Graduates Reflect on School Year at Greeley Opera House
The Greeley high school held graduation exercises at the opera house with nineteen graduates led by first honor Margaret Statler and second honor Mabel Wasley. The program included choruses, solos, an address by Judge B Lindsey, and diplomas presented. Commencement week followed seniors’ reception, junior program, and class day exercises, while the town faced flood damage to crops and canal infrastructure estimated in the thousands.
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Greeley High School
Opera House
B. Lindsey
Heimveh
Helen Phillips
Eugene Fisk
Otis Huffsmith
William Schuster
Nel Taylor
Spencer Turner
Glenn Reid
Dwight Decker
Elizabeth Banta
Deta Cameron
Luella Caven
Laura Hoyt
Nellie Thompson
Orpha Parker
Margaret Statler
Jessie Wadiin
Mabel Wassey
Grace Wilson
Mabel Wilson
Minta McDermott
Dorothy Haynes
Kathleen Wheeler
Marian Fezer
Carl Sanborn
Key of Knowledge
Schuster
Irving Newton
Torbillon Valse
Hazel Godfrey
Annie Laurie
Boys Glee Club
Ocachoucha
Elizabeth Camfield
High Line Canal
Henry Millers
High Lime Canal
Flooding Swells Spring Canon Creek Near Fort Collins
A heavy afternoon rain seven miles west of Fort Collins caused Spring Canon creek to overflow its banks and flood a wide area on the plains, leaving the region drenched.
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Fort Collins
State Lands Contested in Suit Over Irrigation District
Attorney General N O C Miller will sue the Bijou Irrigation district of Fort Morgan to challenge a law disposing of state lands to irrigation districts. The law allowed the district to use school land for reservoirs and ditches, with New Empire reservoir under construction by Greeley men.
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N. O C. Miller
Bijou
Fort Morgan
New Empire
Greeley
Teacher staffing shifts across Weld county districts
The Weld county district shows 202 teachers with many assignments changing for next year. Several resignations occur in Greeley and Windsor, plus new principals and replacements across Eaton Olin Delta Big Bend Ault Berthoud Crow Creek La Salle Box Elder Kersey and Johnstown areas. Rev J A Davis visited Denver to meet his new grandson.
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Weld County
Greeley
Garrigues
Miller
Moffet
Carrie Ellis
Harriet Singer
Bertha Whiteman
T. E. Burns
Windsor
Emily Allyn
Allyn
Eaton
Brooks
Weaver
Orr
Neal
Freda Kulp
Olin
Jennie M. Hammond
Edna Blunt
Edith McCullough
Hotchkiss
Evans
Elizabeth Knight
Ida Deleen
A. B. Craig
Delta
Emma Crone
la Grange
Munford
G. W. Alps
Neilson
Big Bend
Miss Tilyou
Rose Alps
Ault
Mary McAllister
Denver
Effie Butler
Larimer County
Adah B. Coney
Michigan
Louise Nelson
A. A. Gray
Berthoud
Harry Snook
Collins
BE. H. Houtehens
Grace Mansfield
Johnstown
Eva M. Barnard
Elsie Bunning
Crow Creek
la Salle
Esther Ellis
Samuel Baughman
Box Elder
Pearl Robb
Hazelton
Frank Drumm
Kersey
Plans for New Congregational Church Spark Local Interest
The Congregationalists in the city plan a handsome new church this summer with architect plans accepted at a recent meeting. Miss Emma Hubbard, daughter of local ranchers, disappeared during the event while courting Iratchison who had promised to marry her after she turned eighteen. The couple reappeared later but were found living separately after Sheriff Florance located Emma at Robert Austin’s home near Eaton and Iratchison at Thomas Farnsworth’s farm.
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Colorado
Emma Hubbard
D. P. Hubbard
Iratchison
Hubbards
Achison
Florance
Robert Austin
Eaton
Thomas Farnsworth
Old church site to become new building with organ plans
The project preserves the old structure as part of a new facility opposite the park. Improvements cost about 17000 including a 3000 pipe organ. The interior seats 700, with a sloped floor, choir spaces, classrooms, parks, galleries, and multiple heating plants for fuel efficiency. Choir director Mrs. M A Bunker will travel east to choose the organ.
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Auditoriu
M. A. Bunker
Elopement Reported in LaSalle Area
The elopement germ has afflicted local youth near LaSalle. A second elopement of the month reportedly occurred last Thursday evening after Stewart's hall commencement exercises.
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LaSalle
Stewart's Hall
Elopement to New Mexico Ends in Marriage
Miss Emma Alps and Jack McMillan eluded pursuing relatives, boarded a train to New Mexico, married without parental consent, then were forgiven and lived happily after.
