100 Years Ago: Postal clerks, carriers start carrying guns for protection
By Mike Peters
May 2, 2021 at 6:30 a.m.
100 Years Ago: Postal clerks, carriers start carrying guns for protection – Greeley Tribune
100 Years Ago, for the first week of May 1921, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:
Greeley Postal clerks are now carrying guns for protection against robbers. Post office clerks will be given revolvers by the National Post Office, and mail carriers will have shotguns for protection.
In Keenesburg, a banker told a customer he should make payments on his overdue loan of $600. The man crossed over the counter, punched the banker in the face, knocking him down, kicked him several times and rolled him into the vault. Then he left.
In the past week, Estes Park has received 87 inches of snow, and because of that, lower elevations may see a flooding from the Cache la Poudre River.
A man in prison for life in Oklahoma escaped last week, but then came back and gave himself up. He said his mother was not happy with his escape, so he decided to go back.
J.Q. Williams was in town today, carrying a cane and wearing one brown shoe on, and one black shoe. What is the matter?
At the Park Church Fair this weekend, you can see Sun Moon and Stars activity, Dancing Rastus, Fish Pond, Punch and Judy and other side shows. Also, noodle soup and sandwiches will be sold. Old time prices, nothing more than 10 cents.
A Mead farmer left his farm Tuesday evening, and was chased by two robbers in their car. The race went for about seven miles before the robber stopped him. They held him at gunpoint and searched him for valuables and money. They fled in their car with $12. The robbers missed the gold watch in the farmer's watch pocket.
The Painter Ranch of Roggen has sold their prize bull, named "Mansell Boy," to a Nebraska rancher. The 2,300-pound bull sold for $600. He will be the herd header for the rancher's Hereford cows.
Every man, if he catches his son lying, will at least reprimand him. But the greater the lie a man's politician tells, the greater the chance the man will vote for him. And irritate others also to vote for the lying statesman.
— 100 Years Ago is taken from the original pages of the Greeley Tribune, the Weld County Republican, and when they merged, the Greeley Tribune-Republican...