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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
6
Severance G Raine has leased the pool hall and will at once assume management. Mr and Mrs Geo Boullard of Windsor visited relatives here last week. Miss Edna Teller has returned home to Greeley after visiting friends here. Daily mail delivery is restored as the R F D from Eaton is re established.
Mr Meyers builds a new potato cellar. F C Teller entertained Windsor relatives Sunday. Mr Self made a business trip to Fort Collins last week. Gus Mellin of Lucerne visited A G Carlson Thursday. Carlson and wife hosted friends from Greeley Sunday. N D Bartholomew of Lucerne was in Gipson last week on business. Mrs Robert Boyd and sister Mrs Dillingham are in the mountains with relatives. Mary Wars returned from a visit near Sterling. Gene Howard threshing there then returned for the winter.
J G Graham visited his ranch east of Eaton Saturday to supervise fall wheat drilling. Early cabbage is selling now and the late crop will be ready soon. The late crop yields are light but higher prices offset the shortage.
Fairplay brief lists Mrs. A Nichols on sick list and Roy McWilliams at Eaton School. Mrs. Albert Nichols hosts guests. Miss Pearl Nichols visits with parents. Miss Laura Rienks to Greeley business college. Freda Webber recovers from typhoid fever. Christian endeavor society hosts a social at the Nichols home with about thirty attendees and a straw ride event.
Claude R. Brundy three month old son of Mr and Mrs H Brundy of 406 Fourteenth street died last Monday Funeral services were held Tuesday.
Denver visitors and local residents figure in a string of short items. Ovid Plumb visited Denver last Saturday while H. W. Yersin family members returned from their wedding trip. Mrs. W. H. Farr hosted a gathering of ladies and Mrs. C B. Kimbal planned a visit to McCook Nebraska. Robert Moody and son Harold traveled from Denver to see friends in Greeley as Harold plans a year at a military school in Kearney Nebraska. Engineer D Paget finished sand traps for the Platte river ditch to New Empire reservoir, aiming to prevent sand washing and cut future ditch cleaning costs. A boy tracked down a nighttime melon vandal, defeating J. Max Clark after Clark spoke at the Greeley club.
The largest attendance of the year welcomed by Mrs. Arthur Leaver on Sept. 13. Guests included Mrs. David Kelley Miss Kate Merritt Mrs. Frost Miss Leaver and Mrs. Kelley. Members submitted a cub paper edited by Mrs. Orlando Clark and Mrs. Kate Bliss with music by Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Leaver. The club ends its year and plans a fall vacation. next meeting Nov. 1 with new officers.
Sunday visits to Greeley by Nunn H Walker and E L Detherage. Wheat sowing underway as farmers work fields. A son born September 11 to Mr and Mrs Richard Blevins. Ethel Eastlack to Berthoud for dressmaking. Mrs J H Brandon and Catherine Dover WY visit Louise Naffziger. Mona Lemonds takes charge of Racket store in Ault. DaMetz family in Washington Kan ill. friends wish for recovery.
Farmers may rent or buy unimproved land with no payment first year and minimal second year, then cash-rent level payments. Improved land available on long-term easy terms at 6 percent interest. Land features alfalfa, sugar beets, small grain, and corn with irrigation from Julesburg district and a reliable ditch. Contact T. R. Liddle, Julesburg, Colorado.
Construction began yesterday on the foundation for the new Empson canning factory in the northern city area. Stokey Concrete Company holds the cement contract and started work promptly. The building is priced near 41,000 with machinery and equipment around 50,000, totaling an estimated 109,000.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to correct a stomach disorder and relieve a sick headache. The pills are offered for sale by all druggists.
A. S. Beers of Loveland Colorado offers agents a proposition paying ten to fifteen dollars per day with no investment required. Send name and address to receive particulars and a free sample.
A brief listing notes Svenska Skohander located at 814 8th Avenue with Rosen and Thorell mentioned as associates or nearby entities in the readable OCR snippet.
