100 Years Ago: Teens taking to robbery to fund craps habits
By Mike Peters
March 13, 2022 at 6:30 a.m.
100 Years Ago: Teens taking to robbery to fund craps habits – Greeley Tribune

100 Years Ago, for the third week of March 1922, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:


The Eaton Soup Kitchen, operated by the Weld County Government, feeds free meals to children and needy adults. The cost to the county is just 12 cents per meal.

There have been numerous robberies and thefts by young teens in Greeley this year. Police have found that the teens need the money to shoot craps.

One hundred thousand pounds of split beans are stored in a warehouse here, preparing for shipment to Armenia. The beans have retained their food value and will make good soup.

The street lights along 8th Avenue are being extended three more blocks. That will make the downtown area glow white at night.

Letter: The Weld County Jail needs a work room for the inmates. That way, farmers could bring their beans to the building and prisoners would have to sort them out. That would save the county some money.

Two Greeley men were arrested early Saturday morning for fighting at The Rex Restaurant. One was a customer, the other a chef at the restaurant. Each was fined $25, and the judge at the hearing told police they should have also arrested all of the spectators in the restaurant.

Sunday, March 12, has been designated as National Temperance Day across the country. On that day, 20 million children will study in their churches about the benefits of outlawing alcoholic drinks.

Editorial: "And, for our part, there are times when we'd rather face the music than pay the fiddler."

The Bradfield Oil Company has donated 1,000 gallons of oil to the city to spray on pools and lakes in Greeley. It is believed the oil will kill the mosquitoes which are certainly coming this spring and summer.

The schools and citizens of Windsor will begin new classes for non-citizens. They will be called Americanization Classes.

The Junior Class Reception will be held at the Eaton Gymnasium Saturday. Six freshmen girls whose grades are the highest for the classes this year, will be honored to work as serving maids.

A small boy found a bicycle he liked in the window of a downtown bike shop. He told the owner: "If you will keep that bike until I'm grown up and have some money, I'll buy it from you."



— 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...