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    100 Years Ago: Motion picture company to visit, film scenes from Weld County Fair


    100 Years Ago: Motion picture company to visit, film scenes from Weld County Fair
    By MIKE PETERS |
    Published: September 25, 2021 At 5:03 P.M. | Updated: September 25, 2021 At 5:03 P.M.
    100 Years Ago: Motion picture company to visit, film scenes from Weld County Fair – Greeley Tribune

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


    » A motion picture company is coming to Greeley from Denver to take films of the scenes from the Weld County Fair. One part they will emphasize will be the last day of the fair, when schools from all around northern Colorado will bring children in dozens of school trucks which will all be filmed in the parking lot.

    » A fireworks display in Boulder got out of control last night. One 2-foot rocket hit an employee of the Farmer's Store in Longmont. He was cut on the stomach and will be recovering from home.

    » President Harding sent a wireless message to New York and ordered the government not to deport 300 Armenian refugees, who were going to be sent back to Turkey.

    » Column: "The word 'bier' suggests sorrow and loss. So, for that matter, does the word 'beer,'"

    » Chicago was one of the first cities to serve lunch to children in the schools. The students will get soup or beans, two sandwiches of meat and potatoes, milk or chocolate milk and dessert. The cost is 5 cents per meal.

    » Greeley street pavers companies are getting work across the state. This week, they are putting in paved streets in Rifle. They are paving streets in almost every city ... except Greeley.

    » Katherine Ruth Stiney, 13 months old, was mistakenly registered in the Weld County Baby Show as a "foreign entry." She was born in Greece, but is a registered American citizen. Her mother was born in Oregon and her father, though born in Greece, is a naturalized American citizen.

    » "Because my shoe-shining parlor will be closed for a week, members of my shining club can come to my house at 530 9th St. to get their shoes shined." W.H. Johannesson

    » ADVERTISEMENT: "The Weld County Garage, Weld County's Headquarters for the Automobile, 8th Avenue and 10th Street. One of the largest and most complete automobile establishments between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Coast."

    » At Johnstown School, several cases of diphtheria among the students were reported this week. Most of the cases are said to be of the light form. The Pie Social will still be held at the school under the auspices of the senior class.

    » In Cornish, Ora Davis had the misfortune of having his finger broken last week while leading his mule behind a car. At about the same time, Clyde Brundy had his foot badly sprained by a truck running over it.








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