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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
1
For sale 820 acres of relinquished land 25 miles south of Kimball Nebraska and 22 miles east of Grover Colorado with half tilable, a small frame house, spring water, and no other improvements. Quick sale urged. respond to Dave Bolton Avalo Cole.
Mrs Merritt C Woodward died Sunday morning May 28 1916 from stomach trouble. Funeral at the Walker place conducted by Rev Frank E Gray at 8 o clock Monday. Body shipped to Overton Nebraska for burial with husband Floyd aged 4 Mildred aged 2 and Forest brother. She was formerly Elva Mead born in Iowa and married in April 1906.
We return sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy during the sickness and death of our wife and sister in law Merritt O Woodward. Mr and Mrs W W Woodward.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Short express gratitude for acts of sympathy after the death of their infant son. The note notes neighborhood and friends' support in the bereavement. A sale advertisement for seed and eating potatoes at $1.75 per cwt appears, along with a visit by Mrs. Walter Schneider of Denver to her brother Conrad R. Hank and family.
Igo Valley residents report visits and calls through the week. Mr and Mrs Fred Ashdown and son visited the Wharton family Sunday. Mrs Gus Peters hosted callers Thursday. Clifford Jobbins visited the Igo vicinity Sunday. Mrs H B Peters called on the Clarence Quackenbush family Tuesday. Mrs C Lewis visited at Just-A-Mere Farm Sunday. Gus Peters and wife called at the Ferry home Sunday. Mrs L Folck and Mrs H Folck visited at Ashdown's Wednesday.
At noon today two couples from Keota secured licenses to wed the prospective grooms being brothers and the brides sisters. Walter A Quackenbush wed Edith Pearl Bradford and Earl W Quackenbush wed Vesta Olive Bradford.
Ray William Short died Friday May 26 1916 at age one month four days. He was the couple's only son and the community offers sympathy. The funeral service was conducted by Rev J B Jones and burial followed in Keota cemetery on Monday May 29.
Mrs C C Dodder came home Tuesday after hospital treatment in Cheyenne where she had been seeking medical care.
In Fort Collins on May 31 Justice of the Peace Sides of Greeley was charged with possession of 29 pounds of trout, four pounds over the legal limit. Deputy fish and game chief J L Gray says witnesses can place Mrs Sides as the 16 trout catcher, while the couple’s fishing trip near a Westiske region lake raises questions about where the fish were caught. Sides was arraigned, released on recognizance, with a June 18 preliminary hearing set.
Pacific passenger service from Briggsdale gains a morning motor car leaving chase at 8 25 arriving Greeley 9 28 and Denver 11 15. Return same day leaving Denver 4 30 Greeley 6 05 Briggsdale 7 15. Existing midday car unchanged Greeley 10 51 Briggsdale 11 50 and 1 10 pm to Greeley 2 15. Direct connections at Greeley with thru line Saint Louis east and LaSalle Omaha trains. May extend Briggsdale line to Keota with northeastward link to Sidney or Kimball.
Guy Elson and Leigh Merriman with Mrs Christenson and Miss Tuttle auto to Jackson Lake Sunday for a fishing trip. Guy sought water and was attacked by a vicious dog but escaped serious harm and planned to fish again on Memorial Day with Mrs Christenson and the Moons.
German millet offered in machine run at 1.50 per cwt and recleaned graded seed at 2.00 per cwt. Item acceptance noted at the news box in the post office.
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