New Union Pacific Branch Lines Reach Crow Creek Area
The Union Pacific starts a fifteen mile extension from the Crow Creek branch, costing about a quarter million dollars. Three north-going branches will bring 150000 acres within five miles of a railroad, boosting potato farming in Crow Creek. R W McKee leads the surveying team near Gill, with plans to connect Gill to Pierce and Briggsdale via future lines.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company
Pleasant Valley
Crow Creek
Colorado
R. W. McKee
Greeley
Gill
Pierce
Briggsdale
Camfield
Crow Creek District
Grover Center region opened to 320 acre homestead filings
Government designates 23 northeast county townships for half section homestead. farmers without proof up may add a quarter section contiguously. Territory spans from Chalk Bluffs east to Jackson Lake vicinity, running north along the Greeley Poudre irrigation project to near Nunn, excluding Pawnee Buttes country.
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Grover
Chalk Bluffs
Jackson Lake
Greeley
New Homestead District
Greeley-Poudre
Nunn
Pawnee Buttes
You Can't Trust Them Stampede Hits LaSalle Meat Market
An ancient family driving horse stampedes through LaSalle at about 10 o clock colliding with Dave Stewart's meat market. The buggy and harness were demolished. horse escaped twice after capture attempts. Mrs Woosley had driven the horse into town but was not in the buggy. The Woosleys reside on Capt Hansbury place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaSalle
Dave Stewart
Woosley
Woosleys
Hansbury Place
Foley's Honey and Tar Cough Remedy Certification
A vintage medical ad claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds with no opiates. It touts lung healing, pneumonia prevention, and consumption protection, noting the genuine product comes in a yellow package and refunds are guaranteed by pharmacists.
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Foley
Delta Psi Banquet Celebrates Brotherhood at Camfield Hotel
The Delta Psi fraternity held its sixth annual banquet at Camfield Hotel on Saturday. About twenty couples dined as Dee M Hibner, toast master, introduced toasts from George Young Fay Brainard Jesse Beathe Emmett Varvel Orlo Hall and Will Chambers. Faculty and alumni including W G Chambers G R Miller Fay Brainard Truby Cameron Garry Roddy Earl Beardsley and William McKelvie attended. The event strengthened fraternity ties and friendship.
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Delta Psi
Delta Psi Fraternity
Camfield
Dee M. Hibner
George Young
Fay E. Brainard
Jesse F. Beathe
Emmett Varvel
Orlo B. Hall
Garry Roddy
Will Grant Chambers
G. R. Miller
W. G. Chambers
G. R Miller
J. Truby Cameron
Earl P. Beardsley
William R. McKelvie
Big Farm in Peas at Evans Special
The Old Colony farm west of town has 150 acres of peas sown with two drills in use. Sampson Packing Company leased the farm and the peas will be canned at the Greeley factory. Late season delays have affected pea sowing as with other crops.
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Evans
Old Colony
Sampson Packing Company
Greeley
1G Warehouse for a Supply Co
Thompson and Condon form a 56000 corporation to supply the North Sterling and Greeley Poudre irrigation projects. They secure a large Sterling warehouse and have shipped ten carloads. Jackson of Fort Collins will run the Sterling warehouse as operations begin this week. The two irrigation projects total about nine million dollars with contractors receiving about six million. two thirds of that sum will be for supplies handled by the commissary company.
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Messrs. Thompson and Condon
North Sterling
Greeley-Poudre
Sterling
Jackson
Fort Collins
Commissary
Unity Club Lecture on The Evolution of Electric Lighting
Prof Charles A Lory of Fort Collins lectured to the Unity club in Unity church parlor on the evolution of electric lighting. He traced early uses from 1862 to general adoption around 1880, highlighting rapid progress in this expanding science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. Lory
Fort Collins
Unity Club
Unity Church
Frances Sarah Brunson Dies After Cancer Brightened By Time
Frances Sarah Brunson wife of W M Brunson died at her home on Tenth Street from cancer of the face. Born in Bowling Green Kentucky sixty years ago she lived in Wind sor for four years and in Greeley for two months. She is survived by her husband and one son M B Calkins. Funeral will be at the house Tuesday at 2 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Sarah Brunson
W. M. Brunson
Tenth Street
Mrs. Brunson
Bowling Green
Windsor
Greeley
M. B. Calkins
THOUSAND HEAD CATTLE ON GRASS
Senator Clay ton will move about 1000 cattle to John Klug’s pasture to graze on thousands of acres. The herd, slowed by a hard winter, is in fair condition and will be market ready by mid June, a month earlier than Texas grassers, as beef prices rise.
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Clayton
John Klug
Texas
Pleasant Social in Honor of Miss May Scott
A Pleasant Social given by Miss Abbie Day for Miss May Scott who departs this week for Denver. The guest list included members of the hostess Sunday school class and the Why Not club. The young ladies enjoyed games and light refreshments in a warm social gathering.
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Abbie Day
May Scott
Denver
Miss Scott
Cabbage Cultivation Notes From Colorado Station
Cabbage thrives in cool moist loam and needs heavy manuring. Planting times vary. early crop sown in March, late crop in April with multiple sowings. Flea beetle poses major risk. protect seedlings in frames under thin muslin. Irrigation crucial. avoid waterlogging. Black rot occasional. crop rotation advised. Cost about 33 dollars per acre. average price 45 cents per hundred pounds. Pub by Colorado Agricultural College Fort Collins.
