Christmas Eve and New Year Week in Greeley Highlights
Windsor merchant Robert Hall visits town as locals savor holiday weather. Christmas events include football prizes won by Charlie Camp and Tom Noons, and church Christmas programs. Multiple marriages occur in Greeley and surrounding towns with social events at Odd Fellows and Masons hall. Reports cover weather, rail service changes, block incidents, robberies, and community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie Camp
The
Hooks
Tom Noons
Steamer Company
Growing slaughterhouse and packing firm shown in detail
A visit to Evans Thoman & Co. describes a West of town slaughter house with capacity for fifty hogs twenty five cattle and fifty sheep daily and a town packing house supplying 100000 pounds of meat and 22000 pounds of lard last season. The firm plans to slaughter 2000 hogs this year and expand to serve towns along the Wyoming railroad line. New Year calls list Greeley ladies visiting hours across multiple residences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vallentine
Evans, Thoman & Co
Laporte Road
Fairbanks
College Avenue
Wyoming
Fort Collins Courier
Governor Robinson of Massachusetts Sends Letter of Regret
The Massachusetts Executive Department archive contains a December 1 1885 letter from Governor George D. Roys to J F Gibbs secretary of the New England Society. He cannot attend the Greeley Colorado meeting on the 21st but extends cordial wishes and hopes for lasting cheer and inspiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibbs
Packard
New England Association
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Boston
J. F. Gibbs
New England Society
Greeley
Colo
Sons and Daughters of New England
Colorado
Grorce D. Rortysoy
Porter Dies on Christmas Day in Blissfield Michigan
James Albert Porter aged 31 dies after a seven day illness of erysipelas affecting the upper lip face and brain. He leaves a wife and infant. Porter was born in West Virginia in 1854 moved to Michigan in 1864 and taught school in Highland Lake and Greeley before returning to Michigan in 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Porter
West Virginia
Michigan
Agricultural College
Lansing
Colorado
Highland Lake
Greeley High School
Tur Trisuye
W. L. Porter
Greeley
Marriages in Colorado and California 1885 notices
Marriages announced include A J Moyer of Greeley and Jennie Sease of La Veta wed Sunday at La Veta. Charles Camp of Greeley married Rosealpha Driver of Fresno. T W Wilson wed Mary Annis in Greeley. James B Phillips of Greeley married Carrie L Richards of Fort Scott Kansas in Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Moyer
A. E. Mead & Co
Jennie Sease
la Veta
Colorado
Charles Camp
Rosealpha Driver
A. L. Camp
James B. Phillips
Weld County
Carrie L. Richards
Fort Scott
Kansas
Walters
Broadway
Denver
Rankin
Moyer
Sease
James Brooks
A. J. Moyer
Greeley
Colo
Winter’s Reign Thinned by St Jacobs Oil Conqueror of Pain
Winter, once ruler of the inverted year, is losing grip as St Jacobs Oil claims to drive away rheumatism. The public hears of relief and happiness as the remedy touted to conquer pain spreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter
St. Jacobs Oil
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F. Benedict
L. Roy Mansfield, Jrenedict & Mansfield
W. Cressy
Ames McDonald
Rank Madden
Cisern
Pine Street
Madison Avenue
H. A. French
E. Billings
Asis Hotel Company
A C. Watson
8. K. Thompson
Gale & Lee's
Main Street
A. Bennett
Union Bank
Greeley, Colorado
P. Rittenhouse
Hamman’s Store
E. Garrigues
Southard Building
Greeley, Colo
J. AS. W
J. E. McCreery
First Hollenss Bank
Reeley, Colo
Frank J. Annis
Dunning
Harry N. Haynes
Haynes
Dunning & Anni
Law
Fort Collins
D. Page
Mitchell’s Bazar
J. M. Preeman
J. L. Barrett
Breeman & Barrett
W H. Bennett
Flower & Petrikin
W. H. Schenck
Sterling, Colo
E A. Thompson
LAW Insurance and Real Estate
Erie, Colo
Court House
R. Rhodes
Larimer Street
Rhodes & Love
H H. Barton
Practical Watch Maker
RF. Graham, M. D
Cincinnati Hospital
Cleveland Asylum For the Insane
Eighth Street
Eighth Avenue
Export & Mosher Greeley Business College
Hubert Work, M. D
National Bank
Home News
Robert Hall
Windsor
Aear
Sam. Wright
Unitarian Church
Model Church
T. W. Wilson
Mary Annis
A. K. Packard
Thieung
H. L. Clark
Sterling
Murray
Colonel Kerr
Clark
White
Mary Gipson
A. E. Gipson
E. C. Frost
the Oasis
San Francisco
Will Abbott
W. A. Miner
Abbott & Miner
Evans
Congregational Church
Methodist Church
B. H. Eaton & Co
John Spaulding
C. P. Gale
Mariah Park
Georgetown
Mr. P. Putnam
A. D. Sanders
Cheyenne
Easthampton
Massachusetts
W. L. Clayton
McClellan & Clayton
Murfreesboro
Tennessee
Mr. Mayher
Benton Hoover
New Chicago
Montana
Mr. Hoover
Vetter
Wilson & Vetter
Ohio
Fort Collings
Occidental Lodge
No. 20
A. F
A. M
W.M
J. A. Taylor
Tyler
T. G. Macy
Haener
John Burchill
Watson Malott
Charles Sunderland
Sunderland
Malott
Odd Fellows
Masonic Hall
George Deavitt
Kerdel
C. B. Lucas
Platte
Mr. Yardley
Fourth Street
Ninth
Tenth Avenues
Santa Claus
Unitarian
Baptist
United Presbyterian
Barnum Hall
Mr. Hogeland
Milan Italian Opera Company
Tabor Grand
McCourt
Milan Opera Company
Flotow
Marta
Bellini
Norma
Lucia
Gounod
Faust
Opera
H.T. West
E. E. Clark
Grace Norcross
Atkinson
McCollough
A. B. Copeland
Katie Norcross
Ed. Clark
Messrs. Atkinson
McCullough
Malone
Oasis
Riley
Milwaukee
Samuels
Cincinnati
N Bacheldor
R P Robinet
Roy Mansfield
Jastrowitz
O D Woodman
Alice Snyder
J F Gibbs
Charles McDermott
RJ Johnson
F Hart
W A Sanderling
Fullerton
F EF Smith
Rey A H Lucas
Arthur Britton
Albert Sechrist
George English
R I
D C Polley
BE Z Morgan
Denver Junction
Mra Howe and Child
Eaton, Colo
Ily McLobdell
New York
Platteville
Tribune Piatteville
Perry Collins
Randolph Ross
John Laughlin
William Lucas
Thomas
Sylvester Lumry
Frank Parker
Collinge
John Armstrong
Rufus Lumry
Sylvester Lu
Captain Monahan
A. P. Rittenhouse
Dicksor
Anna Monahan
Monahan
J. F. Benedict
Ross
L. Sawyer
C. H. Wheeler
Benedict
Hunter
Jessie Gale
Fdns Messinger
S. W. Bullard
W. W. Field
S. H. Southard
Flora Hunt
Lizzie Clark
Fred Smith
John Mosher
Smith
Sixth
Robinson
Massa
Chusetts
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