County Apportionment Proposal Spurs District Line Shifts
County officials propose redrawing commissioner districts to equalize funding and population. Bradfield district No 2 and Estes district No 3 see higher allocations than district No 1, prompting plans to create three evenly balanced districts along the Estes line toward the city limits. A road-funding shift and upcoming construction at a sugar factory site are cited as consequences of the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradfield
E. J. Estes
R. W
Lere
Jds
Estes
Estesn
Mr. Trict
Ulow
Bliss
Greeley High Chorus Presents Promising Program
A Greeley high school chorus under Prof J R White performs selections Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 30 pm with emphasis on fostering student culture. The program features pieces by Gounod Verdi Eichberg and others, drawing praise for quality and range. Visitors are welcome to hear the choral works and the group’s improving discipline.
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Greeley
J. R. Whiteays
Local Preacher in Jail as Vagrancy Suspect
An alleged preacher is jailed on vagrancy charges after Evans County authorities seized his grip containing about 100 letters signed Reverend and a card naming Rev B J Mathews of Park Avenue Baptist Church. The stash also held obscene letters from women, a book with a woman’s picture and several steel saws hidden inside. Officials doubt the man’s identity and seek complaints from potential victims or accusers amid forged recommendation letters.
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Evans
B. J. Mathews
Park Avenue Baptist Church
H. M. Hicks
Bad Auto Accident Near Loveland Injures Cashier
J M Cunningham cashier of the Larimer County Bank of Loveland suffered a broken right leg when his auto started suddenly near Oswald Allen place east of Loveland. Returning from Greeley, he stopped to light lamps and his overcoat likely caught a lever. The car leapt forward, narrowly missing a plunge into a ditch. He is resting in town under a doctor's care with weeks of recovery ahead.
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Greeley
J. M. Cunningham
Larimer County Bank of
Loveland
Oswald
Allen Place
Mr. Cunningham
Cunningham
Snappy Greeley Girls Lose To Boulder Prep In Armory
A Friday night game at the Armory pitted Greeley High girls against Boulder Prep with a 14 to 18 final. Key players included Katherine Fonda and Myrtle Eldridge scoring for Greeley, Vera Wasley, Mary Carter, and Lona Steinmetz for Boulder. Referee was Morris of Boulder and umpire W Rankin of Greeley.
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Armory
Greeley High School
Boulder
Greeley Girls
uDwn
Rréps
Greeley
Katherine Fonda
Myrtle Eldridge
Mima. Montgomery
Vera Wasley
Nataline Libby
Mary Carter
Lona Steinmetz
Alice Taylor
Grace Pardee
Frieda ‘Taylor
Morris
W. Rankin
Greeley Boys
Desert Land Act settlers seek time extension for final proof
Frank Madden writes Congressman Bonynge from Greeley Colorado detailing hardship for Desert Land Act settlers unable to complete water development by the four year final proof deadline. He notes financial strain, irrigation project delays, and urges a bill extending the proof period to preserve reclamation efforts and satisfy honest entrymen.
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Frank Madden
Weld County District Court
U. S. Land Office
Robert W. Bonynge
Congress
Greeley
Colo
M. C
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Congress of the
United States
Firedevastates Estes Park cottage of A T Birch
A stone cottage owned by A T Birch in Estes Park was burned early last week. The cliffside retreat near the post office housed Birch a playwright whose manuscripts and his collection of books and pictures were destroyed. The cottage valued at 10000 dollars, Birch escaped with minor injuries after a defective stove is believed to have caused the fire.
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A. T. Birch
Estes Park
Burns Concert Set for January 28 in Greeley
The January 28 Burns concert, led by E. B. Hatch, will feature local talent with music songs and readings in First Presbyterian church. Vocal and instrumental pieces with J Scott Thompson on the pipe organ accompany a Scotch dialect program. Proceeds benefit the Pioneers Fountain fund, still about $200 short of its goal.
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Hatch
First Presbyterian Church
J. Scott Thompson
Greeley
the Tribune
Pioneers’ Fountain Fund
Narrow escape links Reynolds lineage to Greeley Tribune
Arthur G Reynolds visited the city on business Friday. His father narrowly escaped becoming father to the Greeley Tribune, a paper Horace Greeley and Meeker considered starting in the town's early years. Reynolds, an old printer, now works in Denver. Horace Greeley and Meeker corresponded with the elder Reynolds of Elimra New York about launching the Tribune in Greeley.
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Arthur G. Reynolds
Greeley Tribune
Mr. Reynolds
Denver
Greeley
Horace Greeley
Mr. Meeker
Reynolds
Elimra
N. Y
Tribune
Reform wave two cent rail fare mixed blessing in state
The piece argues a two cent a mile railroad fare, proven in Kansas, may not benefit Colorado. It cites editorials from Atchison Globe, warns against rapid reform, questions service vs. cost, and notes a six months surveying trip by George McAfee, Will McAnelly and Arthur Woods near Rock Springs, Wyoming.
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Colorado
Kansas
Atchison, Kan
Globe
Missouri Pacific
Central Branch
Seneca
Atchison
George McAfee
Will McAnelly
Arthur Woods
Rosk Springs
Wyo
Mead pool room operators jailed for disorderly house
Walter Hadley received six months and Charles Nicholas three months in the county jail for keeping a disorderly house at Mead. The men ran a pool room and sold beer and liquor with the business. The trial spanned two days with sixty witnesses. A motion for a new trial was overruled and sentence pronounced by County Judge Nixon.
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Walter Hadley
Charles Nicholas
Nixon
Mead
Hadley
Mountain of Starch at Greeley Factory
The Greeley starch factory stores 250000 pounds of potato starch in 1000 sacks awaiting shipment. The starch worth nearly 10000 represents 1300 tons of potatoes. Potatoes are arriving at 20 cents per sack as the starch campaign begins. Unmarketable stock is expected to swell to six times by spring, with demand strong though the company plans to hold until June or July when prices rise. Output this year is projected above 50000 dollars.
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Greeley
Greeley Company
Judge Grants Temp Injunction In Greeley Water Rights Case
Judge Garrigues last Monday issued a temporary injunction for Ralph Meeker W A Insinger J G Graham J W Ewing Robert Boyd Robert Steele H N Green A L Mumper H P Steele Benjamin Woodruff George Houston W Davidson and Decker Lee against the Greeley Irrigation company to block enforcement of a resolution challenging old water right deeds. The dispute stems from the companys plan to exchange old rights for ditch stock, with proposed back assessments of 132 per five acre right. The case awaits merits trial.
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Irigration Company
Union Colony
Colony Diten
No. 3
Ditcn
City of
Greeley
Greeley Irringtion Company
Wagon Load Miscalculation Causes Severe Injury
John Mullin, a farmer near Ault, misjudged a wagon load of potatoes by three inches. While driving from his dugout, his head struck the doorway top, the impact pinning him and breaking his breast bone and two ribs, tearing tissue along his spine. Flo fell from the wagon but crawled home and fainted. Mullin is expected to recover.
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John Mullin
Ault
Flo
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Gounod
Eichberg
Pri
Rob Roy
Ction
Verdi
Faust
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Tains
Whiteman
Carrie
Rosalie Euge
Burns
Presbyterian Church
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