Keota Notes Highlight Local Travel and Community Events
Keota residents report visits to Fort Collins Pueblo and Omaha. Keota Grange resumes meetings December 17 with officer elections. Local residents travel to Denver Chicago Loveland and Denver areas. Stray horses are advertised and Odd Fellows plan weekly gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. O. Dodder
Effie
L. A. Kaigo
Denver
Edwin B. Emerson
Briggedale Bank
Keota
Odd Fellows
To the Dead in Flanders Fields Poem Tribute
A lyrical obituary style verse by W Gordon Clark honors soldiers fallen in Flanders Fields. It recalls living loved ones who departed and the ongoing duty to uphold liberty, with imagery of poppies and remembrance.
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Flanders
Fresh Winter Asparagus and Rhubarb Tips From Denver Growers
The article explains a simple cellar technique to obtain fresh asparagus and rhubarb all winter. Dig plants after frost, cover with soil, keep damp, and harvest can continue beyond the first cut. Temperature should start 45 to 50 degrees the first week, then rise to under 65 degrees. Denver market gardeners use sheds heated by small stoves with limited light.
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Denver
Samuel Hartsel
South Park
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Hamilton
Tarryall Creek
Como
Hartse
Hartse Hot Springs
Keota Soldiers News of Local Mourns and Returns
John Hart of Keota area learns of son George Hart death from influenza at Camp Funston. Brother John serves in France. Henry Hart wounded, headed to Denver hospital. Carl Cochran returns from Camp Zachary Taylor after officers training. Amos Howard, of Sligo, killed in France November 1 after marching from Camp Funston to the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hart
Keota
George
Camp Funston
Kansas
John
France
Henry
Denver
Mr. Hart
Carl Cochran
Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville
Kentucky
Amos Howard
Sligo
Hie
James G. Howard
Baptist Tabernacle to Open Sunday December 8
Baptist Tabernacle announces services next Sunday with Sunday school at 10 and morning worship at 11. The morning sermon theme is Christ and the Church. Evening service features praise and thanksgiving plus a free for all with special music led by Pastor Frank E. Gray. Esther Steiger returns from Johnstown visit.
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Christ
Frank E. Gray
Missing soldier Alex Shimp Writes Home After Absence
Private Alex Shimp, reported missing August 27, sends Thanksgiving and November letters from France stating he is well and eager to return. He served in a machine gun squad for forty eight days after hospital treatment for an abscess and recalls severe battles. His homecoming is tempered by the recent deaths of his mother and brother from influenza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Shimp
Lizzie
Anna Wells
David Shimp
France
David Schimp
Henry Schimp
Weld County news outlines license tags and local deaths
Weld County announces new automobile license tags to go on sale at the county clerk's office early this month. Tags cover five years with changeable year figures, labeled A B or C for class and fee levels. Also reported are two influenza deaths in Grover aged 31 and 28, the Grover pioneer Henry Thompson’s grandson Peter J. Thompson, an upcoming rescheduled Colorado Farmer's and Women's congress, the sale of Hoover Supply Co. by Howard H. Hoover to G. C. Oliver of Colorado Springs, and December teacher examinations to be held in Greeley and Grover on December 19 and 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weld
Grover
Lee Roy Canaday
Peter J. Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Henry Thompson
Colorado Farmer’s and Women’s Congress
Fort Collins
Howard H. Hoover
Hoover Supply Co
Briggedale
G. C. Oliver
Colorado Springs
Greeley
G. H. Manning
Farmers' Record and Income Tax Manual Ad
A newspaper note promotes the Farmers' Record and Income Tax Manual priced at $1 or 60 cents with a renewal subscription. The ad promises quick answers for next spring's income tax reports. Credit to C. M. Epperson. A fragment mentions Marion and a trip to Cheyenne with names Fortner and Sterling Cole as photographers or persons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Epperson
Marion
Cheyenne
Fortner
Sterling, Cole
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Frank Bowers
James L. Macek
Omaha
Tony
Lark Bailey
M. L
Racher Haworth
Teachers College High School
Claude Powell
Sterling
Guy
San Diego
California
V. Belle Wallace
Chicago
Elmer Dadder
Will de Bord
Colo
Raymond Conley
Witlegirl
Loveland
C. C. Underwood
Lenora B. Forsyth
Forsyth Farm
Flanders’ Fields
Flanders’ Fielde
W. Gordon Clark
Conrad Moor
Col. Snook
Baptist Tabernacle
Esther Steiger
Johnstown
DORT
Markley
Markley Keota
Schoonover & Son
Alex Shimp
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