Sterling Local News Highlights From 1887
A chautauqua circle forms among youths. duck hunting remains popular. Josiah Bush plans a two story brick building on Main street. Robt. McNeal, a Mexican boy, pleads guilty to $146 theft and is sent to reform school. B M track extends west. stock shipments from Hardin Snyder and Cliff. Wool from Nebraska ranch 15,000 pounds from 1440 sheep sold for about $25,000. Fort Collins and Longmont reports cover fairs mills and brick making. Rattlesnake killed near Stove Prairie hill. coyotes kill a horse near Big Springs. Various farm and town notes from Evans, Greeley, Loveland, Fort Morgan, Erie. Community efforts push for Chautauqua circle and local improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josiah Bush
Main Street
Robert McNeal
A. P. Gordon
John Huff
Advocate
Sterling
Hardin
Snyder
Cliff
Frank N. Holt
Gage County
Nebraska
Courier
Col. Swearinger
Cheyenne
Sacramento Lode
Clarance Brown
Stove Prairie Hill
Hugh Barton
Mr. Barton
Slayton
Warren Live Stock Company
Big Springs
Bixby & Hall
Mrs Barrows Visits Greenley and Delights in New Unitarian Chapel
The Christian Register notes Mrs Barrows wife of the editor writes of a Colorado trip to Greenley for the dedication of a new Unitarian church. She describes a prohibition free town Greeley a thriving prairie community with clean culture and hearty hospitality. Rev J M Savage delivers the sermon Rev Thomas Van Ness speaks and Mr Hogeland oversees scripture reading as visitors depart at dawn after a week of farm scenes and irrigating streams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrows
Christian Register
Boston
Greenley
New Unitarian Church
Plains
Colorado
Meeker
J. M. Savage
Thomas van Ness
Denver
Hogeland
Greeley
Mr. Savage
Notices and sales and wanted items in Greeley Colorado
A compilation of notices from Greeley Colorado includes debts left with Hunter & West for collection authorized to collect and receipt. Various ads offer Merino sheep for sale 1250 head plus 300 lambs, and 1000 good young Merino sheep. a young man sought to learn a business. fancy work supplies restocked at E & L Seelbach's. barley buyers. restaurant for sale in LaSalle. a furnished house wanted for winter. well boring services offered. a large three hundred acre farm for sale in Lone Tree valley with dwelling, shop, stables, corrals and water, terms easy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Tree Valley
Greeley
D. A. Camfield
J. L. Barrett
Temperance Sunday School Schedule By Month
Temperance Sunday School meets each Sunday at 3 o clock. February and March at the M E church April and May at the Baptist church June and July at the Congregational church and repeats in the same order in a different place. D TALMAGE Merson Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance Sunday School
M E
Baptist Church
Congregational Church
D. Talmage Merson
Sup’t
Wanted, a good girl for general house work
A column of small ads including help wanted, real estate for sale and rent, auction notices, and patent medicines. Notable items include a request for a good girl for general house work addressed to Mrs B D Sanborn, a Weldon Valley ranch for sale, a seven room rental at $8 a month, hats at E L Seelbachs, a Montreal grand jury indicting Boodler McGarigle, and various medical cure claims for Dr J H McLeans Eye Salve and Chills and Fever Cure with prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E &L Seelbach’s
Montreal
Boodler McGarigle
B. D. Sanborn
Annual Meeting of Colorado Wool Growers
The Colorado State Wool Growers' Association will hold its annual meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Denver on Tuesday October 4 1887 at 2 o'clock p m for officer elections and general business. Railroads will sell round trip tickets east of the mountains at one and one fourth regular fare to attendees with a Denver receipt required. Return tickets available at one fourth fare with railway receipt and attendance certificate. W E F Witpert President C L Sunirway Secretary
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado State Wool Growers’ Association
Windsor Hotel
Denver
W. E F. Witpert
Also Mentioned on This Page
Longmont
the Ledger
Blanche Shull
Coffin
M. L. Shull
Willis A. Warner
Longmont College
Louisville
Dunkard
Longmont Mill and Elevator Co
Akron
Pioneer Press
Akron Public Schools
Messrs
Tibbetts & Throop
Fort. Collins
Bee
Larimer County
The
Express
Eaton
N.C. Stiles
Loveland
Black
A. McGinley
Metzinger & Harter
Kilburn
Platteville
Record
L. B. Temple
Democrat
Weld County
Jacob Snider
Dave Snider
Snider & Co
Snider
Minnie Wheeler
Kokomo
Beeman
Benjamin Dearborn
Evans
Evans Journal
J. S. Gill
Chas. L. Sullivan
Box Elder
Jack McCarter
G.S. Oliver
Idaho Springs
Oliver
Geo. H. Young
Ohio
Columbus
Orvis & Corbin
John Kohn
Ed. Berry
Samuel Hart
C. J. E. Roy
Lone Star
Bald Mountain
Pleasant Valley
Fort Morgan
Arthur Wiley
Mat Wolfe
George West
L. Wilmer
Levis
Hill
Dr. Work
Erie
Independent
Mary McKenna
Langford
Greeley Business College
Jones
Hillsboro
Erie Social Club
Hunter & West
A. E. Grrson
E & L Seelbach’s
Cuns. Couzens
B. H. Hower
W. E. Tersent
Sterling, Cole
P” Thieune
C. H. Youna
Colo
LaSalle
Atrrep T. Bacon
Stanley’s
L. T. Haynes
J. M
Ferauson
Greeley, Colo
Weldon Valley
S. K. Tompson
Orchard
J. H. McLean
Gertrude Pitser
Hull
Hax-Gartner Furniture Co
Mammoth Rink
16Th
California Streets
W. B. Mason
Colorado Wool Growers
C. L. Sunirway
Sey
Stetson
A. F. Sipperley & CO
Jackson Block
Cart Emporium
J. Max. Clark
Lawrence Street
N. B
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