Olive Branch district farms thrive under Fowlers leadership
Olive Branch district gains fame for prosperous farms as J.H. Fowler, original settler, develops a stock and grain country. The area features beets, wheat, potatoes, corn and alfalfa with irrigation improvements and a growing herd of Poland China hogs. Nearby tenants and owners push modern farming across twenty to hundred acre tracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell
W. Shannon
N King
Shannon
P. W. Johnson
Johnson
L. Kilstrup
Ault
Scotts’ Bluff
W. J. Gillmore
Allam
Gibosn Las
Eddy F. ' Collins
Giveson
Clark & Davis Ranch
Johnson and Davis
A. L. Davis
Jesse Smith
Philadelphia
W. W. Lstrown
M. L. King
G. White
B. W. Lacey
Place East
C. B. van Dyne
Mr. Lacey
Andrew J. Eaton
Wyatt Bros
Mr. Eaton
Corral
Ole Blystoune
R.S. Dunlap
Wyatt
Mr. Blystone
Mr. Dunlap
W. L. Murray
A. H. Myers
Murray
D. Higgins
R. M. Hutchinson
Eaton
J. M. Washington
Farr
Raton
J. D. Ashby
W. O. Cozad
R. T. Mainey
J. H. Fowler
Olive Branch Farm
Wyall
Olive Branch
Mer
Furl
Fowler
Poland
China
Remedies for Cut Worms From State College Bulletin
The State Agricultural College weekly bulletin notes cutworm damage in spring and summer. It describes caterpillar behavior and how to protect cabbage tomato and corn plants with paper collars, arsenic bran mash, or poisoned alfalfa applied before planting and during field work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Agricultural College
Arthur Johnson
Entomology Garden Study Notes Worm Mortality
A Colorado Agricultural College entomology garden note describes using a method to collect worms from under plant bunches. The report states eighty four percent of the worms died from the poison in the experiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Agricultural College
Boys Host Four Course Feast For Latin Class Guests
Two senior Latin class boys Charles Candlin and Charles Poe invited eight girls and teacher Miss Gertrude Norris to a home dinner. The boys, in charge of kitchen and cooking, served a four course spread with hot biscuits and other dishes, surprising the guests who had doubted their culinary skills. Assisted by Fannie Candlin Lillian Newton and Lucia Potter the girls enjoyed the feast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Candlin
Charles Poe
Gertrude Norris
Fannie Candlin
Lillian Newton
Lucia Potter
Gretrude Norris
Hattie Yardley
June Steck
Carrie Snook
Myrtle Koch
Willetta Veldran
Esther Marsh
Myrtella Gibson
Hazel Godfrey
Cleanup day planned for Greeley residents
Street Supervisor Milton Seaman urges a townwide cleanup to rake streets alleys and back yards with the city covering rubbish hauling costs. He cites illegal dumping in yards and streets and says the ordinance will be enforced with prosecutions for violators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Seaman
Greeley
Seaman
Gold Excitement Slows Weld County Irrigation Plans
Reports from Semper near the Colorado line claim $3,000,000 in bonds by August Nersheimer Joseph Standley and Milton Smith to fund a Broomfield reservoir and irrigation network in eastern Weld county. Landholders own about 25,000 acres and condemnations have begun for the reservoir site amid contested gold rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Semper
Jefferson County
Weld County
August Nersheimer
Joseph Standley
Milton Smith
Wave
Big Broomfield
Fort Lupton
Brighton
Erie
Union Pacific
Burlington
Hudson, Keene
Roggen
Kangaroo Court at County Jail Keeps Cleanliness in Check
Prisoners at the county jail form a self styled law and order league with a kangaroo court to enforce jail hygiene. When new inmates resist, a committee offers a bath followed by a scrubbing. Sheriff Florance notes no vermin in months due to inmate led cleanliness efforts.
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Little Colony
Willie
Kangaroo Court
Florance
Big Canal Contract Near Rock Springs Wyoming
D A Camfield seeks a $200000 irrigation project north of Rock Springs for 35000 acres under the Carey act. A 30 mile ditch will take water from the Big Sandy river and tributaries to a reservoir with 2 000 000 000 cubic feet capacity. Completion target is December 1.
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D. A. Camfield
Rock Springs
Wyo
Big Sandy
Start Work at Once on Montezuma Irrigation System
L L Stimson and assistant engineers left Sunday for the Montezuma valley to begin the Camfield irrigation project totaling nearly 800000 dollars. The plan covers about 125 miles of main ditches and two large storage reservoirs serving Cortez and surrounding fruit lands in Montezuma County, a town of about 500 people twelve miles from the railroad.
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L. L. Stimson
Montezuma Valley
D. A. Camfield
Mr. Camfield
Cortez
Montezuma County
Back From India Mrs Sharp Returns Home With Daughters
Mrs. W A S Sharp daughter of W B Woolley Eaton returned from Burmah India last Sunday with her three daughters. Wife of a Baptist minister at a Baptist college in India, she plans to stay to enroll her children in American schools while expecting her husband to join them in a couple of years.
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W. A. S. Sharp
W. B. Woolley
Eaton
Burmah
India
Sharp
Orient
No is not always final as bride joins Montana suitor
Clifford Weare of Noxom Montana proves a woman's no may not end a relation. Miss Ethel Baxter a Noxom schoolteacher once hid from him in Greeley but relented and married him after a brief visit, leaving the city for Noxom with a hopeful bridegroom.
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Clifford Weare
Noxom
Mont
Ethel Baxter
Weare
Greeley
Miss Baxter
Williams
Cupid
Montana
Tree Planting at Dawn by the Senior Class
The senior class of the high school planned a tree planting on Arbor Day followed by a country picnic. The event was postponed but finally held at daybreak last Friday on the campus with a class breakfast at Miss Sadie Miller’s home. The twenty three students, described as healthy and original, preferred a dawn breakfast to parties after their early ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma! High School
Alice McClintock
Stella McClenahan
Catherine Graham
Alice Gates
James Carpenter
R. W. Bullock
Stella Gore
Jeanne Dick
Louis Bradfield
Janet Reid
Frances Toby
G. R. Miller
Marshal Pancoast
Z. X. Snyder
Achsa Parker
Sadie Miller
Windsor men organize to manufacture Yankee Beet Topper
A Windsor company forms to produce the Yankee Beet Topper invented by Blevins and Giddings. Capitalized at 820,000, the group includes D. T. Blevins J. M. Dobbs Adam Hahn W. T. Porter George Kern Ferguson Morrow Supply Co and J. J. Downey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
Blevins & Giddings
D. T. Blevins
J. M. Dobbs
Adam Hahn
W. T. Porter
George Kern
Ferguson- Morrow Supply Company
J. J. Downey
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ULT Rural
S. Arthur Johnson
Agricultural College
Denver
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