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    100 Years Ago: City's turnip crop ready for harvest at Island Grove Park


    100 Years Ago: City's turnip crop ready for harvest at Island Grove Park
    By Mike Peters |
    November 28, 2021 at 6:30 a.m.
    100 Years Ago: City’s turnip crop ready for harvest at Island Grove Park – Greeley Tribune

    100 Years Ago, for the end of November, start of December 1921, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:


    The City of Greeley last summer planted turnips at Island Grove Park and now they are ready to harvest. There are about 100 bushels of turnips that need to be dug up. Any Greeley resident can go to the park and dig up a bushel sack of turnips and take them home for free.

    The Greeley Psychology Club will meet Tuesday night, and for the first time, intelligence tests will be given to the members. Then there will be a discussion of intelligence.

    At Greeley Junior High, all of the history classes have been organized into Congresses. Each class will have Congressional meetings with boys serving as Senators and girls as Congressional Representatives.

    COLUMN: "The auto dealer who calls it a 'slightly used car' is very conservative in the selection of adjectives."

    A farmer's sale is set for next Tuesday at the Beebe Draw Farm. On sale are 15 horses, 20 first-class dairy cows, hogs, hay, corn oats, chickens, peacocks, guineas and a lot of nearly new farm machinery.

    Nov. 30 is the 33rd anniversary of Greeley's only lynching. In 1888, Wilbur French of Evans was lynched by a gang of men outside the courthouse in downtown Greeley. He had been arrested for torturing his wife until she died. The tree in which he was hung withered and died shortly after the lynching.

    The Mayor of Nunn announced that they expect to have city water and electricity throughout the town by Christmas.

    You can say one thing about beer as a medicine: you won't find half-empty bottles sitting on the shelves.

    Small pox is becoming serious across the state with more people getting very sick and some dying. In one town near Greeley, they have reported 200 new cases this week. The state would not release the name of the town, but said it's about 12 miles from Greeley.

    Mrs. Irene Patterson has moved back to Frederick and asked her husband for a divorce. It's because he moved them to a Wyoming home which was located on land "not fit for man or beast." She said she hadn't seen another woman in seven months and there were no neighbors within 20 miles. Her soon-to-be ex-husband is still living there.


    — 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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