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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
5
Local brief lists residents visiting relatives and traveling to and from towns including Fort Collins Denver California and Colorado Springs. Names include J A Knight Miss Bessie, Mrs Elmer McKee’s child Jeas McKee and Mrs W G Chappelow with Effie, Mamie Allen, Isabelle Churchill, W R Calvin, and others.
A long list of visits spans Windsor and Fort Collins with residents and visitors from Denver Evans and Greeley. Notable items include Miss Isabelle Churchill teaching in Evans visiting Miss Grace Garrigues, Eugene Danforth's return to Kansas, the Yersin family welcome, and two Windsor lots sold by sheriff to satisfy a judgment, bringing about $185.
Miss Lillian Ankeney teaches in the Lincoln school district this year. The first month report shows enrollment of fifty four students with an average attendance of forty eight. Sixteen pupils were neither absent nor tardy.
If people with symptoms of kidney or bladder trouble realize their danger they would begin Foley's Kidney Remedy without delay. The remedy is said to stop pain and irregularities, strengthen the organs, and remove danger of Bright's disease. Sold by all druggists.
Charlee E. Jones of Greeley and Susie E. Hasty of Rocky Ford were married Wednesday afternoon September 29 at the Presbyterian manse. Rev. R. J. Hunter performed the ceremony. The couple will reside in Pleasant Valley where the groom operates a ranch.
The Tribune features a large advertisement claiming the merchants own paper status and promising a vast variety of goods at lower prices than ever, drawing about 10 000 readers and pleasing buyers with serviceable merchandise for men, women, and children.
W. E. Green vice president of the Denver Laramie and Northwestern Railway reports added locomotives passenger coaches and freight cars ordered for the Denver to Greeley line. Deliveries by November include two passenger locomotives eight passenger coaches and several box and flatcars. Flatcars will be sent to Chicago to load steel rails for the project as grade work closes a four mile gap between Greeley and Milliken. Tracklayers run between Brighton and Lupton.
Jesse Nolin, superintendent of waterworks, leads a thirty man gang racing to finish the northwest sewer from the river on Sixth Avenue to Fourteenth Avenue. Railroads lay tile beneath tracks. three weeks remain. Health and comfort officials hail it as the year’s major municipal improvement.
At the annual meeting held Thursday evening in John T. Jacobs office, Col. C. A. White was elected president, John T. Jacobs vice president, George Horne secretary, Charles Littell treasurer, and W. A. Philips chaplain. Directors are W. B. Patterson, S. F. Martin, I. H. Paine, and W. B. Keyes. The society has twenty two members and plans social events for winter.
The Lambda Gamma Kappa fraternity at Normal hosted a Monday evening gathering at Prof Theo Fitzs home. The house featured fraternity colors and skull and crossbones decor. Miss Cena Vernon arrived to perform an original piece titled The Skull and Crossbones dance dedicated to the fraternity. S. M. Hadden and J. C. Kendel, both faculty members, attended.
The article notes Colorado has recorded the wettest year since records began. Over 38 years the previous high was 21.43 inches. this year has 21.71 inches with three months remaining, likely to break the record by several inches. September was the wettest on record at 3.78 inches.
Mary Michaud a 19 year old woman previously freed of forgery charges faces new allegations in Ault. A $2.50 check on Mrs Minnie Ellis and alleged theft of clothing are under investigation. Deputy Sam Woland brought Michaud to Greeley for a hearing before Judge G H Bradfield, who gave no decision.
H. E. Badger and a nine man crew at the Empire reservoir repair August flood damage. Three 36 inch iron pipes will replace failed conduits to restore the lake’s flow. Eleven carloads of pipes, each car ten pipes weighing two and half tons, form the new waterway. Inspector Professor Hornbein from Fort Morgan oversees work with completion expected December 1 if supplies arrive. The camp acts as a busy city as gravel cement hay and provisions move in. Managers continue settling with property owners who lost crops to the flood.
Field and Farm discusses farm power choices for western farms, favoring the gasoline engine as the most practical, reliable option. It weighs treadmills windmills steam engines and internal combustion, advising farmers to size, locate, and maintain a gasoline unit while avoiding unnecessary adjustments. It ends with an advertisement for Foley's Honey and Tar cough remedy.
A Colorado fruit farmer known for careful investing favors safe, steady returns. The International Trust Co Bank in Denver promotes its banking by mail system offering four percent interest on deposits across the West. Send for Book Let H to learn the bank's system.
Daily sale runs from September 15 to October 16, 1909, inclusive. Tickets accepted in tour sleepers on payment of Pullman fare. Only a few points shown. for fares to other points and information about liberal stopover privileges, phone, write, or see me.
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