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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
2
City officials announce federal plans to select a site for a new U S post office, inviting local business leaders to submit recommendations and highlighting anticipated benefits for downtown commerce and mail service.
United States attorneys act as treasurers for a fund to acquire the Greeley post office site. Subscriptions must be paid by June 1, signaling readiness to proceed with the $75,000 federal building project once the site is unencumbered. The Acting Treasurer’s letter urges prompt cash availability.
Frank M. Holmes a farmer's son near Johnstown Weld county was sentenced to five months in jail by Judge Lewis in federal court Thursday for opening a registered letter not his own and stealing $120 sent to another Frank Holmes in Searchlight Nevada. The money was taken after he received the letter by mistake and a confectionery clerk who he jilted reported him.
An old ad offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and endorsements from Walding Kinnan & Marvin, plus a note on internal sale and testimonials.
Mrs Rebecca Jane Dice died this morning after a four year illness with tuberculosis. She was thirty years old and had come to Colorado in the hope of benefiting her health. The remains will be sent to the old home in Enin Valley, Penn.
Mrs. Robert Comer leaves Greeley to visit her girlhood home in England after 30 years. She sails from Montreal on the Teutonic May 29 and will spend summer with relatives in Shropshire and nearby. Her daughter Miss Gladys accompanies her on return and has spent the year in her uncle's home studying music. Mrs. Comer went to England nine years ago for King Edward's coronation.
An advertisement extols Chamberlains Tablets as a rational cure for indigestion. They boost bile flow purify the blood strengthen the stomach and prime the digestive system for natural action. For sale by all dealers.
Adolph Moreland and Fred Hein two Russian boys were brought into police court and turned over to County Judge G H Bradfield. Roy Graham, an electrician, left the new meter at the back of the Greeley Auto company shop and found it missing on return. They had taken the meter and destroyed it for brass pieces sold to a second hand man for two cents.
The Weld County Medical Society holds its annual meeting on Wednesday May 17 with sessions at city hall at 4 pm and a banquet at the Camfield hotel starting at 7 pm. Officers include Dr. B Woodcock president Dr W E Thompson vice president Dr D W Reed secretary treasurer. Notable speakers and toasts by E I Raymond and Will H Swan among others with remarks from Rev R A Chase and Sen W L Clayton.
Advert sees this medicine as a premier flesh repair remedy for cuts wounds burns sprains scalds and rheumatism. It lists 25c 50c and 1.00 bottles and notes sale by Carson W. Gilbert.
A Sunday baseball clash in Windsor pits the Northsiders against the Southsiders, teams of clerks from Main street, to decide which side has the better group. First pitch is at 2 o'clock.
A Swedish boy born abroad but raised in the United States traveled alone from Sweden to rejoin his father near Ault, Colorado. After detours from New York to La Salle, a Greeley physician and Swedish minister aided the youngster who wore a placard with his name and destination until reunification with his father. The boy, who had been sent to Sweden after his mother’s death, faced immigration detainment but continued westward to Weld County where he was hailed as a promising new citizen.
More than twenty motorcycle racers passed through the city on an endurance run from Denver under the Denver Post auspices. The first rider reached 11:64 and registered with Paul Arbuckle, time keeper for Greeley. By noon all had passed through and began the last lap amid a large crowd on Ninth Street. Two minor accidents occurred with rider injuries minimal.
The Gilbert Drug store in the Sterling building opened to the public on Wednesday with a formal inauguration to come later. Dark Mission finishings and cream walls create an attractive interior with a fealess fountain, onyx counter, and mother of pearl light shades. Built in wall show cases from Century Fixture of Denver. Leather upholstered booths and Mission tables, a complete prescription room, and three entrances including a hotel lobby access mark the new outlet, the third Gilbert Brothers store in Greeley.
Sick headache results from a disordered stomach and can be cured by use of Chamberlain's Stomach and Saver Tablets. Try it. For sale by all dealers.
The thirty second annual encampment for the Colorado and Wyoming department will be held in Salida on June 6 7 and 8 Preparations are under way and a large fund has been raised Railroads grant a one fare round trip for attendees Members of the G A R auxiliary and friends are invited for a good time in Salida
Nick Valendez a Greek sues John G Tevebaugh in district court for 8816 dollars alleging injuries from a car bicycle collision.
J M Howell a popular Greensburg Kentucky druggist says his household uses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and finds it excellent for sale by all dealers.
Prof Gillette of Colorado State Agricultural College warned Greeley pupils that a moth escaping from a laboratory caused the country to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on extermination. He described college experiments and urged farmers to use knowledge from these studies. The talk delighted the students.
Samuel Hallett presents practical guidance on raising chicks at the Weld County Poultry Association. Emphasizes strong parent stock, careful incubator use, gradual heating, limited brooder size, staged feeding, and clean brooder maintenance for healthy, well born chicks. Encourages consistent, single-person brooder care and balanced nutrition.
Mr Nipps and son Vance of Evans were in Greeley Thursday en route to Timnath to visit friends.
The Juniors hosted a Friday banquet at the Camfield hotel for faculty and seniors, a major social event with sweet peas and lilacs decor. Absent due to illness, Principal R W Bullock was replaced by Marshal Pancoast as toastmaster. 45 graduates are planned this year.
Advert says now is the time to get rid of rheumatism and claims one application proves Chamberlain's Liniment effective. Mentions availability from all dealers and urges readers to try it.
W S Sevier plowed fields with a 20 horsepower acetylene plow near Greasewood lake, turning 12 furrows daily and 12 to 14 acres a day. He says operating costs are far lower than feeding twenty horses. Sevier and family own 320 acres north of Cornish and plan fall wheat on newly brok en ground as rains improve conditions for a bumper crop.
The W T K Club marked its twenty first birthday with a day party on Wednesday. Nearly all twenty presidents and many members attended. Mrs H F Wallace. first president, spoke about the club name and its long standing aims. A scholarship fund and library donations were noted as part of ongoing charity.
J. W. McGleen and Dave Louise of Platteville were married by Thursday.
A new assistant superintendent for the Greeley and Denver Railway Co arrived Thursday morning and will stay at Hartman’s home. Though the youngest and smallest employee, he shows promise as the business grows. Hartman plans a special train to Milliken for friends.
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