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W. Paddock
Colorado Agricultural College
Fort Collins
A Jolly Girl Party Honors Elsie McCobb and Rebekah Mason
A group of friends entertained Monday evening with games and a supper after attending a Bisom theater program. Hostess Miss Elsie McCobb and Miss Rebekah Mason hosted at her home, with guests including Gertrude Ernest Clelia Carepenter Inez Nesbit Edith Hutchinson Amy Hokangson and Mrs. A G Wagner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie McCobb
Rebekah Mason
Demorest
Bisom Theater
Amy Hokangson
A. G. Wagner
The Reverend Eugene Williams Receives Community Praise
The Rev Eugene Williams filled the Baptist pulpit last Sunday and was praised by the audience for sermons on good citizenship from a youth perspective. Judge Bradfield and Victor Keyes are slated to speak soon on similar themes, with Ben Florance expected to deliver remarks as well.
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Eugene Williams
The
Baptist Church
Judge Bradfield
Victor Keyes
Ben Florance
Sandstorm wreaks havoc in Beebe Draw area
A three hour Wednesday sandstorm in Beebe Draw toppled hayracks and shanties, blew over Arthur Wright’s claim shed, swept away the Baptist church coal house, sanded gardens, and left air thick with dust obscuring the landscape.
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Beebe Draw
Arthur Wright
State Board Seeks County Assessor Meeting Over Allocations
The state board of equalization urged county assessors to meet May 24 at the Capitol to discuss raising valuations to fund fourth and fifth class appropriations and state institutions. Governor Shafroth aims to secure 4 mill assessments to cover shortages, warning current valuations threaten university, normal schools, and mines funding. Weld County appraisers near completion, reducing local valuation pressure.
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Educational Institution
State Board of Equalization
House of Representatives
Capitol
Shafroth
Seventeenth General Assembly
State University
State Normal School
Greeley
State Agricultural College
Fort Collins
Deaf and Blind School
Colorado Springs
Gunnison
School of Mines
Weld
Beebe Draw Creamery Expands Daily Operations
The skim station at Beebe Draw now runs daily with Ed French in charge. In winter it opens on alternate days. About 600 pounds of cream are shipped to Denver daily for butter fat valued at 32 cents per pound. The Draw creamery serves twenty nine patrons and is a branch of the Littleton creamery.
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Beebe Draw
Ed French
Denver
Draw
Beebe
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
Biliousness and constipation plagued Rosa Potts of Birmingham Alin until she used Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. The remedy eased her ill feeling, boosted digestion, and purifying the stomach liver and blood. Sold by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Rosa Potts
Birmingham
Alin
All Drug
The Beautiful Queen Esther at the Opera House
The cantata Esther the beautiful Queen will be performed in full costume with action at the Opera House on Friday evening May 14. City school students plan the concert to raise funds and clear debt for their Day Tickets now on sale.
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Esther the Beautiful Queen
Opera House
Experimental Spud Farm Opens Near Greeley
A college will plant 100 potato varieties on ten acres near Greeley under Prof. Bennett with Mayor Houston’s lease. Other stations will be set at Palmer Lake Carbondale Montrose Middle Park and the San Luis valley. An $10000 state appropriation funds the potato program and $1000 will prove feed value on hogs sheep and cattle.
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Prof. Bennett
The
Agricultural College
Greeley
Houston
West City
Mr. Houston
Germany
Scotland
Ireland
England
Palmer Lake
Russell Gates
Carbondale
Montrose
Middle Park
San Luis Valley
Narrow Escape From Deadly Gas Atul Special
Andy Redd of Ault nearly died from gas while working at the bottom of a well on the J. Jones place in Pairplay district. He signalled for a bucket but grew weak and fell from the bucket several times until the air was fanned and he could be hauled to the surface. The well had reached about 65 feet with coal and gas found, but little water. The land was bought from Co. H. Webber and Jones built a new house on the property.
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Andy Redd
Ault
Jones
Co. H. Webber
Two Vacancies in the Hot Air Club
Jackman Baxter left for a summer camp in the foothills to tend a garden and bring food from the Poudre. Thomas Briggs fears Baxter is delayed and searches while Briggs plans summer prospecting. Two seats are vacant in the hot air club and applications are invited to Richard Patterson, Miilen Seaman or M. H. Morgan.
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Jackman Baxter
Thomas Briggs
Baxter
Mr. Briggs
Richard Patterson
Miilen Seaman
M. H. Morgan
Severance Sees Growth With New Camp and Dining Venture
Denver Laramie and Northwest surveyors establish a camp at Severance as population rises and new businesses appear. A Nebraska born manager, John Fruit, opens another restaurant while D C Page, the town justice of the peace, moves in and plans to devote more time to official duties in the Franklin addition.
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Severance
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern
Nebraska
John Fruit
D. C. Page
Franklin Addition
Weld County Fair dates set in local notice
The Weld County Fair association held a meeting to plan preparations. A fair will begin Wednesday September 1 and run through Saturday with a three day harness meet and three events daily.
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Weld County Fair
Weld
Does'r Fair Association
Deak
Rich D. Kelley
Greece
Rexall Constipation Remedy Promises Free Medicine Offer
An advertisement claims Rexall Oree relieves constipation with a promise of free medicine if not benefitted. Pills are described as pleasant to take, chewable like candy, safe any time day or night, with sizes 1c and 25. H Reyno Co The Rexall Store.
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Reyno Co
Pexall
Por Sale 86 acres near Windsor with sugar factory
sale listing offers 86 acres quarter near Windsor including a sugar factory, a dwelling, a barn, 16 acres in cultivation, 4 600 dollars price, 160 acres of No 1 beet land adjoining Orchard town, alfalfa, beets, potatoes, good improvements, No 1 water right per acre. Byron Newton & Co advertise and claim 80 acres cree m.
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Windsor
Orchard
Byron Newton
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I Irrigation
Grover Center Homestead Land
Senator Clayton
Walter G. Sackett
L. G. Carpenter
Colo
A. c
Bennett
Jackman Waxter and
Thomas
Ederheimer Stein Clothes
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