100 Years Ago: Ice Cream bandit returns 10 years later to make good
By Mike Peters
May 30, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
100 Years Ago: Ice Cream bandit returns 10 years later to make good – Greeley Tribune

100 Years Ago, for the end of May, beginning of June 1921, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:

A poor man, who ate a dish of ice cream at the Morrison Confectionary Parlor, 808 8th Ave., then snuck out without paying the 10-cent bill, returned 10 years later to pay his debt. He told the owners that it was first time back in Greeley after the ice cream incident. He offered to pay 20 cents for interest, but the owners said he only owed 10 cents.

The United States and French governments have joined in naming Memorial Day on Monday as a special day for the veterans who died in the war. Poppies are being sold the Camp Fire Girls to be worn on that day. Proceeds from the poppies will go to help the French orphans.


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The Camp Fire Girls of Greeley said they sold 4,000 poppies in one day, to the benefit of the French orphans. Three hundred people attended the Memorial Day banquet.

Three autoloads of young people, all shorthand students at the Industrial High School at the Colorado State Teachers College, all enjoyed an afternoon picnic at Shark's Tooth. Following a wiener roast, they were home by dusk.

On the same day, the senior class at Ault High School went to a picnic/wiener roast at Black Hollow Reservoir. It had to be called off because it rained and someone forgot to bring the wieners and buns.

A 16-month-old baby, Albert Blahn, was found drowned in an irrigation ditch along the Bliss Road in Weld County. He had wandered away from home and fell into the ditch. It is the sixth drowning in Weld County in the past four days.

A Platteville man was bound over for trial for shooting his brother's bull. The man said the bull was dangers and charged him. He shot the bull in fear for his life, he told the sheriff. However, the brother said the bull was kind and gentle and a family pet. Deputies said the brothers have been involved in a long-running fight.

People on West 7th Street in Greeley are complaining about the high number of flower thieves and plant destroyers. Those folks, who had flowers on their porches or gardens, told police that a large number of flowers were stolen and plants destroyed by the thieves. The plant owners vowed that when the violators are found, they will suffer.


— 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....