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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
3
Will Davis visited his parents in Bic Bend. Mr and Mrs Moerkle visited daughter Mrs Lee. Mrs Hubbard attended Peckham and a new buggy was shown Monday. Mr Sargent of Kersey looked to buy a horse Friday. Miss Sarah Wiggett and Mr Anderson of Erie visited in Greeley with her sister Mrs Albert Taylor on Wednesday.
The Social Science Circle reconvened on September 15 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Kittle with Mr. Kittle as the new president. Members mourn the loss of Mrs. O. R. Barker and Rev. Packard, while Mrs. A. K. Clark discussed the Torrens Land System and its critics. A musical program by Mrs. H. R. Withey, Mrs. F. M. Sheldon, and Mr. Weight closed the evening with refreshments and renewed friendships.
After summer break the New Century club held its first meeting September 2 with Mrs. Maggie Moore. Discussions covered Shelley and Keats with sketches and readings by Mrs. Alcorn, Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Arbuckle, and others. Ice cream and cake followed.
The Graphic club met at Mrs. John C. Mosher’s home after a several week break. Members discussed The Right of Way, noting new books rule. next meeting will review John Halifax. The group will resume rhetoric activities at Mrs. George Adams’s home next Monday afternoon.
A surprise wedding occurred at Ashbury church in Denver on Sunday afternoon. Prof. John V. Crone of the State Normal School and Miss Kittie V. Esgar of Boulder were the couple. The ceremony at 4 pm was performed by Rev. Benjamin Young. They will reside in Greeley after October 1 at 313 Eighth Avenue.
Miss Emma J Crone sister of the groom and Frank Nigar brother of the bride attended a private wedding in Denver. The bride wore cream etamine and carried white roses. Prof Crone of the State Normal school and nature study leader wed the daughter of Mr and Mrs M D Elgar of Boulder in a ceremony arranged by Mr Young formerly of Sheridan Wyoming.
At Mrs. Annie Sommers home the Rev. R. J. Hunter officiated a noon ceremony joining John Edwin Jones and Winifred Euola Sanford. The couple then left by southbound train for a Denver honeymoon.
Mrs. Betsy F Childs a Greeley pioneer died last Sunday at her son William Childs’s Fort Collins home. Her body was moved to Linn Grove cemetery for burial beside her late husband Francis L Childs. Funeral services at Macy’s undertaking parlor were conducted under the O E S with Mrs Childs as the first worthy matron in Greeley.
Lucy E Miller died in Fort Collins aged 48. She was the wife of Fredrick Miller formerly of Greeley. A husband and two sons survive. Funeral held Tuesday at the M BE church and interment was in Grand View cemetery. The deceased was a benefit member of Greeley Circle W of W. Fort Collins Circle attended the funeral in a body.
The Chautauqua program at the Methodist Episcopal church begins at 7 45 p m with an Organ Voluntary by Mrs R D Stover. A vesper service by Dr B T Vincent prayer by Rev E L Scott a violin solo by Miss Harris and a Chautauqua song by the choir follow. Ten minute talks review books for the year including Evolution of Industrial Society Literary Leaders of America Geographic Influences in American History Provincial Types in American Fiction by Rev F M Sheldon Rev O A Petty Rev R J Hunter Miss Hannum. Closing service.
The Union Pacific sells round trip tickets to San Francisco or Los Angeles at one fare for travel from October 9 to 18, 1903 with liberal return arrangements. Final return limit through November allows tickets back through Portland for $13.50 extra, via Shasta route or O R N steamers, San Francisco to Portland. Contact local agent or E R Griffin, general agent, Denver, for full particulars.
Patent remedy ad claims cure for cold in one day with Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets. States druggists refund money if not cured. E. W. Grove's signature appears on each box. Price twenty five cents.
Leroy R. Brooks associates with the Frontier in Denver for a city sketch. In Greeley a perilous accident occurred when a stableman left straw under a loft opening. Four year old Rauld McCutcheon fell twelve feet onto straw but was rescued and soon recovered, prompting gratitude to providence from parents and grandparents.
Editor asks readers to consider Prof Haegler of Basle who won a hygienic medal at Paris for linking Sabbath rest to vitality. Dr Crofts cites Clark University’s Prof Hodge on nerve restoration needing days of rest, a Sabbath like rest. Wylie warns against abandoning the Lord's Day and venerates the Sabbath's role in life and energy.
A 1903 rail fare notice lists one way rates via Union Pacific from September 15 to November 30 to San Francisco Los Angeles and many California points priced at 25 dollars for second class colonists tickets. Other routes include Portland to Ashland Spokane Wenatchee Tacoma Vancouver Victoria and more with rates around 22.50 to 25 dollars and liberal stopovers in California and west of Pocatello. For full details contact HE R Griffin Denver or local agent.
Union Pacific offers round trip tickets for Salt Lake City and Ogden at $25 daily from June 1 to September 30 with return valid until October 31. A $20 option runs August 2, 25, 31 and Sept 2 to 9l with return within 30 days. $18 tickets on July 13 to 18 with return by August 31. Liberal stop overs allowed. tickets read via Union. For info contact local agent or BE. R. Griffin, Denver.
For comfort good service and low rates patrons are urged to choose the Nickel Plate road. Describes road-bed equipment first class dining car service meals on American Club plan from 35e¢ to $1.00 a la carte. Three through trains daily in each direction. Depots listed in Chicago and Denver offices. No excess fare on any train.
