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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1885
Page
1
Decoration Day proclaimed with town events listed for May 30 including post office hours and parade plans. Notices cover church lectures, school commencement, Red Cross encampment, G. A. R. activities, and local civic announcements in Greeley Colorado.
The third rehearsal of the opera was held last Tuesday evening. Judging by the numbers rendered, three more rehearsals should suffice to have the work ready for public presentation. Mr. Demorest appears to have extraordinary ability to achieve so much in a short time.
A public meeting will be held in the Court House on Friday evening May 29 at 7 30 to hear the committee report and decide on final arrangements for a Colony celebration. By order of the Committee.
Colorado shows growing home industries with paying businesses. The Kuner Pickle company, founded in 1872, has built a large trade across the state, its goods tested as equal to the best. Matteson and Sanborn report demand for second hand machinery.
A card expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during a recent illness and the death of Mrs. J. T. Wagever.
Music at the Opera House Rink with dancing after ten o clock Friday night drawing local dancers and music lovers to the venue for an evening of entertainment.
The narrator recalls joining Mr Meeker to form a colony in Colorado after leaving East Tennessee. He describes hostile local politics, lack of schools, and travel hardships, including crossing the plains by wagon and later rail due to river floods and Indian tensions. He notes meeting Mr J C Shattuck aboard a boat en route to the promised land.
A. E. Gripsom requests fall planting stock buyers to note premium small fruit varieties will be ready for fall planting. He also asks all debts be settled promptly, dated May 27, 1885.
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