Weld county captured fourteen first prizes for agricultural products at the Pueblo state fair held last week. J. F. McCreery led as ballyhoo man for the exhibit and served without pay. Prize winners included Model Mills for three kinds of flour, McCreery for three kinds of onions rye Wilson Turner cayenne pepper table turnips table beets red cabbage summer squash George Hodgson for wheat tomatoes and two unknown exhibitors.
A harvest carnival event in Ault Colorado on Friday September 20 1907 offers a Greeley excursion. Round trip tickets cost 50 cents and are valid on all morning trains for same day return. Agent E H Genge.
Mrs Margaret Arnold wife of Jacob Arnold died Sunday September 15 after forty seven years. Survived by husband and five children. Funeral services conducted by Father Casey at 10:30 a m Tuesday at the Catholic church.
Eva Sample Ennes wife of Clay ton Ennes died Sunday at their home 928 Fifteenth street. She leaves a husband two babies a son thirteen months old and a daughter thirteen days old. Funeral services led by Rev J W King were held at the First Presbyterian church on Wednesday morning.
J W Baldridge aged 61 died last Friday at his brother Walter Baldridge’s home two miles west of Eaton from gastric fever. He served in the Civil War and later worked 35 years as a Kansas Pacific engineer with a clean wreck record. He retired three years ago with a pension after a KC to Junction City passenger run. He was born in Iowa.
The contract for the new library on Sev enth street next to the city hall was let last Saturday to Barber & Gordon for 14 127. Heating by J. D. Potter and plumbing by William Ecker. Total cost 16 368 not including furnishings. Funds subscribed. committee seeks more donations for fixtures and furnishings.
A Strand Magazine excerpt features a Sunday school teacher scolding urchins by a canal, and a humorous village exchange about an altruist suitor. The hostess mishears her guest’s praise, joking that his tone sounds like a bass.
Fifty dollar reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of parties breaking insulators on an electric transmission line from the power house at Louisville to Fort Collins and Greeley. Penalty by law includes a 100 fine and three months imprisonment announced by The Northern Colorado Power Co.
Crone Curtis Realty Co advertises a newly platted Mountain View Addition with close in lots available under options or on monthly payments from 260 to 400 dollars. It emphasizes this as the last chance to buy choice lots at low prices and urges prospective buyers to investigate.
The Farmers Mercantile Co announces available sacks and twine for purchase. Customers may inquire at the store for quantities, prices, and delivery options.
Three ears of sacks purchased and price inquiry placed with Farr Produce Co Svenska Skobutiken at 814 8th Ave Rosen Thorell for current market rates.
In Weld County Colorado I Wm Hall Sampson administrator will present final settlement to the County Court on October 28 1907 for approval and discharge Any interested person may appear to object Dated at Greeley Colorado September 18 1907 First publication in the Greeley Tribune September 19 1907 last publication October 10 1907
The article traces Billingsgate's name origins from London markets and figures of rhetoric. It cites Fuller and Thackeray, notes how markets foster strong language, and recounts a 1715 practice where porters urged passersby to salute a post, offering a sixpence for a godfather name. The original porters belonged to the Fellowship of Porters, a historic guild overseeing carrying work at Billingsgate and nearby wharfs.
In a Washington hotel a group of veterans recount a Civil War incident when a quiet private offers to refresh their memory. The hotel keeper questions his rank and grants the private a free bill, saying he has never met a private like him before.
A diner moments before leaving complains the soup failed and the fish peppered the entree is uneatable. The waiter replies by promising to bring the bill, turning the meal into a humorous anecdote.
Professor J. R. A. Davis reports an experiment with a growing plant in a sealed glass jar covered by a greased plate. After darkness, a lit match is extinguished upon opening, indicating oxygen use, and lime water turns milky showing carbon dioxide release by the plant.
In northern New Hampshire a Second Adventist woman hears a noise from a tumbling woodpile and awakens her husband. He dismisses the alarm, saying Old Gabriel isn’t fool enough to ride in such sleighing, and urges her to sleep.
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