100 Years Ago: Annual coyote hunt bags more rabbits than coyotes
By Mike Peters
December 12, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.
100 Years Ago: Annual coyote hunt bags more rabbits than coyotes – Greeley Tribune
100 Years Ago, for the second week of December 1921, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:
In the annual La Salle Coyote Hunt, 150 men participated, divided into four teams. While the men were hunting around outside La Salle, their wives were at Skyview School, preparing hot lunches. The biggest problem in the hunt was getting the men to obey the rules. They shot more rabbits than coyotes. In all, seven coyotes were killed.
A carload of fancy Angus calves from Roggen were shipped to Chicago, and they won the National Western Stock Show first prize. They were raised by Roggen rancher N.L. Harrison.
Column comment: "There will be an awful din of snoring in heaven if some of the regular church attendants continue their present practice of falling asleep and snoring during the church service."
In Greeley Police Court, there were 35 cases of illegal booze last month. The judge collected $265 in fines, which went to the city treasury.
Two inmates at the Weld County Jail used a hacksaw to cut through the steel bars, then lowered themselves from the second floor using a rope of blankets. They both escaped and the county is being searched by sheriff's deputies.
Mr. Mudd, principal of the Big Bend School here, just returned from a Thanksgiving vacation, camping in the mountains with 10 9th-grade boys. They spent the week camping out and driving a mule team through the mountain passes.
L.C. McCarthy of Eaton was fined $10 by the Justice of the Peace Thursday for failure to dim his auto lights on the Eaton streets. A member of the Secretary of State's Office made the complaint to police.
The Lincoln Standard airplane, which was supposed to transform Greeley into an aviation metropolis, was sold in Denver, following state acquisition. The owner and pilot of the plane was arrested for flying under the influence of alcohol, and the state took his plane as punishment.
The president of Colorado State Teachers College here has ruled that dogs will no longer be tolerated in the classrooms or dormitories. The buildings have been overrun with dogs in recent weeks. Some dog owners claim their dogs were getting an education at the college.
Popularity of electric refrigerators is growing. Although an expensive luxury at $400, the refrigerators can keep the food cold, and there would no longer be a need of an ice man delivery. Also, there will be no slime, dirt or drip as there is with ice.
— 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....