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    100 Years Ago: Witnesses leaving grand jury visits in tears


    100 Years Ago: Witnesses leaving grand jury visits in tears
    By Mike Peters
    April 25, 2021 at 6:30 a.m.
    100 Years Ago: Witnesses leaving grand jury visits in tears – Greeley Tribune


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


    Although the Weld County Grand Jury is not releasing any information about what they're investigating, newspaper reporters have noticed that many of the witnesses called to the court house are leaving in tears.

    Four professors at the State Teachers College drove north yesterday to judge a tennis tournament in the afternoon, then to judge a debate tournament in the evening. The competing schools were New Raymer and Grover

    Boys of the YMCA participated in a good hike this week. They started at the Y building on the east side of Greeley, and hiked to Scout Island east of Evans. To reach the island, they cut down a large tree, which fell across the river, and they could walk on it to get on the island.

    Two Greeley men, Jimmy McDonald and Billy Rowe, went for a one-night stay in Glen Haven, but they were snowed in for more than a week. The heavy storm left five feet of snow over their cabin and they couldn't get out. Today they finally returned to Greeley.

    Miss Green, a 3-year employee of the Crockett and Moody Store in Greeley, has been in Boulder the past few weeks, spending time at the sanitorium.

    A farmer living near Fort Lupton was arrested for possession of four gallons of moonshine in his home. He was fined $100, but received no jail time because he had seven children at home to watch over.

    The Midwest Air Service Corp. has approached the Greeley Chamber of Commerce to try to get them to open a Greeley airport to service their aeroplanes. The corporation has two aeroplanes flying between Denver and Greeley.

    The Great Western Sugar Co. announced today that 85 percent of their sugar beet seeds are in the ground in Weld County. At no time in the past few years has the ground in Weld County been in better shape for crops.

    A Keenesburg banker has accused another Keenesburg man of assault. The banker said he told a farmer it was time to pay off the $600 overdue loan the bank made to him, and the farmer responded by attacking the banker. He floored the banker with a blow to the face, kicked him several times when he was down, rolled him into the vault and then left. The sheriff is looking into the case.

    Because of the prohibition laws, doctors can now only prescribe 4.5 gallons of beer or 3.5 gallons of wine for their medical clients.


    — 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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