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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1884
Page
1
Numerous town items report new dwellings and buildings, family arrivals and illnesses, agricultural notes, real estate transfers, and community events. Notable mentions include Franklin Frost’s move, Nice’s new home, Oasis hotel praise, artesian well work, and a crop of local social updates across Greeley and surrounding areas.
Fort Morgan reports the start of brick production as Killebrew and Burk prepare for a sale of all bricks. Ditch work by A Page continues on the More and Tracy project while others dig wells and explore local geology beneath slate rock and bed rock for potential coal. The old Fort Morgan site rumored relics and a buried $20,000 gold tale attract speculative visitors.
E 8 Atkinson stacks hay on Friday. C Van Trotha of Denver visits on business about a claim. Miss Michel Smart visits the country to study trends. Schaffer visits Denver Friday. O P Wiggins builds a new store and plans a general stock opening in about three weeks. Prairie fires worry ranchmen twelve miles west. Rohr will take an office on the west end. Mike King returns from his claim and a centipede causes a panic at the depot. Rob Ketcham offers cedar oil for relief.
The Times announces a new Fort Morgan newspaper under editors L. Baker and G. W. Warner. It pledges to serve the community, support the state, and aim to build up the country while pursuing amusement and profit.
The narrative describes a scenic Colorado journey from Greeley to Burnham's near Livermore, detailing foothills and valleys, streams fed by springs, and rich meadow grass. It notes castle-like rock formations, wildlife such as coyotes and wildcats, and trout streams with speckled trout. The author fondly recalls dairy country and a Colorado sunset before overnighting at Burnham's.
A roundup targets seventeen Dubuque saloonkeepers to enforce the prohibitory law. Other items note a Fremont Nebraska platform collapse injuring forty, a fatal gas suffocation in New Brunswick, and various bank thefts and health scares across the United States and Europe.
Mr. J. Hirsch of College Point Brewery Long Island New York says he employs many workers and has tried St Jacob s Oil as a major pain cure for rheumatism aches and pains of his horses and various afflictions. He notes it relieves galls splints thrush wind gath er affections and “wount it” in animals.
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