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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1896
Page
8
Fifty pieces of Brussels and Ingrain Carpets offered at once to make room for a large consignment of Ladies Girls and Children's Cloaks Jackets and Capes. Carpets reduced to sell now with prices 15c yard for Ingrain 35c yard for all wool 47c yard for extra super 45c yard for three ply. Smyrna Rugs also half price.
Weld County stores push dress goods sale with large stock of carpets and fabrics. English Cashmere 36 inches wide offered at 15 cents per yard, mixtures down to 19 cents, Broadhead 36 inches from 50 cents to 29 cents, Scotch mixtures at 58 cents, 50 inch Storm Serge reduced to 47 cents, imported Storm Serge from 1.00 to 62 1/4 cents. Everything else in proportion.
A collage of lodge meeting schedules, church society notes, and local visits spans Windsor. Listings cover Masons and Odd Fellows gatherings at Cloud's Hall and Masonic hall, Eastern Star events, Rebekah lodge dates, and ladies aid society meetings. Short social items mention residents visiting Greeley and Denver, plus routine school and infant health notes.
R C W Lovejoy physician and surgeon opens office in former Weller residence in New Windsor and will respond to calls at all hours. Visitors register at Hotel de Harris in Denver and Fort Collins. numerous social calls, travel to Fort Collins, and interviews with photographers noted. Chautauqua Circle elects officers. study focuses on French and Greek. Ayer hair vigor testimonial appears and a wrinkle removal treatment advertised with a contact in Denver.
A Windsor local verse presents Clinton Scollard's meditation on fate and the autumn rain. The speaker desires acceptance of earthly loss and seeks relief from a heart untouched by pain or joy, reflecting on memory and sea imagery in a reflective mood.
BORN CROUTER in Greeley on Saturday Sept 26 1896 to Mr and Mrs C W Crouter a fourth son. DIED WALLACE at Provo Utah Sunday Sept 27 1896 of general debility Johanna wife of Charles Wallace aged 45 years. Mrs Wallace died while seeking healthier climate and altitude. funeral 2 PM at Presbyterian church with Rev Jno G Reid. interment Linn Grove. BARCLAY at Longmont Sunday Sept 27 1896 of general debility Dr J B Barclay aged 79 years. early Greeley settler and physician later prospered in farm property and stocks. Funeral from his residence Tuesday escorted by relatives including W R Norcross and A M Henderson.
In a Sept 26 1896 letter from Prom the Cloud City the writer describes Guard duty around the Coronado Hotel Vendome and Leadville mine camps. He gives details on troops Gatling guns Napoleons cavalry and tents with about fifteen hundred men. He notes miners from Missouri arriving and tensions with local civilians and vows regimental readiness for possible trouble. He signs as W. E. Woopsury, D company first regiment Leadville.
Eaton reports H. C. Hill moved to St Luke's Denver hospital after an illness. Cushman sells brick residence and rents Lewis house. Typhoid cases improving. Farming notes and social visits fill Sept. Fort Lupton records a baby's burial and family movements. Erie and Berthoud news cover deaths, weddings, school progress, and local events.
A Greeley resident recounts a Geneseo shoemaker refusing a worn dime and a local merchant declining a nickel due to a hole. Saturday Marshal Camp received orders to forward all Co. D members home, and Sunday four young men—Albert Reinks George Robinson Charles BE Neff and W. M. Garrison—left for camp.
W Pabor of Pabor Lake Mia arrives in Greeley to visit old friends before heading to Denver for the Mountain and Plain festival. L L Clapp plans to return to Lorain Ohio next week after a two week visit with his aunt Mrs Shane. A Republican farmer in Ohio shifts to Bryan on debt fears amid hard times. Misa Bishop millinery reception draws crowds with hats fur capes and elegant jackets aided by Miss Jones and Misses Winnie Wright Edna Clark Zephyr Murray.
Notice dated September 30 1896 states that on October 30 1896 at 2 PM a deed of trust sale will occur for the last half of lot two in block seventy four in Greeley Weld County Colorado. Trustee Charles H Wheeler claims no interest since 1893 and B D Sanborn marks publication in the Greeley Tribune.
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