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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
10
The Platteville Mead corridor shows rapid development with 360 acre Vosmera ranch improvements near Platteville. Dairies, beets, alfalfa and wheat dominate fields. multiple ranches from Clennon to Kistler expand with barns, stock, and irrigation works. Local families including Redman, Clennon, Bradley, Ballinger, Kistler and Meads families contribute to a growing agricultural community.
A shooting and melee in Eaton last Saturday left Fred Jones mortally wounded with a lung wound after a confrontation over a stolen watch. Marshal Wolfe arrested Joe Chavenes and others. Gillhouse was wounded in the arm and a Mexican in the ankle. The Mexicans remained jailed while the two Black men were hospitalized.
I Stukey who has completed concreting the big distributing reservoir for the city water works has opened an office on Seventh street in the Boyle Commission company building. He offers first class cement sidewalk work at eleven and a half cents per square foot plus excavation costs, a notably low rate intended to encourage widespread sidewalk construction.
The narrative notes a Mead area estate near Highland Lake, owned by Gate Jey then sold to F P Woodsey, with 80 acres sold and 20 acres of beets yielding twenty tons per acre last year. The property, three to four year Belgian colts, beef cattle, and crops like beets wheat barley alfalfa are described alongside local hospitality. The piece also lists upcoming entertainment The Magic Melody at the opera house on Thursday May 30 featuring Walker Whiteside Howard Gould and Miss May Buckley.
Normal High School held field day events with the ninth grade freshmen winning the military drill. The eleventh grade girls clinched the overall meet enough to claim the high school cup. Boys field day earlier favored the tenth grade. The eleventh grade girls' strong showing contributed to their final victory in the totals.
Miss Selma Swanson traveled to Denver on Monday for an indefinite stay, according to a brief local notice. The move appears exploratory with no set return date.
Cheyenne Wyoming prepares for Frontier days on July 25 26 and 27 with a staged frontier show on native prairies. Actors include men soldiers horses Indians and stage coaches recreating early days before the frontier vanished. The city welcomes guests with its characteristic free and easy western hospitality.
The Alesmo Dancing club held its last dance of the season in Academy jal last Thursday. Thirty five couples attended in a festive setting with palms and ferns, cosy corners, and red green lighting forming the word Alesmo. The Kendall orchestra provided music while H J Weibking and Miss Edith Gale led the grand march.
Silks and satins show marked reductions from 69 cents to over a dollar value with numerous percent discounts. Dress goods and linens offer 16 to 40 cent values alongside 20 to 26 percent markdowns. Towels, bedspreads, blankets, and pillows carry 20 percent off. white waists 20 to 60 percent off. laces embroideries trimming braids and appliques discounted. handkerchiefs 20 percent. Everything in the house marked very low during this sale.
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