourishment, noting college both pays and shapes a person.
Pie and golf align with work and time in a self made letter
In a quoted letter a writer contrasts work and leisure noting golf as a time consuming hobby fits poorly with a busy butcher’s schedule. He jokes about play and pie and compares idle palyers to pastry hungry crowds while warning against wasteful spending.
Dining Times Through English History From Saxon to Elizabeth
The excerpt traces meals and dining customs across eras from Anglo Saxon meat courses to Norman and Chaucer times. It notes supper gaining popularity in late Saxon days and the Norman preference for a late morning light meal. It also mentions Elizabeth I’s court dining at noon with rosewater and Sack or lambs wool beverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaucer
Franklin
Whistler Defies Dinner to Finish Masterpiece
In a Harper's Weekly vignette Whistler ignores a social dinner to continue painting. He declares he will not stop for food, arguing the guests cannot act until he arrives, and the exchange highlights his notorious engagement habits and single minded focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whistler
London
Suchi-a
Harper’s Weekly
The Regimental Tailor and the Drill
A tale of military dress moralizes on fit and discipline. Sir George Grove recalls meeting an impeccably dressed English officer in the West Indies who credits the regimental tailor for the look. The officer jokes he would impose three days of heavy drill if the tailor failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Grove
West Indies
Mixed on Her Geography Chronicle of a London Post Office
The postmaster recalls early postal work decades ago in a London branch. A customer hands a letter to a young clerk who quotes fivepence for a China-bound mail, though the customer protests paying more than two pence halfpenny. The clerk explains all China letters cost fivepence, while the addressee is Dresden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
London
China
Dresden
Girl in hotel忘れたガムと階段の指示
A sixteen year old girl in a hotel leaves her parents at the dining table and walks the room to tell her companion to fetch a gum stuck under the table. Her fresh voice rings as she asks for it for the matinee later that afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lippincott’s
Feminine Deceit at Exclusive Girls Party
A Leaf River Mirror item notes girls at an exclusive party feigning happiness to appear as if the boys were present. The piece suggests they secretly wish the boys had been invited, highlighting playful deceit in social function.
Fishermen clash over musky name in Wisconsin lake tale
A stranger mispronounces muskelunge as muskellunge while fishing in northern Wisconsin. The veteran guide retorts that Webster may not have caught a musky, highlighting a playful dispute over the fish name in a Lake Wisconsin scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Webster
Chicago Tribune
Light Housekeeping Jests Haunt Mrs Torkins
Brief humorous exchange reveals a young wife, Mrs Torkins, pondering chores and gas bills. She notes after two or three charges they wished to try dark housekeeping, capturing a domestic witticism in a compact wartime era tone.
Difference Between Violinist and Fiddler Cited by Concert Manager
A concert manager explains the gap between a violinist and a fiddler in earnings, noting an earnings range from 500 to 5000 dollars weekly. The Washington Star quote emphasizes how much music careers can vary in income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Quote from Bucher on poverty in maxims and sermons
A reflective saying contrasts theory and practice, noting that poverty is praised in maxims and sermons yet proves harsh in real life. The line captures a tension between ideals and everyday experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucher
Auction Notices At Brewington Barn And Greeley Yard
The Auctioneer offers farm items including horses mules and implements. Sales set for January 12 at Brewington's barn Eaton and January 20 at the Greeley feed yards with milch cows also listed. Bell Phone 984 promotes fair dealing and satisfaction for all bidders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewington
Eaton
Greeley
C. D. Neff
Guardian seeks sale of minor’s Weld County real estate
A C Van Deren guardian for Frank Persons Van Deren petitions Weld County Colorado court to authorize sale of the minor’s undivided interest in Weld County land described as parts of sections 20 23 and 26 township 4 north range 61 west. Court would direct public or private sale with proceeds reinvested. First publication December 24 and final publication January 7, 1904 in Greeley Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Deren
Frank Persons van Deren
James D. Hutchinson
Warren
Warks County
Pennsylvania
Weld County
Colorado
of Weld
Towit
Township 4
Wes
Wist
A.C. van Deren
Edward C. Mason
Greeley Tribune
Stockholders Meeting of The Lower Latham Witch Company
Stockholders meeting will be held at 812 Ninth Avenue Greeley Colorado on Saturday afternoon January 9 1904 at 1 30 p m to elect five directors for the ensuing year and address other business. J B Pelillips secretary. Greeley Colorado December 24 1903.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Latham Witch Company
Ninth Avenue
Greeley
Colo
Heart Fluttering Remedy Promoted for Digestive Relief
An old advertisement touts Herbine to treat heart palpitations caused by undigested food and gas under the heart. It promises quick improvement after a few days and notes sales by all druggists.
Colorado & Southern Ry Round Trip Fare Sale Details
Tickets priced at a single fare for round trips between all Colorado points. Dates set for December 24 25 31 and January 1 with final return limit January 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Colorado & Southern Ry
Also Mentioned on This Page
Highland Lake
E. L. Montgomery
Mount Zion
Miss Stack
Miss Lynch
Iowa
Evans
Behrens
Homer Sims
Mr. Minn’s
Dr. Bovard of
Sterling
Len Flint
Nebraska
Lillie Huffman
Fort Collins
Lenora Vanderlip
John Brubaker
Monte Vista
Frank Fashbaugh
Esther Ross
Colorado Springs
Rosie Willie
S. R. Huffsmith
Rachel
W. F. Smith
Frank Smyser
Platte River
George Howe
Platte
Will Brubaker
Fort Scott
Kan
John
St. Louis
San Francisco
Godfrey
Beebe
The
Adventist Church
J. F. Beattie
Albert Allison
Ora
Cass Johnson
Pansy Pence
Arkon Selby
Congregational Sunday School
Baptists
John Frye
Theodore Frye
Robert Mayberry
Allie Cook
Hiram England
Missouri
Big Bend
Ethel] Phelam
Oniscsae
Mrs. Nelson
City
Stockholders’ Meeting
Lower
Latham Reservoir Company
J. B. Phillips
Yoby
Pierrepont
Harvard
Farly
Menta
E. W. Langtry
Bell
Colorado & Southern Road
Beily Daily
Teeeele
Farmers Ly
Bracewel
Windsor
Timnath
Eee McClellands ii
Berthoud Loveland
Payment Ni Iacres vi
Boulder Eeee
Marehall
Utah Junction
Cheyenne
Froolbe
Dowt Eeereeernrmvenn
M. P.m
Lv Tere Ee
Henderson
Lupton
Platteville
Antes
Eee
Meee la Salle
Wales
Lucerne
Eee Eeee
Eeee
Ault
Pierce
Dover Ee
Arr
Eee Eee
Athol Ee
Stockholders’Meeting
J. B. Pelillips
Greeley, Colo
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!