Community Notes Highlight Local Visits and Events
Social happenings fill the week with church class entertainment for Boys and Girls club workers and a pie and coffee lunch. Brooks and Verne Stanley toured Longmont Lafayette and Lyons, then Loveland and Fort Collins for apples. Local business moves include Paxton Gallagher groceries ordered for stock by Keota Elevator. New residents Edward Eckel and family settle on H G Wells place. E E Ellsworth named justice of the peace and inherits library robes. Various visits, birthdays, and social gatherings fill the small town calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Sunday School
G. G. Heywood
Brooks
Verne Stanley
Longmont
Lafayette
Lyons
Loveland
Fort Collins
Keota Farmers Cooperative Elevator Company
Paxton & Gallagher
C. E. Moon
J. R. Craig
Edward Eckel
St. Joseph
H. G. Wells
Eckel
Wells
Evans
Colo
Ruby Fortune
Mary Haworth
Sarah Wallace
Mildred Robinson
Fortune Home
E. E. Ellsworth
William Wagner
Nebraska
Louie Drumm
Denver
Hughey Irwin
J. D. Rumsey
J. A. Rumeey
L. A. Bailey
H. C. Freitag
Charley Tews
Keota
Buckingham News Items Highlight Local Travel and Health Notes
Miss Helen Whipple travels to Kalamazoo with her father for Thanksgiving visits. Mrs. Florence Leach and her children spend a month in Denver for work. J. H. Johnson improves after illness and opens a new grocery store with dry goods and notions. Typhoid pneumonia poses risk to Harry Baker in Fort Collins but recovery appears possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Whipple
Kalamazoo
Mich
Sterling
Florence Leach
Denver
Leach
William Lauer
Lauer
California
Henry
No Reduction in Weld County School Expenses
Weld county districts will not cut public school costs this year. Past debt and warrants limit levy reductions though some economies exist. 101 of 103 districts submitted budgets to County Superintendent Charles W. Martin, who expects few increases and possible decreases only in a few strong districts this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weld County
Charles W. Martin
Tharely
Tribune-Republican
Local Man Returns Home From South Dakota
Oral Young returned to Keota on Wednesday after several months away in South Dakota. The item mentions irrigation land with a note about money to a son and cites C. T. Ahistrand from Sent Colorado. Tanlac is credited with great success attributed to its value. L. H. Underwood is named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oral Young
Keota
South Dakota
C. T. Ahistrand
Colorado
Tanlac
L. H. Underwood
New Pastor Assigned to Keota Buckingham Charge
Rev John Winterborn appointed to the Keota Buckingham Methodist charge and will begin services Sunday at Keota morning and Buckingham evening. He has held posts at Akron Yuma Hax tun and other Colorado towns. Keota church plans a new parsonage this year with substantial funds and donations pledged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Winterborn
Keota-Buckingham
Methodist Church
Keota
Buckingham
Akron
Yuma
Haxtun
Brighton
Colorado
Silo Filling Slicks Sunflower Snafu In Local Town
Attorney Griffin teams with J. P. Ellsworth Constable Ray Butler to fill a silo with sunflowers aided by the editor who supplied a truck and a water tank for the ensilage cutter. Police magistrate Underwood would be displeased if not for townspeople keeping peace officers busy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Griffin
J. P. Ellsworth
Ray Butler
Underwood
Weld County Tax Collection Costs Drop Further
Audits of county treasurers show Weld county collected taxes at the lowest expense among counties. In 1919 salaries per dollar were .92c in Larimer, .75c in Denver, and .56c in Weld. by 1920 Weld’s cost fell to .42c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weld County
Larimer
Denver
Burkholders Move Toward Whittier California
Mrs. W. E. Burkholder and children left Monday for Whittier California with Ed planning to join after auction sale he has booked for October. C. W. Trembly has bought a Whittier confectionery store and invited the Burkholders to operate it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Burkholder
Whittier
California
C. W. Trembly
Burkholders
Notice of Heirship Determination in Bonnicksen Estate
In Weld County Colorado the county court in probate will hear proofs of heirship for Carson J Bonnicksen on November 14 at 10 a.m. Lydia Bonnicksen Steffan petitions as heir at law widow of the deceased. Other heirs named include Martin Orval Bonnicksen and Edith May Bonnicksen his daughter. Administratrix Lydia Bonnickesen Steffan cites the October filing date and a Greeley venue. J. & Griffin, Attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Tes
Weld
Careen J. Bonnicksen
Heirahip
Carson J. Bonnicksen
Lydia Bonnicksen
Steffan
Lydia Bonnicksen Steffan
Martin Orval Bonnicksen
Edith May Bonnickesa
Greeley
Lydia Bonnickesen Steffan
Carson J. Boanicksen
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. H. Johnson
Christian Church
Raymer
Mrs. Moore
A. L. Rupp
Eve Fletcher
Gladys List
E. I. Potter
Donald and
Melvin Moore
Arlington Doty
Farmers State Bank
Keota, Colo
D. Markley
E. W. Cox
J. A. Rumsey
Schoonover &Son
J. &. Griffin
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