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    100 Years Ago: Weld sheriff opposes proposed law prohibiting light wines and beer

    This one ends with a bang, I hope that boy got saved before he passed (assuming that he's not still alive at the age of 116)...


    100 Years Ago: Weld sheriff opposes proposed law prohibiting light wines and beer
    By Mike Peters
    March 20, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

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


    The Greeley City Council passed a resolution that will reduce the pay of city employees from $3.50 per day to $3.00 per day. Nothing was said about when it will come into effect, but one council member thought it was immediate.

    The third auto wreck in just two days occurred today at 10th Avenue and 11th Street. One driver was a Greeley resident and other from Loveland, who said he was speeding because he had to catch a train. He agreed to pay all damages. No one was injured.

    Because of the illness grippe, there have been very few employees in the courthouse this week. Many judges and court employees had to go home for a week until they got over the grippe.

    A jury in Greeley convicted a man of bootlegging and he was fined $250 and four months in jail. Shortly after that trial, another man was arrested for trying to influence the jury. The man was president of the local Elks, and was stopping Elk members and telling them to vote "not guilty."

    Editorial note: "When a woman gets mad because her guest doesn't stay longer ... she doesn't mean it."


    The Kill Kare Klub met in Windsor, and the women spent the afternoon sewing and reading. After the sewing session, they were served banana cream pie and hot chocolate.

    Sheriff Frank Hall of Weld County complained about a proposed new prohibition law that would make it legal to brew, possess and sell light wines and beer. He is also upset with one drugstore/pharmacy in Greeley that is giving out prescribed alcoholic drinks.

    Meanwhile, in Boulder, the sheriff has received many complaints because he has been so lax on bootleggers. Unlike in Greeley and Weld County, very few in bootleggers in Boulder have been arrested.

    A 16-year-old boy was arrested after he tried to break into the vault of the Metropolitan State Bank at 4 o'clock in the morning. He was using nitroglycerin to blast the walls of the vault, but the explosions frightened him and he ran. He was arrested later in the morning.








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    Quote Originally Posted by GodismyJudge View Post
    This one ends with a bang, I hope that boy got saved before he passed (assuming that he's not still alive at the age of 116)...

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    100 Years Ago: Weld sheriff opposes proposed law prohibiting light wines and beer
    By Mike Peters
    March 20, 2022 at 5:30 a.m.

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




    A 16-year-old boy was arrested after he tried to break into the vault of the Metropolitan State Bank at 4 o'clock in the morning. He was using nitroglycerin to blast the walls of the vault, but the explosions frightened him and he ran. He was arrested later in the morning.
    I gather he didn't practice with it much

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