A Brahman fears his unclean little finger after contact with contamination. He seeks amputation to resume eating. A carpenter tricks him with a staged strike on an anvil. The man bites the finger in pain, and the carpenter reveals the ruse, citing self defilement.
The essay notes that Greece and Rome shunned mustaches without beards. In Roman times conquered peoples tried shaving the upper lip but lacked proper tools. Poor shaving left hair on the lip, a mark seen among Gauls and Dacians, while Latin lacks a word for mustache.
A historical note traces how the main meal shifted across centuries. In England four to five meals were common centuries ago with dinner at 10 or later, while France and England varied from 9 in the morning to 4 and 2 o'clock. By the nineteenth century dinner moved toward the evening and has since encroached on dining at night.
In New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle a letter to her husband recounts a humorous note about Alfred Tennyson. Peel may recommend him for a pension, and Lady Harriet notes his wish to marry a woman to live beside though unable to afford one, so a maidservant becomes a possible wife.
The article discusses teeth as a sign of health with chalk white teeth indicating weakness and large yellowish teeth seen as normal. It notes an author may describe a heroine with two rows of pearl teeth, but asserts pearly teeth are ghastly and store teeth with high polish are the only plausible version.
An anxious father tells his son that without study he will know nothing and earn nothing. The young man replies that they have everything charged and will keep that lifestyle until marriage, underscoring a clash between parental guidance and youthful defiance.
A brief exchange features a clergyman and Miss In nit debating the aim of young society members. He dismisses them as butterflies without future life plans, while she counters that matrimony remains a constant consideration for them.
After a great calamity the Atchison Globe notes how discussing the relief and recovery offers solace and perspective. The piece emphasizes communal memory and the healing tone that follows a disaster.
In the eastern scene a condemned man prompts the hangman to set a scaffold before prominent houses. The owner of each mansion resists and pays the price to move on. After hours of collecting from magnates the executioner finds a dark wood for the final scaffold where the condemned man is hanged.
A Science letter notes rare ear forms allied to pointed ape-like types. It cites two city residents, a man and a woman, with persistent wisdom teeth and a reversion in ear, teeth, arm length, childbirth, and hand joints, suggesting transitional anatomy under civilization.
Lippincott's recalls Reverend John Mathews a strict Alabama Methodist pioneer known for quirks. His liberal wife once sold a bureau to buy a hat and her tardy entrance drew a mortifying quip from the preacher who announced her name and the bureau on her head.
The first book printed in Philadelphia was Atkin's Almanack for 1686, an unpaged pamphlet of ten leaves with only two copies known. Colonel Markham received the first copy and reported to the council that it incorrectly labeled Pennsylvania's founder as "Lord Penn." The council ordered Bradford to remove the words, recalling the edition and abolishing the phrase.
The act of throwing a slipper after the bride is linked to barbarous eras when marriage mirrored master and slave relations. A shoe symbolized authority, and in Anglo-Saxon weddings the bride’s father gave a shoe to the husband to mark power transfer, often celebrated by tapping the wife on the head with it.
The article explains coral for ornament from Italy. Divers obtain the finest pieces by diving while many corals are dragged from stream bottoms and crushed by nets and frames used on boats.
A compact remark on dialect mixing slang as a communicative medium. The quotation notes dialect can connect people with little to say to those who disdain formal speech. It highlights playful, tempered language as social glue in conversation.
A concise remark from the Boston Tran script warns that while one scholar goes insane from overstudy, many remain ignorant due to understudy, highlighting concerns about study balance and mental wellbeing.
The quote from Hawthorne states that individuals who feel deserving of a monument should not seek one, implying merit should drive recognition. It emphasizes humility over public monuments.
A retired theater manager recalls Edwin Booth earning 85 percent of gross receipts under Abbey and 15 percent to Abbey. Brooks & Dixon shared 50 percent with Booth, covering rent salaries travel and ads, with big profits shared with Horace McVicker. A Philadelphia death of Booths wife caused a $4,000 weekly loss.
In a New England farming district a winter dance ends in tragedy when Mrs. Hawkins dies the day of the event. Ben Hawkins the local fiddler enters with his Stradivarius but declines to play noting Maria’s death and claiming she was not a blood relative.
The article recalls poet Barry Cornwall Bryan Waller Procter famed for sea verse yet he endured severe seasickness aboard a channel boat. His wife reportedly hummed his jovial ship song during his distress, while he pleaded for calm. He still loved the sea, albeit from afar.
A young man in Centerview Missouri who wrote to a Minneapolis girl for three years received a letter and a baby photo revealing she had married two years earlier. She told him her husband and child require her time and to stop writing. The Record notes his reply would shock a field of oats.
MecClure's readers learn about snake behavior and myths. Decapitation kills immediately but the tail stays responsive for hours. Rattlesnakes do not self injure to die. Snakes avoid venom from their own species. Black snakes may swallow their young in danger, digesting them.
In a Philadelphia Press item, Tess confirms Dr. Killiam attended the late Mr. Oldgold recently and was asked again as Mr. Roxley fell ill yesterday, prompting his wife to summon Killiam at once.
Mrs Uppmann complains to Delia about entertaining a policeman in the kitchen last night and Delia notes it was moved to the parlor where he would not go.
A comic panel shows Mrs. Grumpy refusing to lend a washtub to a mother, citing broken hoops and a bottom full of water. The scene captures a humorous domestic exchange in a 19th century Glasgow Daily Times style.
When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by. Spaishg proverb notes a cautionary view on decision making and market reactions.
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