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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1874
Page
2
The note marks the fifth anniversary of the Greecey Tripune schedule and notes many early subscribers face renewal next week. It thanks supporters and seeks continued patronage and confidence from its readership.
The Greeley in Colorado plan a private sanitarium to care for the growing number of invalids. They seek four to eight acres near Monroe and Madison streets for a central building and cottage plots sold with building requirements, aiming to provide better accommodations and employment while refining healthful living.
The piece urges forming a corporate body to buy land, build cottages, and operate a sanitarium near Greeley. It envisions four acres yielding 32 lots, selling them to fund the project, and renting cottages for 10 to 15 dollars monthly. Four acres could support a main building costing 2000 to 3000 dollars, with help from local women and physicians to manage health services.
The article recounts Robert Dale Owen's sessions with Katie King in Philadelphia last June and July, detailing his reports of bodily-appearing spirits, the cross and hair tokens, and the challenged quality of spirit communications. It also notes Owen's critical stance and the broader context of 19th century spiritualism.
The witness describes a young woman named Katie appearing and vanishing through a cabinet. Items such as a cross a ring a bracelet and a locket vanish and reappear. Katie is seen suspended in air and returns with a lily after fading, then waves goodbye and leaves.
A wary notice warns of loose characters arriving with winter, renting rooms, drinking secretly at night, cooking food for their gang, stealing poultry and eggs, roostering, luring youths and girls, and fleeing with stolen horses after lingering. The group uses gambling and petty tricks to sustain their crimes.
Writer describes Greeley Colorado as prosperous with high occupancy and many newcomers for winter. Cites ten vacant houses on one street but notes demand remains strong as families seek education and church attendance amid wary drinking issues. Also mentions Valley Home of Colorado semi annual issue by Pabor and Allen highlighting Cache la Poudre valley with school building engraving and Eastern distribution.
Colorado's autumn air offers stronger healing effects than summer with bracing mornings, warm noons, and cozy evenings. The Rocky Mountain climate provides rare clarity, rich foliage, and repeated sunny spells, supporting invalids while storms bring brief interruptions before clearer skies return.
The piece discusses labor by Chinese workers in mining with claims of productivity and shifts of earnings. It recounts a humorous Union Pacific anecdote where a man hunts for a missing emigrant, only to realize he is searching for himself, causing a communal uproar.
The First Regular Baptist Church of Greeley Colorado expresses farewell prayers for their pastor wife as sister beloved in the cause of Christ. The church commends them to the confidence and support of brethren and sisters as they begin a new field of labor.
The report notes B C Adams shipping ice to Denver, a car load of coal oil arriving in Greeley from the oil region, strong apple shipments totaling around 600 barrels, and sweet potatoes of five pounds eight ounces grown locally. It mentions baptisms at Oak Street bridge, Masonic social events, jail construction views, eclipse observations, and community plans for a boarding house sanitarium.
Reports from Hot Sulphur Springs note two buffalo killed near Middle Park and a large cabbage shipment from Cache la Poudre selling for high profits. J Q A Rollins aids bridge work while a road to Utah nears completion around mid November amid heavy snowfall. Brown and Stokes ship general merchandise to Hot Sulphur Springs. Boulder News questions cabbage wealth versus luck and price context.
A Lodge of Good Templars was organized in Black Hawk on the fifteenth by W. M. B. Sarell and officers from Denver and Central Lodges. The elected officers include P. Wright W C T and G. Brinkerhoff W M among others. The lodge meets weekly at Odd Fellows Hall and invites visiting members.
Proceedings of the Town Board of Greeley Colorado on October 19 1874 with attendance notes accounts presented for cemetery hardware street work and rent. items referred to Finance Committee. Also Baptist Church meeting adopts resolutions praising Reverend H C Woods and laments his departure to a new field of labor.
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