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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
3
A LaGrange area tale describes Lady Jane the cat adopting two motherless turkeys after their hatching hen deserted the nest. The one year old feline cares for the chicks, carrying them gently and sharing a couch, while the turkeys stay in a basket at night. The ranch watchers follow the hopeful, peaceful household.
Fox & Baab cement contractors secured the contract for the basement of the new trust building to be erected by Mr. Camfield at the corner of Seventh street and Eighth avenue. The price is reported near $6000, about $1100 lower than the next bid. Roschlaub demands six weeks for the foundation, while Camfield aims to finish before fall, but previous hotel additions delays and a layoff of bricklayers slow progress as structural iron arrives with cranes to place the steel beams for the upper floors.
The Fort Lupton special notes the canning factory season will start about mid July. Superintendent O. E. Frink is overhauling machinery to ready it for work. Despite a late season due to hail repairs, crops are good and expected output remains near usual levels.
Stanley Hunter visits Denver for a few days and the state convention of the Christian Endeavor societies. He will travel with his sister Irene to Riverside California to live with their parents for the summer. Stanley is a Princeton University student and Irene attends Colorado College.
An old remedy touts relief for back pain urinary and bladder issues and kidney trouble claiming to ease female weakness inflammation and ulcerations. Sold by Dengyete or mailed from Le Roy New York at 60 cents with a sample offer.
The Women of Woodcraft Greeley Circle No 3 held their monthly social and biannual officer installation on Friday. New officers include Mrs Ed Rosling G N Mrs J C Coleman advisor Mrs Willus Thompson magician Mrs H H MeIadoo attendant Mrs Barbara Wood inner sentinel Lena Robinson outer sentinel T J Hell manager Joe Kidder captain of the guards and Miss Bessie Ling musician. A social period followed with refreshments.
The piece praises general superintendent Charles F. Honer for managing the promotion and operation of numerous chautauqua assemblies. It highlights his organizing and executive skills, his ability to guide crews and equipment across multiple states, and his knowledge of both principal attractions and individual workers’ schedules through the long season.
The forest service will establish look out stations at vantage points in western national forests to report fires by telephone. The system aims to speed detection and suppression, protecting millions of dollars in timber while facing staffing and vast area challenges.
Garth M. Conner, new Seely Lake resort owner, has added eight new boats, verandas on the pavilion, a bath house, updated restaurant, smoother dancing floor, and an evolving, comfortable resort. An orchestra plays nightly with affordable prices and no patron-harassment. Big events are planned tonight, tomorrow, and Monday as advertised in the Tribune.
Ault held a Thursday half holiday for a ball game between the first nine and a pickup nine. The well attended game drew considerable interest with the score 17 to 1 in favor of the first team.
Epworth League hosted a social at the parsonage Friday night and collected a notable sum. Guests entered after paying a penny per ten pounds of weight, with scales arranged at the door.
Mrs Cecil Phillips hosted two afternoons this week with the Thursday club led by Mrs Fred Griffith enjoying a lawn party. Mrs Rhodes won the bean bag prize as the Epworth League staged a Journey of the Nations by airship to Iceland Philippines and more, boosting league funds.
Sheriff Florance leaves Friday for a week in Glenwood Springs with a fish pole shotgun and rifle. He hopes to return with a mountain lion and a couple of bears and to have his name appear in the Outlook before Teddy.
The piece describes F. O. Olson becoming judge of a kangaroo court in jail after accumulating influence from prison schemes. Deputy Sheriff Peterson disciplines him with days in the hole, while Grindle serves as sheriff and fines are collected to buy fruit and cigars. A scheme of misappropriation is noted and Olson awaits release from solitary confinement.
Towns along the beet road expect Union Pacific to add mail and passenger service once the Salle-Firestone branch is finished. The line is seen as already under UP influence and locals believe UP built the road, suggesting improved service amid new opposition.
Thomas F. Farelly and William Acheson sue for dissolution of their real estate and second hand furniture business. Each party claims the other holds the books and denies access. Gault and Deitz represent Farelly. Ewing and Kelly defend.
