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    100 Years Ago: Potato crops in Weld suffering from early blight


    100 Years Ago: Potato crops in Weld suffering from early blight
    By Mike Peters |
    September 5, 2021 at 6:30 a.m.
    100 Years Ago: Potato crops in Weld suffering from early blight – Greeley Tribune

    100 Years Ago, for the first week of September 1921, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:


    Labor Day on Monday is a national legal holiday, so no businesses in Greeley will be open that day. Some drugstores may open for a few hours. Business will resume Tuesday.

    Potato crops around Weld County are suffering from early blight, which attacks the top of the crops. This year it was caused by the large amount of rainfall we have received. Late potato crops should be all right.

    An aeroplane from Cheyenne was considerably smashed when it fell into a beet field near Windsor. The plane's gas supply was cut off, and it fell into the field. The pilot and passenger in the plane were considerably shaken, but not injured.

    A City of Boulder street supervisor got into a fight with a Boulder attorney. The fight started because the attorney called the street workers "loafers on the job." The lawyer stabbed the city worker with his pocket knife, he received a crushed middle finger. Both men will be okay.

    An explosion in the coal bin of the Camfield Court Building in downtown Greeley did little damage, and no one was injured. There were complaints from the residents because they had to rush out of the building in their jammies and nighties.

    Windsor's Carnival of Progress closed with a bang Friday night after more than 2,000 folks attended the park picnic. The decorated auto parade was also a sight worth seeing.

    The person who put up the sign "No Hunting Aloud." Does that mean we have to shoot only quiet guns?

    In California, the San Marcos fire is expanding rapidly. They say the fire is spreading the faster than it has since it started burning more than a year ago.

    Numerous citizens of Greeley have signed a petition to require the city to gravel 11th The gravel is needed because 11th Avenue is the muddiest street in Greeley when it rains.

    Two Civil War veterans, one from the north and one from the south, have had an unusual correspondence. In a battle 58 years ago, the northerner shot the southerner in the eye. Just recently, the southerner coughed up the bullet, and it was in the newspaper. The northerner wrote him and the two have been writing often and have become friends.


    — 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. ...










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