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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1886
Page
5
A correspondent recalls Modjeska’s Greeley premiere with mixed reviews as the new opera house hosts the star and a bustling crowd. The letter notes uneven enunciation and fashion, public cheer, and the final season’s close as actors head to New York.
A citizen laments wasteful street lighting, weeds, cottonwood cotton, and overgrowth that harms crops. The letter urges ordinances to force weed control by all, curb non residents profiting from others' work, remove nuisance trees, reduce damp heat, and arrest loitering drunks to uphold temperance standards.
Loveland reports rapid progress on Hon. Tom Johnsons new house and encourag ing threshing, mining camp moves, and a fresh Buckhorn freshet with dry regional notes. Longmont briefs note wheat hauling, Grange mill shipments, telegraph line progress, butter orders, cow herd growth, and a new district school with Ada McElroy as teacher.
Fort Collins and surrounding notices report a jail delivery Sunday morning as Ring, the embezzler, escaped by bending bars. Local industry shows progress with Garbe Brothers drafting a complete No. 7 cook stove and plans to exhibit at the county fair and Denver.
In another column of this issue an entirely new specimen of attractive advertisement is presented. It is one of the neatest ever placed in our paper and readers will be repaid for examining the suprosen display letters in the advertisement of Prickly Ash Bitters.
Native horses for sale broken or unbroken to harness or saddle. A few thousand dollars to loan at 10 percent. Immediate availability on good security. Enquire of B. D. Saxnory.
Mrs D Asch teaches guitar and banjo while Miss Marshall offers piano organ and voice lessons. Organ lessons cover church music and harmony. Rooms 15 and 16 over the First National Bank.
A county convention of Weld County Colorado Prohibitionists will meet at the Greeley courthouse on Saturday September 18 1886 at two o clock for nominating county officers and other business. East and West Greeley Evans Sterling and Erie get three delegates each other precincts one delegate each. By order of the Executive Committee. Also advertisements for Horne's school books and a local craftsman C Brown flank the notice.
September remarks note E. Mead & Co will occupy the Salomon store across from Oasis Hotel and near Jackson's Opera House. Sale emphasizes low prices on boy’s shirt waists Turkish towels and other dry goods. McNamara company of Denver is referenced for orders and guarantees customer satisfaction.
A. W. Tyroff merchant tailor moves into the building on Eighth street first door east of the Greeley Opera House inviting customers to inspect suits made in latest styles at low prices Suits from 25 and up pants from 6 and up Bricklayer Jons Cansnamaygreroerd offers pressed brick specialty.
A herd of one and two year old Texas steers is offered by Messrs Driskill Blocker and Davis at Deer Trail Colorado. Cattle will be sold in lots to suit the purchaser. This is a chance for farmers seeking a tonk.
One second-hand binder with 100 acres cut, in good order. W. R. McCretran. J. F. Fezer promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the safest treatment for griping pains diarrhoea and summer complaint and guarantees it should be kept in every house.
Money furnished on short notice on real estate security. Hare and Hercukiss. Pure Havana tobacco Harvest King cigarettes advertised with mail order option from S. M. Simpson Denver. Struby Estabrook Co sole agents Denver. Camp and Nusbaum bricklayers Greeley. For sale cheap 40 acre farm near town under Number Two canal four and a half miles from town inquire E. D. Lewis Greeley Colo.
Health is wealth. The keynote touts Dr Bo sanko's Cough and Lung Syrup as the best cough syrup in the world. It claims to cure coughs colds chest pains bronchitis and primary consumption with one dose relief. Price 50 cents and 1.00. Samples free, sold by Flower and Petrikin.
J. D. Hill has been commissioned as postmaster at Littleton. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, fever sores, and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold by J. F. Ez er.
An advertisement offers Shiloh's Cure by J. F. Fezer promising immediate relief for croup and hooping cough and bronchitis with a note of sale by the seller.
The Rev. Geo H Thayer of Bourbon Indiana credits Shilohs Consumption Cure with saving his and his wife's lives. The remedy is offered for sale by J F Fezer.
W A Work secretary of the Iowa Traveling Men's Association endorses Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as safe for cramps stomach pain cholera morbus and diarrhea. He notes personal use and states it is sold by J F Fezer.
We announce the close out of our entire herd including four imported Percheron stallions from 1885 and ten Norman and native stock horses. One hundred saddle horses and many mares with colts by Norman sires remain, with options to buy singly, in lots, or trade for cattle.
J. D. Stevens advertises a large stock sale to free space for fall trade. From now until September 1 a large reduction from previous prices is offered on walnut marble top bedroom suites at 850 and 855, fine ash and maple suites at 25 and 50, lawn chairs and settees, with 10 percent off nearly everything and more on many items. Denver price parity claimed.
September Loth A E Mead is associated with a removal across from the Oasis Hotel opposite Jacksons Opera House.
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