80 acres of productive land near Jerome Idaho with irrigation water and orchard potential. Listed by R L Pence of Ault Colorado at 55.50 per acre this property offers good laying terrain suitable for farming or development.
A Washington trial shows a heavier-than-air machine lifting itself thrice, credited to J Newton Williams and Emile Berliner. News covers Caruso renewing a three year contract, the Denver NBA convention, Yale speech by Taft, and tariff tax debates with Senator Cummins push for income tax amid rail delinquency notices.
Little Alfred Tunnel Jr the son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Tunnel was brought home from Denver where he had been in a hospital for several weeks He suffered a severe attack of pneumonia with an abscess in his lungs and has undergone several operations His sister Ellen age 14 accompanied him to Denver and stayed with him during his illness there.
The adjudication of water priorities for Hostel Park favors owners Mr. Sanborn and Mr. Stanley. Referee Judge Bennett submitted findings to Judge Gargues who sent it back for a minor modification. The decision largely establishes the park’s priority as a precedent for other claimants.
Milton Glasscock of north of Kersey was brought in on Friday and placed under bonds to keep the peace. A similar chastisement followed a month of petty grievances over ditches and chickens among nearby neighbors.
The Western Redpath Chautauqua System brings chautauqua into many communities, eliminating the need for long trips abroad. It claims to solve the problem of providing chautauqua programs for the masses by delivering lectures and cultural events directly to local audiences.
County physician Dr Thompson added two more appendices to a growing collection, one of which belonged to a Mexican from Platteville who arrived Friday in a serious condition. Luther Lee of Eaton donated the other after months of suffering.
Licenses are recorded for W. E. Miller and Miss Cecil Wilson of Waton W. C. Davis of Cleveland Ohio and Katherine Graham of Greeley Jesse L. Lucas and Nettie Leake of Greeley Frank A. Stender and Edna J. Hand of Eaton Gilbert C. Hodgell and Iona Brainard of Greeley Don Juan McCarin of Otero Colorado and Nina E. Ramey of Greeley Marian E. Skaggs of Minneapolis and Nora L. Maupin of Perry Missouri.
Seventy five Ber ean youths attended a strawberry social at C. L. Brainard’s home Tuesday evening. The lawn was decorated with Japanese lanterns and games were played as a nice sum was realized toward the church pledge.
The city welcomes a new boy to Marvin Calkins on Tenth street and a sister or brother to Theo Tamm four miles southwest, as Greeley’s growing population continues to rise and draw favorable comparisons to Roosevelt era trends.
The article reports a Fourth of July mishap in Eaton Special where a prominent family’s young daughter suffered severe facial and hand burns after several firecrackers exploded in her hand. An older person attempted to wash her face with cold water, causing intense pain and a badly swollen, disfigured face.
Miss Lillian Mueller arrives from Tarkio Missouri to join the community’s chautauqua program. She plans voice study at United Presbyterian Church mornings this week and to give a recital at a Leyley church in the near future.
J F McCrery was taken to the operating table last Wednesday for appendix removal. The surgeon confirmed appendicitis and said the operation was timely as the organ was ready to burst and ulcerate. He is expected to be confined for about ten days.
Howard, master mechanic at the sugar factory, received a severe gash to the forehead when a monkey wrench fell from above on Monday. The wound required stitching and medical attention.
State of Colorado Weld County District Court No 2142 orders publication in the matter of adjudication of priorities of water rights in Irrigation District No 1. The People of Colorado notify all water owners and users along the South Platte River and its drainages to take note of the 1909 court order on record.
Official notice appoints Christian A. Bennett as referee for adjudicating water rights in Water District No. 1 Colorado. Hearings set in Kiowa Byers Fort Morgan Greeley for claimants to ditch canal pipe line and reservoir rights, with statements of claim due under oath. Last publication July 28, 1909.
A proposed ordinance authorizes The Greeley Terminal Railway Company to construct and operate a railroad across specified streets avenues and alleys in Greeley Colorado from the south to northwest city limits. It details construction at grade crossovers required sidewalks and graveling repairs and involvement with utilities and city services. The measure cites conditions for crosses including irrigation ditches water pipes sewers hydrants electrics and city approvals.
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