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Emma Alps
Jack McMillan
New Mexico
Colorado and Southern electrifies Denver to Boulder line
Colorado and Southern management completed plans to electrify the Denver to Boulder segment, allocating 500000 dollars and starting work soon. Initial service will be one car per hour with expansion as demand grows. Vice President A D Parker notes cars will run into Union depot over the existing line.
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Colorado & Southern
Denver
Boulder
A. D. Parker
Union Depot
Fine Crucible Number Sets June 4 Distribution
The commencement issue of the Crucible, the Normal school class publication, is nearly ready for distribution and will be delivered June 4. It will feature about 100 pages of cuts and reading matter with an original Mary Bassler cover drawing. Maud Howard as editor-in-chief led the effort, with Tribune job department handling the mechanical work.
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Crucible
Mary Bassler
Halftone
Maud Howard
Greeley
Tribune
Peraltis Suffer First Defeat at Loveland
The Peraltis lost at Loveland after Loveland had earlier defeated Greeley here. The game featured many errors and weak support for Teddy Ernst who pitched for Greeley.
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Peraltis
Loveland
Teddy Ernst
Greeley
Greeley Club Hears Plans for Street Railway and Depot
At a Commercial Club banquet in the hotel about 150 members and guests discussed D A Camfield’s proposed twenty year street railway franchise for Greeley with a pledged auto car within sixty days of approval. A new Union Pacific depot was also debated along with safer crossings and city-street alignments.
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D. A. Camfield
Greeley
Camfield
H.E. Churchill
Clayton
Commercial Club
Union Pacific Railroad
J. L. Bartlett
Colorado & Southern
Fort Collins
First Presbyterian hosts unique pipe organ recital
Prof. William Houseley of Denver presented the first city recital of its kind at First Presbyterian Church last Friday. Soprano Mrs. Kate Norcross-Gale delivered the vocal numbers. net income reached about 85 dollars to benefit the church pipe organ fund.
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William Houseley
Denver
First Presbyterian Church
Houseley
Kate Norcross-Gale
Greeley School Board Names Ensuing Year Staff
The Greeley school board selected Charles E. Carter as superintendent F H Merten as high school principal Miss Carena Lee English teacher high school Miss Gertrude Preston mathematics Miss Gertrude Norris Latin J W Lakin science and Laura Stiles high school assistant In the grades the staff includes Miss Helen Garrigues Mrs Ella T French Carrie Fashbaugh Nana Wright Grace Filkins Carrie Ashby Katherine Pressly Alice Fuller Carrie Ellis Edna West Luna
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Greeley School
Charles E. Carter
F. H H. Merten
Carena Lee
Gertrude Preston
Gertrude Norris
J. W. Lakin
Laura Stiles
Helen Garrigues
Ella T. French
Carrie Fashbaugh
Nana Wright
Grace Filkins
Carrie Ashby
Katherine Pressly
Alice Fuller
Carrie Ellis
Edna West
Luna
Electric railway project eyed for Greeley area
Denver, Greeley & Fort Collins Electric Railway Company files articles of incorporation to take over Greeley and Northern Railway assets. James D. Houseman of St Louis leads surveys from St Vrain to Denver with 15 surveyors, reporting to eastern backers in two months. If profitable, construction may start with electricity powering a line from Greeley toward Denver within two years.
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Secretary of State
Denver
Greeley
Platte
U. P
boulevard plan to widen street by parking spaces
Normal Hill residents urge city council to cut the street to forty feet wide between curb and sidewalk to create a broad boulevard look. They propose planting trees in the space to enhance beauty and provide ample parking.
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Normal Hill
Northern Colorado Power files large mortgage in county clerk office
The Northern Colorado Power company filed a copy of a large mortgage last Saturday morning in the county clerk’s office. Recording fee exceeded $20. The mortgage is given to the Central Trust Company of New York securing an $83,000,000 bond issue to fund the great central power plant near Lafayette for distributing power and light to northern Colorado towns.
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Northern Colorado Power Company
Central Trust Company of
New York
Great Central Power Plant
Lafayette
Colorado
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Greeley High
Greeley Opera House
Faust—High School Chorus
Orville A. Petty
G. H. S. Orchestra
Reading
Tim
Neil Taylor
Wiliam Schuster
Kentucky
Whiteman
Rankin, Taylor and Sandron
Mabel Wasley
State
J. A. Davis
Ernest Williams
Congregational Church
the New Congregational Church
Louise Clark Austin
New Greeley
Spear
George J. Spear
Mr. Spear
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