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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1909
Page
5
Local notes list visits and trips among residents and visitors to Greeley and nearby towns. Entries include Mrs. R. Stevens returning from Cheyenne, Mrs. Shambo in Greeley for business, and many brief mentions of travels and social visits. The town library notes a newly installed piano in the assembly room aiding club meetings and lectures.
H. M. Arbuckle and nephews Harry Arbuckle and Henry King of Shelbyville Ind have traveled to the Poudre River for a short fishing expedition and plans to stay a few days.
An absorbent salve touted for rapid pain relief and reduced scarring in burn treatment. Promoted as essential for households to treat burns and cracked skin, with claims of quick relief and healing of damaged tissue. Also advertised for chapped hands sore nipples and general skin diseases, priced at 25 cents and sold by all druggists.
John Roberts, a wealthy pioneer ranchman, will turn over his Chalk Bluffs ranch of 4,000 acres valued at $40,000, assume a $30,000 mortgage and pay $10,000 in cash for a Troy apartment house in Denver. The ranch began as a desert claim two decades ago and has long been used for grazing.
Mrs. J. B. Phillips visits relatives in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barry depart for Iowa to visit relatives. Mrs. George Jackson and Mrs. Hi Tam White go to Boulder to hear Billy Sunday. Miss Christine Cole leaves for Port Edward New York for the school year. Mrs. H. B. Hatch and two sons visit in Greeley. Mrs. M. R. DeBusk heads to Hillrose to supervise harvest. Extra night police assigned in Greeley due to hoboes. Mrs. H. O. Sanford of Salt Lake City and Mr. and Mrs. Warren Walrod of DeWitt Iowa guests of J. F. McConnell. Karl Farr leaves for Ann Arbor Michigan for law. Karl Bliss to study dentistry. Mrs. Ada Putnam travels to Denver then San Diego for winter with daughter. T. G. Macy and family return from western trip. Macy attends land drawing and secures twenty acres. Dr. Abernethy cautions on kidneys. Foley’s Kidney Remedy marketed. Rebecca Eaton plans $15,000 public library for Eaton. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Crown and daughter visit Stevens family. Drown travels from Washington DC. seventeen years since last meeting.
In LaSalle on Sept 27 the town announced a 60 000 gallon water tank a soft water well a 25 horsepower pumping engine and a construction material yard with 200 cars of material and four sheds. Charles Jepson plans a 25 foot concrete block addition to his building on a 56 foot frontage while J M Beattie must relocate premises within thirty days as Union Pacific possession nears.
Lyle Smith and Hugh Baird reeled a three pound four ounce rainbow trout nineteen and a half inches long from the Greeley and Loveland canal near the ki farm two hours after being caught. The fish was baked for a Sunday dinner at the Smith farm.
Windsor Marshal Hinckley visits Greeley to compare crime trends and celebrate a peaceful period. He notes Windsor has few jailings all summer and claims both towns share a policy of arresting suspicious individuals to suppress crime.
Fort Collins prepares for a September festival drawing about 10 000 visitors. A lamb roast with boned meat is offered free, plus a downtown parade at 5 PM with decorated autos and a grand nighttime fireworks display. Stores stay open for a bargain day inviting all to visit Colorado’s metropolis.
J Hall of 1406 Eighth street Colorado reports severe kidney and bladder trouble fifteen to twenty years ago with back and side pain and gravel. After using three boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills bought at H Reynolds Drug Co he was free of pain and gravel trouble. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Dean's.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shearer hosted a dinner Sunday at their home one mile from Greeley for visiting relatives from the east. Attending were Mrs. Elizabeth Nixon, Everett Whitney, Mrs. O. H. McFarland and daughter, Mrs. Herbert Damewood and son Howard, all of Missouri, Miss Eva Nixon of Golden, Will Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Baker of Farmers' Spur, Fred Jesperson, Wayne and Myrtle Moore, Alec Ogilvie, Edgar Burke, Nellie Shearer, G. W. Shearer and son Alfred.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars for proof Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. It notes F J Cheney and Co Toledo and endorsers Kinnan and Marvin Toledo wholesale druggists. The notice claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and lists price. Separately, New Bridge near La Salle with three quarters of a mile long, funded by Union Pacific, and three construction gangs active on a new road across the South Platte.
Will Lillard of the western county reports record watermelons this season on his dry land ranch. A notable load last week had fifty melons filling the wagon with three across and eight lengthwise, totaling a ton and averaging forty pounds each. One melon weighed fifty seven pounds.
Citizens of Greeley will participate in a Friday census of religious preferences overseen by the Interdenominational Sunday school association. Five districts will assign about fifty visitors each to collect names and church affiliations, then follow up with targeted outreach for unaligned residents.
Conservative estimates place the Greeley district potato yield between 8000 and 9000 carloads, about 2000 below two months prior. Bugs and grasshoppers injure vines. average fields yield 75 to 90 sacks per acre, with smaller potatoes kept for seed. Farmers receive 70 cents per hundred, most stored for higher prices next spring. Digging peaks in two weeks. sugar beet harvest begins this week as factories start October 5.
Windsor September 27. Windsor High School pupils occupy the Christian church as a temporary home while steam heating is installed. It will take about two weeks to move the fourth grade back to the temporary high school site and clear the basement of the primary building for use. Students face difficulties this term. once the new building is completed they will have first class facilities for learning.
Mrs Davenport and her daughter narrowly escaped death three miles from home when an Evans auto collided with their buggy on a summer return trip from Al gona Mitchell Austin Minn and other points. The wreck demolished the buggy though occupants were uninjured. They were brought to Greeley by car while Mr Davenport followed with the remnants of the buggy.
A Colorado fruit farmer is highlighted as a careful investor who trusts a mail banking service offering four percent interest. The ad promotes an inter est account lasting eighteen years as a steady, safe place for earnings and invites readers to request Book Let H to learn more.
One way colonist tickets on sale daily September 15 to October 1, 1909 inclusive. Accepted in our sleepers on payment of Pullman fare. Only a few points shown below. For fares to other points and information about liberal stop over privileges, phone, write or see me.
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