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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1904
Page
3
Contest in Weld County offers a Greeley based winner and an outside winner both selected by credits. Subscriptions votes and ads earn credits, with one year subscriptions granting 500 votes and coupons from Tribune sheets adding five votes each.
The S L W Ranch in northern Colorado showcases a grand farming operation dominating 13 651 8 acres with 7 150 deeded to the company and a large home ranch of 4 130 8 acres. Manager H E Witwer resides in a modern tearoom house with extensive amenities while the big barn and corrals demonstrate efficient stock housing for premium beef production amid western ranching history.
Windsor experiences a building boom after the sugar factory's first season. Two two story brick blocks rise on main street, a bowling alley and barber shop and a furniture store to share frontage. Roy Ray plans a new office building near the mill. Ferguson Morrow Supply buys F N Briggs mercantile, Harry Kawin opens a dry goods and clothing store in the Alamo hotel building.
The Tribune details a contest to send at least two ladies to the St. Louis World's Fair next summer. It explains credits from subscribers and new supporters drive standings, with travel paid from Greeley. Winners receive railroad and Pullman fare, round trip, and $3 daily for fourteen days.
The old Greeley Driving Club moved quickly after the city council granted permission to use Island Grove park for a speedway and baseball grounds. Surveyors laid out a half mile track while a meeting reorganized the club with M. H. Morgan as president, W. R. Patterson as secretary, and George Van Sickle as treasurer. The group renamed itself The Island Park Driving Club and Baseball Association.
H B Kooser and W Bradford of Missouri Pacific in Greeley said a governor's special for the World's Fair will depart Denver April 22. The consist includes baggage car, day coach, diner, two sleepers, rear coach sleeper observation, described as the finest special yet run on any road in America.
James Stanton and his son James H. of Platteville were in Greeley Saturday for business, confirming local ties and commercial activity in the area.
The dispute between Poudre valley reservoir companies and Fort Morgan ditch firms intensified when Fort Collins Superintendent V. L. Armstrong received orders to shut headgates. A Larimer County court restraining order followed, while Fossil Creek also sought relief. Hearings were set for Fort Collins, with past claims centering on direct irrigation needs and storage concerns along the Platte.
The Second Battalion, Second Infantry, U S A stationed at Fort Russell Cheyenne camped north of town Saturday night then marched through Greeley Sunday morning toward Denver. Four companies under Captain Preston Brown completed a practice foot march from Fort Russell to Fort Logan to limber up the troops.
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