Graduation Week Activities At Greeley Normal School
One thousand five hundred fifty graduates are noted as the class this year at the Colorado State Normal School in Greeley. Events include a baccalaureate sermon by Rev. W A Philips at the Opera House, fete day, Milton festival, alumni meeting, and a grand promenade. Dr A E Winehip to deliver commencement address. The school unveils a new $100000 practice building with labs and museums and athletic facilities. Summer term starts June 22 with an expected enrollment of 600. Dr Snyder returns east to plan the new training school building and improved methods for training teachers.
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Greety Opera House
W. A. Philips
D. D
State Normal School Alumni Association
Normal
Greeley Opera House
A. E. Winehip
New England Journal of Education
Colorado State Normal School
Denver
Ummer
N. BE. A
Snyder
Concrete Bridge Opens On Eleventh Avenue
The new ten thousand dollar bridge on north Eleventh avenue near Mr Clayton's farm was completed Wednesday. Approaches are being paved and the bridge will open to the public tomorrow. The Denver contractor has been paid about half the contract price with the remainder tied up in a suit against the commissioners.
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North Eleventh Avenue
Clayton
Farn
Waa
Denver
Ninth Street
Fourteenth Avénue
Steele
Ninth Avenue
Emall
Chicago
Bbe
Starkey
S. W. Bullard
North Park
Bullard
Kinsella & Browne
Forrest Park
Municipal Eystem
Dr. Mead
San Antonio
Tex
Coney Ryon Ault Wedding Sparks Local Interest
Miss Adah Coney, long time Ault teacher from Michigan and niece of W. Tyler, wed Lynne Ryon in Fort Collins under a quiet ceremony staged by a Methodist minister. The groom, dry goods head at Campbell's, has a sister in Ault, Mrs. H. W. Kirby. The couple plans to begin housekeeping in Ault.
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Adah Coney Ryan
Ault
Michigan
W. Tyler
Campbell's
H. W. Kirby
Burglars Hit Ault Hardware and Wheatland Firm
Burglars stole a large haul from Tyler and Sprinkle Hardware in Ault on Saturday night and also roamed Wheatland Milling and Elevator, taking a $25 tarpaulin used to cover grain sacks. The Wheatland office suffered a minor prior burglary. The night watchman may resign amid ongoing break ins.
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Tyler & Sprinkle Hardware Company
Ault
Wheatland Milling & Elevator Company
Tomst
Cheyenne man vows vengeance after speed case
Burke fined five dollars and costs for speeding on a motorcycle. W B Barnett paid sixteen dollars and costs for endangering lives of Greeley citizens after his gas wagon toppled over Normal hill. He vowed to spread news of the incident to Denver and Cheyenne papers and said he would avoid Greeley in the future.
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Burke
Tribune
W. B Barnett
Greeley
Normal Hill
Sal
Cheyenne Automobile Club
Powers-Klingenburg Wedding in Windsor at Trinity Church
Mina Hettie Powers and Ford Klingenburg wed at Trinity Episcopal church in Greeley with only the bride and groom’s parents present. The couple return to Windsor to reside. Klingenburg is Windsor sugar factory superintendent and Powers is a popular local woman.
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Mina Hettie Powers
Windsor
Ford Klingenburg
Greeley
Trinity Episcopal Church
Bonell
W. F. Powers
Miss Leota
Greeley High School
Rural Route 6 Gets Praise From New Patrons
The new No. 6 rural route began service Saturday and is praised by all patrons. It crosses Boyd's bridge runs past Ann Decker's place follows the river road past Farmers then goes south over the bluffs.
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Boyd
Ann Decker
City Council Debates July Fourth Ban And Budgets
A busy council session approves a strict Fourth of July ban on firearms and fireworks while discussing pay raises, street work, water mains, sewers, and city finances. Aldermen plan a special Friday meeting to finish long‑standing items including fire apparatus and budgeting reforms.
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Johnnie Bull
Bille
Life
T. R. O'Neil
W. L. Clayton
Clayton
First Street
West Seventh Street
Cameron
Klein
Thirteenth Street
Aan
Longmont Oil and Gas Co Incorporation Reported
OM Company Incorporated The Longmont Oil and Gas Co formed on Thursday as an eastern syndicate now drilling for oil and gas from Boulder to Platteville. R A Duncan of Denver leads the work and is an uncle of County Clerk A J Luther.
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OM Company
Longmont Oil & Gas Co
Boulder
Platteville
R. A. Duncan
Denver
Duncan
A. J. Luther
L N W Plans Right of Way into Greeley Condemnation
Denver Laramie and Northwestern Railway began condemnation actions Tuesday against about thirty five landowners and firms to secure a right of way into Greeley along Seventh Avenue and near the Exchange hotel. The project includes land from Gilcrest Lumber to Clayton Lumber, with costs totaling over one hundred thousand dollars. Also recounted is a boarding-house debt case in Evans where a sheriff car and costs reached fifty five dollars after a dispute over a board bill.
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Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Railway
Greeley
W. R. Adams
Laramie
Union Pacific
Seventeenth Street
Seventh Avenue
Eleventh Street
Gilcrest
Wld
Exchange Hotel
Smith Planing
Seventh Street
Clayton Lumber Yard
Barnum House
An Co
Gilcrest Lumber Company
Clayton Lumber Company
George Speer
A. M. McClenahan
FB. A. Hilton
Rozene Meeker
A. S. Eaton
Mr. Dowald
Twelfth Street
A. Camp
Neill Lumber Co
Dave Lofgren
John C. Mosher
William Ecker
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Streets
Dexiging the Poll Tax Debate in City Council
City council discussed poll tax collection with three fifths evading the levy. The street supervisor favors cash over work, while the plan seeks at least 3000 dollars for the street fund from 1000 liable men aged 21 to 50, excluding firemen, with work credit required.
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Greeley
Fire Department
Seaman
Will Buy Old Home in LaGrange District
A. R. English traveled Tuesday to Beloit Wisconsin to purchase his boyhood home. He left the LaGrange area twenty five years ago as a young man and has since become a prosperous farmer with a wife three sons and a daughter. He aims to redeem the old place and keep it in the family.
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A. R. English
Beloit
Wis
Mr. English
LaGrange
Rental dispute settled in Platteville court
In a county court trial lasting two days, a jury awarded Mrs. Alice Hoffman 375 dollars in a land lord and tenant case against Nick Beskas of Platteville. Beskas paid 200 dollars on two farms and faced eviction within 48 hours after the verdict.
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Hofman
Nick
Erie Teacher Arrested Over Indecent Liberties Case
Arthur J. Butcher, a high school teacher in Erie, was arrested on a statutory charge after rumors of mistreatment of 14 year old Elizabeth Summerwell emerged. He admitted indecent liberties but denied guilt, and was moved to Denver for safety before being returned to Greeley for formal processing.
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Elizabeth Summerwell
Arthur J. Butcher
Erie
Denver
Humane Society
Butcher
Humane
A. E. Ransom
Greeley
Tribune
City Water Safe Despite Jump in Bacteria
Professor Beardsley reports city water shows a rise from 83 to 1600 colonies in one day but sees no cause for alarm. He explains that germs from filtration are dangerous, while rainstorm carried germs to air pose no contamination. A roofed storage basin could prevent contamination.
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Beardsley
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Powers-Klingenburg
Sane
Council
Arthur Butcher
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